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Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku’s reader-run community: Pokémon One a Day, Series 2 Returns! Wobuffet, Girafarig, Pineco • We Should Stop Judging Games on How Fun They Are with Friends • Game of the Week—A Wild New Role-Playing Adventure [Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars] TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY…

Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture, the fascinating PS4 adventure game announced back in 2012, will be out this summer, Sony says. New trailer above. This one looks pretty neat—it’s developed by The Chinese Room, the game studio behind Dear Esther

GTA V Already (Kinda) Working With The Oculus Rift

It’s not perfect VR, as in this case the headset is simply recreating the mouse/thumbstick view from the regular controls (and not giving you full and proper VR support), but still. This motorbike ride looks like a lot of fun. Falandorn, the video’s uploader, says he managed it using vorpX (a program that converts existing…

2K Australia, a veteran studio that’s worked on everything from Freedom Force to Tribes to BioShock to Borderlands, was shut down today. Kotaku Australia has the story

Read-Only Memory, the guys behind the excellent Sega Mega Drive book from last year, are back with another project. This one’s about the Bitmap Brothers (Speedball, Chaos Engine), and it looks/sounds just as good.

PC Game Officially Runs At 12K Resolution

The idea of 12K (11520×2160 resolution) gaming is nothing new. Even Microsoft has been talking about it for a couple of years now. But it’s one thing to demo it as some pie-in-the-sky ideal of a brighter future, and another for an actual game to officially support the ludicrous resolution at launch. That game is…

Grandmaster Caught Cheating On iPod During Chess Tournament

Gaioz Nigalidze, 25, is Georgia’s current chess champion. He’s also now facing a ban of up to 15 years from the game after being caught cheating during a tournament by looking at an iPod. The Washington Post reports that while competing at the Dubai Open Chess Tournament, Nigalidze kept retreating to the bathroom. The fact…

The Best Fan-Made GTA V Movies (So Far)

PC players have been making good use of GTA V’s Rockstar Editor this week, a feature that lets people make their own movies inside of the game. Let’s take a look at what people have come up with, shall we? The Police Chase rechyyy ☆ PC Gaming ☆ makes it easy to see how the…

EA Is Closing The Only F2P Game I Ever Loved

While most free-to-play games are garbage, regardless of the platform, sometimes one of them sneaks past your defences and actually finds its way into your spare time. Even I, as hostile as I am to the business practice in general, have my weaknesses. One at the moment is Star Wars: Commander, which is a terrible…

Here’s the first English trailer for Tales of Zestiria, which is now slated to come west this fall. (It was previously scheduled for summer.) It’s for PS3 only, sadly—keep that DualShock 3 charged until then!

Three Bloodborne Enemies Who Are Just The Worst

Each enemy in Bloodborne is a jerk in its own way, but some are worse jerks than others. I’ve played a ton of Bloodborne over the last several weeks. I’ve killed pretty much every enemy in the game, many times over. After all that, three enemies—excluding Hunters and bosses—stand out. I hate them so much.…

We’ve Solved The New Star Wars: Battlefront Teaser

For the past few days, EA has been teasing a spectacular new image from the upcoming video game Star Wars: Battlefront, which they’ll be showing off Friday as part of this week’s Star Wars fanfest. The teaser, split into eight parts and posted on EA’s Twitter and Instagram accounts, contains pictures like this, clearly leading…

There Are Several Promising PC Mods For GTA V Already

Rockstar Games isn’t officially supporting mods for Grand Theft Auto V, but that’s not stopping clever players. The game is slowly being opened up, and chances are, this is only the beginning. GameSpot asked Rockstar about modding last week, and it didn’t paint a welcoming picture. Modding took off for GTA IV PC. What are…

One of Mortal Kombat’s New Characters is Gay

A bunch of new characters are ripping each other’s body parts out in Mortal Kombat X. That’s nothing new in the decades-old fighting series. But, a gay character? That is definitely new. Kung Jin—a one of the new Shaolin Monks fighting for Earthrealm—appears to be the first gay male character in Mortal Kombat. The revelation…

The Most Hated Character In Smash Bros. Just Got Nerfed

Rejoice, Diddy Kong haters. The latest Smash Bros. patch has changed the annoying chimp, making him a bit less of a powerhouse than he was before. For those of you that don’t follow Smash Bros. drama, Diddy Kong is a character that gained notoriety among hardcore players. The reason? He’s very, very good. Some players…

Grand Theft Auto V, As Told By Steam Reviews

PC players have been waiting on GTA V long enough that some people jokingly called the Steam launch “Christmas day.” Seriously. That’s just how hyped PC GTA fans were! Now that people have had a chance to give the crime simulator a whirl, the user reviews on Steam have started to trickle in. And boy,…

Archie Is Comics’ Ballsiest Publisher Right Now

This week, there’s a comic where a Predator from the movies of the same name stalks Archie, Betty, Veronica and Jughead. A newly dead body drips blood all over America’s favorite lily-white teenagers as the alien hunter observes them from a tree branch above. Of course, they never look up. So freakin’ great. Archie comic…

Bloodborne’s Cruelest Joke

Bloodborne is a punk. A savage, brutal punk—and I’m not just saying this because of all the challenging encounters with werewolves and tentacle monsters. As we’ve chronicled in the past, Souls games do have a sense of humor. A twisted sense of humor,but they have a funny bone just the same. Bloodborne is no different!…

Mortal Kombat X’s Krypt Makes Unlocking Random Crap A Blast

There’s nothing I like better in a fighting game than a large amount of unlockable goodies, and there’s no better way to distribute new fatalities, costumes and concept art like Mortal Kombat X’s Krypt. The latest iteration of Mortal Kombat continues the series’ fine tradition of being incredibly generous with the extras and finding fun…