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Super Mario Bros. 3 Cartridge Sells For $156,000

A rare copy of Super Mario Bros. 3 for NES is the new king of video game auctions, selling last Friday for an incredible $156,000. While a lot of that price is wrapped up in the sealed game’s near-perfect quality grading, this copy of Super Mario Bros. 3 also comes from an early production run…

Grand Theft Auto V Has Outlasted An Entire Console Generation

It’s 2020, and one of the biggest video games on the planet is Grand Theft Auto V. In 2021, Rockstar will be releasing an “expanded and enhanced” version of the game for next-gen consoles. Grand Theft Auto V, in case you forget, was first released on the Xbox 360 and PS3 in September 2013. It…

Soccer Superstars Unaware How FIFA Licensing Works

Earlier today, Sweden’s undying demigod Zlatan Ibrahimović, perhaps for the first time ever, realised that his likeness was being used in video games without his explicit permission. And didn’t like it. His sudden realisation came of course on Twitter, where Zlatan wondered aloud who had actually given EA Sports permission to use his likeness in…

I’m Suddenly Very Interested In Immortals Fenyx Rising’s Expansions

I am not very surprised when Ubisoft announces that one of its big games will get piles of post-release expansions. It’s news when they don’t. But I am surprised at how interesting and unusual the recently announced expansions for next month’s Immortals Fenyx Rising seem to be. The first one, “A New God,” sounds like…

Overwatch League Shares Roadmap For 2021 Season

It’s going to be a long winter as we wait for the Overwatch League to return in 2021. But to tide us over, the league released a video outlining some of the plans Blizzard has for this year’s off season and the 2021 season in general. The video, narrated by VP of Overwatch Esports Jon…

RIP To Assassin’s Creed‘s Best NPC, A Real One

In gargantuan games full of quests and characters, it’s hard for any single moment to really stand out. Ubisoft has made a career out of this, with activity-dotted landscapes that lull you into a sort of dreamy adventure haze; when you come to, you know that something happened, but you’d be hard pressed to pick…

Fans Think This Strange Road In Virginia Is Connected To GTA 6

Middle Mountain Trail is a quiet dirt road located in the middle of nowhere in Virginia, with nothing but trees surrounding it. But, according to some Grand Theft Auto fans, it might be a clue connected to GTA VI, the long-rumored sequel to one of the best selling games of all time. Late last week,…

Two Weeks After Launch, Xbox Series X’s Quick Resume Feature Isn’t Working Great

For several days after the launch of the new Xbox Series X and S, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla supported the consoles’ best new feature, Quick Resume. Today, that no longer appears to be the case, another sign that something is awry with what was supposed to be a key next-gen Xbox perk. For those who don’t…

All The Big Games Coming Out In Fall 2020

It’s fall and not just any fall. It’s election year fall. It’s two brand-new video game consoles fall. It’s tentatively stepping outside to see if everything is okay fall. We’d probably be better off staying inside baking pies and playing video games. Fortunately, there are plenty of games on the way. As of this writing,…

The World Ends With You Is Finally Getting A Sequel

After a long drought spent wondering when Square Enix would show a crumb of attention to fans of their 2007 action RPG hit, The World Ends With You is finally getting a sequel. Announced via YouTube, NEO: The World Ends With You returns to the streets of Shibuya featuring all new protagonists and a fully…

Capcom’s Latest Retro Console Is So Adorable

Recently listed on Amazon Japan (via Siliconera) with a release date of December 1, Capcom’s Retro Station is a cute-as-a-button machine with five Street Fighter and five Mega Man games built-in. According to the Amazon Japan listing, the Retro Station is a showcase for two of Capcom’s more venerable series. There’s Street Fighter II, Street…

The Week In Games: World Of Warcraft: Shadowlands And… Not Much Else

It’s time for a new World of Warcraft expansion. Call your old WoW buddies, buy some sodas and get ready to grind, Shadowlands drops later this week. There’s not much else coming out this week, as you might expect. Thanksgiving week tends to be when the year’s big releases have either come out already or…

I Don’t Actually Play Melty Blood, I Just Listen To It

Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. The other day I mentioned to someone that I was going to write up Melty Blood, and they replied, “wtf is ‘Melty Blood,’ that’s such a metal name!” Well. It’s a good thing you don’t have…

Doom Running On A Nintendo Game & Watch

Nintendo’s new Game & Watch re-release is of course built on new hardware, not stuff from the 80s, so folks have been able to do some interesting things with the handheld’s code. Like, first things first, getting Doom up and running. stacksmashing had to make a few modifications to pull this off—like stripping the world…

Nintendo’s Theme Park Is Looking Fantastic

Super Nintendo World at Universal Studios Japan wassupposed to be open by now, but you know, stuff has happened. It’s almost done though, and even if none us are likely to be travelling there anytime soon, we can at least press our disgusting faces up against the glass and admire it from a distance. The…

Track: This Is My Time | Artist: Lecrae | Album: Spider-Man: Miles Morales Soundtrack

PSVR Brought Virtual Reality To The Masses

Virtual reality has become much easier to jump into these days. Headsets are becoming cheaper and cheaper and some, like the Quest 2, don’t even need a powerful PC. But not that long ago VR was expensive, hard to hook up, and a mess. And PSVR was an imperfect but exciting solution. On paper, PSVR…

‘Shop Contest: New Steppenwolf

We are getting a big, new version of Justice League, a movie that nobody really loved and you probably forgot about already. And, for some reason, Zack Snyder is changing Steppenwolf, the big bad guy of the film, and giving him spikes. Lots of spikes. Your challenge this week: Have some fun with this new…

Someone’s Already Playing Cyberpunk 2077

It seems at least one PS4 copy of Cyberpunk 2077 is in the hands of someone a little early. That person decided to stream about 20 minutes of the game, showing off part of the opening section in the game’s “Nomad” lifepath. Yesterday, rumors began to appear online that some retail copies of Cyberpunk 2077had…

Sunday Comics: Demon’s Souls

Hello! It’s time for Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Corpse Run by Alex Di Stasi. Published Nov. 19. Read more of Corpse Run Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published Nov. 16. Read more of Awkward Zombie Clueless Hero by…