Sunday Comics: Take a Bow

Welcome to Kotaku‘s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics, chosen by our readership. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon in the lower right corner. Virtual Shackles by Jeremy Vinar and Mike Fahmie. Published June 26. Read more of Virtual Shackles Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and Mike…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Burn This Villager: The Winners

The menace of Animal Crossing‘s Villager is upon us, lurking around every corner with his mirthless grin and vitrified eyes. We asked for your worst nightmares and you gave them to us, eighteen in all, including overall No. 1 Anshin above! Honorable mentions this week go to DonCopal, Insomnis, mrdark and double finalist MrEck0. Oh,…

Ride to Hell is a Bad Game, but I Still Bought It for a Good Reason

Last year saw the glimmer of a movement to get a video game based on Sons of Anarchy, FX’s biker gang series and a vicarious lifestyle fantasy for many viewers, one of them me. The possibility seemed to go no further than series creator Kurt Sutter’s own hopes. Still, he vowed anything the show licensed…

All-Time Greats Will Be Featured in NBA Live 14, Designer Says

Hall-of-fame stars from the NBA’s past will be a part of NBA Live 14, though exactly how isn’t known, as one of the game’s designers took to Twitter to roll out some early details of a title that will have a lot to prove when it arrives. The details came out of a Thursday afternoon…

Arguing Console Specs is Pointless, Says Xbox Exec, Who Does It Anyway

Debating which console’s guts are more powerful is “a pointless argument,” says one Xbox executive, “because people are debating things which they don’t know about.” By and large, he’s right. He then went on to tout his console’s innards. They [Sony] actually go out and they talk about how proud they are about their off-the-shelf…

Following stops in Las Vegas and then Paris, Minecon 2013, the annual gathering for Minecraft fans, will be held in Orlando, Fla. Dates, ticket and hotel information will be announced in July.

Aaron Hernandez might not make it back in time for the next Madden, but if you want to play a topical video game (not about a crack-smoking mayor), try Snowden’s Leaks: The Game. It was made by Dutch developers in 72 hours. No, it won’t report your high scores to the NSA.

A Beer With a Clean, Crisp Taste That Says ‘Anomaly: Warzone Earth’

Why would a tower defense “offense” game be the perfect inspiration for a beer? Because “warzone,” spelled exactly that way, in Polish means “brewed.” And the guys behind the Polish-developed Anomaly: Warzone series like to hoist a pint, too. This is Tower Offense Stout—”the very first brand of beer in the world created by game…

Xbox Live Stops Charging Studios to Patch Games; Fez Creator Upset

When a rare—but utterly game-breaking bug—crippled the indie sensation Fez, its maker said it would issue no patch to fix it. That’s because Microsoft would have charged “tens of thousands of dollars” to put out the patch out over Xbox Live. Yesterday, the company revealed it did away with those charges back in April. Eurogamer…

The Gamer Who Raised Me

There are many factors that have made me into the person I am today, as is the case with any person on this planet. My personality has been partially formed by that chemical factor called ‘depression’ that I have discussed here many times but, as any good psychologist would tell me, there are also plenty…

This Week in the Business: When a Game Ships, the Axe Falls

What’s happened in the business of video games this past week … QUOTE | “The hire-and-fire cycle is simply an aspect of our industry. When a game ships, sometimes the guillotine has to drop.”—David Valjalo, game consultant, talking about an unfortunate reality of making AAA games today QUOTE | “It’s not the decline of consoles,…

If Dr. Seuss Wrote The Last of Us and Resident Evil…

Then the covers would look a little like…this! Here are the latest and greatest Dr. Seuss themed covers and rhymes from DrFaustusAU, who graced us with other similar covers in the past. This time we’ve got The Last of Us, Resident Evil, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, and BioShock Infinite—all from the last couple of months.…

The Best Of Kotaku, The Week Of June 24th

It kinda feels like it’s been a slow week, but looking back it really wasn’t. Deadpool released, so did Company of Heroes 2, we’re still catching up with all our E3 previews of games we saw in LA, and everyone is slowly coming together to discuss The Last of Us as they complete it. Check…

Total War: Rome II Is Gonna Wage War On Your Hard Drive

It’s likely that the amount of content will justify it (at least, that immense screenshot they shared helps give that impression), but man alive is Total War: Rome II going to take up a lot of hard drive space. 35 gigabytes, to be precise, according to the recommended specs released today by Creative Assembly. Time…

Even More Game of Thrones Characters As Bad 90s Stereotypes

Mike Wrobelis at it again: here’s a collection of even more Game of Throne characters asbad 80s/90s stereotypes. This time around, we’ve got Khal Drogo, Cersei Lannister, Tyrion Lannister, Bronn, Theon Greyjoy and Margaery Tyrell. When the cast of the show is so huge, there’s no shortage of people to pick from, eh? Cersei in…

These Dudes Know How To Break It Down To Final Fantasy Music

Typically, when someone does an ode to Final Fantasy, they’ll do stuff like fan art or fan fiction. Mikeosonghas a more novel idea: choreography to go along with some of his favorite Final Fantasy themes—it’s so good, you’d think it was something out of a boy band (my mind goes to K-Pop, but only because…

Developer Arrested For Child Porn, ‘No Longer Affiliated’ With His Studio

Kenneth McCulloch, a developer at Precursor Games—the developers who want to createa sequel to Eternal Darkness—is now facing child pornography charges according to Bullet News Niagaraand the Niagara Regional Police Service. McCulloch is being charged with “one count each of possession of child pornography, making child pornography available and accessing child pornography,” to be specific.…

It’s not really clear whether being gay in Rogue Legacy, the roguelike-like in which characters have randomly-generated traits, actually does anything. (Players and reviewers say it doesn’t.) Either way, this GameFAQs screengrab (via Mike Henry) is too good not to share.

The Next Mario & Luigi RPG Looks Absolutely Delightful

Man. It’s hard to watch this trailer and not want to get my hands on Mario & Luigi: Dream Team right now. Well, my hands were actually on Dream Team on Monday, during a meeting at Nintendo’s offices in Manhattan. I played about 30 minutes of the upcoming RPG, which is out for 3DS on…

The Week In Gaming Apps As You’ve Never Seen It! No, Not Naked.

Are you ready for another all-new, all-different Week in Gaming Apps? Well tough, it’s happening. After a couple of years’ worth of putting together a lengthy list packed with images and prices and lengths, we’re going to harness the power of Kinja to make things a little more organized. I’ll drop the links, images and…