The fighting game community is uniting on Reddit to help out the family of gamer Terrance “PushaTee88” Moore, who passed away during a tournament in California last week. You can check out the thread here.

This Final Fantasy VI Wu-Tang Clan Mash-Up Is Weird And Wonderful

If you’re wondering what this image is, yes: it’s a silhouette of a chocobo with the iconic Wu-Tang “W” cut out. And yes, that can only mean one thing: someone finally mashed up key verses from the Wu-Tang Clan with songs from Final Fantasy VI. The end result is about as whacky as you’d expect.…

Candy Crush Saga Sequel Arrives To Refresh A Faltering Fanbase

After two and a half years of candy crushing, fans of King’s massive gem-matching hit could use a little break. Enter Candy Crush Soda Saga, releasedtoday on Facebook and coming soon to mobile. Here’s how my time with Candy Crush Saga normally goes. I’ll start up the application on my iPad, and try my hand…

Pokémon Battles Are Way Better With A Little Dragon Ball Z

We’ve seen what happens when Pokémon battles get ugly.What about when they get really intense, what happens then? A Smash Bros. mod can answer that question. A couple of months ago we showed you a nearly heart-stopping Smash Bros. battle, which was done with the help of Project M’sTurbo Mode—a special feature that lets Brawl…

A Free Amiibo With Smash Bros., Gat Out of Hell, and More deals

You’re buying Smash Bros. for Wii U, so get a free Amiibo while you’re at it. Must add both to cart to see deal. [Smash Bros.] Lots of great discounts today on Wolfenstein, inFamous, Mordor, DriveClub, and more. preorder Saints Row: Gat Out of Hell ($16) | Gamefly | Use code OCT15OFF Wasn’t expecting to…

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare’s PC system requirements have now been revealed on the game’s Steam page. Unsurprisingly, the game is a meaty one—requiring 55 GB of free hard drive space and 6GB of RAM for its minimum requirements. Read the full list of specs below. Also: keep in mind, these are the minimum requirements.…

Mega-Producer Jade Raymond Leaves Ubisoft

Jade Raymond, best known for helping produce Assassin’s Creed and a number of other major Ubisoft games like Splinter Cell and Watch Dogs, has left the publisher after ten years, Ubisoft announced today Ubisoft’s Alexandre Parizeau will take her old role as head of Ubisoft Toronto, which Raymond founded and has managed since 2009. “I’ve…

Humankind Has Played More Than 6 Billion Hours of Halo Online

When we talk about a franchise as popular as Halo, sometimes the numbers get so big as to grossly outsize human comprehension. Today, Microsoft announcedthat the tentpole franchise has sold more than 60 million copies to date, and that people have put in over 6 billion hours into the online modes. That means that we…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Vector Thrust is Gorgeous, Unfinished • Amiibos are Pointless (But I Still Want to Collect Them All) • Locodol was a Light Comedy, Which is Just Fine • Minecraft Party Requires 110% Imagination to Appreciate • The Hype Train, Revisited TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY…

​Grisly Evil Within Glitch Lets You Play After Getting Beheaded

You can die in a lot of gory ways in The Evil Within. But, as this crazy glitch shows, some of them don’t even work. Captured by YouTube channel Gamebill Studio, the clip above shows the game’s main character Sebastien Castellanos getting his head lopped off by a giant blade. That’s usually a game-over moment.…

The Most Common U.S. Sandwich Fillings, Not Counting Love

A 2009-2010 survey of more than 5,000 U.S. adults over the age of 20 shows that while 49 percent of Americans eats at least one sandwich a day, those sandwiches contain much more lettuce and mayonnaise than the strong emotion that makes all sandwiches taste better. I blame the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.…

This Thursday at 3pm PT/6pm ET, Nintendo is holding a Wii U live-stream event to showcase fifty new things in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U. Fifty new things in the Wii U version, huh? One of them better not be the title!

A 21-year-old man was arrested in Tokyo’s geek and gaming district Akihabara for allegedly robbing a maid cafe. Before committing the robbery, the suspect apparently got his photo taken with a maid.