​Not the Fastest Super Mario Bros. 3 Speedrun. Surely the Prettiest.

Nintendo just release their classic platformer Super Mario Bros 3 for Wii U and 3DS yesterday. The NES classic probably looks great on the company’s current hardware. Good for them. But SMB3 looks utterly amazing in this 4K resolution tool-assisted speedrun posted on YouTube. A/V specialist Andy Dick creates insanely upscaled versions of old games…

How Many Peeps Can A 50 Caliber Rifle Shoot Through?

I suppose it’s an Easter tradition now, so here’s RatedRR showing us some beautiful slow-motion footage of a 50 caliber rifle firing through hundreds of marshmallow peeps. Of course, if that video didn’t do it for you, see what happens when you throw a peep into a vacuum RatedRR [YouTube]

Telling The Story Of The Best Smash Bros. Players Around

Last year, film-maker Travis Beauchamp released a fascinating documentary about the world of competitive Super Smash Bros. Now, he wants to make another. This time, Beauchamp is looking to tell the stories of Armada, Mango, Dr. PP, and other ridiculously-named competitive Smash Bros. experts. Beauchamp is asking for $26,000 on Kickstarter to make it happen.…

It’s official: Tales of Hearts R is coming to the west. It’ll be out for Vita in Winter 2014.

​A Spaceship Game That Feels a Lot Like Being in a Relationship

Listen, Space Partner, if we don’t figure out how to work together, the space bunnies are going to die horrible, lonely deaths. Stop screaming at me and upgrade those shields! The neon spaceship you’re jumping around in Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime looks like it’s made for half a dozen interstellar explorers. But you and…

Watch Someone Getting 3072 in Threes

I don’t know why, I just enjoy watching these videos.

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Thoughts About Amazon Fire TV and Android Gaming • Should Culture Come Into Play when Understanding a Game? • 10 Reasons EDF 2025 Should be in your Game Device At This Moment TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

Ghostbusters LEGO, With Giant Marshmallow Man Added

LEGO enthusiast Brent Waller‘s awesome Ghostbusters: 30th Anniversary Project, featuring the firehouse and the officially approved Ecto-mobile just got bigger with probably the most iconic and important character of the movies: the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. Here’s some facts from the builder’s LEGO Cuusoo site: It is over 34cm or 13 inches tall. If I…

If Miyazaki Films Were Other Type of Anime

Would it be a better world if Hayao Miyazaki classics like My Neighbour Totoro or Princess Mononoke were drawn and told in the style of Dragon Ball Z or Sailor Moon? I don’t think so, but it’d be a much funnier alternate reality. Here’s College Humor‘s butchery of some of Miyazaki’s best: If Miyazaki Films…

Help Me Choose Which Virtual Girl to Date

Dear readers, I am about to embark on an experience unlike any other in my 30 years of life: I’m going to date a virtual girl in New Love Plus+, the newest game in the (in)famous Japanese dating-sim series. But even before I start, I find myself at an impasse. Which of the game’s romantic…

You Have Been Chosen… To Admire This $210 Skyrim Statue

The subject of Gaming Heads’ next Elder Scrolls shrine replica is Azura, AKA Azurah, AKA The Daedric Prince of Dusk and Dawn, AKA Unlimited Soul Gem Woman. Specifically, the replica takes after her Skyrim rendition, which leaves us with a really good-looking statue. The hand-painted poly-stone statue stands at eighteen inches tall, and is described…

Watch Hatsune Miku Sing Frozen‘s “Let it Go”

Ever wanted to see virtual idol Hatsune Miku sing the iconic, Academy Award-winning song from Frozen? Two years back, I tried out the song editor in Project Diva Extend for the PSP by making a custom level with Hatsune Miku singing “Call Me Maybe.” But while Miku in my video did sing and dance, its…