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Excellent Respawn Animation, Sunset Overdrive

Xbox One exclusive Sunset Overdrive has the best respawn animations I’ve ever seen. They’re mostly jokes, riffing on Portal, Star Trek and stuff like that and worth the few seconds they take to put you back in the action. I’ve played the game for hours, though, and hadn’t seen this one until last night. Might…

New Pillars of Eternity Patch Fixes Game-Breaking Bugs

Did you double-click on a piece of equipment in Pillars of Eternity and inexplicably erase your character’s stat bonuses? Good news: there’s a fix coming soon. The folks at Obsidian are planning a big patch for their stellar RPG that they’re hoping to push out today, and with it, they say they’ll fix that bizarre…

A Hardcore Fan Is Merging Two Beloved Metroid Games Into One

You’re looking at Super Metroid, but you’re also look at Metroid Fusion. Slowly but surely, the two Metroid games are becoming one, thanks to an intrepid modder. While we patiently wait for Nintendo to consider another Metroid game, fans continue to experiment with the series. For years now, modder Metaquarius has been dropping elements from…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku’s reader-run community: The Amiibo Collector’s Guide 4.0 • ​Gaming Fantasy Dinner Party – Guest Number Two • The Ani-TAY Interview: A New World Order • Story of Seasons: The TAY Review • Anime Opening/Ending Song Roundup by Ani-TAY: Week 11, Week 12, Week 13 TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide…

Incredible Bloodborne Player Beats Game Without Ever Leveling Up

This is probably the most impressive gaming feat of 2015 so far. SPOILERS FOR BLOODBORNE FOLLOW. For those that don’t know, Bloodborne offers a number of different classes. One of the available classes is called “Waste of Skin,” and the description for it reads, “You are nothing. Talentless. You shouldn’t have been born.” One ridiculous…

Seven Things I Like In StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void‘s Beta

The closed beta for StarCraft II’s second and final expansion, Legacy of the Void, launched two days ago, and while the game is in early development and it’s still evolving, there are already a lot of awesome ideas and changes in effect. After two days of playing, here are seven of my favorite ones. The…

Kotaku Asks: Video Game Localization Editor Mark MacDonald [Q&A Over]

Want to know what it was like to translate the wacky Metal Gear Rising? Want to find out how long it took to get Fire Emblem: Awakening to U.S. shores? Today’s a good day to get answers. Welcome to Kotaku Asks, a weekly feature where we invite guests from the world of gaming to come…

The very talented Marinko Milosevski looks back at Super Mario 64 with his latest poster. As usual, you can acquire a print through Marinko’s website—but if you’d prefer to just look, you can find the poster in its full glory below. Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest,…

Mewtwo from Super Smash Bros. Compared with Mewtwo from Melee

Want to see how each version of Mewtwo stacks up? How was the character’s Smash Bros. incarnation changed? Let’s find out! YouTuber Master0fHyrule made this comparison, using Super Smash Bros. footage from the most recent Nintendo Direct. Until the character is released on April 28, this should give you a pretty good idea how the…

League Of Legends Should Keep Its Ridiculous April Fool’s Joke Going

A single balance update or new feature isn’t usually enough to rev up the whole League of Legends community. This week, though, the entirety of the vocal League-playing internet collectively lost its shit. Why? Because the game made a joke too funny for its own good. “Ultra Rapid Fire” mode, better known as “URF,” was…

Damn, The New Mario Kart Difficulty Sure Looks Faster

Yesterday, Nintendo announced a new downloadable difficulty for Mario Kart: 200cc. It’s supposed to be faster—but just how fast are we talking about here? GameXplain has a helpful comparison video that takes the footage from the Nintendo Direct yesterday, and pits it against a 150cc race on the same track. The differences are immediately visible:…

OnLive, The First Big Streaming Games Service, Is Dead

Once upon a time, OnLive was The Future. Why buy physical games, they asked, when we could have tons streamed to us instantly, whether playing on a beefy PC or wimpy smart phone? It sounded too good to be true. Turns out, it was. I know what you’re thinking: “Wait, that’s still a thing?” Well,…

Here Is A Thing That Happens In Bloodborne

It’s pretty gross. Wanna see it? Sometimes in the game, if you sneak up on an enemy or hit it just right in combat, you’ll open it up to a brutal special attack. Some of the enemies in the game look like giant pigs. At one point, you come upon one who is facing away…

Players Built An MMO Inside of Second Life, And It Looks Wild

Woah. This trailer for Remnants of Earth is about as Second Life as you can get, but still—it’s an MMO inside of an MMO, and it looks bonkers. Via New World Notes, Remnants of Earth is a cyberpunk game within Second Life. The developers explain: [Remnants of Earth has a] heavy basis around classic pen…

Sci-Fi Trailer Is Star Wars vs Halo vs Star Trek vs Mass Effect

Galactic Battles is a short film that laughs at the idea of a mere cameo. It’s also a copyright lawyer’s worst nightmare. Or dream day on the job, depending on who they’re working for. In case that gif—which crams Halo, Star Wars and Star Trek into around two seconds of footage—doesn’t make it clear, Galactic…

Miiverse Reacts To Super Mario 64 On Wii U

Now that Super Mario 64 is out on the latest Nintendo console, lots of people have picked up the classic yet again. Some people are even playing it for the first time—and it’s heartwarming to see what these players have to say about Super Mario 64 Here are some highlights of the Super Mario 64…

The Best Smash Bros. Character Requests

Yesterday, Nintendo revealed the Super Smash Bros. ballot, a tool for requesting new Smash characters that will definitely be helpful for Nintendo and will certainly not be abused at all. (“Please limit your vote to one per person,” the site reads. Ha ha ha.) So in addition to some great serious suggestions—Geno, Bayonetta, Goku—the world…

One Writer Is Trying To Make Bloodborne More Poetic

The notes scattered throughout Yharnam in Bloodborne can be helpful, trickery, or somewhere in-between. In the case of author Natalie Zed, however, she’s trying to leave behind poetry. When playing Bloodborne, players carry a notebook. This notebook allows you to leave comments for other hunters by stringing together a set of different words and phrases.…

GameStop Struggling To Handle The Amiibo Craze [UPDATED]

If you wanted to buy the new waves of amiibos at GameStop in real-life or online, that doesn’t seem to be possible right now. Their website is down and in-store registers aren’t working. Pre-orders for the new amiibos began today at GameStop, Target, and other retailers. Reservations started at 3:00 p.m. EST for Ness, Robin,…

The Binding of Isaac has been teased for Nintendo platforms over the years, but it’s finally happening, and without any content changes whatsoever. (This was a joke.) The addictive roguelike hits New 3DS, Wii U, and Xbox One “soonish.” You can reach the author of this post at [email protected] or on Twitter at @patrickklepek