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Sorry Sailor Pluto, Science Says You’re Fired

And by science I of course mean Mr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, who’s never looked quite as animated as he does in the latest from Animation Domination High-Def. When last we left our intrepid Sailor Scouts, Pluto was still a planet. Now it’s just a dwarf planet in the Kepler Belt, and not even the biggest…

Sources: BioWare’s Shadow Realms In Flux, Possibly Rebooted

Shadow Realms, last year’s surprise announcement from BioWare Austin, is going through big changes and may have been totally rebooted, sources tell Kotaku That Austin branch of BioWare, best known for developing the MMORPG Star Wars: The Old Republic, originally unveiled Shadow Realms as an online 4 vs. 1 action-role-playing game that would be released…

Majora’s Mask Limited Edition, Discounted Consoles, and More Deals

Planning on getting Majora’s Mask for 3DS? You can spend $10 more to score a limited edition bundle with a Skull Kid Figurine. High sellout potential. [Preorder Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask Limited Edition, $50] Update: Sold out already. You can sign up to be notified if they make any more available though. Whether you’re…

Delayed Assassin’s Creed Unity DLC Out Mid-January

Dead Kings, the formerly for-pay expansion to Assassin’s Creed Unity, will be released for free for all ACU players on January 13, according to a new trailer from publisher Ubisoft. But… the YouTube description initially mentioned a December 16. Hmm. Was December 16 the original release date? Ubisoft did seem to put the brakes on…

Far Cry 4 on Xbox One suddenly disappeared from the Xbox Marketplace yesterday, which prevented some players from booting up a game they owned. Ubisoft acknowledged the issue, and it appears to be resolved now. If you’re still having issues, let us know in the comments.

Mad Catz Reveals $300 Transforming Alien Mobile Gaming Thing

Mad Catz’ engineers have gone insane. I can’t blame them. I’d go insane too if everything I designed was labeled with some bizarre acronym, like the R.A.T. mice, F.R.E.Q.TE gaming headset or this, the L.Y.N.X.9 Mobile Hybrid Controller. The Lynx (without dots and caps to preserve my sanity) is an Android and PC gaming controller…

League Of Legends Rewarding People Who Played Nice For All Of 2014

In its ongoing war against toxic online behavior, League of Legends creator Riot Games has come up with a clever way to put a positive spin on multiplayer interactions: by rewarding players who made it through 2014 with a clean record. Writing in a blog post published late last night and later reported by Polygon,…

If you’re a fan of The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask, you’re okay in my book. If you’re one of those people, check out Nintendo’s $49.99 bundle for the 3DS remake—it comes with a Skull Kid figure. I don’t usually buy this stuff, but I’ll make an exception. Majora’s Mask 3D hits this “spring.”

One Of The Scariest Moments In Gaming Is A Matter Of Design

Jump scare me with zombie dogs, taunt me with shrieks and gurgles or shock me with grotesque imagery all you want — I’m not truly tense until the telltale signs of a virtual ass-whupping start showing up. Dorkly‘s latest comic captures the moment some gamers live for and other gamers dread — the moment when…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: TAY Manga Digest: December (Frosty Edition) • PyramidHeadcrab’s Game of the Year Awards 2014! • Tokyo Magnitude 8.0: The Ani-TAY Review • Ani-TAY Review: Amagi Brilliant Park • Pre-Cult: Ace Combat: Assault Horizon TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

Someone Remade MGS V: Ground Zeroes‘ Military Base In Far Cry 4

The rocky starting area, the guards patrolling around the fence, the towers and the tents, so basically almost the entire map of Ground Zeroes now has a Far Cry 4 version, thanks to modder Robert Cram And that means everything is now in first person view, and in this version, if the alarm is raised,…

Warlords of Draenor‘s Raid Bosses Summarized In 60 Seconds

No need to dig through those complex guides anymore. FatbossTV‘s one-minute summary of the 7 bosses and their tactics inside Warlords of Draenor‘s first raid, Highmaul, is all you need to drop into the group chat before the fights. I wish it was that easy. Probably not a good idea to share this when you’re…

Razer’s Forge TV Aims To Bring PC Gaming Into The Living Room

Today at CES 2015 in Las Vegas, PC hardware maker Razer revealed their entry in the small black Android box that connects to your television market.What makes it different from the other small black boxes? This one streams games from any gaming PC. The box is the Razer Forge TV, slated for release within the…

From concept art to 3D map. The project, created by level designer/environment artist Matthias Schmidt, is called “Scifi Reactor Room” and it’s based on a piece of concept art by Seneca Menard, an artist who’s worked on the Quake and Doom series. Check below for the hi-res shots. Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs…

Animal Crossing Characters, Humanized in Sims 4

The Sims 4 community have already remade countless things in their current favorite game, and the partial cast of Animal Crossing is just one of the latest. The collection comes courtesy of redditor riabable, who created the sims without the help of any custom content. Much of the clothing is different as a result, but…

A Handy Refresher on the Recent History of Black Mesa

Last week’s emergency broadcast is just one of the many things that happened to Half-Life fan remake Black Mesa since its late 2012 release. If you’re one of those people who don’t follow the project religiously, Valve News Network’s video can help bring you up to speed. The seven-minute clip deals with everything that’s happened…

Dude Smashes The Mario Bros. World Record

Tom Votava’s score of 4,678,440, a Mario Bros. world record that has stood since 2009, has been smashed by Florida man Steven Kleisath, who earlier today set a new high score of 5,424,920. Having been playing the game since the mid-80s, Kleisath’s score was set on an original coin-op machine. “I feel amazing,” he told…

Bee & Puppycat’s Creator, Drawing Nintendo Stuff

About the only thing better than Bee & Puppycat is when Bee & Puppycat’s creator Natasha Allegri starts drawing Nintendo sketches Peach is lovely, but it’s those Toads that steal the show. So cute. Gonna pinch some cheeks, give ’em a big cuddle. (via Tiny Cartridge)

The Guns That Never Made It Into Halo

You’ve never used these guns or played these levels in any Halo game, and odds are, you never will. The latest Did You Know Gaming video delves into darkest, strangest portions of Halo‘s history, the most interesting of which center around cut content from the master and chief of alien-blasting’s earliest iterations. The original Halo…

LEGO Rube Goldberg Machine Should Be Something I Can Buy, Damn It

Christian Bechinie’s LEGO Rube Goldberg machine uses dominoes, tiny basketballs and some slides to do that same “everything but nothing” thing that all Rube Goldberg machines seem to manage. I get a little disappointed in the headline that this isn’t something I can buy, but that might change: the project is up on LEGO’s Ideas…