Basically Team Fortress 2 With Extra Gore And Better Guns

When I first glanced at Loadout I mistakenly thought it was a Team Fortress 2 clone. (I’m sorry for judging you by your looks.) It’s similar in that they’re both team based arena shooters, but there’s a key difference: you get to make your own guns. You can be creative with them, too. There’s no…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: In Defense Of The New Sonic Design • The Video Game Villains That Are The Most Satisfying To Kill • Mini Reviews Of Sonic Games Past TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

Your 6 Nominations For Best Gaming Headset

We’ve counted your nominations, and now the time to vote has come. With only one vote separating the 5th and 6th most nominated headsets, and a wide gulf between these top 6 picks and the rest of the pack, we decided to head to the voting round with 6 options. Astro A50 No surprise here.…

“Housed within the Control Capsule! Protected by Rinkas! Eyeball armed with a Laser Brain Attack!! The massive Assist Trophy Mother Brain joins the collection!!” Masahiro Sakurai, in his latest Screenshot of the Day Miiverse post, presents the upcoming Smash Bros. games’ newest assist trophy: Metroid’s Mother Brain

So, How’s That Transformers MMO Coming Along?

Hey kids, remember that Transformers Universe MMO that was being made by the folks who gave you Runescape? Jagex is still hard at work on that browser-based beast, and they’ve got a new, not-entirely-CG trailer to prove it. After an incredibly quiet 2013, Jagex is ready to make some noise with Transformers Universe. From here…

The Story of the Cat Lady with Over 10,000 Cat Items

Junko Suzuki loves cats. For the past forty years, she’s owned feline friends and collected cat memorabilia. She has so many cat-related items that she’s actually turned her Tokyo house into a cat museum. There’s even an entrance fee. Dubbed “Nyanyamoan” (にゃにゃもあん), the museum opened in 2012 and is located on the second floor of…

Live-Action Patlabor Looks… Pretty Great, Actually!

Iconic manga and anime franchise Patlabor is getting a series of live-action shorts and a feature film. Here’s the trailer for the first short. It looks great. 「THE NEXT GENERATION パトレイバー」第１章 予告 [The Next Generation Patlabor@YouTube] To contact the author of this post, write to bashcraftATkotaku.com or find him on Twitter @Brian_Ashcraft Kotaku East is…

The Last of Us Bags 10 DICE Awards, Including Game of the Year

Pictured: Ellie sniping down the other Character of the Year nominees from a safe distance. Yep, out of the twenty-four awards available, a whopping ten went to Naughty Dog’s post-apocalyptic zombie survival game at tonight’s DICE Awards show. Plants VS. Zombies 2 and BioShock Infinite were the other two multi-award winning games, bringing home two…

Watch Us Play the Newest Excellent Gundam Fighter

The Gundam VS series is one of Japan’s most popular arcade games and one I have been playing for years. Fellow Kotaku East author Toshi Nakamura, on the other hand, has never played a Gundam VS game. So watch us sit down and spend some time with the newest in the series, Gundam Extreme VS…

In this Arcade Game, You Battle Zombie… Schoolgirls

It’s schoolgirls in sailor suits. Make that zombie schoolgirls in sailor suits. Oh, did I mention there’s dancing, too? There is. Namco Bandai’s newest arcade game is called Sailor Zombie: AKB48 Arcade Edition and stars Japan’s biggest girl group AKB48. Gpara reports that the game features seven members, including Yuko Oshima, Mayu Watanabe, and Yuki…

Track: Uruku Tumi Gushiku | Album: Jin Jin | Artist: Takashi Hirayasu & Bob Brozman Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to—and gaming to—at the moment.