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Shadow Of Mordor Won A Best Story Award, Which Actually Makes Sense

Dragon Age Inquisition may have taken Game of The Year at last night’s 18th annual DICE Awards, but how about Shadow of Mordor winning for Outstanding Achievement In Story? The scripted story wasn’t so hot, but if they were judging by the stories that emerged as players sparred with enemies who became tougher through the…

DC Comics is doing yet another overhaul of their comics line, canceling books, launching many more (full list here). The headliners: American Born Chinese author Gene Yuen Lang will be writing Superman, Ultimates artist Bryan Hitch drawing and writing Justice League, Preacher writer Garth Ennis writing a new series.

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Let’s Break Down the New Persona 5 Trailer • Does History Defend the Tradition of Male Protagonists? • Saekano Knows How to Make Itself Better • When Procedural Generation is Hell For Moving On TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

This Is Why Nintendo Should Bring The Smaller New 3DS To America

Do you live in North America? Want to get your hands on one of these sweet New 3DS faceplates? SORRY. Nintendo doesn’t want to sell them to you. Let me explain. There are two models of the New 3DS: small and XL. But because Nintendo is Nintendo, North Americans are only getting the XL version…

Will Smith And Jimmy Fallon Remake A Hip-Hop Classic Using An Ipad

Jimmy Fallon and Will Smith—who somehow still looks like a 25-year-old— used Loopy, a tiny app for the iPad, to beatbox a few layers and record a complete hip-hop song. A remake of the The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air opening theme (or a RUN-DMC track) would have been cool, but DJ EZ Rock’s “It Takes…

No longer content with just 2D icons, redditor rwbronco remodeled (the majority of) World of Warcraft’s health potions in 3D. They all make for pretty good wallpapers, along with rwbronco’s 3D hearthstone model from about a week ago. The potions are all in an embedded Imgur album below. Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs…

Website Will Track Amiibo Stock So You Don’t Have To

Reader Chris Ryan, keenly aware how damn hardit’s proving to get your hands on certain Amiibo, has gone and built a website called Amiibo Trackr that can tell you at a glance which online retailers currently have which figures in stock. Here’s how it works, according to Chris: As soon as you click on one…

Kill Zombies In A Fabulous Dress

We get a lot of people pitching their indie games to us here at Kotaku. Some of these pitches are dreadful, others tolerable, but sometimes you get one that just nails it. Here’s the opening to an email I got about a game made by a small team of students from Cairns, Australia. RegentZ is…

The Hottest New Game On Steam Sure Lives Up To Its Name

It can’t be all that fun to be a character in a game called Darkest Dungeon. You spend all your time in caves and ruins, risking your life while fighting horrible monsters, watching your friends suffer and even die. The emotional toll must be high. Turns out that idea—that heroes can suffer from mental fatigue…

Game Of Thrones: TV Actors vs. Game Characters

Game of Thrones finally has a good video game series, with solid cameos by some of the TV show’s most memorable ladies and gents, to boot. With episode two out, many of the major players—Jon Snow included—have made their polygonal debuts. But do they actually look… right? Let’s find out. Cersei Lannister Cersei’s pretty close,…

Every Country That Has Ever Been In The Civilization Games

England is obvious. So too Japan, and China, and Egypt. But there have been a lot of Civilization games featuring a lot of Civilizations, so let’s take a look at a map (made by sirprizes) showing every nation that has made it into the series and those who, sadly, have not. You want to pay…

Dark Souls II Patch Radically Changes The Game’s Ending

When you reach the end of Dark Souls, the players is presented with a big choice. You help decide the fate of the world. When you reach the end of Dark Souls II, the game simply ends. Not many players were satisfied with this conclusion, and the game’s new patch changes this. We’re gonna need…

Come watch me talk about Suikoden, women’s eSports tournaments, and animal sounds on this week’s Co-Optional podcast, where I guest-starred. Fun times.

The Sculptor Is the First Must-Read Graphic Novel of 2015

Would you shorten your life to be really good at something? As in the best in the world? What if you couldn’t negotiate and the deal meant you died in 200 days? Would you take it? That tempting deal is offered to David Smith, the titular lead character in a new graphic novel called The…

Ubisoft’s Surprise Game Is Worth Your Time

The most pleasant surprises from Ubisoft seem to be coming in downloadable forms. Child of Light, Valiant Hearts, Assassin’s Creed: Freedom Cry. We can now add Grow Home to the list, an utterly charming experimental platformer about climbing higher and higher and higher. I’d intended to start Dying Light yesterday. Zombie are kind of my…

GamerGate’s Latest Conspiracy Theory Doesn’t Hold Up

Last night, members of the GamerGate campaign exploded with glee as they read through a brand new set of damning, dramatic allegations that seemed to prove serious wrongdoing in the indie game scene. Here it was. A smoking gun. But like with many of the red-lined imgurs and conspiratorial posters that have fueled this controversial…

Assassin’s Creed Rogue is coming to PC on March 10th, Ubisoft announced today. We really liked the console version, so we’re excited. Woo!

Secret Super Mario Level Found In Dying Light [UPDATE: More Secrets]

The latest Dying Light easter egg that’s been uncovered transports players to a Super Mario-esque stage, only with a lot more zombies inside. YouTuber Arekkz Gaming discovered the secret portal to zombie goomba (zomgoomba? goomzombie?) killing goodness, and was kind enough to show us all where to find it: As he explains in the video,…

Gabe Newell Shows Us How Customer Support Is Done

When you have an issue on Steam, you typically send in a report, which Steam Support has to deal with. But one Steam user decided to take their problem to the man in charge of Steam itself, Gabe Newell. And amazingly, Gabe actually took time out of his day to fix the problem. In an…

Witcher 3 Price Slash, Logitech Gaming Mouse, and More Deals

Newegg is continuing their impressive run of preorder cash discounts with The Witcher 3 today. Preorder The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt ($53) | Newegg | Promo code EMCANAS53 Preorder The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt ($53) | Newegg | Promo code EMCANAS53 The Crew isn’t a perfect racing game by any means, but its sprawling reimagining…