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Majora’s Mask 3DS Extras, Logitech Gaming Gear, and More Deals

Excited for Majora’s Mask 3D? Here are two awesome deals to get you ready. The Legend of Zelda Majora’s Mask 3D Collector’s Edition: Prima Official Game Guide ($21) | Amazon Nintendo 3DS XL Universal Zelda Case ($10) | GameStop If there’s one thing we’ve learned from posting deals for nearly two years, it’s that you…

GTA Player Breaks Physics With His Bike Skills

For GTA players that know how to shred, the laws of physics just don’t apply. ErasableNinja spent 2014 doing all sorts of cool BMX stunts, and now that the year is over, they’ve shared a compilation of the best tricks they managed to land. Twenty seconds into the video, I couldn’t help but ask myself,…

Modders Are Bringing Back Resident Evil‘s Awful Voice Acting

Resident Evil‘s original voice acting was atrocious. The lines were cheesy and the delivery wooden. “Jill, here’s a lockpick. It might be handy if you, the master of unlocking, take it with you.” But it has a fond place in my heart. I didn’t blame Capcom for writing and recording new material for REmake, but…

That New Fantastic Four Movie Trailer Looks So Familiar…

Fantastic Four trailer? Hmm. Haven’t I seen that scene before? Oh, yeah! Mass Effect 3! Or was it Halo 3? We’re going with coincidence here, right? No one’s got a trademark on pillars of light and leaning towers. Though, imagine if they did..

A Bonkers Theory About What The Darkness In Destiny Actually Is

Destiny players spend the entire game fighting against something called “the darkness.” But does anyone really know what the darkness actually is? “Darkness” sounds more like a concept than an actual thing. Maybe that’s intentional. Maybe the darkness isn’t real in the way we think it’s real. Or at least, I’m starting to reconsider what…

The WWE is already weaving its latest controversy into its storylines. For more on that, check out a long update at the bottom of yesterday’s “We want refunds” Kotaku TMI article.

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Why It Took Final Fantasy VI to Show Me Life Was Worth Living • Pokémon One a Day Series 2: Ledyba, Ledian, Spinarak • Koda’s Top 10 Winter Anime Openings • Retrohunter’s 5 most anticipated 2015 games • What Fire Emblem: Awakening taught me about life TAY…

Transformers Recruits Fans To Form Their Own Giant Robot

Two years ago Hasbroasked Transformers fans to vote for a brand new character to join either the Autobots or Decepticons in their never-ending battle. This year they’re asking fans to create five robots that form into one massive monster machine. The first fan-built Transformer promotion resulted in Metroplex security guard Windblade, a female Autobotwho is…

Our First Look at the New Fantastic Four Movie Is Here

Marvel Comics’ first family has an all-new look in their next movie. We finally get a glimpse right here. The very first teaser for this summer’s Fantastic Four movie just hit this morning, showing off a slicker, more sci-fi-centric look for younger versions of Reed Richards and his band of explorers. The film is being…

Someone Built An Amazing Dragon Ball Z Model Set

Dragon Ball Z’s second major story arc, the Namek Saga, is one of the best in the series. Spanish enthusiast Juanpe of Jerez de la Frontera didn’t recreate just one or two figures or scenes from these episodes. He basically rebuilt the entire thing as a huge, amazing diorama. Namek is the rural, nightless world…

Even More Disney Characters Go To College

DeviantArt’s Hyung86 has been hard at work on his Disney University series which, as the name implies, depicts Disney characters as members of a real-world university—whether they were originally human or not There’s been a lot of new additions to the DU family since our last look, so let’s jump right in. Don’t forget to…

AOL Shutting Down Joystiq

AOL is preparing to shut down the video game website Joystiq after over ten years of publication, according to people familiar with the situation. It’s unclear exactly when Joystiq will close, but we’ve heard that this is connected to a larger-scale reorganization planned by AOL, the longrunning media company that has had more than a…

The Secret Douglas Adams RPG People Have Been Playing for 15 Years

Douglas Adams dreamt up the Starship Titanic in 1982 as a half-page gag in Life, the Universe and Everything, the third book of the Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy ‘trilogy in five parts.’ This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK The luckless vessel served as a warning that ships powered by improbability drives run…

If Zelda Had Final Fantasy Logos

The Legend of Zelda has its own logos. They’re great! But what if Zelda logos looked like Final Fantasy ones? Well, I guess they’d look like this. Tumblr site Shattered-Earth did a series of Zelda-meets-Final Fantasy logos in Yoshitaka Amano‘s iconic artistic style. So, The Final Legend of Zelda? The Legend of Final Fantasy? Zeldantasy?…

Resisting the Urge to Buy Amiibo Has Taught Me a Lot About Myself

My name is Keza MacDonald and I have a debilitating addiction to buying pointless plastic items. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK Things got really bad when I moved to Japan in 2008 and discovered a whole new world of tiny things; robots, miniature food, and of course, video game merchandise. I have two…

Chill Out To This League of Legends Video. Wait, What? 

You heard me.

Australia Makes Civ V History

A year after we firstgot to play the mod that brought a playable Australia to Civ V, the team behind it has beefed it up to look just like one of the game’s “proper” civs. Normally, when a mod introduces a new leader to the game, the leader screen — which for official Civs is…

‘We Want Refunds!’ – Why Pro Wrestling Fans Are So Angry Again [UPDATE]

You’d think that the first weather-related cancellation of an episode of Monday Night Raw in the show’s 1000-plus episode history would be bad news for the WWE. But the many inches of snow aimed at Hartford, Connecticut, the location of tonight’snow-scuttled Raw taping, are a sprinkle of luck that will spare WWE the heat of…

Blacksmiths Made Kill la Kill’s Scissor Blade Out of Actual Scissors

Being able to 3D print anything you’d like is great and all, but it’s not exactly the most fun thing a modern blacksmith can do. So in an effort to be creative, the folks at AWE me decided that they wouldn’t just make Kill la Kill’s iconic blade. Instead, they hammered down a ton of…

Soon You Will Be Able To Take Selfies In World Of Warcraft

Maybe you love them. Maybe you loathe them. Maybe you’re taking one right now. Selfies are everywhere, because we are painfully vain creatures. And now, finally—after you begged, pleaded, groveled, and probably didn’t ask for it at all—they’re coming to World of Warcraft. People have begun discovering an item called the S.E.L.F.I.E. Camera on WoW‘s…