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World Shark? World Shark. It was built by Planet Minecraft’s Zeckou, who calls it a live coral reef, which explains the little floating fish and jellyfish. It’s also deceptively big. Check below for the hi-res version of the three pics and the obligatory in-game shots, and click here for the world download As I said,…

A Limited Edition PS4 Just Went for $128,000

A super special PlayStation 4. A good cause. An internet auction. You better believe this 20th Anniversary PlayStation 4 just went for well over a hundred grand. Sony held a charity auction online in Japan for the first serialized anniversary console (it’s number one out of 12,300). The auction recently came to a close, drawing…

Sounds Like Destiny‘s Next DLC Will Be Way Less Cruel

When Destiny‘s first expansion pack came out last month, hardcore players were stunned. Not only did it ask them to upgrade their old exotic gear through a messy, convoluted process, it also rendered much of the loot they had acquired from the game’s first raid, Vault of Glass, totally useless. Suddenly you could buy better…

The Homeworld remastered collection will be out for PC on February 25, Gearbox just announced. Teaser trailer right here.

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Make Your Own Damn Zelda New 3DS XL: Winners! 

Undaunted by the seeming shortage of Majora’s Mask limited edition New Nintendo 3DS XL consoles hitting North America on February 13, our Photoshop-savvy readers made their own, resulting in possibly the largest number of entries in ‘Shop Contest history, all of them gorgeous. When I say they are all gorgeous, I mean it. Nearly every…

Geforce GTX 960 Review: Sweet Spot’ GPU or Not?

Introduced last September, Nvidia’s Maxwell-based GeForce GTX 970 and GTX 980 delivered twice the performance per watt of their Kepler equivalents on top of bringing support for Microsoft’s upcoming DirectX 12 API as well as other new features such as Nvidia Voxel Global Illumination (VXGI), Multi-Frame sampled AA (MFAA), and Dynamic Super Resolution (DSR). Despite…

24 Karat Gold PS4 And Xbox One Controllers Are Dumb, Almost Sold Out

Earlier this week the folks at ColorWare (“The Color People” is probably not their slogan) released an extremely limited run of 24 karat gold-plated PlayStation 4 and Xbox One controllers. At $300 a piece the PS4 controllers are already sold out. Granted only 25 of each console’s controller were made, but that just makes the…

Brian Fargo Revives Another Interplay Classic With The Bard’s Tale IV

Now that Wasteland 2 is out and the spiritual successor to Planescape: Torment is nearly complete, Brian Fargo’s inXile is preparing to Kickstart the sequel to another classic Interplay RPG with The Bard’s Tale IV, a sequel 27 years in the making. Released in 1985 (happy 30th anniversary), Tales of the Unknown: The Bard’s Tale…

ArenaNet Reveals Heart Of Thorns, The First Expansion For Guild Wars 2

The news Guild Wars 2 players have been eagerly awaiting for ages is finally here. ArenaNet has announced Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns, and expansion pack that takes players deep into the heart of the Maguum Jungle armed with mastery abilities and a brand new profession — the Revenant. In Heart of Thorns, Guild…

First-Person Yoshi’s Island Gets A Little Too Personal

If the idea of Mario’s ride ingesting Shy Guys and spitting them out as eggs in Yoshi’s Island made you uneasy, this 3D first-person recreation of the game’s first level will not help at all. Bestvegeta has taken the opening level of one of Nintendo’s best platformers and made it weird. It’s one thing to…

Batman Beats Superman in Footage of Cancelled Justice League Game

Long before the release of Injustice: Gods Among Us, there was supposed to be another fighting game that featured the members of DC Comics’ premier superhero team kicking each other’s butts. It got cancelled and footage was never seen. Until now. Images of the brawler—which would’ve been a last-gen title linked to a scuttled Justice…

The Saturday Stream Plays Citizens Of Earth (All Done)

Today we take a short dive into Eden Industries comical role-playing game Citizens of Earth, in which we play the Vice President of the entire planet. No pressure. Well, except for the pressure of forgetting to install the game you’ve been looking forward to playing all week long. Luckily the Steam version of the game…

1/19/2015: A Terrible Realization

Poor Luigi. I mean… What would you do if you saw doodles of yourself placed in seemingly random places? I’d be pretty freaked out, too, as Completely Serious Comics shows here. You can browse our best stuff from this week over on Kotaku Selects as usual. To contact the author of this post, write to…

Best Buy Mistake Screws Some People Out Of Majora’s Mask 3DSes

Best Buy cancelled a number of pre-orders for the limited edition Majora’s Mask 3DS tonight, informing customers via e-mail that the demand had “exceeded the quantities made available” to the retailer. The 3DS, which has been in hot demand since Nintendo announced it last week, went up for sale on Best Buy’s website last Wednesday…

The Top 50 Smash Bros. Plays of Last Year

The Smash Bros. community has seen a lot of hype in the last year, culminating in a lot of excellent plays. Now that 2014 is over, let’s look back at some of the best moments in competitive Smash Bros. plays. EvenMatchupGaming has been counting down the best plays of 2014 this entire week, and their…

Sometimes, All Your World Of Warcraft Opponents Are Bots

If you’ve played World of Warcraft for any long span of time, you’ve likely encountered a bot, a player character controlled by a third-party program. Maybe it was mindlessly thwacking the loot out of some small woodland creature, or maybe it was just staring at a wall. Whatever happened, it probably wasn’t this bad. In…

Destiny’s Best Rocket Launcher Doesn’t Need Advertising

Destiny players sure love the Gjallarhorn—and it’s created a hilarious culture around the weapon. Mr. Fruit Gaming Channel pretends to be a Gjallarhorn salesman here, and in doing so, jabs at all the silly things surrounding the Gjallarhorn, and the people that use it, including: How everyone wants the rocket launcher And yet, people don’t…

10 Cool Things We’ve Learned About The Pokémon Fighting Game Today

Much footage of Pokkén dropped last night, all of it featuring intense battles between monsters that Pokémon fans know and love. While we shared a trailer earlier today, it only scratches the surface of all the cool new things hidden inside of Pokken Let’s take a closer look, shall we? Trainers are still in the…

Popular YouTuber Denounces Steam, Plans To Curate Own Store

Despite practically being PC gaming, Steam is by no means perfect—as we’ve discussed on numerous occasions. But is the whole enterprise busted, not so much a sinking ship as it is a ship that’s sinking a lot of great games? Popular YouTuber NerdCubed thinks so, and that’s why he’s abandoning Steam altogether. Daniel “NerdCubed” Hardcastle…

Nekopara Vol. 1, As Told By Steam Reviews

When a game features catgirls, it’s probably not surprising to hear that people are reacting to it in funny ways. Especially since, in this case, the catgirl game is of the ‘sexy’ variety. While we talked about how Nekopara Vol. 1 is censored on Steam earlier this week, we didn’t really talk about what the…