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Good Things Happen When Dragon Quest Meets Dynasty Warriors

I was so focused in bringing you nice people some gameplay footage of Dragon Quest Heroes: Long Subtitle that I wasn’t paying attention to the health bar of the objective I was protecting. I failed, but I failed for you. From Omega Force, the developer behind Hyrule Warriors for the Wii U comes another slick…

Great GTA V Video Takes You Through One Criminal’s Very Bad Night

Right at the start, you know how this thug’s life ends. But how he winds up in the flaming wreck is a bit of a surprise. A moody Rockstar Editor short by YouTuber JFiveT, “Failure” leans hard on one core truth of the Grand Theft Auto series: you do something messed up and the cops…

The P.T.-inspired Allison Road has cancelled its Kickstarter, and will instead partner up with Worms developer Team17 The move will “give us the chance to make our game unhindered creatively. The team is looking at ways to provide former backers with in-game rewards at a later date. Contact the author at [email protected]

My Five Favorite Kotaku Stories From Last Week

We published some good stories last week that didn’t involve a certain game about shooting aliens or somesuch. Here are my five favorites: It Took A Year To Find Out What The Red Button In Wasteland 2 Actually Does How to Be a Video Game Snob The New PS4 Uncharted Collection Shows How Much The…

The Coolest Cosplay I Saw at New York Comic-Con

Hey, Batman: spoilers! New York’s biggest nerd culture gathering has been in full swing for a few days now, bringing with it hundreds of thousands of fans eager to soak all the comics, TV, games and geekery they can handle. And there’s been a bunch of great cosplay, too. What follows is a collection of…

LEGO Mad Max Car Is Ready To Rampage Through The Living Room

Building LEGO versions of Mad Max: Fury Road vehicles is awesome, but building a powerful, remote controlled one is another level of awesomeness. Sariel built a faithful replica of the tank / Valiant Charger hybrid vehicle called The Peacemaker. It’s remote controlled via Bluetooth, has some transparent stickers for the extra weathered look and is…

Sixteen bosses in Shadow of the Colossus weren’t enough for artist Roberto Robert, so he drew two more. They’re both awesome, very similar to the fifth colossus Avion, and would fit perfectly in the setting of the game. Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest, funniest game-related screenshots…

Suggestions for the Tiger & Bunny Live-Action Movie

Apollo 13. A Beautiful Mind. Tiger & Bunny? Imagine Entertainment is co-producing a live-action English-language of the popular anime, reports Variety. So, here are some unsolicited cast suggestions. Enjoy! Imagine Entertainment, of course, is run by Ron Howard and Brian Grazer’s hair. [Photo: worldescaper] Twitter user worldescaper originally uploaded this image, which is now circulating…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: It Could Be Worse, Luke Skywalker

So the latest Star Wars game has made tea-bagging Darth Vader’s smug Jedi son’s facean international sport. There are worse fates than tea-bagging, young Skywalker. Let us show you. Why, he could be a guest star in Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric for example. Or maybe he’s stuck in some horrible, inescapable limbo. And while…

Swatter Will Spend One Year In Jail

Matthew Tollis, a 22 year-old from Wethersfield, Connecticut, is facing a year in jail for his role in a series of Swatting calls made last year. As FoxCT reports, Tollis was sentenced last week for his part in the calls, in which he acted as a kind of local agent for a team of British…

This is what my nephew teaches my children while I am working. His punishment is this post.

Star Wars Battlefront Beta Gets One More Day

Don’t put away your stormtrooper armor just yet kids. Originally slated to end tomorrow, the Star Wars Battlefront beta test has been extended through Tuesday in order to test extreme server scenarios and give me chance to add that word balloon I’d been eyeing.

U.S. Eliminated From League Of Legends World Championships In The First Round

The first round of the League of Legends World Championships ended on a somber note today for fans of the game’s burgeoning North American region. The NA team Cloud9 lost all their games today, officially ending their and the entire region’s hopes of making a real dent in the 2015 Worlds tournament. Ah well. There…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: A Coat For Max: Winners!

When Kotaku’s editor-in-chief voiced his dissatisfaction with a jacket worn by the title character of the Mad Max video game, our image-manipulating community sprung into action. Now he’s got plenty to choose from. Should he go with popular opinion however, only one suit of clothing shall do. In so far as our commenters are concerned,…

What A Bargain!

As Redditor zwgmu7321 says, that’s only $0.00002137142 per game! Beat that, Steam.

Gary Oldman Headlines Star-Studded Star Citizen Story Mode Cast

A space senate speech by a virtual Gary Oldman establishes the tone of Star Citizen’s Squadron 42 single-player story mode, featuring the voices of Mark Hamil, Andy Serkis, Gillian Anderson and many, many more. It’s like Star Citizen’s Chris Roberts is picking up where Wing Commander left off, gathering a massive cast to tell another…

Six Avengers Movies In One LEGO Game

How can TT Games make a LEGO game equal to rival the size and scope of LEGO Marvel Superheroes with only the two main Avengers movies to pull from? It can’t, so it pulls from four more. The New York Comic Con trailer for next year’s LEGO Marvel’s Avengers is here, showcasing key moments from…

10 Priceless Fails From The Star Wars Battlefront Beta

We know there’s been a lot of ass-kicking during the Battlefront beta. But there is a flip-side to that, too—and it is hilarious to watch. Here are my picks for the best misfires, deaths, and fails that people have seen or experienced during the Battlefront beta. The Luke Skywalker Who Got Teabagged By An Entire…

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