Our primary goal was to [recreate the experience of playing Diablo 2 online], rather than to make a game that everyone in the world could play. Grinding Gear Games CEO Chris Wilson, answering a fan question about the complex and somewhat casual gamer-unfriendly systems behind Path of Exile. Give a listen above.

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The World’s Biggest RC Helicopter Could Carry A Kid. Or Cat.

This is the second model of a giant remote-controlled Cobra attack helicopter, built by enthusiast Josef Schmirl. The previous one was 11.5 feet long, and weighed 52 pounds. This one is bigger The animatronic pilots are the best. Worlds largest RC Heli – New!!! Version RED BULL Cobra [YouTube, via Laughing Squid]

Who Do I Have To Kill For This Famicom Nintendo 3DS?

I have a weakness for the Famicom colour scheme. That bold crimson, the slightly tacky gold, it’s an 80s Chinese restaurant, bad hotel lobby and classic Nintendo console, all rolled into two tones. And that’s just seeing the shades on the internet! Put them on a 3DS – like James Montagna has done here –…

Kinect Can Turn You Into A Tiny Action Figure

A company called Shapify is, through the magic of Kinect and 3D printing, allowing Microsoft’s peripheral to serve as your gateway to tiny narcissistic action figures. You’ll need a Kinect, a PC and Shapify’s software. With all that, the camera can take a complete 3D image of you – in a pose, if necessary –…

You Can Buy Lemonparty For $450,000

If you’ve got a spare $450,000 lying around, and a penchant for ancient internet jokes, you could be the proud owner of Lemonparty’s still active, still-NSFW domain. The site’s owner is a Mr. Eric Johnson, who The Daily Dot perfectly describeas “a purposefully vague twenty-something freelance Web marketer who started buying strange URLs after he…

Microsoft’s Games with Gold program goes all Square Enix-y in January with Sleeping Dogs and Lara Croft. Xbox 360 gamers with a Gold Xbox Live subscription will be able to download Sleeping Dogs for free January 1 through 15, with Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light free from January 16 to the 31.

Do we need a good pro wrestling game on iOS? One in which you’re the promoter, not the wrestler? Wrestling fan and game creator Brian Papa thinks so. Check out his Kickstarter for a game called Ringmaster. Looks cool.

TIME Looks at the History of Consoles—Including the 5th-Gen ‘S–tshow’

The launch of the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 this year rounds out the eighth console generation, as good a time as any to look back on the seven preceding it, in this three part video series by TIME. Some familiar faces offer their insights on the overcrowded “shitshow” that was the fifth console generation.…

Pranksters Almost Voted An Erotic Game As Our Readers’ Game of the Year

Well, that was close! Thousands of loyal Kotaku readers voted in our Game of the Year poll last week, and they have chosen The Last Of Us as their favorite game of 2013. But what’s the game in the number two spot? The one that missed the top spot by just 24 votes? Why, it’s…

He Forged Fire Emblem‘s Falchion, Then He … You Get the Idea

Video game smithy Tony Swatton has, for the past year, forging blades from Kingdom Hearts, the Legend of Zelda, God of War and even Adventure Time. Closing out 2013, he tackles a project fans have been clamoring for all year: Chrom’s Falchion from Fire Emblem: Awakening. This took a lot of work as Tony explains,…

He Played Missile Command for Nearly Three Consecutive Days

Earlier this year, Victor Sandberg broke Missile Command‘s all-time world record—a mark that had stood since 1982 and was believed to be unassailable. This weekend, he shot for another goal most thought unreachable. In the end, it was. Sandberg didn’t make it to 100 hours of gameplay on a single credit—which would have been 16…

So That’s Why Superheroes Wear Their Underwear On The Outside

Why did Superman wear his frilly red underthings on the outside of his body stocking? The fine folks at Today I Found Out offer this simple, sensible explanation. Technically the answer is they do not wear their underwear on the outside. If it’s on top, then whatever is underneath it becomes underwear, so really their…