Deals: Cheap 4K, Cheap Solid State, FTL Advanced, Ground Zeroes

Samsung’s 4K monitor is the early winner in the 4K monitor wars, and this price is unprecedented. Considering a 4K display has the same number of pixels as four 1080p monitors, this is actually an insanely reasonable price-per-pixel. [Samsung 4K Monitor, $530] 1TB SSDs are just starting to creep towards affordability, and the excellent Samsung…

There’s Good News And Bad News About Pinball FX2 For The Xbox One

The good news — the world’s premiere digital pinball platform is coming to the Xbox One on July 31. The bad news — players will have to repurchase all of the Pinball FX2 tables they’ve already bought for the Xbox 360. The PlayStation 4 version of Pinball FX2, the pinball platform that features both original…

I started playing Hearthstone finally

I had screwed around in the tutorial but that was it. But I finally played a few matches yesterday and now I’m…well, not hooked, but I get it now. Where can I find some basic strategies about deck building though? I still have no idea.

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Back In The TAY Review: F-Zero • Game of The Week — You’re Holding The DS Wrong (Not Really) • Spelunky TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

Kotaku secrets revealed: the entire staff does not uniformly appreciate the excellence of Pilotwings 64, a game that lets you jump across the United States. Very sad. Good thing there’s a Pilotwings mode for when you’re feeling kind of blue…

BELOW, THE OLD TMI… ABOVE, THE NEW TMI

TMI articles lower than this one were finely-crafted pieces of gaming-related web-writing by the excellent Nathan Grayson. TMI posts above this are the ramblings of the Kotaku staff. Think of it as our water cooler conversations, now made a little more public. Anything goes.

Fan Video Justifies All The Hype For The Big Dota Tournament

Compared to Team Fortress 2, Dota 2 doesn’t have that many Source Filmmaker shorts. Too bad, because Dota Cinema’s and Lozeng3r‘s SFM serves as proof that these things really have potential. They’ve made the clip to hype us all for the finals of The International and, well, it’s safe to say that it works. The…

Wayforward has released their last Shantae platformer, Risky’s Revenge, on PC The game, which originally came out on the DS in 2010, comes with updated, HD artwork, Steam trading cards and achievements, and controller support. The two new Shantae games, Half-Genie Hero and The Pirate’s Curse, are still in development.

A Touching, Unexpected Tribute To Link’s Horse From Zelda

YouTuber Twin Perfect, probably inspired by the unlockable horse in the classic arcade racer Daytona USA, rewrote the lyrics of the memorable soundtrack of the game to include Link’s steed, Epona. And he also made an awesome video for it. Here’s the full edit. It’s full of surprises and late 90s feels: Epona Usa [Twin…

Flappy Bird Now Available on Floppy Disk for Apple II

Finally, you can now play Flappy Bird on 1977’s Apple II computer. It’s the work of Dagen Brock and can be downloaded for both 5.25” and 3.5” floppy disks. Whatever they are… This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK If, for some reason, you don’t have an Apple II and a floppy disc spare then…

Kendo Sure Looks Painful

Once upon a time, I thought about doing kendo. After watching this video, I have come to one conclusion: What the hell was I thinking? Co-directed by Vimeo user Simon Conlin, this video was created for the Canadian Kendo Federation to support the Canadian team when it competes in Tokyo next year. While kendo attacks…