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When You Meet Your Online Gaming Doppelgangerrr

After eight years with the same Gamertag, Redditorfifaproblems—AKA OxyCleannn—finally met his match while playing Black Ops III.

Spectacular Fallout 4 Fight Pits A Thousand Deathclaws Against Ten Liberty Primes

Who wins when 1,000 malevolent mutant monsters swarm ten massively-murderous mechs? The viewing public. YouTuber EZPlays delivers yet another astounding Fallout 4 fantasy battle, with swarms of Alien-esque Deathclaws attempting to take down ten of the greatest technological achievements of post-apocalyptic mankind. The whole fight reminds me of something out of an Alien comic book,…

Here’s Windows 95 Running On A New Nintendo 3DS

Earlier this week hackers got a build of Linux running on the PlayStation 4. Now GBATemp user Shutterbug2000 demonstrates Windows 95 running on a new 3DS. I can’t wait to run BeOS on my Xbox One. A lot of quality console hacking goes on during the winter holidays, when enthusiasts have plenty of extra time…

What Are Your 2016 Gaming Resolutions?

The new year is upon us, which means its time to make big promises to ourselves that we probably won’t keep. My 2016 gaming resolution is to finally finish all of the Legend of Zelda games. What’s yours? Confession time. I’ve played every game in The Legend of Zelda series, but I’ve only finished two…

The Scariest Video Game Moments of 2015

The emotional range of games have come a long way; they can make us laugh, cry, and poop our pants in fright. Right now, we’re gonna focus on the last one. [This post originally ran on December 21, 2015] Unlike books or movies, you can’t turn the page or close your eyes and wait for…

The Year In Video Game Sex, 2015

It feels like video games got raunchier in 2015. More games tackled sex in novel ways this year, and many of the biggest controversies of 2015 revolved around nudity. Oh, and lots of people continued to draw video game dicks in 2015, too. Some things never change. Here’s a look back at the biggest sex…

The Best Video Game Music Of 2015

The video games of 2015 often looked great, usually felt good, and probably smelled okay, too. But how did they sound? We’re glad you asked! With input from all of our staff—and in no particular order—here are our favorite video game soundtracks from 2015. Grab some headphones and listen along. Assassin’s Creed Syndicate Composer: Austin…

The Best Video Game Dogs of 2015

Top dogs, 2015! As selected by the Kotaku staff… Pompidou (Life is Strange) Desmond (Assassin’s Creed Syndicate) Dinki-Di (Mad Max) The Black Dog (The Witcher 3: Hearts of Stone ) Lesser Dog/Greater Dog (Undertale) Dogmeat (Fallout 4) D-Dog (Metal Gear Solid V) Congratulations to all the winners. And here’s hoping 2016 brings us more great…

Jason Schreier’s Top 10 Games Of 2015

It is time again to go through my favorite games of the year. I promise they’re not all JRPGs. 2015 was a great year for video games by all accounts, but for some reason it was pretty easy to put together a list of the ten best. Maybe it’s because I haven’t yet played some…

The Biggest Video Game Disappointments Of 2015

Every year in video games brings with it some lovely surprises, but every year also brings some sorry disappointments. [This post originally ran on December 17, 2015] At the end of each year, we like to take a moment to look back and complain about all the things that bummed us out. Hey, it’s part…

The Best Video Game Surprises Of 2015

Every year in gaming is full of shocks and surprises. This year had some really good ones. [This post originally ran on December 15, 2015] As we’ve done in past years, we’ve made a list of the best surprises from the year. Read it, and maybe you’ll even be surprised! (It can be fun to…

The Year In JRPGs, 2015

At the beginning of 2015, I announced that my four-year-old JRPG column, Random Encounters, was coming to an end. The genre had thrived so much, I explained, that it would feel quaint to compartmentalize my JRPG writing in a single weekly column. [This post originally ran on December 22, 2015] Nearly a year later, that…

Star Wars: The Force Awakens Minus the Movie Stars, the Expensive Effects, and Hollywood

Star Wars movies aren’t cheap. They are filmed all over the world and require numerous practical and digital effects. That costs money. But what if you made The Force Awakens trailer with friends on a budget? A very low, low budget. Then, I guess it would look like this. Nice work, penny pinchers! This isn’t…

The 100 Most Popular Kotaku Stories Of 2015

In 2015, you liked reading about Fallout 4 and The Witcher 3. You liked lists of top games. You mourned the passing of gaming icons. You craved scoops and post-release coverage (phew!), and you enjoyed getting excited about the Final Fantasy VII remake. You also liked reading about sex. Hey, nothing bad about that! What…

My Favorite Comics Moments of 2015

Lots of things got shaken up in the comics I enjoyed from the last twelve months, with characters and themes getting re-invented, resurrected and repurposed in surprising or clever ways. Here’s what I’ll remember from the comics I read in 2015. Spoilers follow. A Superman who can’t fly. A female Wolverine. An Archie who isn’t…

The Gamers Of the Year, 2015

If games are a truly interactive medium, then it stands to reason that the people who play them have an unusual amount of influence on this creative form; more than they do on others. With that, we present, for the fourth year running, Kotaku’s Gamers of The Year. ZeRo, The Smash Bros. Champ There were…

Oculus has announced that its Touch controllers won’t ship until the “second half” of 2016. The Oculus Rift itself, however, is apparently still on track for early next year. The delay is disappointing; the Touch devices were the highlight of my last VR demo.

Shout Out To This Poor Assassin’s Creed Guy

In Assassin’s Creed Syndicate, there’s a guy whose entire job is to stand on a boat and get knocked into a river. That’s it. That’s his whole life. This man is a hero. If you’re running along in Syndicate’s version of London and happen to cross the Thames, you’ll probably see this guy. He’s all…

NeoGAF users noticed the hardcore platforming Umihara Kawase games have been removed from Steam and certain PSN regions. This comes not long after the closure of the game’s publisher, Agatsuma Entertainment. If you already bought one of the Umihara Kawase games, you’ll still be able to download it.