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…

Dying Light, Mad Max, DC Graphic Novels, Free Hugo [Deals]

The holidays are basically over people, time to save some money on 2014 pre-orders. Grab Dying Light and/or Mad Max for $10 off, and enjoy the added security of pre-order low price guarantee, not to mention the fact that Amazon won’t charge you until the game ships. Amazon has Kindle versions of some of the…

Awakened In 2013: first, we imagined what the new wall-merging mechanic might look like in an older, classic Zelda game. Today, we’re going to imagine what a 2013 remake of Link’s Awakening might look like—here’s a rendition by artist Jonatan Iversen-Ejve. (Via Tiny Cartridge)

The Stylish Way To Play Your NES

Dave Nunez sure likes 3D printing stuff, and his latest project was no small undertaking. Inspired by his desk lamp and a pile of spare parts, he came up with the design for this ‘NESPoise’ system, and it sure is pretty. The same guy who created the tiny Xbox One, Dave has a 3D printer…

Did anyone actually choose Uplay? The “Thank you for choosing Uplay” message that pops up every time a game is launched from within Ubisoft’s game control service gets funnier every time I see it. Redditor Purkle agrees.

America Pays More For Slower Internet and Less Capacity

The average Internet connection speed in the United States may be well more than what’s needed for multiplayer gaming or watching streaming video. But the country’s infrastructure still lingers well behind what other nations enjoy, according to a slew of recent studies. It’s a textbook your-mileage-may-vary setting, of course, but the average U.S. connection speed…