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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…

Man Opens Extremely Rare Counter-Strike: Go Weapon, Goes Insane

The lovely gaming couple responsible for TecAssault were enjoying a quiet evening opening weapon cases in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. Then they opened one of the rarest items possible, and the husband completely loses his shit. While CS:GO weapon cases are earned through normal play, the keys to unlock them must be purchased, so every time…

Prank Transforms Living Room Into Gigantic Ball Pit

I am not generally a fan of being pranked, but I fully endorse anyone who wants to fill my home with colorful plastic balls while I’m out running errands. YouTuberRoman Atwood has pulled some pretty horrible pranks on his poor wife in the past, including my personal least favorite, pretending he accidentally threw their toddler…

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

So you might not get the Majora’s Mask New 3DS XL. It’sreally no big deal. Besides, you could make a better one. All you’d need is Photoshop or something. Hey, I have an idea! The internet is swimming with artwork from The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask. This post is swimming with PNG images of…

After This Smash Bros. Rap Nothing Will Ever Be Okay Again

Smosh‘s lewd and crude Smash Bros. rap has generated more than two million views since Friday’s debut, with countless Villager-induced nightmares to come. I’m never getting this out of my psyche. While the chorus is catchy as hell (We used to be tight like brothers / By the end you want to murder each other),…

Red And Black New 3DS XL Preorders Still Available Everywhere

“Holy shit.” That’s what I said when I first saw the limited edition Majora’s Mask New 3DS XL during the Nintendo Direct earlier this week — when I first felt that overwhelming need that fueled apost about limited availability that’s so far racked up over 1.5 million page views. I had the money. I had…

First 4 Figures is launching a The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker statue line this year, and they’re starting big. Here’sa teaser for the first piece in the series. Look for more pics of Toon Ganondorf when he goes up for preorder later this week.

A Fan Is Rebuilding Jak II In CryEngine, And It Looks Amazing

With Naughty Dog occupied withUncharted 4 and folks clamoring for more The Last Of Us, Deviant Artist Floordan has taken it upon himself to please 3D platforming fans with his own HD remake of Jak II. Recently released on YouTube (via Reddit), the preview of Floordan’s recreation of Jak II‘s Pumping Station level demonstrates a…

The Saturday Stream Attempts To Play Smite (All Done)

Having spent last weekend at the Smite World Championships here in Atlanta, I am now a certified expert in all things related to Hi-Rez Studios’ third-person action MOBA, with the possible exception of playing it. There’s something about attending a live event that makes a person brave. During the quieter moments of the competition I…

Don’t play video games for three days straight or you could die. That’s what happened to a 32-year-old Taiwanese man, found slumped in his chair dead following a three day gaming bender at an internet cafe in Kaohsiung city, as reported by Yahoo News. This is the second such death in Taiwan this year, and…

Razer Atrox Arcade Stick For Xbox One: The Kotaku Review

When Razer first announced their Atrox Arcade Stick for the Xbox One I gave it a hard time, mainly because the Xbox One only had one fighting game at the moment. Then I found something to do while I wait for more. As far as the Xbox One is concerned, I consider the purchase of…

Parks And Recreation‘s Absurd Board Game Could Become A $500 Reality

Created by Ben Wyatt in a season six episode of Parks and Recreation, the Cones of Dunshire has come to represent everything wonderful and horrible about overly-complicated fantasy board games. Now Mayfair Games is Kickstarting a full version — but it’s not cheap. Having dabbled in tabletop role-playing game design in my youth (there’s a…

1/12/2014: When You See It…

Just an adorable, sleepy puppy? Golden Idol seems to see something else in this Diamond Dog. Let’s flip that image and zoom in: Do you see it yet? How about now: Alright, back to the normal weekend routine where you can browse our best stuff over at Kotaku Selects To contact the author of this…

A Dark Theory About The Origin Of Minecraft‘s World

Have you ever stared up into Minecraft‘s night sky? I mean, like, really taken a good, hard look into the frigid cosmos? You might notice that something’s amiss. It’s kinda empty, and the moon is always opposite the sun, and… this world doesn’t work like ours, does it? Here’s a shockingly bleak theory on why…

Wanna know how long it’d take to beat every game in your Steam library? There’s a calculator app for that. Just go there and either sign in or, if your profile is public, enter your Steam ID. I’m looking at 2842 continuous hours, or 118 days, 10 hours, and 12 minutes. How about you? The…

Worth Reading: Nerdy NFL Players, Race, And Much More

Kotaku publishes lots of stories, but we are not, as it turns out, the entire Internet. It’s easy to miss some of the wonderful criticism, commentary, and observations about games and games culture that’s put online every week. No more! Every Friday afternoon, I’ll be your guide. It feels good to be back. This was…

All the Ways The New Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Movie Made No Sense

Last year’s TMNT movie had so many problems with it. Like hundreds of them, according to Cinema Sins. Many of them involve Skype. Loads of people went to see the Michael Bay-produced reboot of the TMNT film franchise last year. Judging by the sheer amount of stuff that does not compute in Cinema Sins’ 22-minute…

Sony Offers Refunds To Fans Angry About Zombie Game Microtransactions

SOE’s DayZ-ish zombie MMO, H1Z1, just launched on Steam Early Access. That means it is, on no uncertain terms, unfinished. However, even fans with that knowledge were surprised to discover a microtransaction airdrop that affects gameplay. They felt like they’d been misled. The real money microtransaction, an airdrop players can buy and call in, has…

Street Fighter Mod Lets You Kick Ass As Commander Shepard

Who knew that Mass Effect would work so well as a fighting game? Here’s a mod highlighted by PC Best Mods that shows Femshep duking it out with Tali, because video games are amazing and weird. The Shepard has the moveset available to Street Fighter’s Poison, and Tali is technically Cammy, but still! You can…

Pro Smash Players Figured Out How To Reduce Character Lag

I got a message from a Smash Bros. player recently that made a bold promise: he’d figured out how to reduce every character’s lag time in the game. That’s a tall order, so I was skeptical. But then other players started to think he might be on to something. And that’s when things got really…