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The Best Of Kotaku, This Week

Welcome to the Best of Kotaku, where I round up all of this week’s best content. Garrus really does love his calibrations, doesn’t he. Yosh9‘s creation just makes it all the cuter. Thanks to Blue Dog’s Eyes for the find. Now let’s move on to reading this week’s best content, courtesy of us. Hundreds of…

Hasbro Lawyers Stable My Little Pony: Fighting is Magic Fan Project

Since the summer of 2011 a small group of fans calling themselves Mane6 have been toiling away at a fighting game based on the cartoon My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. Working from a rudimentary knowledge of 2D Fighter Maker 2002, they built the fan project into a phenomenon unto itself. They scouted sound-alike voice…

He Set Off Speeding Cameras. While On A Skateboard.

I’d like to think of this as “skateboarded so awesomely that now he has the police on his tail,” but hey. Semantics. The footage above is of Decio Lourenco from South Africa, who apparently shredded so fast that the authorities are looking to prosecute according to The Telegraph They’re citing “reckless and negligent road behavior,”…

Shazam! Here’s Gearbox president Randy Pitchford’s magic-trick-laden DICE talk, “Video Games Are Magic.”

Anti-Gun People Who Cluelessly Mocked Me Still Live in Fantasy Land, Still Don’t Know How To Apologize

The popular, left-leaning Facebook group that mistook me for a gun nut last month has pulled the image of me that they put on their site. They actually pulled it on Monday, shortly after I ran an article illustrating the hilarious cluelessness of many of the Facebook page’s users—many of whom thought I was holding…

At DICE, RPG scions Ray Muzyka and Feargus Urquhart gave this talk about the future of role-playing games.

Here’s Warren Spector’s full DICE talk about grown-up gaming (and his distaste for Lollipop Chainsaw).

Hella Jelly: Japan Gets Stupidest, Yet Possibly Most Amazing Event-Pokémon

There are some cool event Pokémon distributed for promotional purposes—legendaries, for instance. And then there are event Pokémon that leave you scratching your head. Enter level 99 shiny Magikarp, which will be an event Pokémon distributed by a Pokémon Centre in Nagoya. The occasion? They’re moving into a new building according to Serebii. The Makikarp…

Remember that Dead Space 3 glitch to help you avoid paying microtransactions? EA says it’s not a glitch

Watch Journey creator Jenova Chen’s DICE talk about how to make emotional games, including that emotional fan-letter

In This Week’s Injustice Comic, Superman Does the One Thing Batman Never Would

You might know that DC Comics has an Injustice comic running which sets up the stage for all the brawling in the upcoming fighting game. The story by writer Tom Taylor and artists Mike Miller and Jheremy Raapack is appearing in digital form first, with print editions following. Check out this excerpt, where Jimmy Olsen…

Nintendo Fan Is Unhappy With Nintendo’s $200 Answer to His $400 Wii U Problem

Jon is an enthusiastic Nintendo fan. He buys all of Nintendo’s systems. He buys many, many Nintendo games. But he’s gotten himself into a jam that he says has cost him access to more than $400 worth of downloadable games he’s purchased from Nintendo over the several years. How does one lose access to $400…

The Warm and Wonderfully Squishy World of the Week in Gaming Apps

Welcome back to the Week in Gaming Apps, a place where one moment you’re running over zombies with a train and the next you’re enjoying a motherly embrace with a globular pink alien. Thank you, mobile gaming. One of the joys of covering the mobile scene for Kotaku is the sheer absurdity of the games…

The Battle for Steam-Powered Tower Defense Supremacy Begins on Facebook

Why aren’t there more tower defense games on Facebook? Is it because they tend to be more difficult than the normal Facebook fare, or because they aren’t particularly social? Arcadelia challenges both of those notions with Apoteos: Steam Wars, a competitive multiplayer tower defense and attack game aimed squarely at the hardcore audience. With its…

These Video Games Let You Play As Insects

Controlling a cockroach or an entire ant colony is pretty unusual, even for a video game. So we can say games featuring these ideas resulted in rather unique and underrated titles—and that’s absolutely not a problem. We collected some of the most interesting ones below. SimAnt: The Electronic Ant Colony source: Killerratte’s LP Battle Of…

Apparently, The Story Behind Epic’s Dazzling 2011 Tech Demo Is A ‘Doozy’

At the Game Developers Conference in 2011, Epic Games showed off a new demo of their widely-used Unreal graphics technology. The Unreal Engine drives a ton of popular games, from Gears of War and BioShock to Borderlands and Arkham City. The demo Epic showed was a violent, action-packed piece of work called ‘Samaritan,” and it…

Dead Space 1 Writer Says Dead Space 3‘s Action Focus Was A ‘Necessary Evil’

Some would contest whether or not Dead Space was ever a scary franchise, but most will agree that Dead Space 3 focuses more on being an action title. In a recent NowGamer interview, Dead Space 1 writer Antony Johnston explained why he thinks the added action emphasis occurred. While admitting that the newer Dead Space…

After Just Six Months, Epic Closes the Studio Built on the Ashes of Big Huge Games

Following last year’s Kingdoms of Amalur financial disaster that resulted in the closure of both Curt Schilling’s 38 Studios and Maryland’s Big Huge Games, Epic Games swooped in and rescued a group of Big Huge refugees, forming Epic Baltimore, eventually renamed Impossible Studios. Today Epic founder Tim Sweeney announced the studio’s closure. “When former members…

A List Of Characters I Accidentally Killed In Fire Emblem: Awakening

Last week, as you might recall, I promised to play Fire Emblem: Awakening with permadeath on. I also promised to continue battling no matter what happened: in other words, if any of my party members died in combat, they’d be dead for good. This was a mistake. I want to tell you a little bit…