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Balan Wonderworld, the upcoming game from the creators of Sonic and Nights, will get a demo on January 28. It’ll include two-play coop and let you test out a bunch of the game’s different levels.

Anodyne 2: Return to Dust is finally coming to consoles on February 18. It’s an atmospheric RPG with a postmodern slant that doubles as a beautiful love letter to PS1-era adventure games and you should absolutely give it a try.

Surprise! The Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning remaster is coming to Switch on March 16. That’s great news since Nintendo’s hybrid handheld feels like the ideal place to experience the pleasant 2012 action RPG, but bad timing since it’s just a week and change before Monster Hunter: Rise.

Someone Turned A Terraria Map Into An Evangelion Holding A Warship

Terraria doesn’t get the same level of fanfare as Minecraft, but its two dimensional crafting is nevertheless responsible from some truly impressive player-made creations of its own. Behold the latest: an Evangelion lifting a warship over its head. The above screenshot, which has been blowing up on the Steam community pages and was first spotted…

Man Folds One Piece Of Paper For 50 Hours, Makes Samurai

Finnish artist Juho Könkkölä took a single sheet of 68cm x 68cm wafer-thin Wenzhou paper and folded it for fifty hours. The result? A samurai papercraft that is around 20cm tall. While some adhesive appears to be used in the process, according to Könkkölä, no ripping or cutting was used. This is all folding. Via…

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This Bot Turns Reddit Arguments Into Ace Attorney Debates

Ever since there’s been more than one person on the internet, there have been arguments. Some forum debates have become so outrageous that they’ve been forever ensconced in the collective unconscious of the web. And now, they can be turned into Phoenix Wright debates. A new bot created by Micah Price can grab the text…

Auto Chess Is Getting a MOBA, Continuing the Eternal Cycle

The history of the MOBA genre is one of mods and iteration. Its most popular and still-standing games today are the result of multiple reimaginings and tweaks to skirt copyright issues. Now, there’s one more absurd step to the story: the makers of Auto Chess are making a MOBA. An Auto Chess MOBA is a…

Massive Fallout: New Vegas Mod The Frontier Is Finally Out

A mod years in the making launched just last Friday, and it was a launch so big it took Nexus Mods with it. Fallout: The Frontier is essentially a new game, built onto Fallout: New Vegas The Frontier has been kicking around for several years, and it’s easy to see why. It’s a fair bit…

Anamanaguchi’s Scott Pilgrim Soundtrack Is Still Pop-Rock Pixel Perfection

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game, after years of being stranded on old consoles, was finally re-released last week. I’m eager to hop back in, but more than just playing through it one more time, I’ve been digging re-listening to the game’s perfect pop-rock soundtrack. The tunes for Scott Pilgrim were made by pop-rock…

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Duncan Halleck is a concept artist and illustrator currently working on Utopia Syndrome, an upcoming point-and-click horror/adventure game You can see more of Duncan’s stuff at his ArtStation page

Man Fined $270 For Breaking Lockdown To Play Pokémon Go

Look, weren’t we only just warning people last week to be more careful playing this game in these strange and uncertain times? The BBC reportsa man in England—a nation currently in lockdown in an attempt to curb a rampant infection rate arising from a new, more contagious strain of Covid-19—has broken the country’s strict restrictions…

The Week In Games: Agent 47 Is Back

Load up on expired cans of soup, flamingo costumes, and explosive golf balls. Hitman 3 is almost here and it’s time to kill some assholes. A few weeks back, I finally got around to playing Hitman 2 beyond the first level. I have no idea why I waited this long to get around to playing…

PC Players Will Have To Buy Hitman 2 All Over Again To Unlock Its Levels In Hitman 3 (Update: A Fix Is In The Works)

IO Interactive outlined how levels and progress will be carried over to Hitman 3 from the previous games in a complicated FAQ over on its website today, and it’s a mess for players on PC seemingly thanks to Epic Games Store and Steam not playing nice with each other. Update – 4:08 p.m. ET, 1/17/21:…

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‘Shop Contest: Potato CEO

Turns out, Taco Bell is run by some kind of sentient potato. Who knew? Though the reasoning behind removing potatoes from the menu now makes more sense. Your challenge this week: Spread this potato man.  I expect he cried a lot after filming this promo. Being asked to go out and sell your own kind…

Website Lets You Make GLaDOS Say Whatever You Want

Do you like GLaDOS, the homicidal, yet charming AI overlord of the Portal games? Do you also wish you could hear her sing the opening line from My Chemical Romance’s “Black Parade?” Guess what? I got a website for you and your oddly specific dream. 15.aiis a site that lets you type in any text…

Sunday Comics: Any Questions?

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 Jan. 14. Read more of Corpse Run Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published Jan. 11. Read more of Awkward Zombie Clueless Hero by…

‘Shop Contest: Gengar Plush, Winners!

Last week, we got our first look at a new Pokemon plush Gengar toy that is also a bed and nightmare, rolled into one small package. Few things are more perfect for a Photoshop contest. Our winning image this week comes from MonoArtan who created something called the “tongue train” and it’s… uh.. something. Someone…

Congratulations, You Are Being Rescued

This week on Snapshots we have some cool black and white screenshots, some urban decay, a swingin’ Spider-Man, some colorful cars, big and creepy bones, and a droid looking to chokeslam a Jedi. “My…doctor….said I don’t…have… to wear… a… mask..” “Bullshit.” Kotaku Snapshots is a weekly look at some of the best, funniest and coolest…