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Two Interesting Things We Learned From The Xbox One Software Leak

Internal developer documentation for the Xbox One appears to have leaked on the Internet—and after scanning through the files, it appears that there are some interesting things we can learn from it. News of the Xbox One leak began to circulate online shortly before the new year, after the forum Se7ensins started a thread saying…

Awesome Strategy Game Becomes RPG, Gets Even More Awesome

When it was first announced, I was worried that Crusader Kings II’s Way of Life DLC would be bad news for my spare time and even worse news for my sleep levels. I was right to worry. CKII is a game that, for all its aloofness, was absorbing enough already. From the outstandingcore game to…

Fallout Rap Is, Somehow, Pretty Great

You’ll never look at Fallout 3‘s Wazer Wifle the same way again. I say that largely because you’ll immediately get this song’s insidiously catchy chorus stuck in your head, pinging off your cranial walls like so many wazer— er, laser blasts. It loops perfectly, infinitely, like a GIF turned into a song. At this rate,…

What GTA V Gets Right (And Wrong) About The Real World

Grand Theft Auto V is a game caught between two distinct impulses: it wants to be real but needs to be fake, too. In his newest Errant Signal video, Chris Franklin takes a look at how Los Santos is constructed both as a place meant to closely mimic reality and as a virtual space meant…

A Paper Mario Fan Remake Five Years In The Making

We live in the age of remakes, some more necessary than others. Even Nintendo’s gotten in on the action with games like Zelda: Wind Waker Wii U. But in the background of all that, a fan’s been rebuilding the original Paper Mario for almost half a decade. The New Paper Mario project aims to replace…

Some Xbox One Users Can’t Play Far Cry 4, Even Though They Paid For It

If you digitally purchased Far Cry 4 for Xbox One, you might have trouble playing the game right now. As first reported by Videogamer.com, some players are having difficulty launching the game, due to a bizarre issue where the game currently isn’t listed on the Xbox Marketplace. Others players are still able to launch Far…

Building LEGO Minecraft Is Much More Fun At Minifig-Scale

The first LEGO Minecraft sets were micro-scale cubes comprised of hundreds of tiny tiles that were a pain to piece together. The new minifig-scale sets come together much faster. Want to see? Some people think LEGO Minecraft misses the point of both LEGO and Minecraft, and in the case of the oddLEGO Minecraft Crafting BoxI…

‘We Do Apologize’: Life At Sony Customer Service During The PSN Attack

A few days ago, I got an e-mail from someone who said he was a customer service agent for PlayStation. He asked me—and, really, all of Kotaku‘s readers—to cut Sony a little slack in the wake of a DDoS attack that took the PlayStation Network down for several days. Have some sympathy for the people…

Far Cry Could Be Going In Some Crazy Directions

Far Cry could be going in some strange directions, judging by a survey its creator recently sent out that Eurogamer got its hands on. According to their report, longtime Far Cry developer Ubisoft sent out a questionnaire to Far Cry 4 players, part of which asked what other settings and premises they might be interested…

Even though Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 was released in November, we have a teaser for Five Nights at Freddy’s 3. The developer, Scott Games, just posted a super creepy image, suggesting the mechanical creatures are lurking. I’m ready for another jump scare, despite these games tarnishing my memories of Chuck E. Cheese.

Guys Make Devil May Cry Sword In Real Life

Look, it’s great that the folks at Man at Arms got around to making Dante’s fearsome sword from the old-school Devil May Cry games. But if you’re not putting on a trenchcoat when you’re swinging Rebellion around, you’re doing Son of Sparda all wrong. Sartorial missteps aside, the Rebellion sword crafted in the latest Man…

New Theory About Destiny‘s Universe: Time Is A Circle

Just playing Destiny as the shooting-grind it can often amount to won’t tip you off to some of its cooler details. You might never guess the connections to the Dark Souls series or the impacts of some of its other lore. But TerraMantis is back with more things about Bungie’s latest game that you might…

On The Spot Pianist Takes On Final Fantasy, Chrono Cross And Skyrim

Last month master pianist/composer Sonya Belousova charmed us with on the spot arrangements of classic Nintendo themes, many of which she had only just heard for the first time. I was hesitant to post her follow-up, but then I heard her version of “The Scars of Time” from Chrono Cross. I’m currently in the middle…

I Wish Dragon Age: Inquisition Respected My Time

Conventional wisdom suggests the longer it takes to finish a game, the better—especially RPGs. We even have websites, such as How Long to Beat, tasked with cataloging the length of games. The clock on my just-finished Dragon Age: Inquisition save reads 64 hours and four minutes. How come, then, after so many hours with Inquisition,…

Double Humble Bundle, $10 off Telltale Games, and More Deals

Get a double dose of Humble this week, the first in partnership with Awesome Games Done Quick 2015. Awesome Games Done Quick 2015 Bundle Humble Weekly Eye Candy 2 Bundle Today on eBay (via Best Buy), the PlayStation Vita Borderlands bundle is not only in stock; it has a $30 discount. No brainer if you’ve…

How I Talked About Video Games Over The Holidays

This year, I left my hometown of New York City to go west to Los Angeles for the holidays. I took my PS4 with me to a friend’s house—in the hopes of making a dent in my personal backlog—but wound up barely touching it in the 10 days I was away. But I did something…

Scarlett Johansson will star in an upcoming live-action Ghost in the Shell movie, Variety reports. It’s still not officially greenlit, but with Johansson’s involvement and some pushing from Steven Spielberg, it could be on the fast track now.

A One Of A Kind Toy Tribute To No Man’s Sky

Hello Games’ ambitious space shooterhas inspired many with its gorgeous visual and promise of endless procedurally-generated planets. Accomplished thing-makerToykyo Joechanneled that inspiration into one heck of a custom No Man’s Sky ship. Fitted with LED light effects and lovingly painted to resemble a ship that’s seen some serious shit in its days wandering the universe,…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Sword Art Online II Mother’s Rosario/Excaliber: the Ani-TAY Review • PHC’s Top 5 Gaming Complaints of 2014 • Your 3DS Year in Review: 2014 Edition • Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works S1 Ani-TAY Review/Discussion • Your Top __ Anime of 2014 Lists TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide…

Dota Heroes Illustrated In Disney Style

Artist Igor Artyomenko reimagined Crystal Maiden, Traxex the Drow Ranger, Windrunner and Lina the Slayer from Dota 2 and they now actually look like characters with personality. Especially love Windrunner and that piece’s color palette. Here they are. I love that these characters, compared to others in similar pieces, have more than 2 or 3…