Much Debate At Kotaku Today…

…about whether videos like these are 1) played out or 2) sometimes hoaxes/pranks. Some staffers were impressed. Others, not so much.

Why You Probably Shouldn’t Idle In Destiny

Sometimes, you just gotta put the controller down and deal with real life, regardless of whether or not the game actually lets you pause. I get it. But if you idle in Destiny, well, there’s no telling what players might do to you in response. Check out this clip by rarbox5, which shows how players…

Philadelphia GameStops Start Fingerprinting People Who Trade In Games

Some GameStop stores in the city of Philadelphia have begun to require customers to provide fingerprint scans if they wish to trade-in their used games. The new requirement is intended to serve as a anti-theft measure that can help local authorities track criminals who use GameStop stores as pawn shops. An employee at one GameStop…

Deals: Crabs Adjust Humidity, Crysis Trilogy, 5 Free Games, Transistor

At this price, I’m picking up the Crysis Trilogy just to see how it runs on my new PC, and that’s just one of several great PC game deals today. FREE SpaceChem, Dino D-Day, Really Big Sky, Gun Monkeys, GTR Evolution | PCGamer & Bundle Stars Crysis Trilogy ($18) | Gamestop | Use code SUMMERPC…

Number of Videos Available to Watch in PewDiePie’s Official App PewDiePie, the world’s most popular YouTube personality has produced nearly 2,000 videos over 51 months, attracting 29.2 million subscribers. His YouTube career has been so successful that his multichannel partner, Maker Studios, has published an iOS app for fans to access his content on their…

An entire Star Wars movie summed up in a single GIF

This is so good: The image comes from this Speedrun video for A New Hope:

‘Tennis Crossed With Street Fighter‘ Sounds Like A Game I Want To Play

I miss the good old days of NBA Street and NFL Blitz, back before all the big sports video game franchises became obsessed with hyperrealism and little else. Back then, it didn’t matter that I knew next to nothing about football or basketball. I could still have fun, even beat my friends who were more…

Comic-Con Video Shows Bits And Pieces Of The Next Mass Effect

There’s another Mass Effect coming. We don’t know a lot about it yet. But now we can finally see some of what’s going into Bioware’s next sci-fi game. Last week at Comic-Con International, Bioware held a panel about the next Mass Effect. This video gives a look at some of what they showed, including glimpses…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: The Wolf Among Us – Season 1: The TAY Review • Why Gamers Should Stop Hating Indies and Wanting Only AAA Titles • Dark Souls 2: Crown of the Sunken King: The TAY Review TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

Solid Gold Monster Hunter Statue Costs $29,000

Capcom’s Monster Hunter series is turning ten, which means it’s time to celebrate… with a three million yen statue. The collectible is going on sale in Japan tomorrow. With a price tag of exactly 2,990,000 yen, or $29,089, the statue, which shows an armored Felyne warrior wielding a giant sword, weighs 120g, measures 55 by…

Springfield From The Simpsons, Rebuilt As A LEGO Town

The amazing official Simpsons house probably wasn’t enough for veteran builder Matt De Lanoy, so he took the entire town, Springfield, and its key buildings, and put them into LEGO form. Ned Flanders’ house, the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, Kwik-e-Mart, Moe’s Tavern, Krusty Burger, the Town Hall, Springfield Elementary School… It’s all there with the…

Wheels Down At The Biggest Little Pony Convention Of The Year

Today through Sunday Baltimore, Maryland plays host the the largest My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic fan gathering in the world, and Kotaku is there, with a mobility scooter’s eye view of the festivities. Having recently discovered through magnetic resonance imaging that my lower spine resembles the most badly-played game of Jenga ever, no one…

Ed, Edd n Eddy, All Grown Up

Even “Plank” grew up in Isaiah Stephens‘ fan-art where all the idiotic characters from the classic show Ed, Edd n Eddy are now adults. They might look totally normal at first, but just look into Ed’s eye in the first pic below and you’ll see madness. Here are some individual comparisons from Isaiah’s Tumblr: The…

Bumblebee Begging on the Streets for a Trip to Cybertron

People dress up as famous characters and ask for money all the time. But how many of them dress as Bumblebee and ask for money for a trip back to Cybertron? Recently in Chengdu, China, the cosplayer was spotted with a sign asking for ten yuan so he could find Optimus Prime and get back…

The Neptunia SRPG’s Special Attacks Love Playing with Gaming Nostalgia

The newest game in the Neptunia series stars some of the most well-known game franchises reimagined as anime girls. But the character designs are far from the only shout-out to these series. You should see some of the special attacks. When I think of the Yakuza series, the first thing that comes to mind is…

Check Out The Xbox One’s China Exclusives

So, the Xbox One’s going to launch in China. Big whoop right? From Microsoft’s press briefings, the system will launch in China with a fair amount of Western games, such as NBA 2K14 and Titanfall. But apart from these, the Windows company has got its hands on a few China exclusives as well! Slated for…