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You Should Read This Fan-Made Five Nights at Freddy’s Comic

Surviving night shifts at Freddy Fazbear’s isn’t easy. And hey, maybe you don’t have to. There are other ways to experience Five Nights at Freddy’s, and they don’t involve video games or Lets Play’s at all. For the last couple of months, BrianXKaren has been uploading a Five Nights at Freddy’s comic that takes a…

The Best Video Game Music Of 2014

The video games of 2014 sounded really, really good. Better, perhaps, than in any past year…though I guess it always feels that way. This year’s nominees ran a wide gamut, from acoustic woodwind ensembles to screaming electric guitarmonies, techno jazz remixes to lounge electronica. 2014’s standout soundtracks highlighted how diverse video games can be, and…

20 of the Best Falcon Punches In Smash Bros.

Nailing a good Falcon Punch is probably one of the most satisfying things to do in Smash Bros. And while you don’t see them all the time in competitive play, the Falcon Punches that serious players land can be very bombastic. Here’s a compilation of a bunch of great Falcon Punches by GRsmash. You might…

6.7GB Assassin’s Creed Unity Patch Issued To Fix Framerate, Other Stuff [UPDATE: Unexpectedly 40GB on Xbox One]

Delayed just one day for most players, Patch 4 for Ubisoft’s premiere fall 2014 release, Assassin’s Creed Unity, is out today for Xbox One and PS4 (PC later this week). It’s massive. Ubisoft explained the need for a super-sized patch on the official Assassin’s Creed website: Part of the team’s effort to enhance frame rate…

My Crowdsourced Bioware Thinkpiece Went Terribly Wrong

Never crowdsource an article. Look, don’t do it. Is it a good idea? No.

Transformers Universe Is Closing, Six Months After Open Beta Launch

Jagex’s multiplayer arena combat game Transformers Universe launched in open beta on July 4 of this year. On January 31 it’s shutting down for good. That was fast. “Today Jagex and Hasbro can confirm that Transformers Universe will close. This decision comes at an important time for both companies as they both realign their plans…

The Binding Of Isaac Gets A Freaky Fake Movie Trailer

The brutally tough Binding of Isaac is a game that manages to be extremely disturbing, despite having a cartoony art style. Now, it’s gotten a very creepy tribute in a fake cinematic teaser that will almost certainly give some folks nightmares. Done by YouTuber bloodrunsclear, this trailer for a Binding of Isaac film that doesn’t…

What Was So Special About Mirror’s Edge (And So Wrong With Its Guns)

It’s no wonder that audiences have been clamoring for a Mirror’s Edge sequel since its release in 2008. DICE’s brief detour from their best-selling Battlefield series was a slick, inventive, and gorgeous video game. Unfortunately, it didn’t sell well—not surprising for a $60 game that was only about six hours long. Mirror’s Edge is a…

A Game Where You Can Punch a Priceless Piece of Art

If you’ve ever been in the presence of priceless art, you may have at one point or another considered punching it (don’t tell me it hasn’t crossed your mind.) Andrew Shannon felt that way when he put his fist through a Claude Monet painting a few years back, and now you can relive that moment…

Half Price Destiny, $40 of Play Credit with a Chromecast, More Deals

Destiny’s not a perfect game, but it’s pretty addictive, and Bungie has been updating it constantly . In fact, it’s one of Kotaku’s 12 bests for both the PS4 and Xbox One. If you still haven’t picked up your copy, Amazon has them for half price on both current gen consoles, today only. That’s better…

Mad Catz Is Making Tractor Controls For Farming Simulator

While it’s often the butt of jokes, Giants Software’s Farming Simulator series is serious business — so serious that peripheral maker Mad Catz is creating custom Saitek-branded farm equipment controls for the franchise’s most dedicated players. You can’t control a tractor with a racing wheel. You can, but the experience isn’t going to be anywhere…

New Pixels Movie Posters Are Works Of Arcade Art

Sony’s big screen adaptation of Patrick Jean’s outstanding games-versus-real-life animated short scored a trio of new posters today, evoking far greater majesty than a movie starring Adam Sandler has any right to. Sandler, Josh Gad and Peter Dinklage form the trio of old-school arcade champions that are the world’s only hope against invading aliens that…

Here’s What GTA Online‘s Heists Will Look Like

Good news: Rockstar’s showing a look at the online heists GTA V players have been waiting for. Bad news: there’s still no release date, with only a broad time period of early 2015 mentioned. IGN has a video trailer that previews some of the action that will be included in the multiplayer variants of GTA…

The first major DLC expansion for Shadow of Mordor comes out today, Warner Bros. just announced. It’s called Lord of the Hunt, and brings some gnarly new monsters into the mix. The DLC costs $9.99, and comes free with the $24.99 season pass. Watch the new trailer above; I’ll have more detailed impressions by tomorrow.

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Akame ga Kill!: The Ani-TAY Review • Ayakashibito: The TAY Review • Indie Delve: Tower of Guns with Joe Mirabello • A Look Back At [The Video Games of] 2014 • 2014 – A Year in Spending TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

Good Job, Cosplayers. The Hobbit Effects Creators Are Impressed.

Most cosplayers do their costume-making several degrees of separation away from the professional designers who create the big-budget looks they emulate. So they don’t get the chance to hear what the concept artists and visual effects maestros think of fan-made work. But, some of the folks who’ve worked on the Hobbit movies recently got to…

The Truth Behind Civilization V‘s Worker Units

In the Civilization games, when barbarians capture our exposed worker units and convert them to their faction, they always tend to run away when we try to recapture them, like they never wanted to be part of our empire in the first place. White Lightning HQ’s video has an explanation for this strange behaviour. They…

LEGO Pokémon Center Has All The Goodies A Trainer Needs

Builder Savath_Bunny shared superb-looking Pokémon center on LEGO Ideas and filled it with the main characters, Pokémon starters and all the gadgets you can find in the games. It’s a relatively compact and reasonable build, so I could totally see an official box set similar to this sitting on the shelves of stores (and the…

Steins;Gate is coming to North American and European PlayStation 3s and Vitas in 2015 via publisher PQube. Considered by many to be one of the finest visual novels ever made, the time-traveling science adventure came to North American PC earlier this year via JAST USA. Check out our full review of the PC release.

Ghosts ‘n Goblins sure looks grim as a current-gen game The shots are from a seven-week, eight-person student project where the goal was to “recreate the classic game with a next-gen look in Unreal Engine 4.” Well, they succeeded. The fruits of their labors, a two-minute video and five HD shots, are below. UE4 –…