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  Behold, The Ultimate Coffee Table Book for Sonic Fans

  Boutique French publishing house Pix’n Love have you covered this Christmas, Sonic fans. They’re releasing a 300-page compendium celebrating the history of Sega’s little blue mascot. It’s a glorious, hardcover coffee table book, priced a pinch under $50, and it ships…oh, in January 2012. So, maybe just get a preorder for Christmas? Not as exciting,…

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 18, 2011
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  Yup, the Zelda 3DS is Coming to America

  First hinted at in a leaked Black Friday flyer, Best Buy employees are now confirming with Kotaku that, yes, the awesome Zelda-themed 3DS will be released in the US. First announced as a European deal, the limited edition 3DS unit boasts classy Zelda heraldry atop a black handheld, and the bundle also includes Ocarina of…

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 18, 2011
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  These are Your Dragonborn, Kotaku Readers

  The other day, I asked readers to share their Dovahkiin. Your response was…overwhelming. There were so many awesome avatars, in fact, that I figured it’s only fair to celebrate them with a gallery of their own. I’ve collected the snappiest, funniest and most badass Dovahkiin I could find. My personal favourite is the one up…

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 18, 2011
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  The Most Elaborate PS3 Game Manual Ever Made

  When Ni No Kuni was released on DS last year, it shipped in just about the coolest box ever, which housed an extravagant spell book. Well, early adopters of the PS3 version, at least in Japan, will get the same book. You can see it in the gallery above; it looks identical to the DS…

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 18, 2011
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  Nintendo’s Strange Celebrity Hostage Videos

  As part of Nintendo’s 25th brithday celebrations for The Legend Of Zelda, the publisher has roped a few celebrities into jumping in front of a camera to tell their personal stories involving the series. Only…they don’t look like they’ve been roped. Between the audio, video and backdrop, it looks more like there are masked gunmen…

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 18, 2011
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  Skyrim’s Panoramas are Giant Postcards From the North

  The world of Skyrim is a rugged, often beautiful place. The kind of place you’d want to send a postcard from. “Wish you were here, getting killed by giants”, that sort of thing. These panoramas, spotted on Reddit, give enormous wrap-around shots of the landscape of the latest Elder Scrolls game, and while occasionally warped,…

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 18, 2011
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  An Old Video Game Tows a Little Piano.

  There’s not much more to say, really. Paperboy Invades Our Dimension, Tows A Tiny Piano [GameSetWatch] You can contact Luke Plunkett, the author of this post, at [email protected]. You can also find him on Twitter, Facebook, and lurking around our #tips page.

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 18, 2011
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  Should You Buy Need For Speed: The Run? No.

  With a cinematic slant, a Gumball Rally premise and the in-game assets of Mad Men star Christina Hendricks, Need for Speed: The Run is EA’s latest and in many ways most interesting attempt at keeping the ageing racing brand relevant. But is a cross-country race across America, women in tight pants and on-foot action sequences…

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 18, 2011
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  Hori’s Bringing an Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom Fight Stick, Don’t Worry

  Though the game may have released this week, the official fight stick for Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom isn’t too far behind, says stickmaker Hori. It reuses some, eh, old MvC art and clocks in at $160, but hey, it’s official, right? It’ll be in stock sometime this month. A BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Extend stick also…

  By Owen Good Published November 17, 2011
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  GameStop Blames Poor Sales on Broke Customers Reneging on Preorders

  Despite the onslaught of desirable, highly anticipated titles, week after week this fall, GameStop’s sales are “lower than expected,” the dominant games retailer told investors, simply because there were too many good games out there for customers to buy, especially in a poor economy. “The quarter presented some challenges in topline, due to a cash-strapped…

  By Owen Good Published November 17, 2011
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  Stephen Colbert Tells a Bedtime Story Worthy of Skyrim

  Last night on The Report, Stephen Colbert ran his usual gamut of topical issues, from Ron Paul to movie torture to Occupy Wall Street pepper sprayings. But just before he signed off at the end of the show, he told a little bedtime story that Skyrim would surely appreciate. The story stars a prince named…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published November 17, 2011
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  Watch One of Saints Row: The Third‘s Most Out-There Gags

  This week, I’ve been sharing a few short videos to give a sense of what Saints Row: The Third is all about. We’ve seen a chaotic way to start your day, how to customize your radio stations, and how fun the character creator is, especially with The Zombie Option. For the last video of the…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published November 17, 2011
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  Torchlight II Asks, Don’t You Have Enough Games to Play This Year?

  Give it up for Runic Games. Asked to account for why its repeatedly delayed Torchlight II isn’t going to release this year, the studio’s president just pointed at the other entrees on the holiday gaming buffet and said, hey, with all this great stuff here, you can wait, right? “You’re all playing Skyrim right now…

  By Owen Good Published November 17, 2011
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  Modern Warfare 3 Developer Pleads for Better Metascores, Discovers That’s a Stupid Idea

  Why someone from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 developer Sledgehammer would consider its fan-voted Metacritic score worth a get-out-the-vote tweet is utterly beyond me. It is by far the most polarizing title among gaming’s annual releases, so a user score of 1.7 is probably to be expected, given how much gaming’s snobs cognoscenti despise…

  By Owen Good Published November 17, 2011
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  How to Activate Big-Head Mode in Batman: Arkham City

  In case you wanted a reason to go goof off in Arkham City again, the folks at Rooster Teeth have taken the time to show us how to activate Big-Head mode in Rocksteady’s gritty comic book adventure. It’s very easy to do. You have to be playing on normal or hard, or on New Game+…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published November 17, 2011
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  What did the Skyrim Gamer Say to the Skyward Sword Gamer?

  Michael Fahey has now played Skyrim for more than 60 hours. Stephen Totilo has now played The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword for more than 40. Surely, these two have something to say about how these two games compare. They do. They have discussed these two titanic games, tried to find common ground, took unwarranted…

  Michael Fahey and Stephen Totilo Published November 17, 2011
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  See Barry Allen Become The Flash in DC Universe Online‘s Next Extension

  Tour Central City, the home turf of The Flash, and go back in time to the moment Barry Allen became the Scarlet Speedster with “Lightning Strikes,” the second downloadable content extension for DC Universe Online. The package also delivers new Electricity Powers, the game’s eighth power set, for your character creation/re-spec. “Lightning Strikes” does not…

  By Owen Good Published November 17, 2011
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  A New Kurtz For a New Sort of Darkness

  Spec Ops: The Line | I played a couple hours of 2K Game’s Heart of Darkness-inspired shooter Spec Ops: The Line today. This image, showing lead Captain Walker in Dubai, was released to herald the coming of a new trailer next week. Our write up will be coming then too. Call of Duty Pulls In…

  By Brian Crecente Published November 17, 2011
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  Skyrim‘s Easiest Leveling Exploit Involves Brutalizing the First Character You Meet

  The thing I always liked about the Morrowind games was trying to figure out ways to “break the game”, and while you no longer can jump over and over again to level your character, I did find a funny exploit. You can level up your character (not to mention your one-handed attack) the moment you…

  By Chris Carolan Published November 17, 2011
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  Zombie Mining, Space Dogfights, DLC Parody and More of Our Latest Xbox Live Indie Favorites

  Every few weeks we here at Kotaku make a selection of some of the best Indie games that Xbox Live has to offer. These are our latest favorites. You’ll be able to find the list here for reference, or in the “Kotaku‘s favorites” channel in the Indie Game section of Xbox Live’s Games Marketplace. DLC…

  By Matthew Buzzi Published November 17, 2011