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Turn Your Face Into A Portal Turret With This Badass Mask
We’ve seen artist TwoHornsUnited come up with some Portal referencing gas masks before, but this one is even more creepily awesome. I also get the impression that I would look like a Valve-inspired Transformer if I wore that, and then my brain goes on from there to invent wild action sequences where I’m flying through…
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Watch This Adorable Kitten Desperately Swipe At The Rats In This iPad Game
In preparation for the release of Dishonored in just two weeks, Bethesda recently released an iOS game that’s basically like Fruit Ninja but with rats. So: more delicious. While this little kitty might not understand the precise rules of Dishonored: Rat Assassin, her enthusiasm and adorableness more than make up for it. My 5 weeks…
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Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit Has Some Really Silly, Sometimes Awkward Killing Moves
Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit is out today on PSN (tomorrow on XBL and October 3rd for PC). It’s a Metroidvania style game—a 2D game with lots of exploration, killing, and item finding—but with a twist. It’s flat out ridiculous, silly, and a little bit awkward at times. The storyline sets up the…
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Plants vs. Plumbers vs. LEGO
Illustrator and photographer Chris McVeigh is quite talented with LEGO. He’s got a whole assortment of LEGO pieces photographed and presented all nice and pretty on his Flickr page, but this one might be my favorite. It’s the two famous gaming plumbers—Mario and Luigi—and their infamous pipe-planted piranha plant in a pose reminiscent of Plants…
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Here Are A Bunch Of Pokémon Crossed With Alpacas Because Why Not
You know what would be cool? If someone crossed a bunch of Pokémon characters with alpacas. Oh wait, yuumei already did. Alpazard, aka Charizard Alpafeon, aka Leafeon Alpacoddish, aka Oddish Alpakachu, aka Pikachu Alpacapi, aka Togepi Alpacion, aka Typhlosion Alpacreon, aka Umbreon Alpix, aka Vulpix Alpactrio, aka Dugtrio The Alpacamons [maid-en-china]
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Borderlands 2 Is Actually A Turn-Based RPG, And Other Completely Incorrect Facts
YouTuber and insane person BlackLightAttack has a knack for completely and intentionally misinterpreting games to silly results. His latest mutilation: Borderlands 2 For my favorite line, skip ahead a little bit 60 Second Let’s Play: Borderlands 2 [BlackLightAttack]
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Skyrim‘s Character Creator Is So Advanced That You Can Select Elbow Pointy-ness
Who actually feels compelled to be as thorough as selecting elbow pointy-ness when creating your character in Skyrim? Is elbow pointy-ness even a thing? Ah screw it. I’d probably spend a few minutes scrutinizing that slider. Both myself and College Humor, apparently. Hardly Working: Skyrim [College Humor]
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Borderlands 2 Has A Ridiculous Number Of Hidden Secrets. Here Are All The Ones We Know About. [Update: More Stuff!]
Borderlands 2 is a game that will keep you happily busy for some time. But if you want to experience all the game has to offer, you’ll have to hunt after all the easter eggs and hidden secrets. And there are a lot. Here are just a few we’ve found. Let us know if you’ve…
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The Best of Kotaku, This Week
Welcome to the Best of Kotaku, where I round up all of this week’s best content. Luke just keeps finding all the best cosplayers. This week, he stumbled on a fantastic Assassin’s Creed duo that was just too good to not feature for the Best of Kotaku Moving on to our Best Of content this…
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San Francisco Readers: Share Your Space Shuttle Pictures!
Do you live in San Francisco? Did you snap a pretty shot of the shuttle today? This morning (Pacific time, that is) the NASA space shuttle named Endeavour made a trip through sunny San Francisco, visiting popular attractions like the Bay Area Discovery Museum, Chabot Space and Science Center, and Exploratorium. It whizzed over the…
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Wrap Your Head Around That Mario Mobius Strip With A Video Of It In Action
Mobius strips work on a pretty simple concept, but it can be hard to wrap your brain around what’s going on. So while those pictures of the Super Mario Bros. level recreated on a Mobius strip were super pretty, they didn’t get to show off just how amazing the entire thing is. The video above…
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Reality Bending Displays, Disappointing Wii U Pro Controllers and More from Tokyo Game Show’s Second Day
You’ve probably been seeing quite a bit of Tokyo Game Show news pouring in from our Kotaku East team. Rather than letting you sift through them yourself, here’s a round up of day two to easily browse through. If you missed yesterday’s showfloor news and impressions, we’ve rounded that one up, as well. Um, I’m…
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Sleeping Dogs Gets New Downloadable Content This October
Prepare to revisit Hong Kong virtually this October when a whole bunch of DLC drops some time in October. From the official release, this is what the line-up looks like: adrenaline-fuelled street racing across the island of Hong Kong in the Street Racer Pack twenty new cop missions unfold on the streets of Hong Kong…
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Super Mario Bros. Level 1 Recreated On A…Mobius Strip?
Mobius strips are pretty neat on their own. You can cut them down the center, and it’ll just make it longer. You can perform multiple cuts, and it’ll just create three Mobius strips, linked together. Fascinating stuff. But this particular Mobius strip is a never-ending level of Super Mario Bros.. And as you turn it…
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Randy Pitchford Teased Details of Borderlands 2‘s Future During Our Live Interview Today. Here Are A Few.
Phew! That was an interesting two+ hours. Thanks to everyone for your questions, and a special thanks to Randy Pitchford himself, who went well into overtime after the original 2-hour mark. If you missed it, Gearbox’s CEO and the man behind Borderlands 2 teased a few details about the future of the sequel in some…
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Little Did You Know Super Hexagon Is Actually a Text Adventure From 1982
It’s not really a 1982 text adventure, but there’s certainly a 1982-esque text adventure version of the game that you can play right on your browser. Or you can try a timed, downloadable version for PC, Mac and Linux here Though it doesn’t compare to the incredibly tough original iOS game, it’s certainly very charming.…
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Plants vs. Zombies Dancing to “Gangnam Style” Is Incredibly Disturbing
The “Gangnam Style” dance is fabulous. Even as a cultural, inside joke, it’s still hard to deny how amazing it is. Even Deadpool gets behind the Gangnam Style dance. But when zombies with cones for hats take to the dance floor, horrifying, creepy things happen. I think it’s the way they’re looking at me, with…
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Randy Pitchford, CEO of the Company That Made Borderlands 2, Is Answering Your Questions Right Here
Borderlands 2 came out this week. It’s a stylish, personality-filled first-person shooter combined with RPG elements. It’s crazy funny. The story is better than the first game. Touching, even. It’s an awesome cooperative experience. Maybe get it on PC But you undoubtedly have questions. Questions that developer Gearbox’s CEO, Randy Pitchford, can answer. Type your…
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The One New iOS 6 Feature That Improves Gaming on the iPhone
The next operating system for the iPhone—iOS 6—comes with a few new nifty features and updates. You’ll see a couple of those new features in Apple’s Game Center, the leaderboard hub where you can track your friends’ progress in various iOS games. But what’s new is that now you can challenge your friends, too. So…
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Can You Spot All The Gaming References In Today’s Impressively Expansive xkcd Comic?
Today’s xkcd comic is…huge. Enormous. Seriously, the thing goes on for pages. It must have taken creator Randall Munroe forever to draw it all out. But hidden in the huge map of the world as he sees it are a bunch of gaming references, like Mario up top. Or Oregon Trail below, which brings me…
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