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Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: The Haters Problem • Reclaiming the Mario Kart Throne • Five Games in 2014: Retrospectin’ • OP/ED A Day By Ani-TAY – Week 5 • Codename STEAM Impressions: My Time With Tears to Tiara 2 is Ruining My TRPG Skills • The Arrow! In Speed Painting Form!…

Fallout 3‘s Lone Wanderer as a Silly Balloon Sculpture

He even has a proper Pip-Boy 3000. The bakery might ruin the immersion, but this is where the creator, DjDrummer, makes his balloon sculptures, though usually not gaming related ones. Here’s the Lone Wanderer in his full glory. I wonder what perks this version would have. Increased poison resistance? Silent running? Unique dialogue options? To…

Scientifically Accurate Barney Hates Children

No educational messages this time from the purple T-Rex. You can also forget the cute songs and dance moves. ADHD’s scientifically accurate Barney, a new version of the purple T-Rex from the 90s show Barney & Friends, is simply just hungry. And although ADHD’s animation is full of blood and destruction, the original Barney is…

Move Over Far Cry 4, This is How You Do Mountains

It’s not that Far Cry 4’s version of The Himalayas is ugly, far from it, but just look at this The map was made by artist Simon Barle of DICE, who also worked on the most recent Battlefield. It’s an Unreal Engine 4 recreation the real-life Huangshan mountain range, and it was finished late last…

Game Lets You Run a Pro Counter-Strike Team

CSManager (via PCGamesN) is basically Football Manager, but replacing football with the competitive world of Counter Strike This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK Having seen what the original football version can do to some people, and knowing how passionate Counter-Strike players are, this is vaguely terrifying. As the manager of a virtual team you…

Weirdness Ensues When 32 Fans Re-Animate The Pokémon Intro

You’ve got two types of animators here, basically: the ones doing straight-up recreations of the first Pokémon opening’s iconic shots, and the ones with… different ideas. Inspired by the similar Moon Animate Make-Up project, Pokémon ReAnimated comes from an Ottawa-based group of 32 animators, headed up by Spencer Moreland, who also edited the whole thing,…

In Which A Zombie Is Kicked Into The Ocean

Dying Light has a dropkick attack. It’s cool, if only for the visual effect, but when you mess with the values determining how powerful it is on the PC version, it gets a lot cooler. Nice soundtrack selection, btw.

Final Fantasy Kitchen Knives Deal Critical Damage To Fruit, Vegetables

Yes, I know. I want them too. But, much as I’d like to own some rad Final Fantasy cutlery, these were custom-made for one specific super-fan. We can ogle them from afar, though, and ogle we shall The Super-Fan Builds team enlisted the help of the ever-talented folks from Man At Arms to construct four…

GTA V’s Los Santos vs The Real Los Angeles

Los Santos in Grand Theft Auto V may be a caricature of Los Angeles, but that doesn’t make it complete fiction. Like the bestcaricatures, it shares its foundations with the real thing, as you’ll see in these imageswhich compare certain landmarks in the game with their LA counterparts. Sure, some of the scenery around them…

If Only Lego Skyrim Were A Real Video Game

Batman has a Lego video game. So do Lord of the Rings and Star Wars and Indiana Jones and a million other series. That’s nice. That’s cute. Whatever. I want Lego Skyrim, and I want it yesterday. The Guildmaster Studio put together a painstaking re-creation of Skyrim‘s opening scene using Lego blocks and stop-motion, and…

NYC, 2015

It was the blurst of times.

Cancelled Driver Game Involved Blowing Apart San Francisco

Before Driver: San Francisco, Ubisoft tasked Sumo Digital with making the next Driver game. Unseen 64 has unearthed details and concept art on the abandoned project, which apparently would have involved the Bay Area and tons of explosions. Split/Second: San Francisco? I’m a sucker for reading about cancelled games, and wish more game companies were…

Looks like the line-up of Titans live-action series might include Barbara Gordon. The redhead known as both Batgirl and Oracle might be part of the twentysomething Titans TV show, according to a report on Nerdist.

Fan-Made Dragon Age Trailer Will Pull You Right Back to the War Table 

So you left the sprawling beginning area of the latest Dragon Age. Closed lots of breaches. Collected hella herbs. Read as much lore as you could stomach. Puzzled over its ending. Thought you were done? Watch this fan-cut trailer and you’ll roll a new character and jump back in. Just like he’s done for GTA…

One Of The Best Smash Bros. Matches In History Went Down Last Night

For some people, yesterday was all about the Super Bowl. For me, it was about a better match-up, one of the best and most dramatic Smash Bros. matches I’ve ever seen. To tell the story of Sunday’s amazing match, we have to go back a day further, to Saturday and the Apex 2015 tournament, the…

Rooster Teeth Animator Monty Oum Dies At 33

Rooster Teeth animator Monty Oum has passed away, the production studio announced today. The 33-year-old was hospitalized over the weekend for “a severe allergic reaction during a simple medical procedure” that put him in a coma. When the news first hit, fans raised nearly $180,000 for him. Oum was best known for RWBY, a web-based…

Kate Upton Is Shilling A Terrible Game

During last night’s Super Bowl, millions watched as Kate Upton stepped out of a bathtub, donned battle armor and escaped a crumbling stronghold on horseback. The game she’s advertising is nowhere near as exciting. The game is Game of War: Fire Age from Machine Zone, and thereported $40 million advertising campaign featuring the world famous…

Sony Sells Off Studio Behind Everquest, H1Z1

After almost twenty years, the Sony Online Entertainment studio is no longer part of Sony. Sounds like we’ll be seeing games like EverQuest and H1Z1 on the Xbox soon. SOE announced their independence in a press release this afternoon, saying they had been purchased by a New York-based management firm called Columbus Nova and that…

PS4 Bundled with Plus, Majora’s Mask 3D, Jurassic Park, and More Deals

The PS4 comes with The Last of Us Remastered by default these days, but today, you can get a year of PlayStation Plus as well. [PS4 Console + Last of Us + PlayStation Plus, $400] Luftrausers is on my personal shortlist for game of the year 2014, and it’s only $2 right now. [Luftrausers, $2…