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Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku’s reader-run community: Ani-TAY Winter 2015 Seasonal Overview • Power Rangers: The Movie Revisited • A Journey to the East: My time with Anime • Three Things Superheroes Should Learn from Netflix’s Daredevil • Exploring Music: JRPG Battle Themes TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

Scientifically Accurate My Little Pony Is Not Magical At All

Hear that? It’s the sound of magic being sucked out of the world as colorful ponies break their spines falling from cliffs and die from horrible hoof diseases. This is not going to be pretty. Real ponies are not fun. They are not your colorful friends. They do not have marks on their flanks denoting…

Heroes of the Storm is officially launching on June 2nd, following an open beta period beginning May 19th, Blizzard just announced. If you haven’t been able to check the newfangled MOBA out yet, you really should! It’s a lot of fun. Also I’m betting that there will be lots of boosts and other goodies during…

You Can Explore The Original WipEout‘s Tracks In Your Browser

Dominic Szablewski ported all the maps from the classic 1995 racing game WipEout into a browser-compatible format. So finally, it’s now possible to flowthrough them in a browser without making any mistakes. All the maps are there, and you can switch between them and the camera angles at the top menu. The creator also made…

Artist Michael Ivey replaced fallen mutants from The Uncanny X-Men #141’s iconic cover with unavailable Amiibo figures. All were all hunted down by collectors, instead of Sentinels. To contact the author of this post, write to: [email protected]

Snatcher, Now On…Virtual Boy?

Snatcher is one of the coolest video games ever made. It also, obviously, never made it to Nintendo’s doomed Virtual Boy, so you’ve got a couple of fans to thank for this unexpected demo of the adventure classic running on the VR system. One of those fans, as outlined in this planetvb forum post (via…

Pirate Bay Co-Founder Not Allowed To Play NES In Prison

Fredrik Neij, one of the founders of The Pirate Bay, was arrestedlast year. He had been planning on spending his time in prison playing video games, but his request to have a NES put in his cell has been knocked back. As Expressen reports(via TorrentFreak), Neij had asked for a retro system so that he…

Welcome To Survival Horror, Mobile Gamers

If you’ve never played a serious survival horror game before, Human Head Studios’ Lost Within with frighten you. If you have, at least you’re on familiar ground. Despite being a terrified kitten in the face of most of the survival horror genre, I’ve played enough that a run-down mental health facility just doesn’t do it…

A 3D Sonic The Hedgehog That Could Make Every Fan Happy

Take the 2D classic, keep the flat sprites for heroes and enemies and make the stage itself 3D. Toss in a few flashy camera tricks, and you’ve got a 3D Sonic concept anyone could love. Now it’s only a short video demo from the folks at pipocaVFX, not a real game, but the whole Paper…

The First Five Mind-Bending Minutes Of Telepath Tactics

One-man Kickstarter success Telepath Tactics is a game that celebrates the art of strategically taking turns and tactically kicking ass. My turn lasts five minutes. Telepath Tactics is a game that developer Craig Stern introduced on Kickstarter in 2013 as “Imagine that Fire Emblem and Disgaea had a baby.” Nearly three times the asked for…

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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Game And Apple Watch

The Apple Watch officially arrives this Friday, and micro-games are on the way. What sort of gaming experiences can we expect to see on our wrists in the coming months? Our photo-manipulating readers are glad you asked. I’ve got an Apple Watch on order, because I am addicted to the game of scraping together money…

Hoodie Ninja Face Off In Real World Mortal Kombat

Color-coded hoodies are the new palette-swapped ninja garb. From Russia’s Mr.TVCow, the effects video maker behind the criticlawlly-acclaimed Assassin’s Kittens Unity, comes the saga of what happens when a friendly round of Mortal Kombat X between friends with suspiciously familiar super powers goes too far. I chose the GIF above because it depicts my favorite…

So Many Mandalorian Mercs At Star Wars Celebration 2015

How many Mandalorian mercenaries can you fit in the Anaheim Convention Center? Looks like all of them. With close to a hundred of them in the shot above alone, Mandalorian mercenaries (or Mandos for short) make up the majority of our second batch of Star Wars Celebration 15 cosplay photos, courtesy of the fine folks…

Nineteen Classic Video Game Tunes In One Mellow Mix

Can you name the nineteen games that make upThePeterson’s nostalgic music mix? That was a trick question. All nineteen games already have names, so if you were starting up a list and brainstorming ideas, relax—the work’s already been done. I’ve even compiled a list. Resident Evil : Dead Aim – Intro Music Super Mario Land 2…

We’re Losing Mortal Kombat X‘s Faction War To The Ice Ninja

“Join the White Lotus” they said. “Align yourself with the godlike defenders of Earthrealm.” So I did, and everybody else decided to be an ice ninja instead. Mortal Kombat X’s Faction War feature makes me sad. Myinitial excitement over joining one of five factions and battling it out online and off against the competition has…

Grand Theft Auto V Benchmarked: Pushing PC Graphics To The Limit

It’s been nearly two decades, but I can still remember wreaking havoc in the original Grand Theft Auto and GTA 2 like it was yesterday. Both games were a blast but Rockstar really blew our minds when it shifted from bird’s-eye visuals to a fully 3D game engine and environment with GTA III in 2001,…

LEGO Batman V. Superman Teaser Is Just As Gritty As The Real Thing

I don’t know how I feel about the tone of the recently released Batman V. Superman: Dawn of Justice teaser, and the LEGO version isn’t helping. Normally everything’s a little bit clearer in the colorful plastic LEGO universe, but the super-fast folks at FinalFeature (who’ve already done the most recent Star Wars trailer in LEGO)…

What Are Your Favorite Games To Play While Traveling?

By the time you read this, I will be road tripping up the West Coast, or perhaps crushed under an ancient, vengeful redwood. My impending trip got me wondering, though: what are your favorite games to play while traveling or on vacation? Tell me your video game travel stories! Me, I tend to like associating…

Riot Starts Testing Out Lag-Killing League Of Legends Network

Lucky League of Legends players in certain regions might soon experience the benefits of a smoother connection thanks to Riot’s special direct network coming online. Earlier this year, we detailedan initiative by Riot that aimed to create a direct network for League of Legends games. This network hoped to improve the connection of League of…