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Nintendo’s YouTube Plan Is Already Being Panned By YouTubers [Update]

Nintendo launched a new affiliate program yesterday for YouTubers that, on paper sounds like a good thing. It’s a way to let YouTubers make money off their Nintendo-related videos on YouTube, after all. But if you look at the finer details, things don’t look so great. Called the “Nintendo Creator’s Program,” the scheme lets people…

Are you playing Dying Light? Are you playing online, in co-op or in “Be The Zombie” mode, on a PC or either console? If it’s running well for you, let us know. If you’re running into bugs or other problems, let us know that, too! We want to get a sense of how the game…

Grand Theft Auto V Looks Incredibly Creepy Without Textures

This isn’t the Los Santos from Grand Theft Auto V that I remember, but it’s one I’d like to visit. Artist Kim Laughton has stripped the open world game of its detailed textures, resulting in a bold, creepy version of Los Santos. Anyone else getting the sense we’re now on an alien planet? The piece,…

I have wanted to play Yakuza forever, and I’ll have no excuse next month, as Yakuza 4 is part of February’s PlayStation Plus lineup. Transistor and Apotheon are for PS4, while Yakuza 3 and Thief are for anyone still booting up PS3s. Rogue Legacy is for every platform, and Kick & Fennick is Vita-only.

Super Smash Bros. for Wii U just got a new update that makes 15 more stages available in 8-player form. As is often the case when Nintendo updates stuff, other, bigger changes might have just snuck their way into Smash as well. If you see anything interesting, let us know! Full stage list below. The…

Finally, A GTA V Stunt Montage With Birds

All the jets are grounded. GTA V‘s birds are here to show how to pull tricks off properly. Stunt montages with bikes and jets have always been popular, so it was just a matter of time before someone made a parody focusing on a recently added feature: flying as birds. 8-Bit Bastard visits all the…

New Lego SHIELD Helicarrier Is Gigantic, As It Should Be

It’s going to take 2,996 Lego bricks to make this miniature version of the headquarters of the Marvel Universe’s superspy agency. Hulk better not smash. Revealed today, the Lego SHIELD helicarrier will be one of the toy company’s biggest models when it comes out this March. For $349, the Helicarrier comes with Hawkeye, NIck Fury,…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: One Less Resident • Game of the Week—Not Quite D&D, but Sort Of [Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance] • The Eccentric Family: The Ani-TAY Review • This is How Much We 3D • Dying Light Impressions • Spacemon – A Pokémon Tabletop Story, Vol. 2: Chapter 5 TAY…

We’re Getting Jurassic World And Avengers LEGO Games

There might already be a million LEGO games, but they’re not going anywhere, as evidenced by the several new brand-new ones announced this morning. Most importantly, obviously, is the confirmation of LEGO Jurassic World, which will incorporate elements from all the Jurassic Park films. There’s something called LEGO Avengers, too, I guess. Folks probably want…

Link, Sephiroth and The Avengers, Turned into Fearsome Robots

Oh man, I feel sorry for whoever has to face these in a fight. The robots were drawn by ChasingArtwork of DeviantArt, who appears to have a thing for redesigning popular characters as badass bots, with Link being the most recent one to receive the treatment. There’s a selection of them below—visit CA’s DeviantArt gallery…

Starbound’s big Winter Update, titled Upbeat Giraffe, went live on Steam overnight. Head over here for the full list of changes and additions, which is rather long—understandable, considering they worked on this patch for nearly a year.

I am Bread is Coming to iOS… Somehow

No idea how this is going to work but Bossa has announced an iOS version of I am Bread. Also re-announced are the new garage level and a new mode, Cheesehunt, staring a crispbread. They’ll apparently definitely be out this Friday, after missing a release last week. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK There’s…

Sunset Overdrive Isn’t All Obnoxious Orange

Vaughan Ling is an artist who has done stuff with companies like Disney, Warner Bros. and Marvel. He most recently worked on Sunset Overdrive for the Xbox One, which is what we’re featuring here today. You can see more of Vaughan’s work at his personal site, and some more cool Sunset Overdrive artwork here To…

Get Your Ass To Mars (And Maybe Play This Game)

Hey, it’s Soren Johnson, of Civ III & IV fame! And now he and his team are making a new strategy game, called Offworld Trading Company, which is a very literal title for a game that’s about trading on a world that is not this one. It looks pretty cool! Like an RTS, only instead…

Old Video Game Press Releases Were Cool

These days, press releases are awful things. Full of subject lines like MEDIA ALERT, obnoxious jargon and endless fine print. Back in 1990, things were a lot simpler. This is a photoof a press release for Rubicon, a shooter released for the Atari ST, Amiga and Commodore 64. It’s set in the distant future of…

Team Fortress 2 Fans Pay Tribute To Beloved Video Maker Who Passed Away

Kitty0706 was a popular YouTuber who made funny videos for nearly a decade. He spent two of those years battling leukemia. Recently he passed away, leaving a community heartbroken. But they haven’t forgotten the laughter he gave them. They never want to forget that. The news of Kitty’s passing surfaced on Reddit a couple days…

We Talk About The Witcher 3‘s Sex, Hair, And Open World

I got to play the first few hours of The Witcher 3, and so did Kotaku UK’s own ruthless god-commander, Keza MacDonald. Per UN mandate, this meant we were required to talk about it. Watch the video to hear our thoughts on open-world stuff, combat, the series’ progress in portraying sex, and more. For those…

A Badass Supernatural Steampunk Fight

If you have a couple of minutes to spare, you need to watch this visually stunning fight that breaks out between cowboy skulls and steampunk humans. Trust me. While watching, I didn’t even realize that this was a music video—I just thought it was an awesome short film or something. But no, this is actually…

Meet Magic: The Gathering‘s First Trans Character

Over the years, there have been thousands of Magic: The Gathering cards, many with their own characters and mini-stories. Only one, however, is trans, and this one is pretty darn cool. Though most players don’t dig into the collectible card game god emperor’s mythos, they’re expansive—untapped lands open for exploration. Sometimes it’s generic fantasy, sometimes…

Torchlight 2 is FINALLY coming to Mac. I know at least a few of you have been waiting years for this one. It’ll be out Monday on Steam.