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The Best Surprises of 2014

2014 was a weird year for video games. Lotta ups, lotta downs, lotta what-have-yous. But while the year had its share of bummers and disappointments, it was not without some lovely surprises, too. Last week, we chronicled the biggest disappointments of 2014. Today, like we do every year, we’re offsetting that post’s bitter sadness with…

Mike Colter, the guy who’s been playing the newest Halo character has just been cast as super-strong hero Luke Cage in Marvel/Netflix’s upcoming interlocking Defenders miniseries, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Seven Things You Might Not Know About the Nintendo 64

You’ve seen the famous Christmas video. You know how important Super Mario 64 is to the design history of video games. But there are a few other nuggets of information about the Nintendo 64 that you may not know. Let’s learn, shall we? In the latest stop-motion retrospective from VSauce3, the beloved Nintendo console in…

Fans Spent Six Years Making This Mega Man Game

Mega Man fans aren’t just hardcore. They’re dedicated. Case in point: this awesome fan game that two people have been working on since 2008. It’s called Mega Man: Revenge of the Fallen—and no, that’s not a Transformers reference. It’s a reference to the game’s story: Robot Masters have been revived by Dr. Wily, and they’re…

What Pros Have To Think About In Every Smash Bros. Match

Super Smash Bros. is the quintessential Nintendo game: it’s incredibly fun, and easy for inexperienced players to enjoy thanks to its chaotic mixture of cartoon items and characters. But once you get a handle on how the high-level game works, things become far more interesting. It just takes some time to get there. If you’re…

Building A One-Of-A-Kind BioShock Aquarium

Why there isn’t an official line of Rapture-inspired fish tanks already is beyond me. Until 2K gets their act together, Super Fan Builds’ custom BioShock aquarium shall have to do. No Gods or Kings… only Fish. Super Fan Builds is a YouTube on Break’s Awe me channel that specializes in making fanboy and fangirl dreams…

Pokémon’s Ridiculous Timeline, Explained In A Single Image

Thanks to shenanigans involving alternate dimensions in Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, Pokémon’s timeline has officially become bonkers. But, there is a way to make sense of it. Basically, there are three different Pokémon dimensions, all of which house their own Pokémon games. In one dimension, you’ve got all the original Game Boy games,…

One Lousy Chrono Trigger Song Coming To Theatrhythm Final Fantasy

This weekend Square Enix announced downloadable songs from non-Final Fantasy games coming to the latest iteration of FF‘s rhythm game. That’s four songs from Bravely Default, three from the SaGa series and one each from Secret of Mana and Chrono Trigger. That’s not right. I love the music in Bravely Default and the SaGa series,…

G602 and More Logitech Peripherals, Amazon Digital Games, More Deals

We’ve got another assortment of Logitech discounts for you today, including the excellent G602 The G35 was a Best Gaming Headset nominee Logitech – G602 Wireless Gaming Mouse ($45) | eBay Logitech G430 Over-the-Ear Gaming Headset ($40) | Best Buy Logitech – G230 Over-the-Ear Gaming Headset ($40) | eBay Logitech – G35 Surround Sound Gaming…

13 Things You Might Not Know About The Last Of Us

The Last of Us hasn’t been around for that long, but that doesn’t mean we can’t infect our live brains with some trivia about it. Thankfully, the keepers of bizarre factoids at “Did You Know Gaming?” are here to do just that. The popular trivia-themed video series recently set its sights on Naughty Dog’s excellent…

All Of This Weekend’s Big Final Fantasy XIV and XV News

Between Tokyo’s Final Fantasy XIV Fan Festival and the Jump Festa 2015 in Chiba, Japan, fans of the latest two numbered FF games were up to their eyeballs in new info this weekend, from a new playable race in FFXIV to the first female Cid in FFXV. Here’s a quick refresher to bring you up…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Star-Lord in Speed Painting Form! 2014 Finale! • Project Hydra – Corpse Party: Tortured Souls Episode 4 • Five things I didn’t like about Dragon Age Inquisition • TAY’s Top 10 Games of 2014 TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

Fan-Made Marvel vs. DC Movie Fight Will Only Happen in Your Dreams

Some people have hated the times when the world’s biggest superhero companies have crossed over with each other. Me? I’ve always loved DC vs. Marvel events. It’s a shame nothing like, say, Superman vs. Spider-Man will almost certainly ever happen on movie or TV screens. Superhero movies cost too much for anything like a movie…

It Only Took $7,000 To Build This LEGO Halo Spaceship

The iconic “Pillar of Autumn” from Halo, now in LEGO form. And it’s damn huge—not exactly minifigure-scale, needing more than one person to move it. According to its builder, Lee Jones, it took 3.5 years to complete it and it weighs a massive 220 pounds (100 kg). It’s around 7 feet (2.15 meters) in length…

Earthworm Jim, You’ve Changed

Everyone’s favorite video game worm—and his buddy Snott—might look realistic in concept artist Soren Zaragoza‘s pieces, but the madness in his eyes remained the same. Would love to see these in motion. Earthworm Jim by Soren Zaragoza [ArtStation] To contact the author of this post, write to: [email protected]

Then And Now: Five Generations Of GeForce Graphics Compared

It may not seem like it, but we’ve been gaming on DirectX 11 graphics hardware for half a decade. The AMD Radeon HD 5870 arrived in September 2009, while Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 480 shipped six months later — a trivial delay considering there were so few DX11 games available at the time. The first game…

Gotta love me some meta pixel art. Redditor jiraph52 “made a giant Hotbar” in Minecraft. Not much else to say, is there? You can find more closeups in the embedded Imgur album below. I made a giant Hotbar. [r/minecraft] Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest, funniest game-related…

Homebuilt Submarine Ready for Dive

For the past two years, 62-year-old Zhang Junlin has been tinkering away at an old warehouse, building a submarine with his friends. Now, fast forward into 2014, Zhang and his crew are about to take their puppy on its inaugural dive. ChinaNews brings us this series of photos of Zhang’s submarine, named Shenlong Number 3.…

Here’s Another Wonderful Map to Play Minecraft on

So, how about36 more square kilometers of hand-crafted fun? Yes, this is another map from Darastlix, the creator of Meiva, but the landscape we’re dealing with here is more natural than magical. This is because one of Darastlix’s inspirations for the map was a real-life location, namely the delta of the Siberian river Lena. The…

Kotaku UK’s Favourite Games of 2014

Kotaku UK’s three main contributors share five favourite games each from 2014. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK Leon Hurley, News Editor It seems a bit strange, writing a games of the year list when I feel like I’m still working through some very worthy potential choices. I’ve only clocked a few hours of…