If you’re a fan of The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask, you’re okay in my book. If you’re one of those people, check out Nintendo’s $49.99 bundle for the 3DS remake—it comes with a Skull Kid figure. I don’t usually buy this stuff, but I’ll make an exception. Majora’s Mask 3D hits this “spring.”

One Of The Scariest Moments In Gaming Is A Matter Of Design

Jump scare me with zombie dogs, taunt me with shrieks and gurgles or shock me with grotesque imagery all you want — I’m not truly tense until the telltale signs of a virtual ass-whupping start showing up. Dorkly‘s latest comic captures the moment some gamers live for and other gamers dread — the moment when…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: TAY Manga Digest: December (Frosty Edition) • PyramidHeadcrab’s Game of the Year Awards 2014! • Tokyo Magnitude 8.0: The Ani-TAY Review • Ani-TAY Review: Amagi Brilliant Park • Pre-Cult: Ace Combat: Assault Horizon TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

Someone Remade MGS V: Ground Zeroes‘ Military Base In Far Cry 4

The rocky starting area, the guards patrolling around the fence, the towers and the tents, so basically almost the entire map of Ground Zeroes now has a Far Cry 4 version, thanks to modder Robert Cram And that means everything is now in first person view, and in this version, if the alarm is raised,…

Warlords of Draenor‘s Raid Bosses Summarized In 60 Seconds

No need to dig through those complex guides anymore. FatbossTV‘s one-minute summary of the 7 bosses and their tactics inside Warlords of Draenor‘s first raid, Highmaul, is all you need to drop into the group chat before the fights. I wish it was that easy. Probably not a good idea to share this when you’re…

A Handy Refresher on the Recent History of Black Mesa

Last week’s emergency broadcast is just one of the many things that happened to Half-Life fan remake Black Mesa since its late 2012 release. If you’re one of those people who don’t follow the project religiously, Valve News Network’s video can help bring you up to speed. The seven-minute clip deals with everything that’s happened…

The Metro Sleeps Safely Tonight

Rostislav Zagornov is a Ukranian concept artist who works in both video games and film. You can see more of Rotislav’s work at his ArtStation page 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 top-left…

Dude Smashes The Mario Bros. World Record

Tom Votava’s score of 4,678,440, a Mario Bros. world record that has stood since 2009, has been smashed by Florida man Steven Kleisath, who earlier today set a new high score of 5,424,920. Having been playing the game since the mid-80s, Kleisath’s score was set on an original coin-op machine. “I feel amazing,” he told…

The Guns That Never Made It Into Halo

You’ve never used these guns or played these levels in any Halo game, and odds are, you never will. The latest Did You Know Gaming video delves into darkest, strangest portions of Halo‘s history, the most interesting of which center around cut content from the master and chief of alien-blasting’s earliest iterations. The original Halo…

LEGO Rube Goldberg Machine Should Be Something I Can Buy, Damn It

Christian Bechinie’s LEGO Rube Goldberg machine uses dominoes, tiny basketballs and some slides to do that same “everything but nothing” thing that all Rube Goldberg machines seem to manage. I get a little disappointed in the headline that this isn’t something I can buy, but that might change: the project is up on LEGO’s Ideas…

Fans Remaking Warcraft III Using Star Craft II

WarCraft: Armies Of Azeroth is a StarCraft II mod that’s looking to essentially remake Blizzard’s classic Warcraft III. Which doesn’t really need remaking (WARCRAFT II KINDA DOES), but hey, nicer visuals are always welcome. The developers seem to be Russian, so there isn’t a lot of English-language information available outside a sparse Facebook page, but…

Two Interesting Things We Learned From The Xbox One Software Leak

Internal developer documentation for the Xbox One appears to have leaked on the Internet—and after scanning through the files, it appears that there are some interesting things we can learn from it. News of the Xbox One leak began to circulate online shortly before the new year, after the forum Se7ensins started a thread saying…

Fallout Rap Is, Somehow, Pretty Great

You’ll never look at Fallout 3‘s Wazer Wifle the same way again. I say that largely because you’ll immediately get this song’s insidiously catchy chorus stuck in your head, pinging off your cranial walls like so many wazer— er, laser blasts. It loops perfectly, infinitely, like a GIF turned into a song. At this rate,…

GTA Cop Pulls Player Over Like A Damn Terminator

Today on Highlight Reel we have a new way to play Fallout: New Vegas, some lucky shots in Battlefield 4, a bubble city in Destiny and one incredibly dedicated supercop in GTA V Watch the video above, then link any of your favorite highlights in the comments, and be sure to check out, like and…

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