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How To Get World of Warcraft‘s New Super-Rare Mount

The “Voidtalon of the Dark Star” is a new mount added to WoW with patch 6.1, but the patch notes don’t mention anything about how to obtain it. A few days have passed since the update and people are finally figuring out the process. It’s not that easy. The official survival guide only says that…

League of Legends‘ Fighter Champion Garen in a Nutshell

Here’s a spot on clip made by RHrealism, starring Garen from League of Legends with a couple of other champions and cute minions. The animations mimicking Garen’s personality and abilities are awesome, but the voice acting is what makes this a really funny one: He is… a simple guy. To contact the author of this…

My Five Favorite Kotaku Stories From Last Week

It’s always a pleasure to look back at a week’s worth of Kotaku stories. You get your news, some reviews, some pointed, not-for-kids commentary about Pikachu. All that good stuff. Best five stories? Maybe these… The Sad Story Behind A Dead PC Game That Can’t Come Back | Features editor Kirk Hamilton loves No One…

Huge Minecraft Adventure Map Stars the Wonders of the Ancient World

Twelve world wonders, strewn across a massive landmass, all overrun with monsters. And it’s your job to clear them out, of course. Wayward Wonders is a CTM or Complete The Monument map, meaning that the objective is to collect blocks—in this case, by defeating the monsters at each of the dozen world wonders, seen below:…

Joe Biden Gets Too Close To Anime Girls

What is it with this administration? First the President goes on an anime-is-real crusade, and now Vice President Biden is invading the personal space of anime girls. Sheesh! Twitter user @neontaster recently uploaded these images, showing the V.P. getting a little too close: [Photo: neontaster] [Photo: neontaster] [Photo: neontaster] Of course, a couple of images…

Our First Look at the Next Trine

The last new entry to the Trine action-adventure-platformer series was with Goblin Menace in 2012, an expansion for Trine 2, which itself came out in late 2011. So yeah, it’s been a pretty long time, and it looks like Trine 3 is right around the corner… ish. Trine 3: The Artifacts of Power will star…

What Comic Books Don’t Show You

It’s not always exciting to be a superhero. There’s downtime, when superheroes go back to their daily lives, screw around, play jokes on each other, and pass the day. Finally, we get to see all this recreated in collectible figures and slick photography. Using Hot Toys figures and little toy props, photographer Edy Hardjo recreates…

In honour of Homeworld Remastered’s release — and the game’s enduring style — artist Matt Frith put together this homage to Homeworld 2. Suddenly, I want to play a 2D Homeworld, real bad Contact the author at [email protected]

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There will never be another Kotaku ‘Shop Contest ever again until next week. Due to circumstances beyond anyone’s control, this week’s contest has been postponed. Fahey may be convinced to run a new one tomorrow instead should a good enough idea arise. Until then, here’s a picture of a man hugging an aardvark he found…

Guilty Pleasure: Sweet Drawings Of Military Aircraft

I did a post the other day on Total War’s art, which has been collected into a book, and while looking at that publisher’s site I saw something that made me lose my shit, just a little. It was a book called Warbirds It’s a book full of images done by Adam Tooby, whose job…

Dead Or Alive Community Leaders Soft Ban Sexy Costumes At Tournaments

Acknowledging that the Dead or Alive fighting franchise has a sexy image problem, community leaders at the series’ go-to forum have added an over-sexualized costume soft-ban to their tournament rules. Reactions from the community-at-large have been overwhelmingly negative. With the biggest competitive tournament push in franchise history accompanying the release of Dead or Alive 5:…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: A Better Class of Game Criticism: Part 1 • Games People Hate: A Primer • Pre-Cult: Transistor • Assassination Classroom Makes Me Like the Octopus Guy • Elihu’s Four in February 2015: A Journey Through Time and Space [Majora’s Mask & Metroid Prime] TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: The Commander In Chief Of Anime: Winners!

Does President Obama really love anime? It really doesn’t matter. What does matter is it’s so much fun imagining he does thatlast week’s Kotaku ‘Shop Contest produced some of the most wonderful work of the year thus far. Fresh from telling funny anecdotes about the children he teaches on Facebook, GiantBoyDetective brings home the imagined…

Light Trivia Fails To Sap The Scary From Five Night At Freddy’s

Having had nightmares about animatronic animals for most of my life, I’m fine learning about Five Nights At Freddy’s through second-hand sources. Between Patricia’s excellent explainer and Did You Know Gaming‘s latest video, I’m all set. Did you know animatronic animals are terrifying? Robots I can handle, but the moment you start dressing them up…

Maybe We’d Be Better Off Playing Ikea’s Fake Video Games

While browsing his local Ikea for functional furniture at reasonable prices, Redditor voodoocodesnapped a shot of some of the company’s upcoming lineup of fake placeholder video games. I would pay $100 for Grand-ma’s Auto. Ikea is famous for its meatballs. Also it tends to make fake video game consoles, video games, computers, books and more…

There’s Nothing Sweet Or Gentle About The Firefly Diary

Aw, look at the cute little Japanese puzzle platformer with the adorable little waif and her firefly friend. Right. This adorable little puzzle platformer has been a massive source of frustration since I started playing. Isn’t she adorable? Sure, I’ll give htoL#NiQ: The Firefly Diary (a hip way to write Hotaru no Nikki, Japanese for…

Reminder: Claim Your Free Legendary Pokémon This Weekend

Good news, folks who are playing Pokémon Omega Ruby or Alpha Sapphire. There’s a free legendary ‘mon with your name on it right now. All you have to do is start up your game of Pokémon, and select “Mystery Gift” on the main menu. From there, choose “Receive Gift.” You’ll have to connect your 3DS…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: The Seven Anime of Winter 2015 To Watch • Thoughts on Fairy Tail • Coming To Terms With Anita Sarkeesian TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

One Part League Of Legends, One Part StarCraft. Wait, What? 

From Namco Bandai’s official announcement, “Set in the distant, space-faring future Supernova takes an innovative approach to the multiplayer online battle arena genre by adding real-time strategy elements.” That’s kind of like innovating a peanut butter sandwich by adding jelly. The MOBA genre is an offshoot of the real-time strategy genre, so when Namdai Banco…