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Deals: Advanced Warfare Xbox Controller, Corsair Gaming Mice

In addition to all the new Xbox One bundles we rattled off yesterday, the limited edition Advanced Warfare Xbox One Controller will also be sold separately. Like the Titanfall controller before it, it won’t be around forever. Update: The Advanced Warfare Controller is $55 on Newegg, price shows in the final step of checkout. The…

What Our Company Is Doing About The Attacks On Our Comments

Our parent company, Gawker Media, is taking several actions to deal with the troll attacks on our comments sections. Please read through this post, which is from our sister site Jezebel and explains what’s happened and what happens next. Notably, we will be bringing back the concept of “pending” comments, primarily for new readers. We…

Payday 2’s Creators Are Making A Walking Dead Game

Payday 2 creator Overkill Software is making a new game based on the popular zombie franchise The Walking Dead, the company just announced. Robert Kirkman, the creator of the original comics, said in a post on Steam that it’s “the co-op game that all of the Walking Dead fans have been waiting for.” Overkill has…

DOTA Heroes In Hearthstone Would Be Game-Breaking

Rollow, a fan of both DOTA and Hearthstone, created a huge deck featuring all Dota 2 heroes as if they were in Blizzard’s card game. With the appropriate powers and stats. There are 144 cards in this fan-made gallery, and some of them are ridiculously owerpowered, but still it’s a fun concept. There are some…

Rise of the Tomb Raider Isn’t Really An ‘Xbox Exclusive’

Yesterday, Microsoft dropped the first bomb of Gamescom 2014: that Rise of the Tomb Raider will be an Xbox exclusive. Except, wait. It’s not. Turns out this was yet another a case of shady corporate double-speak, and this is actually a timed exclusive. “Yes, the deal has a duration,” Xbox boss Phil Spencer told Eurogamer.…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Steamlog 01: 7 Days to Die • Rockmandash Reviews+: Rewrite [Visual Novel] • What Makes the Perfect Horror Game? • Gravity Falls’ “The Golf War”! Season 2, Episode 3 Recap and Discussion TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

The Tiniest Skylanders Of Them All Are Now Playable Characters

Along with the normal and large-sized Skylanders toys, over the past year or so Activision and Toys For Bob have been releasing these ridiculously cute little promo figures that acted as cosmetic pets in games like last year’s Swap Force. In this year’s Trap Team, they’re fully playable and fully freaking adorable. During my Skylanders:…

NBA 2K15 will be hitting the PC in the exact same form as its PS4/Xbox One console brethren, with enhanced graphics options available for that platform. The screenshot above is from the PC version. That’ll be good news to fans who felt that last year’s release was an under-realized port.

Pokémon, As Giant Beasts From Monster Hunter

Flower armor and explosive tails. That’s a very creative way to redesign Pokémon as giant monsters from the Monster Hunter series. Arvalis on DeviantART likes to make badass-looking Pokémon and this series he recently started looks very cool. Here’s a redesigned Charizard, and the Venusaur in its full glory below: Check out arvalis’ DeviantART page,…

Why Lady Gaga’s Outfit Upsets Some People in Japan

Lady Gaga is in Tokyo. According to her, it’s her “favorite place.” Too bad she’s just pissed off some folks online in Japan. On her Instagram account, Lady Gaga uploaded two photos of herself wearing a colorful outfit with Korean characters written on it. The Korean characters 컬러 appear mean just that: color. Innocuous stuff,…