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Six Of Us Debate Whether Rockstar Should Bring Back Max Payne

As we so often do, a few members of the Kotaku team got to talking about Grand Theft Auto yesterday. This lead to a discussion about one of Rockstar’s other, smaller titles: Max Payne. Specifically: where should it go next, if it goes anywhere at all? Stephen Totilo: San Andreas is my favorite GTA. Yannick…

A Perfect Glimpse of How GTA Is Disturbing and Funny at the Same Time

It’s the kind of thing that, were it to happen in real life, would be appalling on multiple levels: dude talks shit while walking by, another person pulls out a weapon. But because it happens in GTA V, it becomes comedy. It helps that the timing in this quick, 9-second clip by YouTuber something i…

Watch Someone Beat One Of The Worst Games Ever Made In Three Minutes

There are bad games, and there are bad games. Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing is one of the truly awful ones. My former colleague at Giant Bomb, Alex Navarro, has a long and sordid history with Big Rigs. He reviewed it at GameSpot many years ago, and returned to the scene of the crime…

Just an hour ago, almost a million people were playing Minecraft, Mojang’s Nathan Adams said on Twitter: For a point of comparison, Steam says that the number of simultanous Dota 2 players peaked at 913,625. Step your game up, Dota!

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Pokémon One a Day Series Two: Cyndaquil • Heroes of the Storm Could Use Some More Heroes to Help Balance • My Top 5 Anime of 2014 (as told in gifs) • Fatalis’s Thoughts on Anime in 2014 (Also my Top 5 List) TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s…

Guy Saves His Drone From Drowning At The Last Second

Nice catch! Zweier Spanjer‘s first day testing out his DJI Phantom II drone took an unexpected turn when its batteries started to deplete and the $700 gadget started plummeting towards the nearest pond. It ended up getting rescued by its heroic owner. Hopefully he didn’t have a phone worth more than $700 in his pocket.…

You Can Buy Missed Garrison Followers in WoW‘s Next Content Patch

World of Warcraft devs are sharing more and more details on the MMO’s next big patch as its inevitable release is gets closer. Besides improved flight paths, one of the recent and most interesting changes announced for the update, shared by community manager Crithto, will be a Garrison NPC who’ll sell all the followers—buddies you…

Minecraft Village Would Make a Nice Vacation Spot

Hand-made Minecraft towns and cities are always a joy to look at. This one, called Blugough, was built by kenofox of Planet Minecraft in a “renaissance-ish” style over six days. Here’s a flythrough video: The included HD shots: And my obligatory in-game images. It’s quite pretty thanks to the included texture pack: Click here for…

Our UK sister site has released an immense list of 51 British-made games that will (or should) be coming out this year, from triple-A greats like Arkham Knight to indie titles like No Man’s Sky or I Am Bread. Check it out here

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Coding Conference Postponed Because One Direction Ruined Everything

DjangoCon is an annual convention for people who code in Django, which powers websites like Instagram and Pinterest (and can also be used in games development). Its European version was supposed to go down in June, but then a boy band happened, and everything went to shit. Soppy British teens One Direction, one of the…

A Snow Day in GTA V‘s Fake Los Angeles

The central city in Grand Theft Auto V is supposed to be, essentially, Los Angeles. In real-world LA, snow is pretty much a mythical phenomenon. But Rockstar made flakes fall from the sky in GTA V over the holidays and it looked downright peaceful. The timelapse video above is courtesy of YouTuber 8-Bit Bastard, who…

Wild Theory: Luke Skywalker Wasn’t Meant To Be A Jedi, He Was Bait

This is one of those things where you have to imagine events from the perspective of the character, and not the guy writing the movies. And when you do that, it’s not the dumbest twist on established Star Wars canon you’ve ever read. Yesterday, wondering the kind of things you’re prone to wonder about in…

Smash Bros. Amiibo Tournament Is One Hell Of An Emotional Rollercoaster

“I knew I should’ve trained him better,” a friend said somberly of her Luigi Amiibo after he got steamrolled by another friend’s Captain Falcon. “I knew he wasn’t ready.” Amiibos, tiny plastic statues of popular Nintendo characters that can interact with a handful of Nintendo games, are all the rage right now. They’re nice-looking, collectible,…

Bungie Is Fixing Destiny‘s Most Ridiculous Exploits

Sorry, Destiny players—starting next week, you won’t be able to use the LAN trick on Crota anymore. Bungie is finally fixing the Crota cheese—and implementing a bunch of other fixes and tweaks—in an update that they say will go live next week. In addition to the LAN fix, Bungie says they’re fixing many of the…

GTA In Portland Is A Terrible Idea

The Grand Theft Auto series has taken us to destination cities like London, New York, Miami, and Los Angeles. There has not, however, been a GTA game set in Portland, Oregon. That is probably for the best. Over at the blog of real estate company Movoto (via NeoGAF), writer Willie Clark has published an article…

Brave Human Trying To “Finish” Animal Crossing, Live

Awesome Games Done Quick have finished some difficult games over the last few days, but surely none are as tough as Animal Crossing, a game that doesn’t even have what you’d call an “end”. Still, Forstride is going to give it a shot. Deciding that you can complete what the game wants you to complete…

The Best Part Of This Marriage Proposal Is The Commentating

Smash Bros. pro Tantalus proposed to his girlfriend at a recent tournament put on by Xanadu. Staying true to the setting, the romantic scene unfolded with some extremely hype shoutcasting. As in: one guy screaming, “OH MY GOD HE’S GETTING MARRIED” so loudly you might’ve thought Olimar just won the entire competition. And since the…

DayZ Short Film Is, Surprise, Not A Feel-Good Movie

DayZ is a game about the zombie apocalypse, survival, and permadeath. It is also—thanks to players—about trolling, griefing, and the truest, douchiest darkness of the human heart. Bitter enemies become the best of friends… until it stops being convenient. I love the drama and cinematography on display here. Eternum Pictures really captured the look and…

The Funniest World Record At AGDQ Wasn’t On The Stream

There’s more to Awesome Games Done Quick than what’s on the Twitch stream. People are hanging out, playing games, and casually trying to break world records. You know, normal stuff! One record involved Track & Field 2000 for the Nintendo 64, hitting A and B over and over again, and hoping for the best. The…