No, People Are Probably Not Gonna Buy A Rare NES Game For $100,000

There is currently a factory sealed copy of extremely rare (there are only two copies in near-mint condition on Earth) NES game Stadium Events listed on eBay. It’s reached a bidding high of $100,000, and it still has six days to go. Unfortunately, there is likely foul play involved. As Wired outlines, auctions like these…

Still No Word Why Far Cry 4 Stopped Working For Some Xbox One Owners

Far Cry 4 for the Xbox One disappeared from the Xbox Marketplace for a little while earlier this week, preventing some from playing a game they own. The problem was eventually solved, but the whole thing’s left me pretty confused. What exactly happened…and why? Unfortunately, Microsoft’s brief statement on the issue to Videogamer.comhasn’t provided any…

Five Nights At Wario’s Makes Nintendo Terrifying

Five Nights At Wario’s is a Five Nights At Freddy’s parody game chock full of Nintendo characters like Mario, Luigi, and Princess Peach. Also their eyes are dead and they’re bleeding pure darkness from infinite void orifices. And then there’s Waluigi. Dear god, Waluigi. Five Nights At Wario’s is available for free over on Game…

GTA Game Slowly Descends Into Glitch Hell

At first, it’s a few small oddities. The floating car glitch we’ve seen before. A character model disappearing for a few seconds. But, by the time that this drug-running mission in Grand Theft Auto Online ends, everything’s gone to hell. Or heaven, by the looks of it. Things don’t seem that weird at the beginning…

Video Game Pre-Order Bonuses Are Getting Stranger Every Day [UPDATE]

Pre-ordering video games is, in general, a Very Bad Idea, as we’ve learned from the likes of SimCity, Battlefield 4, Halo: The Master Chief Collection, Assassin’s Creed Unity, Aliens: Colonial Marines, and many many more. So these days, video game publishers have to get a little more creative when it comes to getting you to…

“If you own a PlayStation, you may have killed him at some point.” Grantland‘s got a great profile of Reuben Langdon, a motion-capture stuntman who’s lent his physical and vocal talents to games like Resident Evil: Code Veronica, Devil May Cry 3 and Street Fighter

Watch Pokémon Red/Blue Get Destroyed In Just 21 Minutes

When I first saw that the schedule for Awesome Games Done Quick listed the original Pokémon games with an estimated completion time of “30:00,” I had a feeling we were going to see something ridiculous today. And we sure did. It took just 21 minutes for speedrunner Werster to rip through Pokémon Red/Blue this afternoon,…

Everything Saints Row is On Sale, 25% off Mortal Kombat X, More Deals

Humble’s holding a special 50-75% off sale on a ton of Saints Row games and DLC packs this weekend. [Saints Row Sale] Greenman Gaming is having a nice VIP sale right now on some upcoming and recently-released games. You’ll have to sign in to see the deals, but the big highlights are Mortal Kombat X…

Monkey Island Creator Wanted Lobotomized Criminals In His First Game

Maniac Mansion and The Secret of Monkey Island creator Ron Gilbert has been quietly releasing some amazing pieces of gaming history on his official website. Today, he’s uploaded a look of his first design document for Lucasfilm Games. The unproduced game would’ve been called I Was A Teenage Lobot, and marked the first appearance of…

Six Of Us Debate Whether Rockstar Should Bring Back Max Payne

As we so often do, a few members of the Kotaku team got to talking about Grand Theft Auto yesterday. This lead to a discussion about one of Rockstar’s other, smaller titles: Max Payne. Specifically: where should it go next, if it goes anywhere at all? Stephen Totilo: San Andreas is my favorite GTA. Yannick…

A Perfect Glimpse of How GTA Is Disturbing and Funny at the Same Time

It’s the kind of thing that, were it to happen in real life, would be appalling on multiple levels: dude talks shit while walking by, another person pulls out a weapon. But because it happens in GTA V, it becomes comedy. It helps that the timing in this quick, 9-second clip by YouTuber something i…

Just an hour ago, almost a million people were playing Minecraft, Mojang’s Nathan Adams said on Twitter: For a point of comparison, Steam says that the number of simultanous Dota 2 players peaked at 913,625. Step your game up, Dota!

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Pokémon One a Day Series Two: Cyndaquil • Heroes of the Storm Could Use Some More Heroes to Help Balance • My Top 5 Anime of 2014 (as told in gifs) • Fatalis’s Thoughts on Anime in 2014 (Also my Top 5 List) TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s…

Guy Saves His Drone From Drowning At The Last Second

Nice catch! Zweier Spanjer‘s first day testing out his DJI Phantom II drone took an unexpected turn when its batteries started to deplete and the $700 gadget started plummeting towards the nearest pond. It ended up getting rescued by its heroic owner. Hopefully he didn’t have a phone worth more than $700 in his pocket.…