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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…

Ten Years of WoW In Ten Comic Panels

A decade of not standing in fires. Dark Legacy Comics, who have been around for almost the same amount of time as WoW, and their latest comic strip are a summary of all the guild and community drama we’ve all witnessed over the years. And if you check below, the comic might suggest that early…

“Utopia” by Russia-based shtopor777 of DeviantArt, modeled in Source Filmmaker and enhanced in Photoshop. Quite powerful. You can find more of the artist’s work here Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest, funniest game-related screenshots and art we can find. Send us suggestions if you’ve got them. Questions?…

PlayStation Now Is Finally Getting Subscriptions

PlayStation Now, the exorbitantly expensive service that allows people to rent and play PS3 games on their PlayStation 4s, is finally taking steps to be… well, actually usable. Today Sony announced a new subscription plan for PlayStation Now that will cost far, far less than renting PS3 games piecemeal. The plan will launch on January…

Gaben Makes for a Glorious Dota 2 Shopkeeper

Dota 2’s New Bloom Festival will soon be underway, and the Dota team has invited players to participate by submitting items with a Chinese New Year theme to the Dota 2 workshop. That theme requirement obviously didn’t stop Down Limit, the man behind the Gaben shopkeeper skin, from putting his creation forward. There’s a video,…

Now Pokémon Can ‘Play’ Twitch

We’ve seen people over Twitch play Pokémon. Now see a game of Pokémon “play” Twitch. Earlier today, the TASbot team at Awesome Games Done Quick’s marathon was able to hack a copy of Pokemon Red, get access to the Super Game Boy that was playing it, then get into the Super Nintendo that Super Game…

Fake Nintendo ‘App’ Trailer Is A Nightmare From The Future

Imagine a future Nintendo. One that finally relents to shareholder pressure and starts releasing its games on mobile phones. This fake trailer tries to sell that future, and if you’re a Nintendo shareholder, it’s enough to get you weak at the knees. If you’re anyone else, though, reactions may be less pleasant. MarioLinkSamus made this…

Long-Lost Sega Commercial Is Almost TOO 90s

This 28-minute Sega CD commercial, masquerading as the pilot episode of a teen TV series, hasn’t been seen in decades. Almost as though it’s been waiting, beneath the dirt, for the world to finally be ready and able to process just how 90s it was. Dug up and uploaded by Chris Bieniek, every second of…

12 Months In Very Pretty Video Game Screenshots

Much like myself, K-putt has spent the last year taking screenshots of video games. While mine are of Crusader Kings II menu screens, though, his are of a whole range of games, and they are absolutely gorgeous You can see his entire collection here, but he also shared a “best of 2014” roundup. They’re not…

Cops Try (And Fail) To Interrupt GTA Cutscene

Look, LSPD, Michael and Trevor and just trying to have a deep & meaningful. They’ve got some issues to talk through. Can you save the bullets until they’ve hugged it out? You’ll want to skip to 1:20 if the video doesn’t automatically do it for you. Grand Theft Auto V Funny Glitched Scene [YouTube, via…

No Kotaku ‘Shop Contest this week. I’ll be out of town this coming weekend, so we’re going to give your collecting Photoshop skills a little rest to ease us into the new year.

Steam’s New FPS Counter Makes It Easier To Obsess Over Frame Rates

Before the latest Steam beta update, players concerned with how many frames being displayed per second would have to rely on game-native counters or third-party programs. No longer do we need such affectations to see tiny numbers in the top left corner of our screens. In order to use this handy new Steam feature, one…

No One Does Push-Ups Like Gaston

Hoping to prove his manliness against Disney World’s most manly man, a park visitor challenged live-action Gaston to a push-up contest — and got wrecked. The actor that portrays Beauty and the Beast’s antagonist at Disney World once again proves he’s perfect for the role. Despite being taken down a peg or two by a…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: The 2014 Year-End All-Star Extravaganza: Winners!

Three-hundred and sixty-five days of Photoshopped pain, all at once, all for you. Tasked with combining up to five (or more) of 2014’s most popular ‘Shop Contest subjects into one majestic gestalt, the final image manipulation battle of last year yielded spectacular results. So spectacular that I slept on my decision rather than deliver it…

I Present To You: ‘Kongs Of Fire’

I have no idea how I missed this until now, but damn if this isn’t the best meme-worthy Mario Kart 8 video since the Ridin’ Dirty version of the Luigi Death Stare: Also don’t read the comments on the Kongs of Fire video. They’re absolutely fucking horrible. via Reddit

Kung Lao Appears In Mortal Kombat X As An Old Man With A Hat

With Mortal Kombat X‘s story spanning some 25 years after the events of Mortal Kombat 9, it’s no wonder former Shaolin monk Kung Lao is looking a bit long in the tooth. It beats being dead. Not that he was dead at the end of the last game or anything. Well, not that being dead…

A Custom Transformer Worthy Of Wielding The Matrix Of Leadership

Ever since Hot Rod metamorphosed into Rodimus Prime in the 1986 animated Transformers movie, fans have been envisioning what other prominent Autobots would look like wielding the Matrix of Leadership. Arise, Bumblebee Prime. Despite what the upcoming Robots in Disguise animated series might say, humble Volkswagon (or Corvette some freaking Chevrolet for you movie fans)…

One Of My Favorite Mobile Games Is Now One Of My Favorite Steam Games

Since late 2013, Robert Topala’s Geometry Dash has been the first gaming app I load on any new iDevice I come across. Now the devilish rhythm platformer will be the first game I load on new gaming PCs as well. I can’t believe I’ve only mentioned the game on Kotaku once, back during the times…

Not All Pokemon Are Happy About Evolving

You’d think a species of creatures whose primary focus is gladiatorial combat would be uniformly pleased about assuming a new, more capable form — even if that form involves an additional head or a piece of silverware. The fine folks at Dorklytake a look at some of Pokemon‘s more unfortunate transformations. Some transform pleasant creatures…