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80 Days is a cool game and you should play it. Here’s Cool Ghosts hosts (and friends of Kotaku) Matt Lees and Quintin Smith with an enjoyable video that captures what makes the game special.

The Justice League Says Goodbye to Bruce Wayne and Hello to the New Batman

When he was Batman, Bruce Wayne was the master strategist of the Justice League. No one on DC’s premier superhero team was smarter than him. But Bruce Wayne can’t be the Dark Knight anymore. The World’s Greatest Superheroes want to make sure. A little magic lasso won’t hurt him, right? Things have changed in the…

Minecraft Streamer Buys Swank Mansion For $4.5M 

Turns out, playing video games can pay off quite handsomely—at least for some people. Variety reportsthat big-timeMinecraft streamerJordan “CaptainSparklez” Maron recently purchased a 3 bedroom/5 bathroom mansion that overlooks L.A.’s Sunset Strip. It’s a really nice place—I mean, that picture up top? That’s just a segment of the overall house. Look at this! Damn. Here…

Ironside Malphite Skin Turns League Of Legends’ Rock Monster Into A Pirate Ship

League of Legends’ stone golem creature Malphite is known as a rock monster, an animate mountain, and an “earth elemental.” Now with the power of premium skins, he’s become what looks like a Transformer that can turn into…a pirate ship? Well, he can’t actually switch back and forth between pirate ship and anthropomorphized autobot-esque warrior.…

That Time Final Fantasy Ditched Nintendo For Sony

Final Fantasy shows up on every platform under the sun these days, making it hard to remember the RPG juggernaut used to be one of gaming’s biggest exclusives. But over the course of Final Fantasy’s more than 30 years of video games, it’s twice shifted alliances in ways that had huge rippling effects. That Actually…

A Horror Game About Losing Your Kid In A Haunted Theme Park

Here’s a horror game that wants to tap into every parent’s worst nightmare: losing a child. It’s called The Park, and it’s a psychological horror game about a mother who has lost her kid in a theme park. In some ways, it seems like almost a large-scale Five Nights at Freddys: carnival-like entertainment gone wrong.…

What Happens When You Hate The Thing You’ve Made

The weekend is almost here. You’ve got this. I’ve got this. We’ve got this. Before Friday rolls to an end, here’s another installment in Worth Reading, our weekly guide to some of the best writing about games happening on this ol’ Internet. Hey, You Should Read These As further evidenced by Everybody’s Gone to the…

Game Studio Co-Founder’s Farewell Is A Tough, Sobering Read

Composer Jessica Curry, who most recently worked on Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture, has announced she’s (sort of) leaving The Chinese Room. There’s more on her mind, though. In a blog post, Curry pulled no punches when talking about her negative experiences working with Sony, how the industry devalues the contributions of women, and more.…

The KFC Superhero Comic Is One of the Weirdest Things You’ll Read All Week

So, I think the man responsible for hawking fried chicken to millions of people worldwide is, like, a reserve member of the Justice League now. This week, DC Comics put out a free KFC promo comic called The Colonel of Two Worlds. As you’d expect, it’s pretty bizarre. The book’s title comes from the classic…

Goodbye, Kotaku

Kotaku has been like a family to me for almost four years now. From the outside looking in, you’ve probably known me as several things. The deputy editor. The Borderlands nut who incidentally matches names (and even nicknames) with one of the series’ most favored characters. The editor who used to share amusing pictures on…

The New PS4 Uncharted Collection Shows How Much The PS3 Evolved

If you asked a bunch of people to list the most influential games of the last console generation, there’s a solid chance most of them would include the PS3’s Uncharted series. Four or five years ago, when we needed to show a friend how visually impressive video games had become, we often reached for one…

Doctor Doom’s Lies Are Being Exposed in Secret Wars

In Marvel’s Secret Wars series, Victor Von Doom now has the omnipotence of a god. But it’s beginning to look like having the power to rebuild the universe hasn’t saved him from being a deeply flawed man. The core conceit of Secret Wars—that Doom became strong enough to snatch slivers of a dying multiverse’s alternate…

Funny-Looking Headset Increases The Range Of Vision Around Us

There’s a reason why the PolyEyes 2.0, an augmented reality project by the Interactive Architecture Lab, looks like a helmet of an alien invader. Thanks to a couple of Raspberry Pi Camera Modules built into the headset and spinning around, there’s no need to do complex eye tricks to see everything around us. Their video…

Now That’s A Great Zombie Prop For Halloween

Replace the fridge at home with Roy Mueller’s zombie containment unit and you’ll scare off pretty much everyone. It’s a nice combination of various effects and it really looks like an actual zombie’s trying to escape from its chamber. To contact the author of this post, write to: [email protected]

Time to go fishing! With the help of a series of fortunate GTA V events and the Rockstar game engine. Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest, funniest game-related screenshots and art we can find. Send us suggestions if you’ve got them. To contact the author of this…

Words Can Hurt Far More Than Sticks and Stones

Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day is one ofthe most depressing and yet ultimately uplifting anime series out there. And now its creators are back to tell you a story about how hurtful words can be in the modern-day fairy tale Anthem of the Heart At its most basic level, Anthem of the Heart…

Eight Players Who Killed It In The Star Wars Battlefront Beta

Savage snipes. Clutch kills. Close calls. The Star Wars Battlefront beta has produced many awesome moments that players are capturing on video, and they are a delight to watch. Here are some of my favorite picks! The player who destroyed a TIE Fighter with a grenade Nice going, Len Kagamine The Player Who Sniped An…

America: The Video Game Trailer

One of the weird things about Steam’s Early Access is that you play a game, stop playing, move on and forget it ever existed. Then when it actually comes out, you’re like “uh, it’s already out, I played it months/years ago”, and then get a little confused. So it is with BroForce I played the…

Stuntwoman Nearly Killed Making New Resident Evil Movie

Olivia Jackson, a professional stuntwoman who has recently worked on Mad Max and Force Awakens, was seriously injured last month on the set of the new Resident Evil movie, which is currently shooting in South Africa. Jackson was working as star Milla Jovovich’s double, and on September 5 was involved in an accident that sounds…

GTA V’s Ramp Truck Destroys All The Cars

Hey, it’s BlackSmoke Billy! The master of dumb GTA V vehicle action returns with RAMP TRUCK. Rockstar probably wishes this was an actual in-game truck right about now. RAMP TRUCK was made using a trainer and a tweak to the game’s handling so “the cars would fly higher”. Good idea. (via Laughing Squid)