Tiny Super Mario 64 Secrets You May Not Have Noticed

Super Mario 64 didn’t skimp out on small details—take, for example, the penguins in Cool Cool Mountain. They do more than just provide you with stars, you know. GameXplain breaks down some of the neat things you might’ve missed about ’em, like how the baby penguin cutely mimics Mario. Aww. Maybe I wouldn’t have cruelly…

How To Move Like A Pro In Titanfall

Movement is everything in Titanfall. A good player knows how to get around the map with ease, sometimes without ever touching the ground. If you’ve been having trouble with movement, there’s good news: you can learn how to expertly use your jumps, wall-running and jetpacks in Titanfall with some help. YouTube user arCtiCvBi, a former…

The Next McDonald’s Happy Meal Toys Are Going To Kill Me

Today Activision announced a second round of eight Skylanders Happy Meal Toys will be launching March 27, but they will not be alone. The Skylanders: Swap Force characters will be the “boys” toy, and the “girls” option? It’s My Little Pony, dammit. “I think you’ve been triangulated,” said Kotaku boss Stephen Totilo when I showed…

SimCity Redemption Day, SteelSeries Mousepad, Castlevania [Deals]

It goes without saying that SimCity had its issues at launch, but a year later, the game’s all grown up and even sports an offline mode. If you think it’s time to give the game a chance, you can get it today from Amazon for just $20. If you already own the game, the futuristic…

Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes – PS4 vs. Xbox One vs. PS3 vs. 360

With every new cross-gen video game comes a new opportunity to compare technical performances across most of today’s big gaming consoles, and Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes is no exception. The super-technical folks at Digital Foundry have put together a great breakdown of the technical specs in the latest MGS game, complete with video…

Competitive Gamers Need A Better Way To Measure Their Skills

We really don’t know what makes someone good at video games. We can speculate, but we don’t know. What we need, frankly, are better stats. In StarCraft we bear witness to the immaculate precision of a perfectly-timed Zerg ambush, but we don’t know how that compares to the average Zerg ambush. In a Call of…

Here’s the painted version of NECA’s Booker DeWitt figure. Should be available for preorder at your favorite webstore today.

Your PS3s and PS4s are about to get 37% more radical. OlliOlli—the hit side-scrolling skateboarding game that came out for PlayStation Vita earlier this year—will be coming to Sony’s home consoles this summer. There’s also an update on the way that will fix a crash bug and include other stuff, too.

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Why Post-Game Content Sucks• 10 Reasons Awesomenauts Is The Best MOBA • A Tale Of Dark Souls II Cooperation TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

If Disney Characters Were In The Middle of a Zombie Apocalypse

They would survive and adapt easily, or at least that’s what deviantART artist Kasami-Sensei‘s artwork suggests. He put several Disney characters into the Walking Dead universe, making all the appropriate changes. It’s weird to see Anna from Frozen with an M4 carbine, but you can’t survive otherwise. Here are some highlights. My favorite is definitely…

Everything Happens In The Latest X-Men: Days Of Future Past Trailer

I think we might have gathered a few too many X-Men, you guys. Not that I mind a whole lot of X-Men. It just makes for a very scattered theatrical trailer, where it feels like all of the things are happening at once. Maybe Bryan Singer is making them cut the X-Men: Days of Future…

Imagine what MacGyver could do with a modern day smart phone. Fairplay Digital has announced it’s cobbling together an official mobile game based on classic action-adventure TV series. Fairplay will reveal the game in the coming weeks, after which it will explode as Richard Dean Anderson leaps away from it in slow motion.

How To Draw a Tiger from a Penis

You will probably never look at dick faces, I mean tigers, the same way ever again. Twitter user Milkuzz recently posted these very helpful how-tos that explain how to use a dick drawing to create tiger doodles. Below, you can see the explanations. While they are in Japanese, just go in numeric order, and you…

YouTube Stars Play Blizzard’s Upcoming Heroes of the Storm

Heroes of the Storm, Blizzard’s upcoming MOBA, looks fun when big YouTubers, like TotalBiscuit, StarCraft’s Husky, Jesse Cox and a few others team up to try out the game, which is currently in alpha—a fact that explains why it looks a bit empty at the moment, compared to, say, DOTA. The clip above is from…