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Sunday Comics: Where Everybobble Knows Your Name

Welcome to Kotaku‘s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Double XP by M.S. Corley and Josh Crandall. Published Jan. 13. Read more of Double XP Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published Jan. 13. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by…

This Week in the Business: Not as Simple as It Sounds

QUOTE | “We are thinking about a new business structure. .. It’s not as simple as enabling Mario to move on a smartphone.”—Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata, on Nintendo’s loss for the year and what to do about it Elsewhere in the business of video games this past week … STAT | $766 million—Change in the…

It’s Like Destiny, But Cute

Troy Galluzzi is a concept artist with indie outfit Goon Studios. Don’t click through if you hate bright, colourful things, some of which could kill you. Goon are working on Keipr, a multiplayer shooter that looks like Destiny vs Wind Waker. Which is a combo that gets me interested Oh, and a bonus: concept art…

What A Next-Gen Tetris Should Look Like

Today brings news that Assassin’s Creed and Rayman mega-publisher Ubisoft will be crafting a version of Tetris to the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. A next-gen Tetris needs some next-gen features, right? We ask you, the Kotaku reader, to suggest the best possible cutting-edge features from modern gaming that should be added to Tetris We…

Gee, Batman, You’re Not Looking So Hot

Danar Worya is a Dutch concept artist who works for Fantasy Flight games. You can see more of Danar’s work at his personal site To see the larger pics in all their glory (or, if they’re big enough, so you can save them as wallpaper), click on the “expand” button in the bottom-right corner. Fine…

Think Of The Most Horrible Chip Flavors Imaginable

Last year Lay’s “Do Us A Flavor” contest awarded the wrong person a million dollars for suggesting potato chips that tastedvaguely like garlic bread. Now the contest returns, and we have a chance for redemption. Flavor showdowns. Wayne Brady singing about potato chip flavors. And most important, a place where your bizarre tastes can shine…

Four-Person Super Metroid Speedrun May Consume Next Hour Of Your Life

Four people race through the Super Nintendo classic Super Metroid. Who wins? Also, how in the world do they do this stuff? The video above, uploaded by YouTuber Charles English, shows the four-person Super Metroid speedrun that went down last weekend as part of the Awesome Games Done Quick charity event. I started watching and…

Ask Dr. Nerdlove: How To Do Online Dating Right

What’s going on, Kotaku? Hello and welcome to the first installment of Ask Dr. NerdLove, an advice column specifically for your geeky relationship issues. To kick things off, this week we’re going to talk a little about getting the results you want from online dating. Hey Doc, I’m a video game programmer, and general nerd,…

That’s Some Motley Crew You’ve Got There, Boy

Damian Audino is a concept artist who’s only just started out working in the games business. Prior to that, he’s been doing freelance work. I wish Eelboy was a thing I could read/play/watch right now. You can see more of Damian’s work at his personal site To see the larger pics in all their glory…

When East Meets West Meets An Acid Trip

Arnaud Valette is a freelance concept artist who has worked in both games and film, most recently on card games for Applibot and movies like Guardians of the Galaxy and Man of Steel. He’s also got to work on Game of Thrones. Lucky sod. Arnauld recently published a book of his works called Red Mescaline…

Track: I | Album: Glaciers | Artist: Blue Sky Black Death Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to—and gaming to—at the moment.

Gaming’s Greatest Unsung Heroine

It would be a real shame to forget about Cate Archer. Over the past week, I’ve been replaying the spy game No One Lives Forever for the first time since it came out in 2000. I’m struck not only by how well the first-person espionage-fest holds up all these years later, but how audacious it…

Track: Unsilent Death | Album: Unsilent Death | Artist: Nails Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to—and gaming to—at the moment.

FOR LEASE: Old Castle (No Deer, Sorry)

Polish artist Mathias Zamęcki is a freelancer who has worked both for local games studios as well as board games company Fantasy Flight. You can see more of his work at his personal site and CGHub page To see the larger pics in all their glory (or, if they’re big enough, so you can save…

Awesome Games Done Quick wrapped up its weeklong speedrun extravaganza yesterday, and it succeeded in raising $1 million—$1,008,320.99 exactly—for the Prevent Cancer Foundation. All of the runs are listed, with links to video, in this thread, or check out Punch-Out!! while blindfolded, and a world record in Goldeneye.

The Week in Games: With Liberation for All

We’re still in hibernation for major new releases, so our recap will again be more forward looking than focused on the present. Assassin’s Creed Liberation gets a console release this week. More to come later. Jan. 14 Assassin’s Creed Liberation HD (PSN) Broken Age Act One (PC, Ouya, for Kickstarter backers) The Banner Saga (PC)…

Sunday Comics: Blinded With Science

Welcome to Kotaku‘s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best video gaming webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Corpse Run by Alex Di Stasi. Published Jan. 9. Read more of Corpse Run Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published Jan. 6. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by…

Watch Two Players Team Up to Run Goldeneye in World-Record Time

Awesome Games Done Quick has, no lie, delivered some absolutely compelling video game theater this weekend already. That’s a genuine roar from the audience when these runs are finished, and the cheering is richly deserved. Early this morning we got another instant classic: A world-record run of Goldeneye. Ryan White and Alex Anderson of the…

This Week in the Business: $1 Million Worth of Pizza Sold on Xbox Live

STAT | $1 million—Amount of sales that Pizza Hut’s Xbox 360 app has generated in 4 months by allowing people to order pizza from Xbox Live; “It’s been a source of unbelievable growth for us,” said Pizza Hut And elsewhere in the business of video games this past week … QUOTE | “I don’t think…

Incredible Gamer Takes On Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out While Blindfolded

Not only is master gamer Sinister1 playing Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!! while blindfolded and crushing it, he’s moving through the game as quickly as possible. I’m speechless. Part one is up top, and here’s the rest of the run, where things get hairy: Sinister1’s full-run attempt happened today during Awesome Games Done Quick 2014, a speedrunning…