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Donkey Kong Country Back On Wii U After Mysterious Two-Year Absence

In November of 2012, Nintendo pulled the Donkey Kong Country trilogy from the Wii’s Virtual Console. They gave no explanation, as is the Nintendo Way. And today, nearly two and a half years later, Nintendo announced that all three games are coming back, this time for the Wii U. We still don’t know why the…

The free-to-play mobile game Final Fantasy Record Keeper is coming westward this spring, Square Enix just announced. This is another partnership with Japanese social gaming giant DeNA; here’s hoping it’s better than that cashgrab All The Bravest

A remastered version of the snazzy stealth game République is now out for Mac and PC. And until March 4th, it only costs $20 on Steam, GOG, and the Humble Bundle. After that it goes up to $25.

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Pokémon One a Day Series 2: Politoed, Hoppip, Skiploom, Jumpluff • Listen to The Indoor Kids • Mine and Your Most Intense Game Moments • Chinese New Year Food TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

Nintendo’s gold Mario amiibo will be available at Wal-Mart for $12.96 starting on March 20, the video-game-maker-that-seems-suddenly-really-excited-about-making-figurines announced today. Contact the author at [email protected]

Fable Legends is Indeed Free-to-Play – And it’s Not a Bad Thing

To be honest, the first time I ever saw Fable Legends – Lionhead’s 4v1 multiplayer remix of Fable, due out later this year – I could have made a confident educated guess that it would be free to play. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK Its reliance on team play and selection of different,…

Oooh, that looks painful. In this piece of 3D Final Fantasy VII fanart, done in a Bravely Default-esque style by Sketchfab’s HongZhihao, Cloud scores a huge hit on Sephiroth, making him drop his blade. Make sure to check out the embedded model below for more angles on the scene. Dayshot is an image-based feature that…

The New Batman Trailer Hides a Puzzle

Being ‘the world’s greatest detective’ is one of Batman’s things, so it makes sense that the new Arkham Knight trailer had a rock hard mystery hidden inside. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK Here’s the trailer, see if you can spot the clues: No? Don’t worry, the codes are insanely hard to find, apparently…

Google AI Taught Itself How To To Be A Pro At Classic Video Games

Really, it’s just a matter of time before Google’s “DeepMind” artificial intelligence learns how to wreck us all. New Scientist reports a Google-owned AI has learned how to beat 49 Atari games, just by spectating them. So it’s not, like, out there playing the newest Call of Duty with an army of 13 year-olds or…

Years Later, Blizzard Finally Fixes Obnoxious World of Warcraft Bug

World of Warcraft update 6.1 just launched, and it adds all sorts of new stuff: a selfie cam, racing, new blood elf character models, and more. On top of that, players have discovered many hidden fixes, among them the satisfying squashing of a bug that’s been plaguing the game for years. As documented by ZwuckeL,…

My Adventures As A Different Kind Of RPG Wizard

For the past few weeks, I’ve been playing a very different kind of RPG. There aren’t any Paladins, or orcs, or castles, or magic, or even potions. There are just ten sweaty men doing battle in an arena. It’s one of the best RPGs I’ve ever played. The game I’m talking about is NBA2K15, which…

42-Player Civilization Game Is Destroying The Planet

The 42-player, AI-only Civilization game that’s currentlygoing down is already one of the most amazing things the Civilization community — no sloucheswhen it comes to weird and wonderful spins on the game — has come up with. In over 20 years playing the series I have never seen anything like this. Mostly because I’ve never…

What Happens When A Hentai Artist Makes A Soul Calibur Costume 

Well. That doesn’t really look comfortable, does it? As spotted by Shoryuken, here is a costume created by Yamatogawa, a manga artist famous for hentai. Yamatogawa’s outfit is called “Magic Knight,” and characters such as Ivy and Amy can wear it in Soul Calibur: Lost Swords, a free-to-play spinoff for the PS3. So. Would you…

One of the two guys behind the original Toejam & Earl game wants to make a new one, via Kickstarter. The “ultimate Toejam and Earl sequel that the fans have been asking for all these years”. Contact the author at [email protected]

FiveThirtyEight are in the middle of a fantastic look behind the scenes at EA Sports. One particularly cool bit is a series of sliders that let you assemble your own Madden rating, based on your own terrible athletic skills.

​Spider-Man’s Dead Girlfriend Is a Kick-Ass Superhero Now

Spider-Gwen is a weird title for the newest heroine to swing through the Marvel Universe. Technically, she’s a Spider-Woman. But the ‘Gwen’ part of her moniker highlights the most potentially exciting aspect of her: she’s an alternate version of Gwen Stacy, a character most famous for how she died. Forty-two years ago, Spider-Man lost a…

Elite: Dangerous Players Are Making Creepy Urban Legends

Watch as one Elite: Dangerous player finds out first-hand just how terrifying exploring deep space can be. In this (very fake) video, Afrothunderkat finds a strange distress signal while warping. To make matters worse, once they arrive at their destination, their ship freezes—only to start going into a critical condition. For seemingly no reason. Naturally…

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VR Demo Brings Shark Nightmare To life

I’m tremendously excited about virtual reality’s potential. We’ll be able to visit far-off worlds and have experiences that haven’t even been dreamed up yet! If I was making a top ten list of things I wanted to better understand through VR, however, a shark attack wouldn’t be on it. As part of a promotion for…

Fan-Made Final Fantasy Mystic Quest ‘Remake’ Seems Like A Scam

Over the past few days, you might have seen rumblings that Final Fantasy Mystic Quest, a game released for the Super Nintendo back in 1992, is getting an official remake. Turns out that’s not entirely true. This purported remake—created by a company calling themselves Dark Design Games—got a fair bit of buzz yesterday. The folks…