Horrid Friday the 13th NES Game Gets This Special Edition Figurine

Friday the 13th, the 1989 game, is widely considered to be one of the worst video games of all time, certainly one of the worst ever made for the NES. So of course it rates a special edition figurine—Jason Vorhees in the strange purple getup he wore for the final, deeply unsatisfying boss battle. Figures.com…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Roboshop

Next week we should have plenty of absurd things and derpfaces coming out of the Next Xbox reveal, so it’s premature to parody that right now. We need a more timeless exploitable, something like—oh, yeah, this bigass statue of Robocop. Here we go. The statue, remember, was a Kickstarter initiative to place a tribute to…

Just in time for Mega Man 5‘s release on the 3DS Virtual Console, Capcom’s offering the game’s soundtrack (57 songs in all) on the Capcom store.

Sunday Comics: The Eyes Have It

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. Brawl In The Family by Matthew Taranto. Published May 14. Read more of Brawl In The Family Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…

Moneysaver Special Edition: Bioshock: Infinite At Its Cheapest Yet

Deals are just falling out of the sky. This deal is Today Only. You heard it here first. Amazon’s got your ticket to Columbia for its lowest yet, regardless of your platform. If you’ve been putting off playing the year’s biggest game, now is the time. • PC [Steam] Bioshock: Infinite ($35) • PC [Physical]…

In case you were wondering, that incredibly rare instruction manual from the Nintendo 64 video game ClayFighter: Sculptor’s Cut ended up selling for $1,377

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Ridiculous Rift: The Winners

Oculus Rift isn’t even in production and the VR device already has been put to that most basic of human needs—vigilante executions. If experiencing the guillotine in full stereoscopic view isn’t intense enough, feast your eyes on this week’s set of ‘Shop Contest winners, led by arniejolt! Acnyc2000 (This means “Will there be cake after…

Ouya Will Be at E3 … in the Parking Lot

Ouya, the crowdfunded Android gaming console, will be in Los Angeles during E3, but it won’t technically be *at* E3. That’s because its booth will be in “a parking lot directly across from the Convention Center’s South Hall.” Is it this one? That’s according to a message sent to Ouya developers by the company’s head…

Valve was at work on a set of augmented reality glasses when several employees were let go back in the winter. Two of them are continuing to work on the project, with the company’s blessings. The Verge has video of it in action

New Jersey’s state senate voted unanimously for a program that will print up a bunch of pamphlets about the dangers of scary, scary video games and send them home with schoolchildren. The bill, sponsored by Democrats, now moves to the state Assembly.

Madden Special Edition Includes ‘Sunday Ticket’—Even Without DirecTV

Yesterday, EA Sports announced a $100 “Anniversary Edition” for Madden NFL 25 that will include a code offering buyers access to DirecTV’s NFL Sunday Ticket—the channel that lets you watch any team outside of your local market—even if they aren’t subscribers to the satellite TV service. There’s been a bit of confusion as to what…

Patton Oswalt’s Amazing Star Wars Episode VII Rant, Brought To Life

The totally improvised, 7 1/2 minute filibuster from an episode of NBC’s Parks & Recreation last month, in which Patton Oswalt outlines his vision of Star Wars: Episode VII (with Marvel crossovers) could not possibly have been more perfect, could it? Well, yes, it could, actually … YouTube video uploaded by iZacLess To contact the…

Days before the next Xbox’s unveiling, NBA Live‘s social media decides to come out of hibernation. It had been totally silent since NBA Live 13‘s abrupt cancellation in September.

Like Sands Through the Hourglass, So Are the Fake Games of Our Lives

This week, Days of Our Lives joined stock photography services in the business of presenting unrealistically attractive people playing bullshit video games. What is this, Angry Birds X Call of Duty for the Xbox 360? Furthermore, what the hell is that guy playing the game on? A Curtis Mathes console TV from 1976? To contact…

EA Sports Developer Calls Wii U ‘Crap’ and Nintendo ‘Walking Dead’

At the end of a week in which Electronic Arts confirmed it wasn’t developing a thing for the Wii U, one of the software engineers in EA Sports’ Canada studio, in a series of since-deleted tweets, disparaged the console as “crap” and suggested Nintendo should give up on hardware altogether. “The Wii U is crap.…

This Week in the Business: ‘What a Bunch of Elitist B.S.’

What’s happened in the business of video games this past week … QUOTE | “That idea of saying, ‘you’re not allowed.’ What a bunch of elitist bullshit. Go [expletive] yourself.”—David Jaffe, veteran designer, talking about consulting on a Kickstarter for Autoduel and why critics of some Kickstarters annoy him QUOTE | “The downside didn’t appear…

The Best of Kotaku, The Week of May 13

Helloooo Kotaku! Happy weekend to you. This has been quite the busy week, what with Stephen off at a pre-E3, week-long event. Fortunately, he was still prepared with gifts. Gifts in the form of previews of Watch Dogs, The Last of Us and Scribblenauts Unmasked, disappointing but perhaps expected news from EA, and a cute…

Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance is coming to PC, Hideo Kojima’s podcast revealed. Details about the port are TBA. [HideBlog via PG_jp]

Oh Hey, It’s a Naked Man on a Scooter, Carrying a Crucifix

It’s not everyday you see a naked man riding a scooter with giant cross. Warning: This article has content some readers might find objectionable. Last month, Kotaku brought word of a Beijing man who ran through the streets nude while carrying a sex doll. Online in China, the images soon went viral, and one Chinese…

Today’s Gamers Are Having A Little Trouble With Super Mario World, Too

It was recently established that the 2013 gamer is perplexed by some parts of 1994’s Super Metroid. The 2013 gamer is having some issues with 1990’s Super Mario World, too. We can see these struggles on the Nintendo Wii U’s Miiverse, a community accessible primarily through Nintendo’s new console. The Miiverse enables gamers to take…