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People Really Want The Smaller New 3DS

Last year in Japan, Nintendo released two new models of the New 3DS. Next month in Europe, Nintendo will release two new models of the New 3DS. And on February 13 in North America, Nintendo will release… one model of the New 3DS. Yep, instead of getting to choose between two different versions of Nintendo’s…

World’s Best Jigglypuff Player Makes Opponent Give Up in Smash Tourney

Don’t be fooled by Jigglypuff’s cutesy exterior. In the right hands, the pink Pokémon can be an absolute monster. Smash Bros. veterans know about Jigglypuff’s moveset, including a move called “Rest.” Basically, it’s a special move that makes Jigglypuff fall asleep—which makes it very risky if the player whiffs. Balancing this is the fact that,…

New League of Legends Mode Lets You Be A Jerk, Goes Predictably Awry

Like any popular competitive multiplayer game, League of Legends has its go-to characters and its…less well-loved ones. To shake its champion selection up, the game recently started testing a new gameplay mode that has people choose the opposing team’s lineup, rather than their own. What could possibly go wrong? The new mode, known as “The…

Preorder Savings on GTA V for PC, Dragon Age Inquisition, More Deals

A killer preorder deal in first or third-person. Grand Theft Auto V PC + San Andreas + $1.3M in-game currency for $46 with code SAVE23-PEROFF-MOSANT. [GTAV (PC), $46] Dragon Age: Inquisition is back down to $45 today, time to ignore all other things going on in your life. [Inquisition, $45] The DualShock 4 and Xbox…

Advanced Warfare Cracks Down On Players Killing Themselves On Purpose

In a fireside chat over the weekend, Sledgehammer Games’ studio head Michael Condrey discussed ongoing matchmaking optimization for Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare and cracking down on players who spend entire matches sitting in a corner killing themselves. It may be hard to get into a match with players you can actually kill — Condrey…

The Visual Evolution of Spawn

Todd McFarlane’s demonic anti-hero comic Spawn is reaching its anniversary #250 issue this month and Image is not only celebrating it with a triple-sized release, but with some cool small things like this illustrated chart, that shows all of Spawn’s costumes. With Spawn issue #250 coming up at the end of the month…. I thought…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Simple Fun: How do you Enjoy Playing Games? • The Ani-TAY Interview: Ani-Kei Strikes • Yours and My Romance Counseling – Quick Review • Top Ten Most Popular Ani-TAY “Top” Lists • Don’t Watch Fafner in the Azure: Exodus Unless You Saw The First Show TAY Classic—TAY…

Meet The New Man In Charge Of Final Fantasy

The director of Final Fantasy XV is reading your comments, Kotaku. Hope you’ve got good ones. Hajime Tabata, the newly-elevated Square Enix superstar who is helming the next two major Final Fantasy games—Type-0 HD (this March) and XV (eventually)—told me on Friday that sometimes, when he has spare moments, he goes through Kotaku comments and…

Then And Now: Five Generations Of Radeon Graphics Compared

Last month we compared half a decade’s worth of DirectX 11-capable GeForce cards in the latest and greatest PC games to see where Nvidia has made the biggest performance leaps and which GPUs have aged the best. We had never compared so many GPU generations under the same conditions and the results were fascinating. So…

The Surprising Results of Selective Pokémon Breeding

Is that… a “Chargizard”? Concentrating on recessive genes and breeding Pokémon the Dorkly way might not get you to the end of the game, but it definitely has other advantages. This special method, you can see it below, works well with starter Pokémon, but what about the ones that are a bit weirder. Koffing? Diglett?…

Sid Meier’s Starships Takes You Even Deeper into Space

There’s going to be even more sci-fi-styled Civilization action coming this spring, with a new strategy game coming from legendary game designer Sid Meier picking up where Civilization: Beyond Earth left off. Announced today at Gamespot, Sid Meier’s Starships will have players sending their own fleets of spacecraft out into the cosmos in an effort…

Watch a Guy Build Bender in Minecraft

In 24 hours, no less—although the video clocks in at just 4 minutes. Thank goodness for timelapse. Made by Planet Minecraft member propank, this 250-block-high Minecraft recreation of Futurama’s Bender took 50635 blocks and 24 real-world hours to build. propank shows off the entire process in a timelapse video: The world download can be found…

The Four-Decade History of Open World Games

Those Assassin’s Creeds and Far Crys and Grand Theft Autos had to come from somewhere In his video, YouTuber XboxAhoy takes a look at how games like the original Zelda, 1984’s Elite, or the legendary Ultima series contributed to open world and sandbox games as we know them today. There’s bits about some truly obscure…

Sweet summer-themed (it’s summer down here) wallpaper from Nintendo Australia.

Half-Life Reimagined As An Isometric Game

And just like that, Half-Life looks like a mid-90s RPG, or CD-ROM action title Using the HalfMapperprogram, which is able to render Half-Life’s Black Mesa in its entirety, gzaloprgmhas posted a gallery that changes the way we look at Valve’s iconic game. No joke, can someone turn this into an RPG, please? Gordon can just…

The People Who Only Play One Video Game

Video games are changing. Increasingly, we’re seeing a subset of players focus their attention on one single video game instead of many. League of Legends, World of Tanks. Games that change. Games that are constantly evolving. Games that shift and transform according to the needs of their user base. Today we look at this new…

Conan Game Crushes Kickstarter, Sees Your Money Driven Before You

Monolith wanted $80,000 for a Conan The Barbarian board game. They’re on track to get over $1 million With 23 days left to go on a Kickstarter campaign, which wants to bring the writings of Robert E. Howard to a co-op/adversarial board game setting, the project has already raised over $700,000. The game, simply called…

Sick Kid Put In Video Game, Will Dunk All Over You

Matt Simon, a teenage basketball fan, is currently battling a “debilitating disease”. Not that you’d know this, since he also just hit the free agent pool in NBA2K15, meaning anyone with the game can now have him go face-to-face with (or put him in the same lineup as) LeBron James. As Bleacher Reports…reports, the game’s…

No, Arcade Games Are Not Dead

Arcades (and arcade games themselves) may not be as relevant as they used to be, but just because you don’t see them around as much these days doesn’t mean there aren’t new – and cool – arcade games being developed and released. And I don’t mean just fighting games and whatever Big Bucks are left…

A Very Sweet Story About Life, Loss And World Of Warcraft

A Blizzard employee contacted us over the weekend to share the story of one of those radstatues that are going out to ten-year veterans of World of Warcraft. And how not all of them are necessarily going out to the living. Mortisana writeson the game’s official boards that back when the game first launched in…