‘Twitch Plays The Legend of Zelda‘ Is a Study in Frustration

Video gaming’s biggest craze of 2014 appears to be the “Twitch Plays” phenomenon, which hita couple of weeks ago withPokémon, then grazed Tetris and now has moved to something much more complex: The Legend of Zelda. Watch it streaming on the jump. If you’re skeptical this can actually work, join the club. So far it’s…

Netflix Will Pay for Better Speed on Comcast’s Internet

The Wall Street Journal reports that Netflix and Comcast—the company that just bought up Time Warner Cable, remember—reached a landmark deal with potentially serious ramifications for net neutrality. Basically, Netflix is going to pay Comcast for more direct access to its network. Video gamers use a ton of bandwidth for streaming video, whether it’s through…

Kiefer Sutherland told IGN he’s going to appear in the next Mortal Kombat game, fresh off his work for Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. His work for Mortal Kombat is already complete, he says.

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Sonic Bust 2

We’re back on the do-weird-things-with-Sonic case this week. This time we head over to France for our source exploitable. Rémi Gaillard was up to his old tricks again last week, causing problems for le gendarme while dressed as Sonic. He didn’t do much damage, probably because he was caught one minute into his rampage and…

Lawsuit Seeks to Stop New Duke Nukem Game Teased by Original Studio [Update]

The studio that spent 12 years unable to finish Duke Nukem Forever and the one that finally did in 2011 are back in court again, this time over a Duke Nukem game for PC and PlayStation that was teased earlier this month. Gearbox Software, which in 2010 acquired Duke Nukem and the rights to it…

Sunday Comics: Titanic Costs

Welcome to Kotaku‘s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik. Published Feb. 19. Read more of Penny Arcade Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published Feb. 17. Read more of Awkward Zombie Nerf NOW!! by…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Cup Noodles: The Winners

The name of this dorm-room food staple is commonly mistaken—there is no “of,” it’s just “Cup Noodles.” You see, “Cup Noodles” are a very special type of noodles. They are quickly prepared. They are nourishing to students, and the underemployed. They shovel snow … The image of Cup Noodles’ costumed mascot clearing the walk outside…

Olympic Speed Skating Would Be a Lot Better if It Was Like Mario Kart

After two weeks of hearing about sports you’ve never cared to follow in the past four years, you’ve probably wondered why the short track skaters don’t just … you know … throw a blue shell at the end? And here we can see what would happen if they did. Sochi 2014 — Speed Skating Double…

If you’d like to see four minutes of gameplay from Infamous: Second Son and you either speak Russian or can read the subtitles, here you go, almost a month before the game’s release.

Microsoft Teases JRPG Fans [UPDATE]

That’s Phil Spencer, one of Microsoft’s top gaming executives. Sakaguchi, of course, is Hironobu Sakaguchi, creator of Final Fantasy, now at Mistwalker, where he has released a few Xbox-exclusive JRPGs like Lost Odyssey and Blue Dragon. Hope Phil isn’t just messing with us, because the Xbox One sure could use some JRPGs. (I’ve reached out…

Madden Needs Help With the Logos for Its Pretend NFL Teams

Madden NFL 25 brought back franchise relocation, allowing you to keep a club’s name and look in its new city or pick from two or three new nickname and uniform options. And yeah, some of those designs weren’t so great. The game’s fake Twitter feed would even say so. So EA Sports is looking to…

In advance of online support shutting down for Gran Turismo 5 at the end of May, Sony is removing all DLC for the game from the PlayStation Store on April 30. Some, but not all, DLC will be re-downloadable through PSN after then if you already own it. See this link for more details.

There’s a ’50/50′ Shot The Last Of Us Gets Another Game, Says Creator

It’s difficult to discuss why so many people would not want a sequel toThe Last of Us without getting deep into spoiler territory. Its story has … rather clear boundaries, let’s say. But the game’s creative director said in a Reddit AMA that there’s a 50/50 chance there’ll be another game in the series. Neil…

This Week in the Business: From a ‘Sea of Love’ to a ‘Pool of Hate’

QUOTE | “The Kickstarter experience had been wading in a sea of love … it was like being dumped from that into this cold pool of Internet Twitter hate.”—Tim Schafer of Double Fine, on the backlash to the announcement that the Kickstarter-funded Broken Age game would be split into two parts Elsewhere in the business…

The Creationism Debate…For Pokémon

Do Pokémon really evolve? How do we know that? Do we have actual science to prove that Pokémon evolve? Or do new Pokémon just appear in a flash of light sometimes? (I’m joking, people. Joking.) It’s kind of hilarious to think the Pokémon universe might have debates like the one in this video by The…

This Dating Simulator Makes It Incredibly Difficult To Find Love

Save the Date is a text-based dating simulator. It’s also a really funny comment on how we play games. We’ve posted about it before, but I finally got to play it, and I had to record some highlights to share. Check it out! You get the idea of where the game is going pretty quickly,…

​If The Dark Knight Returns Were About Donkey Kong

Take Batman out of Frank Miller’s classic story about an older Batman coming out of retirement. Replace him with Donkey Kong. And you get something that hopefully exists in some more blessed alternate universe: The Donkey Knight Returns Gaze upon the work of Brazilian artist Bill the Butcher—who we’ve featured before—and despair that you can’t…

Framed For Murder: 7Framed, a game where you play as a normal everyday person who is suddenly framed for murder by a mysterious enemy, looks interesting (the fancy motion capturing probably helps). The developers are trying to raise $300,000 on Kickstarter—check it out here.