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CM Storm QuickFire Sale, $30 Far Cry 4, Star Wars LEGO, and More Deals

The CM Storm QuickFire mechanical gaming keyboard is listed at $120 today, which is an all-time low on Amazon. Plus, you can save an additional $20 after mail-in rebate. It’s tenkeyless, which you don’t see very often in mechanical keyboards, and lets you set custom backlighting profiles down to each individual key. [CM Storm QuickFire…

If you set the in-game date of the shipping version of SimCopter to Friday the 13th, the male residents would strip down and occasionally make out. The game was patched to remove this. The programmer who added it, Jacques Servin, was actually fired by Maxis You can reach the author of this post at [email protected]…

Binding Of Isaac DLC Adds More Everything, Including Co-Op Babies

The Binding of Isaac already received a major update with The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth last year, but designer Edmund McMillen is moving full speed ahead on a proper expansion. Today, McMillen revealed the add-on, which doesn’t yet have a release date, will be called Afterbirth McMillen is known for being exceptionally open with his…

PSA: The Best Gun In Destiny Is On Sale Today

Do you play Destiny? Do you have 17 coins? Do you not have an Ice Breaker yet? WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? Note: This post originally ran in January, but we’re bumping it up again today because the gun’s back on sale. From today until Sunday morning, the weekend vendor Xur is selling the most…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Poll: The Best Anime of Winter 2015 • Re-(Re?)-Review the 3D Metroids • Game of the Week-You Are (Not) The Hero [Braid] • Summer Wars (Manga) – Quick Review • An Apology to The Orange Box • Spacemon: A Pokémon Tabletop Story – Ch. 9, Ch. 10,…

Realistic Minecraft Neighborhood Looks Straight out of SimCity

Playing with the camera angles and the shaders to make this Minecraft town look like something from a city-building game was the easy part. Designing and building all the unique houses must have been a lot harder. But the Esterlon Community was able to build a really cozy realistic neighborhood, with malls, a main street…

Mario Physics Can Tell Us Which Planet Is Super Mario World

By analyzing Mario’s jumping skills and measuring gravity in Super Mario World, PBS Space Time tried to find a matching planet with the same conditions in the universe where the game could take place. As you can see in the video, translating the physics of the classic SNES game is not as easy as it…

Visual Guides To All Bosses Of Warlords of Draenor‘s Second Raid

World of Warcraft‘s second level 100 raid, Blackrock Foundry, finally opened its gates on every difficulty, which means the race between top guilds is on again. The mechanics can be tough, but Line of Sight Gaming‘s two-minute guides are excellent for learning the basics so that you can jump in, too. Short, easy-to-understand clips and…

Final Fantasy Bosses Make For Great 3D Fanart

Three Eidolons from Final Fantasy XIII, Brynhildr, Bahamut and Odin, looking all amazing as custom 3D models. The 3D-rendered summon beast-slash-boss trio comes courtesy of NemoriS from model sharing site SketchFab. They’re embedded below—if you’re gonna zoom in a lot, make sure to use the more straightforward first-person viewing mode (the little eye icon) for…

The Beautiful Hand-Writing And Maps Of The Lord Of The Rings Movies

One of the few things that wasn’t computer-generated in the recent Hobbit movies was all the sweet Middle Earth calligraphy, which was done by the same artist responsible for the most of the books (and maps) of the Lord of the Rings film trilogy. That man is artist Daniel Reeve (via Laughing Squid), who did…

Fallout Should Always Be Played On An Old Black & White TV Set

Fallout is sort of anchored in that retrofuturist 1950s post-war culture thing and I can’t think of a single thing that represents that culture more than the humble black and white television. Therefore playing a game like Fallout: New Vegas on an ancient, still-functioning black and white CRT TV? That seems like a perfect fusion.…

Remember, GTA V NPCs Are People Too

It can be easy to forget when you spend most of your time treating them as obstacles and target practice, but the NPCs of Grand Theft Auto V are people too. They’ve got their own lives to live, their own conversations to have, their own problems to solve. This great video by Incredible91852 and FishyDizzle…

​The Men That 4chan Pays To Argue About Games and Anime

If you like games or anime, chances are good that you’ve seen silly videos over the years where grown men enthusiastically tell you all about their favorite anime characters, and which “waifu” is the best one. There are of course anime fans who say ridiculous things like, “if you’d simply open up your mind to…

If you like PC strategy games, you should really listen to this podcast, where Soren Johnson (Civ IV) chats with Henrik Fahraeus (Crusader Kings II) and Jon Shafer (Civ V).

How To Find Waldo, Every Time

Waldo (or, in other parts of the world, Wally) is a tough guy to find. Even with those glasses and that stupid hat, he’s always lurking, hiding, just out of sight. Or, he was, until science kicked his door down and found a way to find him real quick and easy. Michigan State computer science…

Free-to-play games supported by sneaky in-app purchases reign supreme in the mobile world, but Apple has apparently started promoting games that shy away from doing so. You can reach the author of this post at [email protected] or on Twitter at @patrickklepek

Developers Say Apple Is Rejecting Games For Having Images Of Guns

Apple has been rejecting some mobile games from the iOS app store for displaying guns in their promotional material and app store icons. So far, the regulation hasn’t had an impact on actual in-game content. First reported by Pocket Gamer, mobile developers began receiving rejections from Apple on “iTunes Connect,” the portal through which the…

Ten Things People Get Wrong About Anime

Anime might be popular in nerd culture, but that doesn’t mean people always understand what anime is all about. In fact, people often get anime all wrong. Anime sometimes has a stigma for people who don’t watch it. Or, people make misconceptions about what anime can be, as well as assumptions about the type of…

New Star Wars Comic Will Remind You Why You Love (and Hate) Darth Vader

In the first three Star Wars movies, Darth Vader was a fearsome, enigmatic archvillain. The next three Star Wars movies attempted to show Anakin Skywalker as an emotionally turbulent figure of tragedy. The new Darth Vader comic gives readers both of those interpretations and more, enjoyably complicating a villain who been around for a whole…

How To Transfer Data From A 3DS To A New 3DS

Just got a New 3DS? Want to transfer all your digital games and save-files from your Old 3DS to your new one? Well, you’re in for an adventure. Since the two 3DS systems use different methods for storing data, the process for transferring those files is rather convoluted, in true Nintendo style. In fact, Nintendo’s…