2DS with Pokemon X for $100, 3DS XLs On Sale, 840 EVO 1TB, South Park

Whether you want a 2DS or 3DS XL, today is a good day to get one. The highlight here is the 2DS bundled with Pokemon X for $100, which is an extremely low barrier to entry to get yourself into that portable game ecosystem. Target is also throwing in a $40 gift card with the…

The Ten Plagues, Ranked

1. Slaying of the firstborn 2. Boils 3. Locusts 4. Water turned into blood 5. Diseased livestock 6. Darkness 7. Lice 8. Flies 9. Thunder/hail 10. Frogs Happy Passover, friends Top image via Wiki Commons

Someone Wrote A Book About Street Fighter‘s Greatest Match

It’s been ten years since the greatest comeback in competitive video games happened. In the decade since Daigo Umehara and Justin Wong met in a fateful match of Street Fighter III: Third Strike, EVO Moment 37 has become the stuff of legend. Now there’s a book about it. The myriad low-res videos that capture their…

Voice Of Planet Earth Making A Nature Documentary For The Oculus Rift

David Attenborough, the journalist behind many beloved nature documentaries including the Planet Earth series, is going fully next-gen for one of his upcoming projects. It’s a movie called Conquest of the Skies, and unlike any of Attenborough’s previous work, it’s being made for the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset, director John Morris told the website…

​New Game from the Creators of Guacamelee Looks Wickedly Twisted

This is Severed, a game where the heroine has to put herself back together. Literally. Drinkbox Studios—makers of last year’s well-loved luchadore action-platformer Guacamelee—just revealed their next game via the very flashy trailer above. It looks like it’s headed to touchscreen devices, based on the gestural input prompts seen in the clip. Here’s how Drinkbox…

Kotaku UK Is Officially Live

If you missed it last month, we announced a partnership with Future Publishing to launch Kotaku UK, the UK’s own version of Kotaku. And that site is officially live today. If you have any questions about what this means for you as a reader, the lovely Keza MacDonald—the UK site’s editor—has all the answers To…

The Vita Gets A Sweet-Looking New Action Game

Freedom Wars, announced for Japan last year, is coming to North America at some point in 2014. Sony announced the news on their YouTube channel alongside this new trailer (above) for the upcoming Vita game, which lets you team up with other players to take down monsters and shoot your way through prison colonies Looks…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Nintendo Made It Great, The Community Made It Better • Tales of Vesperia: Thoughts and Feelings • A Day at PAX East 2014 • Why Brütal Legend is Actually A Super Amazing Game TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

New HBO Show Makes A Pretty Good Joke About Mass Effect‘s Ending

The characters on HBO’s new show Silicon Valley work in tech, and they clearly know a thing or two about video games. So when it comes time to articulate the pointlessness of one of their peers, they’ve got a pretty solid frame of reference to work with. In this scene from last night’s episode, the…

George R.R. Martin Is A Horrible Wedding Planner

A Song of Ice and Fire author George R.R. Martin, wedding planner. Guaranteed to make your special day an event to remember. No Game of Thrones spoilers here, but there are sure to be one or two in the comments, unless everyone pulls together in the spirit of cooperation and only comments on Martin’s beard…

Cool Macroshots Show The Dramatic Adventures of Star Wars Figurines

Photos with Star Wars figurines can’t really get more dramatic (and funny) than in Malaysian photographer Zahir Batin’s machroshots on DeviantART. He only needed a few droids, some stormtroopers and the touch of nature to fill his series with emotion. Here’s some highlights below. Check the artist’s Facebook page and his gallery on DeviantART for…

Half-Life Speedrun Breaks World Record at Just Over 20 Minutes

After months of theorycrafting and planning, speedrunner quadrazid and his friends were able to run through Half-Life—a game that’s anything but short—in 20 minutes. And the fact that it’s almost 10 minutes faster than the previous world record shows how perfectly executed their run was. You can see the entire speedrun above, it’s just amazing.…

Taiwanese League of Legends Pro Gets Charged for Insulting The Police

A Taiwanese man was recently charged with obstruction of police business after badmouthing police officers on an online forum. First reported by Taiwan’s CNA News and Apple Daily, Taiwanese celebrity gamer Zhang JiaHang of League of Legends fame was approached by the district court of Taichung Taiwan. Zhang was charged with something along the lines…