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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: The E3 2015 Decorating Committee 

We’re a week out from E3 2015, and you probably know what that means—it’s time to redecorate the outside of the LA Convention Center to suit our own twisted visions of the perfect Electronic Entertainment Expo. The official decorating has already begun, as seen in this photo posted to twitter by Naughty Dog co-president Evan…

Fallout 4 Won’t Be On PS3 Or 360, Bethesda Says

Here’s some good news for anyone concerned that last generation’s consoles are holding back today’s game developers: Fallout 4 is current-gen-only, Bethesda says. No quiet last-gen releases coming down the road. Some might have assumed as much when the publisher announced Fallout 4 last week for PC, PS4, and Xbox One, but there were certainly…

Margaret Classes Up Persona 4: Dancing All Night

What, you thought we’d make it through a weekend without a Persona 4: Dancing All Night GIF? Margaret had other plans, and one doesn’t mess with Margaret’s plans. Igor’s eldest assistant has business to attend to, and that business is proving she’s got just as much energy as her younger siblings, Elizabeth and Jerkwad. One…

Teenagers Try To Play Contra, Fail Spectacularly

Watching today’s teenagers fumbling around with a game that was second nature to gamers nearly three decades ago is heartwarming, in an evil old bastard sort of way. The latest retro gaming video from the REACT YouTube channelis all sorts of cathartic for the aging gamer tired of being schooled by relative youngsters in today’s…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Wild Junk: The Winners!

Last week we asked our readers to fix The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt’s missing penis problem. Our readers responded with the stuff of endless nightmares. The only rule was no actual genitalia, which only encouraged them. When you scroll through this week’s runners-up, you will see things you can never erase from your brain. You…

Now You Can Play Splatoon In Minecraft

Intrigued by Nintendo’s competitive online multiplayer painting game but don’t own a Wii U? Thanks to the magic of custom maps, anyone with a PC and a copy of Minecraft can enjoy a fairly accurate Splatoon experience. Minecraft artist Sethbling (via Polygon’s Owen Good) doesn’t have access to a Wii U himself, so he tagged…

Fake Nintendo E3 Leak Generator Reveals Zelda: Mountain of Poultry

I’m not sure what excites me more—Star Fox Colon, Mario Shooting, TLOZ: Mountain of Poultry or a web page that generates fake Nintendo E3 Direct lineup leaks every time I refresh it. Every year around this time internet hoaxters spend hours putting together fake versions of documents that would never exist in the first place…

The First Five Minutes Of Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game

With thefourth numbered installment on the way it’s the perfect time to take a short trip into the past, to an era when Fallout games needed lengthy explainer sub-titles and a man could proudly kill a rat by shooting it in the crotch. Putting the First Five concept to the test, 300 seconds is barely…

Diablo Invades Heroes Of The Storm With A New Map And More Characters 

Ahhhhh. Fresh meat! Exciting news for the Diablo fans out there who’ve been sinking their teeth into Blizzard’s excellent new MOBA Heroes of the Storm. During a live-streamed launch event for Heroes today, the developer revealed a months-long campaign it’s kicking off later this month called “Eternal Conflict” that will add a new battleground to…

Think Twice Before Entering Dirty Words In Video Game Text Fields

Earlier this week, while playing Square Enix’s Chaos Rings III on the iPad, I was asked to name my favorite food via text field. I am not proud of what happened next. Warning: I am a horrible dirty potty mouth. I am milking my time with Chaos Rings III, a choice of words that will…

Nvidia Makes Batman: Arkham Knight Look All Fancy

Interactive smoke and fog, dollar bills that flutter across the floor, enhanced rain that beads off Batman’s cape—that’s right, it’s Nvidia’s obligatory “look-how-good-Batman-looks-on-our-hardware” video for Arkham Knight! While I’ve never caught myself playing an Arkham game on a console or AMD-powered PC and lamenting the lack of fluttering debris, I am a big fan of…

When Secret Wars Ends A New Era Of Iron Man Begins

Tony Stark’s Iron Man is easily one the most popular character in the Marvel movie-verse. Once the Secret Wars smoke clears, Brian Michael Bendis and David Marquez are tasked with making him just as popular on the comic page. It’s not going to be easy. Before Secret Wars mixed up the Marvel Universe, Tony Stark’s…

Disney Infinity 3.0 is Actually a Pretty Interesting Star Wars Game

The original Disney Infinity was a wonderful celebration of some iconic Disney worlds (Pirates of the Caribbean, Monsters Inc, Cars…), but the second Marvel-themed Disney Infinity 2.0 didn’t seem to have as much creativity or, I suspect, as much passion in its design. I hugely enjoyed going through the original play sets, even the slightly…

Bandai Namco Reveals Tales Of Berseria And Its Lone Female Protagonist

Main entries in the Tales series of role-playing games have traditionally featured male and female leads backed up by the supporting cast. Announced today for PlayStations 3 and 4, Tales of Berseria has one hero, and you’re looking at her. Her name is Velvet, which is exactly the sort of name you give a character…

New Super Saiyan Goku, Golden Frieza Coming To Dragon Ball Xenoverse

Why settle for watching the new Dragon Ball Z stuff in a movie, when you can play it all in a game? Siliconera reports that Dragon Ball Xenoverse is bringing in characters from the new DBZ movie, Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection F. As you may know, the movie includes two new things. One, there’s the…

Juggernaut, Dr. Doom and Spider-Man all show up in this deeper glimpse at the Marvel Comics fighting game that was cancelled by EA years ago. Again, it’s a glimpse of a rough prototype but shows some of the features that the dev studio was aiming for. Contact the author at [email protected]

Some League Of Legends Players Think Riot’s Overdoing It With Champions

Oftentimes when a new champion comes into League of Legends, the game’s many players feels he or she is overpowered. Since the time-bending assassin Ekko warped his way into the game last week, I’ve seen a more particular criticism from his naysayers: that he’s “overloaded.” I keep seeing this word, or similar descriptors, pop up…

NES Horror Legend Is Turning Into A Real Game

In 2011, a guy using the handle Cosbydaf wrote a story on the web about a Godzilla game he decided to revisit when he was a kid. It was a creepypasta—in other words, an internet tall tale intended to scare the hell out of anyone reading it. The story was a curious one: Cosbydaf claimed…

YouTube Channel Claims To Have First Dark Souls 3 Screens, Details

Are we going to see a third Dark Souls game at E3? Though nothing’s official yet, there are enough rumors floating around to make it seem like a real possibility. A few days ago, the video game website VG247 reported that Dark Souls 3 will be unveiled at E3. Today, popular YouTube channel The Know…

PS4’s Newest MMO Is Hilariously Broken

Wander is an MMO that doesn’t feature any combat. That sounds pretty interesting, right? Too bad it seems completely busted right now. Update (4:08 p.m.): I’m not an MMO player, so I didn’t realize /stuck was a common term in MMO games! That bit has been removed. That’s totally my fault. Wander is still messed…