Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku’s reader-run community: Pokémon One a Day, Series 2 Returns! Wobuffet, Girafarig, Pineco • We Should Stop Judging Games on How Fun They Are with Friends • Game of the Week—A Wild New Role-Playing Adventure [Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars] TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY…

Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture, the fascinating PS4 adventure game announced back in 2012, will be out this summer, Sony says. New trailer above. This one looks pretty neat—it’s developed by The Chinese Room, the game studio behind Dear Esther

My Love Story Pays Homage to Japan’s Most Famous Anime Bully

One of the new anime this season, My Love Story, is a romance story featuring an atypical protagonist. A protagonist with certain similarities to one of Japan’s most famous bullies. The main character of My Love Story is Takeo Goda, a high school boy with an intimidatingly large physique, and a heart of gold. The…

Tetsuya Nomura on Redesigning Characters for Dissidia Final Fantasy

With the release of the latest Dissidia Final Fantasy trailer, Kingdom Hearts director and zipper enthusiast*, Tetsuya Nomura sat down to talk about the newest addition to the character roster. *Not officially “With the two PSP games, I felt I’d ‘done all there is to do’ and took the stance that it was ‘completed,’ so…

2K Australia, a veteran studio that’s worked on everything from Freedom Force to Tribes to BioShock to Borderlands, was shut down today. Kotaku Australia has the story

Read-Only Memory, the guys behind the excellent Sega Mega Drive book from last year, are back with another project. This one’s about the Bitmap Brothers (Speedball, Chaos Engine), and it looks/sounds just as good.

Valve Rejected Some Really Cool DOTA 2 Mods

In another dimension, people are playing DOTA 2 as a giant ice cream cone wielding a nacho glaive. Valve’s Steam Workshop, where players can submit their own mods for possible addition to games like DOTA 2 (among many others), has a rather strict set of guidelines. In places, however, these guidelines can be somewhat vague,…

Grandmaster Caught Cheating On iPod During Chess Tournament

Gaioz Nigalidze, 25, is Georgia’s current chess champion. He’s also now facing a ban of up to 15 years from the game after being caught cheating during a tournament by looking at an iPod. The Washington Post reports that while competing at the Dubai Open Chess Tournament, Nigalidze kept retreating to the bathroom. The fact…

Here’s the first English trailer for Tales of Zestiria, which is now slated to come west this fall. (It was previously scheduled for summer.) It’s for PS3 only, sadly—keep that DualShock 3 charged until then!