The 3DS Is Three Today. It’s Still The Best Gaming Machine Out There.

Last year, at around this time, I declared that the 3DS is the best dedicated gaming system you can buy. Today, the 3DS turns three. It’s still the best gaming system you can buy. DECLARATION SUCCESSFUL. Yep, four months after the launch of the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, the best gaming experiences you can…

The Order: 1886 brings you a good two and a-half minutes of gameplay in this trailer Sony released today. It lingers on the firepower (and quick timer events) available in the alternate-history landscape. Is it just me, or does that stuff look like it would be monstrously heavy with Victorian-era metallurgy?

The Games That Nearly Broke Us: you should read Kotaku columnist Leigh Alexander’s heartfelt story about Netrunner, a cyberpunk board game that can be difficult to learn for folks who have trouble with math.

The Best of iOS, 700 Blu-rays on Sale, DC Comics Subscriptions [Deals]

iOS gets the love today with discounts on some of the ecosystem’s best titles. Get downloading. [Updated] XCOM®: Enemy Unknown ($10) | Normally $20 | One of Kotaku’s best games on the iPad and a former GOTY Horn ($3) | Normally $7 | A previous Kotaku best game on the iPhone The Room Two ($1)…

This Is Why You Shouldn’t Trust Anyone In Rust

Paranoia—and the fact that you can only see naked characters’ weapons when they’re using them—fuels the survival game Rust. YouTuber rewrite illustrates this with an excellent and funny example of why you shouldn’t trustanyone in the game, even players who look like new spawns. Hi… Hey… [rewrite, YouTube] To contact the author of this post,…

​If Dark Souls II Were An 80s Cartoon

1980s nostalgia is easy to exploit for cheap jokes and lazy humor. But an 80s cartoon version of Dark Souls II? I’d buy that for a dollar. Dark Souls II: Rogue Warrior by YouTube user veselekov envisions a scratchy, VHS vision of what Dark Souls II could have been if it had landed in the…

Super Motherload Is Out On Steam Today, And It’s Still Fun

Super Motherload is a simple game about Cold War astronauts mining on Mars. It’s a lot of fun, but beware the Hardcore mode, which is next to impossible. I took a look at it on PS4 if you want to see what you’re in for.

Trials Fusion Takes Off in Mid-April for PS4, Xbox One and PC

Trials is coming back with all the gut-sucking drops and teeth-gritting ascents you remember from the dirt-bike racer’s first two editions, this time adding ATVs, midair tricks and a slew of new environments to Trials Fusion, coming April 16. The game will release for Xbox One, PS4, Xbox 360 and PC. A news release from…

Ex-Pixeljunk Devs Mix Turn-Based And Real-Time In Nova-111

Taking turns is lovely. Twitchy action is lovely as well. Funktronic Labs’ upcoming PC adventure Nova-111 combines turn-based and real-time gameplay into an incredibly intriguing, double-lovely thing. Once upon a spacetime, there existed a team of intelligent scientists, who were living in a turn-based world. They were interested in expediting their scientific research, and thus…

A Filmmaker Says the Oculus Rift Can Make Great Movies, Too

The trailer you’re watching here doesn’t really do the movie justice. Zero Point is described as the first film shot specifically for the Oculus Rift, and if you want to see what that means, I’d suggest watching this interactive version instead, where your mouse can move your viewing perspective. We can’t embed that trailer here,…

Today’s selection of articles fromKotaku‘s reader-run community:Dex’s Review: The Princess and the Pilot • The Crystal’s Call – Escape From Castrum Centri • ANI-TAY PODCAST VOLUNTEERS WANTED TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

Facepalm Games’ atmospheric PC space adventure The Swapper is coming to all things PlayStation in May. According to the PlayStation Blog, innovative cloning puzzles will grace the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4 and Vita this spring, with Cross-Buy goodness so folks can play on whatever’s handy.

Mobster’s Daughter Sues, Says Grand Theft Auto V Copies Her Life Story

The daughter of the mobster who brought down John Gotti is suing the makers of Grand Theft Auto V for $40 million alleging a minor character in the game was based on her life story and it was used without her permission. Karen Gravano says “Antonia Bottino,” (pictured in the background above) whom the player…

Call Of Duty: Elite Shuts Down On Friday. It’s Okay To Cry.

Remember back in 2011 when Activision’s ambitious online service dedicated to the Call of Duty franchise and its players was going to be thebest thing ever? It’s shutting down forever on February 28. That’s skull logo has never been more appropriate. Clans and stat-tracking and advanced matchmaking and original comedy programming! All of these were…

Artist Rod Hunt made an amazing pixelized, isometric interpretation of an imaginary WWE Hall of Fame, including tributes to almost everyone in wrestling. Check out the creator’s site for tons of easter eggs and references in the close-ups. The WWE Hall Of Fame by Rod Hunt [via Béhance] Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs…

Baskin Robbins Is Releasing Ice Cream Dolls in Japan

In Japan, March 3 is Girl’s Day (雛祭り or “Hinamatsuri”). It’s a doll festival. To celebrate, Baskin Robbins is releasing a set of five ice cream “dolls.” Delicious! Here is how the real dolls are displayed during Hinamatsuri. The dolls represent the Emperor and Empress—as well as their attendants. And now, in ice cream form,…

The Machines That Claim to Uncensor Japanese Pornography

This week in Osaka, cops busted uncensored dirty movie sellers. According to The Tokyo Reporter, police seized 140,000 uncensored DVDs. Pixelated porn is the law! And in the past, machines were made to give those rules the shaft. Note: This story might contain content some readers find objectionable. During the Meiji Era (1868 – 1912),…