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My Five Favorite Kotaku Stories From Last Week

Tokyo Game Show and The Taken King dominated our coverage last week, but what were our best stories? I have some thoughts on that: The Biggest Game in Japan You’ve Probably Never Heard Of | Toshi explains why Granblue Fantasy had as big a booth at Tokyo Game Show as all of PlayStation. Just one…

Welp, Termina’s Screwed

Should’ve played the Song of Time, Link. Done by DeviantArt’s Isaac J. Litman, this is the third in a series of illustrations depicting elements from Zelda: Majora’s Mask. The three MM pieces are below; for more from Litman, head here for his DeviantArt gallery Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some…

How Are We Supposed to Play All These Enormous Video Games?

I played the opening few hours of Batman: Arkham Knight in August. You know what I did after that? I opened up the map, saw that it was forested with icons, and then turned the game off forever. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK This has started happening quite frequently. Here are some huge…

A Video Game About Scrubbing Naked Men In The Shower

Well, I’ve downloaded and played a game about helping another man in the shower. That’s my day made. —NSFW BELOW— It’s called Rinse and Repeat, and its the latest game by Robert Yang. You might remember Robert Yang. He’s the (goddamn genius) who made a game about having sex with your car. There was also…

Great Shot GTA V Truck, That Was One In A Million

Blacksmoke Billy, the world’s foremost expert in GTA truck madness, returns with a series of C4+trailer stunts that just boggle the mind. Doing this once, OK, you can call it a fluke and thank console makers for including gameplay capture. But doing it a bunch of times? I shudder to think at the amount of…

You Got A Good Heart, Kid

The Syrian refugee crisis has become a political flashpoint throughout Europe. Some people are being assholes about it. Then you’ve got this kid, spotted at the “Solidarity with Refugees” march in London

Gameloft’s free-to-play MMO Order & Chaos II: Redemption launched on iOS, Android and Windows last week, but don’t bother playing—I obviously already got all the best loot.

Ocarina Of Time‘s Kakariko Village Is Breathtaking In Unreal Engine 4

This is pretty much what The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time’s Kakariko Village looked like in my head the first time I played Unreal Engine 4 being freely available has done wonderful things for older video game scenery. We’ve seen gorgeous builds from World of Warcraft, Sonic the Hedgehog, Resident Evil and Super Mario…

Be careful unboxing your Wii U Skylanders Superchargers starter pack. I managed to tear the lever off the side of Donkey Kong’s Barrel Blaster freeing it from its package, and will be sad forever because of it.

The Mightiest Marvel Comics Rip-Off Of Them All

The Maroon Witch. Thor with an ‘N’ at the end. Miss Marvelous. Rabid Raccoon and…Grout. I don’t know whether to laugh or cry at AMZGame’s Tiny Mighty Heroes Unite, so I do a little of both. The creator of the sort of games you see advertised in those tiny Facebook ad boxes (League of Angels,…

A Skylanders Superchargers Buyers Guide For Confused Parents

The fifth installment of the series that started the toys-and-games craze goes on sale tomorrow, which means stores packed with baffled parents trying to make sense of it all. We’re here to help. Now that your children have finished collecting all the toys from Skylanders: Spryo’s Adventure, Skylanders Giants, Skylanders Swap Force and Skylanders Trap…

Celebrate 30 Years Of Ghosts’n Goblins With Five Minutes Of Death

On September 19, 1985, Capcom unleashed one of the toughest video games ever to hit arcades, starring a brave knight and his brave underwear. Ghosts’n Goblins was the game that answered the age-old question, “What do you do when the devil kidnaps your girlfriend?” The answer, which in retrospect should have been fairly obvious, is…

Catch Up With Over A Century Of Call Of Duty: Black Ops History

Cancel your plans to replay the first two Call of Duty: Black Ops games to catch up on the storyline—Treyarch’s handy timeline video has you covered. Dramatic music plays as the series’ timeline is drawn, from the 1930 birth of Victor Reznov to the 2025 death of Raul Menendez. How many people were shot in…

Fire Emblem And Xenoblade Heroes Join Project X Zone 2‘s Crazy 

Namco Bandai’s tactics RPG cavalcade of cross-company characters is exclusive to a Nintendo handheld, so how about some Nintendo-owned heroes? Fire Emblem: Awakening’s Chrom and Lucina are a great start, and they’ve picked a perfect partner for Xenosaga’s KOS-MOS. Namco Bandai promised new character announcements for Project X Zone 2 when Richard Eisenbeis played the…

A Persona 5 anime is on the way according to an announcement made at Tokyo Game Show 2015 earlier today.

21 Things We Just Learned about Final Fantasy XV 

At the Tokyo Game Show today, Final Fantasy XV director Hajime Tabata answered a whole bunch of questions about the game. We learned new things! Such as.. – They will not include Japanese and English language voice tracks on the disc, because apparently, they can’t fit both on the physical game. But according to Hajime…

Destiny Team Smashes Taken King’s Raid In Seven Hours

Multiple teams raced to the finish over the last seven hours, eager to complete the newest Destiny raid, King’s Fall. But only one group can claim first. For comparison’s sake: it tooksix hours for a team to beat The Dark Below’s raid for the first time. Seems like killing Oryx was a bit tougher! Some…

Splatoon Players Are Damn Good At Throwing Shade

Wooooow. So that’s how it is, huh? Splatfest—the event where Splatoon asks players to pick between two sides and duke it out against one another—is happening this weekend, and some of the trash talking I’ve seen in the Miiverse plaza is FIERCE, as evidenced by this screenshot taken by Brittany Rolstad‎. It’s kind of unsettling…

20 Excellent Super Mario Maker Courses You Should Play

I have spent dozens of hours playing through hundreds of Mario Maker courses. Here’s the cream of the crop. One of the biggest criticisms I’ve seen floating around for Mario Maker is that it’s really difficult to find good courses. While that may be true, it doesn’t mean Mario Maker is completely bereft of great…

Ronda Rousey, Kicking Floyd Mayweather’s Butt In Modded Street Fighter

Ronda Rousey and Floyd Mayweather may never wind up trading blows in real life. But, now we know who’d win if they were Street Fighter characters. YouTuber Richie Branson modded the PC version of Street Fighter IV so that he could make Balrog and Cammy resemble the UFC superstar and the dude she’s talked mad…