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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: The 2015 Year-End All-Star Extravaganza

This year saw some of the greatest reader-created images in the history of the Kotaku ‘Shop Contest. Now it’s time to bring it all home. It’s a year-end mash-up, y’all. I’ll get the butter. Here’s how this works. I’m going to give you folks five of the finest ‘Shop Contest subjects of the year, and…

Guy Beats Fallout 4 Without Killing Anyone, Nearly Breaks The Game

Fallout 4 expects you to commit murder. While you can occasionally avoid killing others, the wasteland is ruthless and demands violence. That’s how Bethesda intended the game to be played, anyway—but clever players are finding ways around it. Back in July 2015, The Guardianinterviewed Todd Howard, Fallout 4’s game director. Howard was asked about what…

Sources: Game Studio Red 5 Misses Payroll On Christmas [UPDATE]

Video game development studio Red 5, best known as the company behind the online game Firefall, missed payroll last week and could not pay its staff on Christmas day, according to several people familiar with goings-on there. One source close to the studio, requesting anonymity so as not to endanger their career, shared messages and…

Please Stop Putting Stan Lee’s Name on Things

Let’s all be glad Stan Lee is still alive. Let’s all be sad that the words “Stan Lee” are still appearing in front of new things. Look, no one can deny that Stan Lee had a hand—arguably a major one, depending on whose accounts you believe—in creating iconic superheroes like Spider-Man, Iron Man, and the…

Let’s Judge The Assassin’s Creed Movie Based On One New Image

Over the weekend Entertainment Weekly posted a story about the upcoming Fassbender-fueled Assassin’s Creed movie featuring the image above. The story was about—what does it matter? We’ve got everything we need to pass judgement right here. It’s easy! Just look at the image for a few seconds and then type out whatever immediately comes to…

Just Cause 3 Glitch Is Truly One In A Million

YouTuber teamcream brings order to Just Cause 3’s chaotic mess with a pretty lucky move. Even though he places some boosters randomly on a cargo container, after some spins, the object stops and remains perfectly balanced on one of its corners. Pretty sure that won’t happen again anytime soon. To contact the author of this…

One-Punch Man‘s Opening, Remade In MS Paint

It must have been a hell of a job to remake One-Punch Man’s entire opening with the limited capabilities of Microsoft Paint. But here it is. It took YouTuber Jim Boom around 50 hours to do a frame-by-frame remake showing Saitama beating up everything and everyone. To contact the author of this post, write to:…

The Nintendo 2DS is coming to Japan in the best way possible: With Pokémon! The clear plastic 2DS units, some of which already got a U.S. release, will be Pokémon themed and pre-bundled with Pokémon Red, Blue, Green, and Yellow—along with a download code for Mew, which can be used in Pokémon XY, Omega Ruby…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Bayonetta Everywhere: Winners!

Earlier this month we found out that M-rated action star Bayonetta would be one of the final competitors added to Super Smash Bros. on Wii U and 3DS. I asked our image-manipulating community toput her in all the games. They did not disappoint. We had many outstanding entries, though several of them wound up disqualified.…

Boy Opens Christmas PlayStation 4, Finds A Block Of Wood With A Dick On It

It’s bad enough that a Massachusetts family’s Target-purchased Christmas console wound up being a piece of wood in a PlayStation 4 box, but did whoever swapped it out have to draw a dick and balls on it? According to areport by Boston’s Fox 25 and the step-mother’s Facebook post, nine-year-old Scott Lundy was over-the-moon when…

A Perfect Example Of Why You Shouldn’t Buy Used Games Online

Redditor Vernm51’s parents couldn’t find a copy of Pokemon HeartGold for the DS locally for Christmas, so they ordered it online from GameStop—and received a bootleg copy that didn’t work. The cheap Flash card-based bootlegs that plagued the original DS don’t work anymore due to 3DS firmware upgrades—they register as THQ’s Alex Rider Stormbreaker game…

Star Wars Fan Spends A Year Building The Best LEGO Millennium Falcon Ever

LEGO builder Marshall Banana spent a year planning and building this 7,500 piece replica of the latest version of Han Solo’s ride. It’s one of the most beautiful pieces of garbage I’ve ever seen. The official LEGO set for The Force Awakens’ Falcon is 1.329 pieces, and it doesn’t look so hot. The biggest official…

Sunday Comics: Please Monkeys

Welcome to Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira. Published December 23. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published December 21. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…

Captain America’s Latest Comic Book Enemies: Corporate Snakesssssss

The Serpent Society used to be a group of slither-themed lamers that Steve Rogers used to pound on for months at a time. They were supervillains in the classic mustache-twirling mode. Today, they’re a lot more dangerous. Today, their leader name-drops his buddies at Bain Capital. It’s acerbically funny—and wince-inducing—stuff. Originally posted 12/23/15 The newest…

Lightning Would Like To Return This Purse

Final Fantasy XIII’s pink-haired star is modeling for Louis Vuitton now, but that doesn’t mean she’s made of money. Square Enix posted a video of a new collaboration with the famous French fashion house yesterday, demonstrating how alien the concept of a purse is to the heroine of Lightning Returns She seemed much more comfortable…

Fahey’s Top 10 Games Of 2015

It’s late December with just days to go until the clock strikes the new year, which makes it the perfect time for Kotaku’s various editors to list their favorite games of 2015. I’ll go first, for I have no fear. Well, I have a little fear. If you’ve kept track of my lists from 2012,…

Steam Goes Nuts, Offers Access To Other People’s Accounts [UPDATES]

Steam faced something of a catastrophe this afternoon, giving players across the world access to some of the personal information in other people’s accounts. It’s not yet clear how this happened, but it’s a doozy. Call it the Steam Winter Fail. Various players across the world logged into their Steam clients today to find their…

GTA Online’s Coolest Christmas Present Turns Players Into Building-Hopping Monsters

There’s snow in Los Santos today, which is, y’know, nice. But the other freak occurrence—becoming or slaying feral manbeasts that can jump over buildings—in Rockstar Games’ fake Los Angeles is a lot more fun. See for yourselves. A bunch of holiday-themed goodies hit GTA Online this week, most of it fairly predictable in nature. But,…

PlayStation Network Is Having Trouble Creating New Accounts Today

People trying to create new PlayStation Network accounts this Christmas are running into a significant digital roadblock which is keeping people from effectively using their new PlayStation 4s. Sony is currently failing to immediately send verification e-mails to new users, hobbling new users’ efforts to create online accounts and sub-accounts that can access the PlayStation…

How The Legend of Zelda Changed For U.S. Shores

Did you know that Pols, the rabbit-looking things in the original Legend of Zelda, are meant to be destroyed not with arrows but by talking into a microphone? And that the Japanese version of the Zelda board game was way better than the North American one? Legends of Localization Book 1: The Legend of Zelda,…