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Smash Bros. Players Rally In Defense Of Diddy Kong

Diddy Kong has become the most divisive character in the new Super Smash Bros. ever since competitive players picked up on the primate’s formidable fighting strength. His reign as the fighter to beat sparked a newly heated debate this week when one pro Smasher blamed the game’s community for the whole Diddy upset. The argument…

Skyrim Disguises Let You Walk Around Doing Whatever

Here’s a cool thing: a new mod for Skyrim lets you wear armour and outfits as a full-blown disguise, allowing you to swap sides and trick NPCs across the game world. The mod is called Master of Disguise, and lets you “Suit up as a Dark Brotherhood assassin, a Madman of the Reach, or even…

Smash Bros. Players Turned The Falcon Punch Into A Great Mini Game

The rules of “Falcon Potato” are simple. You get two Mario players, and one Captain Falcon player. You turn up the launch rate, and you go timers-only. Once in the match, you slow down time, start a Falcon Punch, and try your best to cape the punch, back and forth, until someone gets hit. Creative…

Majora’s Mask 3DS Changes The Game’s Hardest Boss Fight

I love The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask, but I’ll admit the game’s not perfect. Nintendo knows this, too. It’s why the 3DS version is getting more than new visuals. Gyorg, who lords over the water-themed third dungeon, used to be a tough but boring boss fight. That’s changed. Defeating Gyorg required little more than…

What People Google About Sex, According To The Numbers

People type their deepest, darkest secrets and fears into Google, all in search for answers. Sex, while a taboo subject, is no different. The New York Timestook a look at the data behind Google searches, and what they’ve found is mighty interesting. What do people pair the most with the word “marriage,” for example? Sexless…

​Five Nights at Freddy’s 3 Looks Freakin’ Terrifying

Another teaser for Five Nights at Freddy’s 3 has landed, and this one gives us a look at what the game will look like in motion—and the animatronics you’ll be screaming at once more. Looks like this one will be focusing on Golden Freddy. And now to await the million things that fans will pick…

The Latest Game Tearing Up Steam’s Charts Looks So Typical

If the last couple of years didn’t make it clear, Steam players sure love their survival games. DayZ. Rust. The Forest. Starbound. theHunter: Primal. These are just a few of the many, many survival games that have exploded, however briefly, on Steam. The latest survival (early access) game to follow that trend is called Stranded…

Vault of Glass vs. Crota’s End: The Destiny Comparison We Had To Make

If you’re still playing Destiny these days, if you’re in deep enough to obsess over tiny details and require advanced tips, you’re probably no stranger to the game’s two raids. Destiny‘s first raid, The Vault of Glass, was the best thing about the game back when it first came out. It was a mysterious, challenging…

How To Protect Your Information From The Internet

Do you know how much of your personal information is floating around? It’s more than you think and very easy to find. Phone numbers, home addresses, email accounts. As my recent story about gamers who got swatted showed, anybody can become a target. You don’t have to be someone with a million followers. Social networks…

Former Doctor Who to Play One of Marvel’s Creepiest Villains

Of all the many bad guys in the Marvel Universe, the one that’s always disturbed me the most has been Zebediah Kilgrave, otherwise known as the Purple Man. The guy’s superpower is make people do whatever he says. Gross, no? And now he’s going to be played by David Tennant, one of the most affable…

The Biggest First-Person Shooter Battle Ever Had Over A Thousand Players

1,158 players. 5,089 vehicles destroyed. 53,729 kills. Big numbers, is what I’m saying. Over the weekend, community site PlanetSide Battles managed to rally 1,158 players to smash the Guinness world record for single largest online first-person shooter battle. Their game of choice was, of course, PlanetSide 2, SOE’s MMOFPS about angry people in purple pajamas…

Dying Light, Wii U Bundle, Final Fantasies, and More Deals

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If Doctor Doom Was a Character in Destiny…

He’d look a lot like this cosplay. Pretty much exactly this. “Doom has no need of your exotics. Doom is his own exotic.” One of 2015’s first big fan conventions happened this past weekend, bringing some great costume-crafting with it. Ever wonder what the Fantastic Four’s greatest enemy would look like if he favored kick-ass…

Latest GTA IV Mod Reminds Us That PC Games Always Look Best

The PC version of GTA V might be just around the horizon, but PC gamers are still happily modding GTA IV to make it look incredible. Here’s the latest update to the well-known iCEnhancer GTA mods, which, while not finished, still makes the 2008 game look like it was actually released in 2015. Kind of…

Destiny Players Embarrass Opponents With Gimmick Matches

Watch as a team of Destiny players win matches despite having handicaps. This match, for example? It’s melee only. No shooting. The team still wins. By a lot. It’s amazing to watch this set of Destiny players bob and weave around the enemy team, especially as the other team tries to frantically shoot down the…

Resident Evil Modders Have Removed The Game’s Doors

If there’s a new Resident Evil, there will eventually be a mod to remove (or mitigate) the series’ iconic door animations. The latest update to the original game has now joined the club, thanks to a modder named Sectus, allowing people to move from room-to-room a few seconds faster. One of the most popular Resident…

It Takes Nine Minutes To Break Down The Amazing Super Mario Timeline

There are a lot of Mario games out there. Though most of these games aren’t particularly story heavy, some people have still set out to try to place these games in chronological order in an effort to make a single Mario timeline. Here’s the latest crack. If you include every single Mario game you can…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Why the HoloLens is a greater thing than you might think • A New Sub-genre of Music Is Growing in Japan • Under the Dog Loses Producers • A Visual Novel Fan’s Opinion on Eroge • Spacemon – A Pokémon Tabletop Story, Vol. 2: Chapter 1, Chapter…

I Played The Witcher 3 And I Still Have Some Doubts

“Eh, it was a video game,” I flippantly told a friend shortly after I got back from a recent Witcher 3: Wild Hunt preview event in San Francisco. “I don’t know. It was alright, I guess.” I’d had a nice enough time tracking down supernatural beasties (and regular, non-supernatural arsonists) and snarling my way through…

The Beginning Of A Beautiful Live-Action Naruto Battle

Fighting filmmakers Epic Rivals teases its upcoming live-action Naruto short film, with the most perfect Tenten and Neji ever prepare to test their might. I love a good live-action fighting short, and Epic Rivals, creators of last year’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles-as-humans videohave certainly established their pedigree. It’s also great to see Tenten and Neji…