Happy birthday, Duke Nukem 3D! The shareware version of 3D Realms’ legendary first-person shooter was released for MS-DOS PCs exactly eighteen years ago. And, just in time for the anniversary, Devolver Digital introduced online multiplayer for the updated Megaton Edition of the game; trailer for that above.

Thief with Shoe Fetish Allegedly Stole 458 High Heels

Shou Satou apparently likes women’s shoes. A lot. According to Japanese news reports, the 28 year-old was arrested and over 450 high heels were found in his possession. That’s quite a feat. Allegedly, Satou stole the shoes, which belonged to hostesses, from night clubs and bars in the greater Tokyo area. Kyoto News said that…

Track: Moodolude | Album: Qualia | Artist: Evil Needle Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to—and gaming to—at the moment.

This Is How You Support An “Old” PC Game

If you needed further proof that Crusader Kings II is one of the best-supported, most expansive games of all time, check out this new expansion. Which, you know, only increases the size of the map by 50%, adds 400 new provinces and the entire Indian subcontinent. And it’s doing all this two years after the…

A New Dreamcast Game Was Released This Week

It doesn’t matter that the Dreamcast was killed off over a decade ago. So long as people own Dreamcast consoles, other people will keep making games for it. Redux: Dark Matters is a new schmup by Hucast that features music by Andre Neumann You can buy it here (or a deluxe version with soundtrack here).

One Way To Make Boring Work Meetings Awesome

Ever sketched on a scrap of paper during a boring work meeting? Meeting Drawings is a site cataloguing these kinds of doodles, only they’re from a pair of pro artists. Marvel artists Marko Djurdjevic and Gerald Parel are putting a lot of people’s finished work to shame here, with the kind of nutty scribblings that…

League of Legends Trivia: check out this ‘Did You Know Gaming’ style video about League of Legends by gbay99—you might learn a cool factoid or two about the huge MOBA.

Dungeons & Dragons Yoga. Yup.

Well I guess it was bound to happen eventually. Enter D&D Yoga, an experimental fusion of two disparate but equally nerdy pursuits by artist Scott Wayne Indiana. For the campaign, he invented new poses like “Flipping a Switch”, “Opening Door” and even the graceful “Dice Rolling Pose”. The goal? To take a “package to the…

Taylor Swift Is A Terrible Street Fighter Character

If you were silly enough to be watching the Grammys the other night, you’d have seen Taylor Swift give a bizarre “head-banging” performance. It looked weird, but there may be a perfectly logical explanation behind it, one that went unseen on the original TV broadcast. Taylor Swift Attacked at Grammys [YouTube, via Gamefreaks]

Here’s to the video games that give you things for your birthday. Gran Turismo 6 is joining that too-short list with its latest digital title update, according to the PlayStation blog. What else is there? Animal Crossing? And? This is how the PlayStation blog describes GT6‘s new feature: Birthday Login Bonus An in-game car from…

If This Passes As A Werewolf Simulator, I Don’t Want Any Part Of It

It sounded so promising, a game where you get to be a werewolf. How could anyone pass up a chance like that? So I took to the wonky, not quite cell-shaded world of Guise of the Wolf with enthusiasm, but being a werewolf just isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. The beginning of the…

The sub-boss battle music from Bravely Default: Flying Fairy is some of the most hilariously over-the-top JRPG battle music I’ve ever heard. From 1:50 to the loop-around, it’s… it’s like composer Revo built a giant robot out of DragonForce members, gave it a Red Bull and told it to perform three lead guitar parts at…

Could the PS4 emulate PS1/PS2 games? Eurogamer‘s Digital Foundry reports today that Sony is planning on it—and that they might add visual enhancements to those old games. No word on whether we’ll have to re-buy the ones we already own on PSN, if the rumor is true. (We’ve reached out to Sony for comment.)

See How Powerful Your Pokémon Are In X & Y

Not all Pokémon are made equal—one Magikarp may kick way more butt than other Magikarp, even if they’re the exact same level. That’s because every Pokémon has hidden stats called “IVs” attached to things like their “attack” and “speed”—and there’s a way to tell what these values are in-game. Pokémon X & Y have been…