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The GTA Players Who Push Cars To Their Limit

Last weekend, over a dozen players met up in GTA Online. They were all in decked out in trucks, jeeps, and other rugged four-wheel vehicles. They had one goal in mind: to cross the entirety of the Los Santos wilderness—rivers, mountains, forests and all. The rules were simple. The players would go on a cruise…

Want to watch a two-hour analysis of the entire Call of Duty series? Good news—critic Noah Caldwell-Gervais has assembled an exhaustive, chronological critique of every main COD game to be released on PC. I watched it this weekend, and enjoyed the heck out of it.

Sources: Amazon Spent Big Bucks On Crytek’s Engine

Last year, as the game company Crytek went through near-catastrophic financial struggles, they found help from an unlikely source: the tech giant Amazon. Amazon agreed to a huge licensing deal involving Crytek’s proprietary tech, CryEngine, according to four people familiar with the deal, all of whom spoke anonymously because they were not authorized to speak…

My Five Favorite Kotaku Stories From Last Week

A weird thing about Kotaku lately is that stories we post on Friday nights have been performing really well. It used to be a dead time for us. No more! Even this GTA story blew up for us last Friday night way bigger than we thought it would (pun intended). Anyway, on to my favorites…

It Took A League Player Exactly 3,439,140 Mouse Clicks To Reach Diamond

Diamond isn’t the highest level one can achieve when playing League of Legends’ fiercely competitive ranked mode. But it’s one of the highest. Anyone who climbs that high has to put in some serious work into League. More than 3 years and 3 million mouse-clicks’ worth, according to one player’s recent measurement. Reddit user and…

Nobody Explains Super-Speed Like the Muppets

You always see gotta-go-fast superheroes punching people when they fight bad guys. And, yeah, a fist delivered at the speed of sound will probably do the job of crushing evil. But a guy like Quicksilver doesn’t even need to hit a person to mess ‘em up real bad. The newest video from the folks at…

Big YouTuber Says He Won’t Cover Nintendo Anymore

Joe “Angry Joe” Vargas, who commands nearly two million subscribers on YouTube, has decided to stop covering Nintendo games, following a dispute over a Mario Party 10 video. Angry Joe’s Mario Party 10 video was flagged by YouTube, and while it’s possible for him to keep the video online, he can’t make money off it.…

Square Changes Final Fantasy Character To Show Less Butt

Mobius Final Fantasy, an upcoming 3D mobile game that for now has only been announced in Japan, has some ridiculous outfits even by Final Fantasy standards, but at least one of them was a bit too ridiculous for Square Enix. Above (via Hachima) is Wal, the hero of Mobius (formerly named Mevius), whose butt and…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku’s reader-run community: Kamisama Kiss◎: The Ani-TAY Review • Backlog Update: DmC Complete! Now Help Pick My Next Game! • Magic Kaito 1412: The Ani-TAY Review • Why Doesn’t This Game Exist: The Trope-Conscious MMO TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

The Persona 3 Films Continue to Impress

I’ve been more than a little impressed by the first two movies in the Persona 3 film series. And with its focus on character development and thematic exploration, the third film, Persona 3: Falling Down, sets the bar even higher. On the surface, Falling Down doesn’t seem like the third film in a tetralogy—rather it…

The First Five Furry Minutes Of Jazz Jackrabbit

In honor of the tattoo on my right forearm and the celebration of Easter, I present you with a green rabbit with a gun. Makes sense to me. Jazz Jackrabbit is a 1994 PC game coded by Arjan Brussee and designed by Cliff Bleszinski for Epic MegaGames. It’s a platform shooter, combining the fast-paced movement…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku’s reader-run community: The Road to Competitive Gaming (Part 1/2) • Thoughts From Outside: Historical Revisionism in KanColle • Anime Reminiscence, Childhood Memories, Fake Endings And More • Kamisama Kiss: The Ani-TAY Review • Maria The Virgin Witch: The Ani-TAY Review TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them…

There’s A Steven Universe RPG, And It’s Excellent

Cartoon Network’s Steven Universe has been quite a source of surprises lately, from a moving musical numberabout relationships to a premium mobile RPG that channels the spirit of Paper Mario. Now I’m not saying $2.99 will get you a game with the depth and story of something Nintendo might release. It’s just GrumpyFace Studios’ Attack…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Video Game Easter Eggs: The Winners!

Cease your futile hunting! We have all the video game Easter eggs you could possibly want right here, unless you were looking for this week’s winner, in which case we’ll be getting new shipments in maybe next month. This week’s hastily put together ‘Shop Contesthatched dozens of excellent ideas from our readers, but every time…

If You Bought A Vita Before June 2012, Here’s How To Get Free Stuff Now

Late last year Sony agreed to settle with the Federal Trade Commission over claims that it falsely advertised the PlayStation Vita console at launch. Anyone in the U.S. who purchased the handheld prior to June 1, 2012 is entitled to $25 cash or one of three different game bundles. Here’s how. The company handling Sony’s…

Sunday Comics: Do You Have To Poop?

Welcome to Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. We’ve got a new addition to the lineup this week in the form of The GaMERCaT by Samantha Whitten. It’s the moving story of an obsessive gamer who is also a cat,…

There’s Going to Be a Star Trek/Green Lantern Comics Crossover This July

Two of geek fiction’s most hot-headed spacefaring heroes will be boldly going into the blackest night this summer when James Kirk, Hal Jordan and their respective entourages cross paths this summer. Announced today by comics publishers IDW and DC, the iconic universes will be crashing into each other in a series called Star Trek/Green Lantern:…

Anyone else getting the urge to climb this, deactivate the scrambler and then descend via zipline? The towering “Dr. Seuss House” in Willow, Alaska, via Colossal, is giving me serious Far Cry flashbacks.