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Kotaku UK’s Most Anticipated Games of 2016

It’s a pretty great feeling, standing at the brink of a new year and surveying what’s to come—even if it later turns out that half of your most anticipated games get delayed, as happened to us last year. For 2016, we’ve included some picks from our readers as well as our own. Let’s dive right…

The Biggest-Selling Games in Japan of 2015

What was the hottest game in Japan last year? Do you know? Let’s find out! Right now, even. The latest issue of Weekly Famitsu has 2015 sales figures for the period beginning on December 29, 2014 and ending on December 13, 2015. Below’s the sales tally, along with the title’s Japanese launch date and the…

A Flashier Version Of Kojima Productions’ New Logo

When Hideo Kojima announced his new studio the other day, he did so by showing off a very fancy new 2D logo. Which artist Jarold Sng has decided to unofficially flesh out a little. Here’s the actual logo: And here’s Jarold’s take: Neat! We featured Jarold’s art on Kotaku last year, if you want to…

Pirates Worried That PC Games Are Becoming Too Hard To Crack

Some of the world’s most notorious video game pirates, denizens of Chinese hacking forum 3DM, are worried that over the next couple of years video games anti-copy protection will have gotten so good that they’ll be out of a job. As TorrentFreakreport, the forum—normally at the forefront of cracking open PC games for illegal download—has…

Psychonauts 2 is officially funded Double Fine estimates that it’ll be out in the fall of 2018. So, uh, now we wait?

Oh How Things Have Changed

Found this quote thanks to this tweet. It’s from an AllThingsD interview with Oculus founder Palmer Luckey in 2013. I understand plans get altered but dang.

Skylanders Amiibo Figures Finally Available Without Buying A Skylanders Game

Amiibo collectors who purchased a Skylanders Superchargers starter pack for the Wii U, Wii or 3DS solely to acquire the exclusive Bowser and Donkey Kong combo figures are kicking themselves right now. The most recent installment of the Skylanders toys-to-life franchise piggybacked on Nintendo’s Amiibo craze to create an exclusive pair of figures that allows…

Fallout 4 Player Beats Impossible Battle In The Best Way

For most players, getting killed immediately after entering a new area in Fallout 4 is enough to reconsider playing that level at all. FischiPiSti is not like most players. There’s a quest in Fallout 4 called Out of the Fire, and it asks you to clear a level full of “Forged” enemies. These folks come…

Final Fantasy IX PC Will Let You Turn Off Random Encounters

The PC version of Final Fantasy IX, announced last week in Japan, will be out this month according to Steam. And, critically, it’ll let you turn off random encounters. Says the Steam page, which just went live today: Additional Features Achievements Seven game boosters including high speed and no encounter modes. Autosave High-definition movies and…

Oculus Rift Will Be $600 

The first consumer model of the Oculus Rift will run you $599, the VR company announced today while opening up preorders for their fancy new headset. That’s five hundred ninety-nine US dollars. No word on whether it will come with giant enemy crabs. Oculus says the Rift is expected to ship in March. Buying one…

The Smallest, Cheapest Razer Blade Laptop Yet Has A Powerful Friend

Gaming peripheral and system maker Razer shows up at CES 2016 this week its smallest, cheapest Razer Blade laptop yet. The Razer Blade Stealth is Ultrabook sized, but with the optional Razer Core it can deliver desktop-level performance. They’re calling the Razer Blade Stealth the “Ultimate Ultrabook”, and the specs fit the moniker. A mere…

The Witcher 3 Aerial Shots Are Like Satellite Photos

No surprise the RPG’s ridiculously massive world is so enjoyable to explore, when it’s so geographically accurate. These beautiful aerial shots, taken by NeoGAF user EatChildren, prove that perfectly. The topography and the distribution of settlements is just so well-done. Here’s White Orchard above, the main Skellige island (the tiny ones are not pictured here)…

The Powerpuff Girls, Remade In GTA V

Professor Utonium’s accident with Chemical X is far worse in GTA V. It’s the exact opposite of “sugar, spice and everything nice”. YouTuber Merfish remade the classic Cartoon Network show’s intro—featuring almost all the villains—with GTA characters. Here’s a side-by-side comparison, so we can identify Mojo Jojo, HIM, Sedusa, Fuzzy and the rest of the…

Razer’s ‘World’s Most Advanced Webcam’ Is Pretty Much A Kinect

Looking to further capture the hearts of the streaming community, Razer introduces the Stargazer, a webcam with motion and gesture tracking, 3D facial and object scanning, dynamic background removal and it’s pretty much a Kinect. “Webcams have not had any real innovation in several years, beyond resolution quality,” says Razer CEO and co-founder Min-Liang Tan…

Pikachu Amiibo Learned Surf!

Behold, a cool as heck tribute to Pokémon Yellow in the form of a custom Surf Pikachu amiibo. The little 2-inch statue was made by BlvdNight, owner of a custom amiibo shop on Etsy. Situated on a standard Pikachu amiibo base, the Surf Pikachu was 3D printed in color, using BlvdNight’s own hand-made digital model,…

Okami’s Wolf-Heroine Shines Heavenly Light on your Desk

Note that only the exclusive version of this figure has the heavenly lights. For the normal version you’ll need a desk lamp or something. But hey, Ammy! Ammy’s getting the First 4 Figures treatment this year with this 1/4 scale, 17.5 inches long Okami statue. As it is par for the course for F4F, it…

Shinra Technologies, the cloud gaming company headed by Yoichi Wada (and only announced just over a year ago), has been shut down by Square Enix

BoxBoy, the cute little 3DS game that made our “Best of 2015” list, is getting a sequel. Here’s the first trailer.

Monstrous $30,000 Rig Can Be Seven PCs At Once

Those of you who struggle to play one game on your PC, you might want to look away. Using donated gear that’s worth around $30,000, LinusTechTipsput together a PC comprised of 256GB RAM (8x 32GB), 7x AMD R9 Nano graphics cards and 8x 1TB SSDs. The trick here being that all of that was plugged…

New Katamari Damacy Game Is Hot Garbage

You may have heard there’s a new Katamari Damacy game on both iOS and Android. There is! It’s called Tap My Katamari. It is awful. I played it yesterday so you don’t have to. Things start pretty well! Some nice new Katamari splash art, some funky music to accompany it. After a lengthy loading screen,…