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The Triumphant Return Of Dungeons & Dragons‘ Most Famous Hamster

Whenever I think of BioWare’s Baldur’s Gate series, one line of dialogue springs immediately to mind: “Go for the eyes, Boo!” We might soon hear those words again, as Minsc and Boo will play a big role in Neverwinter‘s Elemental Evil expansion when it launches for PC March 17. Having proved so helpful to players…

‘Pants Were Shat’: Stories Of Real-Life Video Game Trolling

We want to trust our friends and family, but sometimes they lie to us. Sometimes, they troll us. What follows are the funny (and tragic) stories people shared with me about gaming gone awry. No one will be surprised to learn many happen to involve a big brother being a jerk. This all started when…

Nintendo Explains Where Tingle Came From

Tingle, map-seller in The Legend of Zelda Majora’s Mask, is a man in his mid-30s who wears a green fairy suit. Presumed by some—incorrectly, it turns out—to be gay, he is one of Nintendo’s most unusual characters. I recently asked Nintendo’s top Zelda creator what Tingle’s origins were. “I guess the heart of the character…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: New 3DS XL: The TAY Review • The Kickstarter Blame Game • Genshiken: Second Generation: The Ani-TAY Review • Game of the Week—Hope and Despair (And An Evil Teddy Bear) [Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc] TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

More Than a Third of 2014’s Big-Budget Games Got Day-One Patches

You may have had the feeling lately that the games you’ve been buying and playing didn’t quite get finished when they were shoved out onto store shelves. Well, a lot of them weren’t done baking. We’re a few years into a new console hardware cycle, one that promised to make games on the PS4, Wii…

An Epic Naruto Ninja Battle Comes To Life

Teased late last month, Epic Rivals‘ live-action battle between Naruto‘s Tenten and Neji is the sort of fight that forms a friendship that lasts as long at least one of them lives. Not being too familiar with the intricacies of Naruto‘s supporting cast, I’m going to just speculate here that this coming-of-age confrontation is a…

Motorized LEGO Tank Cries For A Diorama Built Around It

Here’s a really smart LEGO build. A tiny fully motorized remote-controlled accurate version of a WWII tank by a Polish enthusiast Sariel It even has a motorized barrel and a rotatable turret. The whole build is really tiny and compact. It’s only 4 inches wide and 8 inches long, yet it’s full of LEGO’s Power…

Scarface As An NES Shooter

The 1983 movie Scarface with Al Pacino’s Tony Montana and his M-16a1 machine gun would have made a really great side-scrolling shooter. And it’d need to have the craziest final level if it followed the movie’s story properly. CineFix imagines in their latest clip how it’d look like a game from the 80s. It’s something…

A Video Game Art Book That Also Helps People

Last year, we toldyou about an art book that was raising funds to help pay for Blizzard artist Kevin Kanai Griffith’s battle against cancer. Sadly, in October 2014 Kevin passed away, but the book hasstillgone ahead, albeit with a different focus. “After he passed we spent a great deal of time deciding how the project…

Looks Like We’re Getting A Gold Mario Amiibo 

Oh, hey, were you already too stressed out about the availabilityand value of Nintendo’s Amiibos? Maybe don’t look at this image then. It’s reportedly a photo of a banner ad for Walmart, and shows not only a Golden Mario Amiibo itself, but also says that something (it’s unclear whether it’s the Amiibo or just a…

When You Think A Game Is Being Made Just For You

As crude and reductive as it can be, video games love to compare themselves to other video games. It’s the easiest way complex systems and settings can be conveyed to people who haven’t played (or maybe not even seen) something that’s still in development. Sometimes, this can work against a game. If someone tells me…

Hacker Builds Machine To Trade Pokémon With Himself

Trading Pokémon typically requires another person to swap monsters with you. But, sometimes trading with someone else is a hassle. And that’s why one guy decided to make the whole trading process easier for himself. Check out Pepijn de Vos‘s Arduino creation, which acts as a pseudo Game Boy that can hold Pokémon. He can…

A Card-Based Role-Playing Game Like No Other

Take one part deck-building card game, add one part Choose Your Own Adventure novel, and shuffle with a little light action combat—that’s the deck composition of Hand of Fate, a unique twist on card-based role-playing now available on Steam, Xbox One and PlayStation 4. That Defiant Development’s2013 Kickstarter for Hand of Fate barely squeaked past…

The edutainment classic and staple of many childhoods Zoombinis could get a modern rework, if this Kickstarter has anything to do with it. Help make learning (by solving pizza-based puzzles) fun again!

Horde Of H1Z1 Players Drops Weapons In Protest Against Violence

The scene: a battle royale (that is, last man standing) match in zombie survival MMO H1Z1. The goal: to convince a teeming crowd of bloodthirsty players to drop their weapons and survive encroaching toxic clouds together, hand-in-hand. The result: improbable success! Well, mostly. In this video, streamer and YouTuber CDNThe3rd rallies an entire (or most…

Studio Behind Phantom Dust Reboot Shuts Down

Independent development studio Darkside Games, which was working on the planned reboot of the cult classic Phantom Dust, shut down this afternoon in the wake of news that Microsoft had cancelled their version of the game, Kotaku has learned. Around 50 people lost their jobs, according to sources at the studio. Microsoft, however, says they’re…

Heads up: The Sims 4 is now out for Mac. If you own the PC game, you can get the new version for free. If you’re just starting out, make sure to check out our tips for how to improve your Sims experience. Or how to kill your Sims once you start to get bored.…

YouTube Leak Derails Launch Of Big PS4 Exclusive

On February 14, a YouTube account called PlayMeThrough uploaded a series of videos titled “The Order: 1886 Gameplay Walkthrough.” The title was rather literal—the videos, which were separated into 16 parts, walked viewers through the entirety of The Order: 1886, from prologue to final boss. Given that The Order: 1886, a highly-anticipated PS4 game, doesn’t…

Holy Shit, A Destiny Player Soloed Crota’s End On Hard

Watch as someone takes on Destiny’s toughest challenge, without any teammates. It’s incredible, and possibly the most impressive thing a single person has done in Destiny so far. You might know the YouTube account “The Legend Himself” as the people behind the first ever solo Crota run on normal, so it’s only fitting that they…