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Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: A Beginner’s Guide to Goose house • Giant Monster Diaries: Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate Demo Impressions • Three Outlaw Samurai [Film Review] • Why The End of Club Nintendo Means A Unified ID System • Pokémon One a Day Series Two: Hoothoot, Noctowl TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s…

Katamari Damacy‘s Chaotic Lore Summed Up In Under One Minute

Zeurel and Octopimp’s short animation—which is just as good as the original cutscenes—about the first Katamari game’s silly plot is enough proof to be sure: it’s impossible not to love Katamari Damacy Sadly it doesn’t explain how it’s possible to rip through the fabric of the universe by serving a tennis ball too hard in…

Insane WoW Player Reaches Max Level With 100 Characters

If you’ve played Warlords of Draenor, you might already have a maxed out level 100 character, or even two. Or you might have a few alts gaining levels slowly. But definitely not 100. Well, one player called Watola didn’t stop with one, and actually leveled up 100 characters on two accounts in almost 1200 days.…

Alice In Wonderland-Based Minecraft Build is Kinda Magnificent

It also doesn’t have a world download, which is criminal. Instead, it has a rather well-put-together video. The map was built by PlanetMinecrafter RubicCubeMan. If you look at his submissions page, none of his builds have a download attached, except for that one unicorn, which is a darn shame seeing how good this guy’s building…

Minecraft Creator To Valve: Out With It Already!

He’s just saying what we’ve all been thinking for, I dunno, the past ten years?!?!?!

The Order: 1886 is Probably Way More Violent Than You Thought

This new trailer for The Order: 1886 shows some unexpectedly gib-tastic gunplay: exploding heads, arms blown off, a leg stripped away at the knee by a shotgun. There’s a lot of ouch. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK I played the most recent build of it at the end of last year, and while…

Classy Steam Redesign Is Better Than The Real Thing

Steam is looking better these days than it has for most of its lifespan, but it’s still got far too much clunk in its trunk. The interface is unwieldy, its backend clearly designed years ago with generations of progress awkwardly grafted on. It needs a real makeover, not just a blue one. This fan was…

​Destiny Player Thinks He’s Figured Out Where The Tower Really Is

If you’re not out shooting things in Destiny, chances are you’re in the Tower, jumping from potted plant to potted plant while you wait for your team to get ready. We know that the Tower is located in “the last city” on Earth, but where is that, exactly? One clever Destiny player seems to have…

Turns Out Old Folks Don’t Hate GTA V, They Dig It

When I saw that the React folks had done an “Elders Play Grand Theft Auto V” video, I expect looks of abject horror. I certainly didn’t expect “Cops? Who gives a shit about the cops?!” In a way I am envious of these elderly ladies and gentlemen. They’re getting their hands on a Grand Theft…

Why Death Note and Attack on Titan Are So Popular 

Death Note and Attack on Titan’s successes as manga are only part of why they’ve gone on to become well-received mainstream anime adaptations. The other secret to their success? Tetsuro Araki, their director. Digibro eloquently argues what it is about Araki’s style that sets anime like Death Note and Attack on Titan apart. For one…

Video Game Tattoo Goes Horribly, Horribly Wrong

When this dude asked for a God of War tattoo, starring the series’ muscle-bound hero Kratos, he was probably hoping for an effect that looked something like this Instead, he got this Better luck next time, champ.

Last Year’s Halo Is Such A Mess, They’re Beta-Testing The Next Patch

Of all the broken video games that we were stuck with in 2014, none were as broken as Halo’s Master Chief Collection, which even now, months after release, isstill broken. But it’s OK! You can now sign up for a beta. For an update that may or may not fix it. Yes, that’s right. 343…

You Need Quantum Physics To Explain Pokémon‘s Timeline

We already know that, thanks to alternate dimensions, the official Pokémon timeline has become ridiculous. If you break it down using science, things only get even more bonkers. The Game Theorists pull out quantum mechanics to explain the nitty gritty of how Pokémon‘s lore explains all the different versions of Pokémon that exist in the…

Please Stop Saying Video Games Are ‘Too Long’

One big thing that makes video games unique in the cornucopia of pop culture is the time investment they demand of their audience. This had lead to an age-old debate about whether games are “too long,” one that Kill Screen founder Jamin Warren recently tackled in his latest PBS Game/Show episode. Arguments about the merits…

One Way To Solo The First Part Of Crota’s End Hard Mode In Destiny

Now that Destiny‘s Crota’s End raid has a hard mode, the race is on to find creative ways to exploit and solo the raid’s various sections. This afternoon, I actually figured out a decent way to solo your way through the first phase. It’s mostly the same method as in normal mode, but with a…

One Reason Nintendo Has Such A Hard Time With New Ideas

Over the past few decades, we’ve come to learn two important things about Nintendo. One is that they make brilliant video games. The other is that they make absolutely baffling decisions. Whether it’s the lack of a unified account system or their persistent Virtual Console stubbornness, Nintendo’s choices are frequently questioned by even its most…

Uncharted Knockoff Is Busted In Hilarious Ways

Unearthed: Trail of Ibn Battuta is not Uncharted. But boy does it try. Try is the key word here. While the game has been out for a while, videogamedunkey took the time to play through the Uncharted clone, and the results are rather silly. Everything from the cover system, to the physics and the way…

One Image Shows Just How Talented The Simpsons’ Voice Actors Are

Over one hundred characters in The Simpsons are voiced by twelve very talented people—and here’s a breakdown of who does what. Click on the top left magnifying glass to enlarge. The image, which comes from @Jishai, might not be a surprise for hardcore Simpsons fans, but it’s still fun to see everything laid out like…

Smash Bros. Makes Mario Kart’s Most Notorious Items A Lot More Fun

As fanfiction, Super Smash Bros. takes bits and pieces from many different Nintendo games and weaves them together into a uniquely chaotic patchwork. It remains faithful to its source material, but only to a point. Some of the most interesting stuff the newest Smash repurposed came from Mario Kart, of all places. Mario Kart’s presence…

Kotaku Editor-In-Chief Here. Any Questions? [Q&A’s Done!]

It’s been a long time since I did one of these on-site Q&As, but let’s get one of these in for 2015, shall we? I’ll be answering questions here for the next 90 minutes or so. Fire away.