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Classic Arcade Machines in Tiny LEGO Form

Space Harrier. Out Run. Thunder Blade. Apart from being Sega arcade games from the eighties, what do they have in common? LEGO, of course. The LEGO set, made by SpacySmoke and submitted to LEGO Ideas [thanks, Garett!], consists of recreations of the aforementioned three Sega arcade machines and three minifigures to go with each machine,…

Calls To Ban Minecraft in Turkey

Last month, a Turkish ministry began a probe to investigate whether or not Minecraft should be banned for being “too violent.” Today, the results of the investigation were announced: Minecraft should be banned. Turkish websites Hürriyet Daily News and LeaderGamer report that the country’s Family and Social Policies Ministry is now calling for Minecraft to…

Surely The Best Way To Play Mario Party

Step 1: get a sweet setup like this. Step 2: drink. Step 3: love/hate your friends to death. The custom N64 here (made by Zoki64) is nice, but it’s the controllers that really make it. One for each character, with the added bonus that you can also use them for Mario Kart! (via it 8-bit)

World’s Best Peter Griffin Cosplayer Tries A Mario Speedrun

That sounds like something a headline generator would come up with, but I promise you, this is a real thing that happened. In this clip, Robert Franzese (aka Real Life Peter Griffin) takes on Super Mario Bros. and beats it in under an hour. Slow by professionalspeedrunner standards, impossibly fast by Peter Griffin standards. Weird…

17 Weeks In, Halo: The Master Chief Collection Is Basically Working

I’d been reading the latest patch for Halo: The Master Chief Collection improved the game’s notoriously bad matchmaking, so I decided to load up the game to see if this was actually true. Halo: The Master Chief Collection has been a broken game for many months. It’s a cardinal sin a series known for multiplayer…

To Beat This Game, You Need To Use… The Actual Moon

Some games have secret endings that people don’t uncover until days, weeks, or even months after they’ve come out. Spider: Rite of the Shrouded Moon is trying to one-up them all. You won’t be able to beat it unless the real moon—yes, the one in the sky—is glowing just right. The net effect of that…

Report: There’s Another New Ghostbusters Movie, Starring Dudes

Deadline is reportingthat, in addition to releasing a Ghostbusters movie starring a team of women, Sony will also be making one starring a bunch of men. Just in case you ever wanted to see what it would be like if some guys wanted to bust some ghosts for a change. This movie will reportedly be…

How The Apple Watch Could Make Mobile Games Better-ish

Apple’s next big thing ships next month, and soon wrists all around the globe will be thrumming with iTechnology. What can a wrist-based device with a tiny screen bring to gaming? Quite a lot, probably. I’ve been considering whether or not to invest the $350 necessary to add Apple to my arm since the Apple…

The First Five Games I Play After Upgrading My PC

First, you upgrade your PC. Then, you fire up all the games that used to give your PC a hard time and obliterate them. It’s a time-honored tradition, and the only thing that changes from year to year and GPU to GPU is which games you choose. Which games do you bring before your towering…

Philadelphia police have set up a trust fund for the family of officer Robert Wilson III, who was shot during a robbery at a GameStop while buying a game for his son last week. All the donation information is right here

Still think the Joker might be coming back in Batman: Arkham Knight? Well, in the latest chapter of the tie-in digital comic, the Clown Prince of Crime gets cremated. The folks at DC Comics and sister company Warner Brothers Interactive Entertainment are sure trying their best to convince fans that it won’t happen. The first…

A Game That Combines Dark Souls With A Stylish Horror Flick

Once bitten by the Souls bug, there’s no going back. Everything is different, and all you want is more of it. While I patiently wait for Bloodborne, I’ve searched for more Souls to consume, and found myself drawn to Malebolgia, best described as Souls mixed with a stylish horror flick. First, let’s talk about what…

Helldivers Bug Erases Progress If Your PS4 Controller Dies. Seriously.

Here’s a shitty bug for ya: A fair number of players are reporting that they’ve lost all their progress in the new PlayStation game Helldivers after their controller died while they were playing. Apparently, if you’re playing the game and your controller runs out of juice, the game spawns in a level 1 character when…

My Five Favorite Kotaku Stories From Last Week

I was on the road all last week, traveling to San Francisco for Game Developers Conference and then to Boston to gaze at PAX East and piles of snow. While I was gallivanting around, Kotaku ran some good stories. My favorites: I Tried VR Porn, And It Was Weird | Virtual reality was a big…

Tales From The Borderlands‘ second episode, Atlas Mugged, will arrive on March 17. That’s next week! To celebrate the release date, Telltale Games has released a trailer. You can reach the author of this post at [email protected] or on Twitter at @patrickklepek

Sexually Suggestive Dialogue Cut from DmC Definitive Edition

The demonic cabal who ruled the world in DmC are bad guys who said bad things in 2013’s reboot of Devil May Cry. Now it seems one of the more egregious pieces of dialogue—which invoked an image of rough sex—has been cut from the new remastered edition of DmC The line in question happens in…

Gamers Club Unlocked Gets a Huge Price Drop, Logitech G402, More Deals

At $100, Best Buy’s Gamers Club Unlocked was a decent deal for hardcore gamers, but a tough sell for most. Today though, they’re dropping the price to $30, which gets you 24 months of the following benefits, among others: 20% off all new physical video game purchases 10% off all preowned video game purchases 10%…

Weird Al Singing ‘Yoda’ With Autistic Children Made Me So Happy

During Comedy Central’s biennial Night of Too Many Stars benefit for New York Collaborates for Autism, Weird Al Yankovic and 13-year-old autistic singer Jodi DiPiazza performed a stunning rendition of the classic “Yoda” that moved me to tears. It’s not that “Yoda”, Weird Al’s 1985 parody of “Lola” by The Kinks is a particularly moving…

Sounds Like Batman: Arkham Knight Will Be Surprisingly Violent

The world raised an eyebrow when it was revealed Batman: Arkham Knight would be M-rated, since the previous games—Arkham Asylum, Arkham City—were both T-Rated. The ESRB has now released its official ratings entry for Arkham Knight, providing insight into the decision. If you don’t want to know anything about Arkham Knight, consider this spoiler territory.…

The Coolest Cosplay at PAX East, Day 3

Daylight savings time didn’t stop folks from showing up in their finest outfits for the last day of PAX East. Who needs a snooze button when you’re dressing up as Iron Man? This round-up of cosplay photos—courtesy of Dave Yang Photography—features a few members of Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed crew, as well as a few popular…