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Super Metroid Flipped On Its Side Is Like A Whole New Game

You may well have played Super Metroid. But when you did, you played it the way Nintendo wanted you to play it. This hack, by SMILEuser96, flips the game’s map on its side, but leaves Samus and your enemies properly oriented (so only the level is tilted, not your entire view). Sounds simple, but it…

Steam Sales Data For 2015

Sergey Galyonkin, who runs Steam Spy, is the internet’s top man for getting data on Valve’s marketplace. Which makes his summary of 2015 sales—overall sales, not just the seasonsal Steam sales—some interesting reading. While his data isn’t 100% accurate (it’s gathered using “statistical analysis” rather than actual figures from Valve), Steam Spy is for the…

PSN Has Been Down All Day [Update: It’s Back]

[Update: Service was restored to the PSN at around midnight] If you’ve had trouble accessing PlayStation Network, Sony’s aware of it. There’s no timeline for when PSN might come back online—you can personally monitor its status on this website—but it’s been more than a few hours. Sony has tweeted about the service problems twice today:…

Clash Of Clans Spin-off Clash Royale Would Like To Sell You All The Cards

Today Clash of Clans developer Supercell soft-launched Clash Royale, a competitive multiplayer defense game in which the goal is to spend as much money as possible on virtual cards. At least that’s the vibe I’m getting. Card games areinvading more and more of our favorite video games lately, but in the free-to-play mobile marketplace they…

Activision Wants To Start Their Own TV Channel For Esports

It’s official: Activision has indeed purchased Major League Gaming, as was rumored over the weekend. The most interesting part? They want to take esports to television. Speaking to the New York Times as part of the embargoed official announcement, Activision boss Bobby Kotick was as blunt as ever, saying he wants to take competitive gaming…

That Time Rockstar Made A Table Tennis Game

When the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 arrived, people expected open world experts Rockstar Games to come blaring out of the gate with something truly next-gen. What they got was something surprising: a table tennis game. Yes, that actually happened. “Our mission brief at Rockstar has been clear to us from when we founded the…

The 12 Best Video Games Of 2015

We came, we saw, we played. We nominated, we debated, we decided. Here, in alphabetical order, are Kotaku’s top 12 games of 2015. Assassin’s Creed Syndicate BoxBoy Bloodborne Destiny: The Taken King Life Is Strange Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain Rocket League Splatoon Super Mario Maker Transformers: Devastation Undertale The Witcher 3: Wild…

Blind Man Beats Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time After Five Years of Trying

Now this is dedication. Terry Garrett lost his sight when he was ten years old—so he learned how to game in a different way. Instead of relying on visuals, Garrett started using sound to make his way through video games. After much practice, this method allowed him to beat games like Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee. Ocarina…

Sources: Next Big Assassin’s Creed Set In Egypt, Skipping 2016 As Part of Possible Series Slowdown

Every fall for the past six years, Ubisoft has released at least one big new Assassin’s Creed game. This year, the mega-publisher could be breaking tradition, skipping fall for the first time since 2009, according to a number of sources speaking both to Kotaku and others. The next big Assassin’s Creed, which we believe is…

Our Favorite Games from December

December—a time for snow, Doctor Who Christmas specials, and slow game releases. But slow doesn’t mean we didn’t come across anything worth checking out. And so, below is what we played and liked in December. Amplitude Mike played the Kickstarted reboot of Harmonix’s rhythm game, and found more of the same stuff he fell in…

Microsoft has revealed the collaboration between Keiji Inafune and Armature Studios, ReCore, will also come to PC. It’s also been re-confirmed Crackdown 3’s multiplayer will debut this summer, but will it be a beta? Something you pay for? Right now, Microsoft isn’t saying, only promising details later this year. You can reach the author of…

Fallout 4’s Factions All Suck

Picking a faction in Fallout 4 is the most agonizing choice in the entire game. Turns out, deciding the fate of the Commonwealth is very difficult when every group vying for dominance is awful in its own, special way. Let’s look at them one by one, shall we? The Minutemen Leader: Cardboard Cutout Masquerading As…

Suddenly An All-In-One Gaming PC Doesn’t Seem Like Such A Bad Idea

I’ve never been keen on the idea of abandoning my tower case for a system with all the gaming guts piggy-backing a monitor, but when the monitor in question is a 34 inch curved ultra HD affair and the guts are full-sized and water-cooled I start feeling a bit swayed. That’s Maingear’s newly-announced Alpha 34,…

Pewdiepie Reacts To Man Getting A Brofist Butt Tattoo

A few days into 2016, we’ve already got frontrunners for “questionable choice of the year.” Hey, at least it’s hilarious. For those that don’t know, YouTube’s biggest star, Pewdiepie, has a specific logo. It’s called the Bro Fist. It’s based on the send-off Pewdiepie likes to do at the end of his videos. You’ve probably…

Let’s Murder Mario Over And Over Again

It’s not technically Nintendo’s iconic hero that I’m endlessly ending in the newly-released anti-platformer Kill the Plumber, but it totally is. It’s just the day in the life of a Super Mario Bros. enemy, really. You’re waddling about your screen, minding your own business, and then along comes this mustachioed maniac stomping on your friends,…

It’s time already for the first delay of 2016. Platinum has pushed back their Xbox One-exclusive action-RPG Scalebound to next year. “This will give us the time needed to bring to life all the innovative features and thrilling gameplay experiences that we have planned.”

Hearthstone Legendaries, Compared To Their World of Warcraft Counterparts

Hearthstone player Jeppz completed a heroic task by running around Azeroth and locating all the characters featured on the rarest Hearthstone cards. It’s a pretty neat gallery for those who aren’t familiar with both games. While low level raid bosses have a fix location, some legendaries are rare mobs in WoW with crazy respawn timers,…

Found Baldur’s Gate. Sort Of.

The real Baldur’s Gate is not a wealthy port city on the Sword Coast from the classic RPG, but—as Redditor Robotswana drew our attention to it—a cozy street with a slightly different name in Reykjavik, Iceland Would be a fun place to check in (and absolutely not remove the sign). To contact the author of…

Look At These Force Awakens “Action Figures”

Hot Toys, whose work on comic book movies has been nothing short of inspiring, also have the license to make figures based on the characters in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. They’re so good. There are already a ton of the large, detailed figures announced, from stars like Rey and Finn to Kylo Ren to…

Witcher 3 Brothel Glitch Results In Sexy Weirdness

Much of The Witcher’s lore is built around the Conjunction of the Spheres, a cataclysmic event where two worlds briefly became one. This Witcher 3 glitch is kinda like that, only it’s in a brothel. Playing the game on PS4, Dirk1nator ! interrupted one of Ciri’s flashback sequences to go and visit a brothel, which you’re…