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Tales From The Borderlands Could’ve Been Awful, But It’s Great

I’ll admit, I went into Tales from the Borderlands with pretty low expectations. Don’t get me wrong: I like a lot of things about the zany world in which Gearbox’s Borderlands shooter series takes place, but it’s good for… shooting. Tales is an all-story adventure game. Yikes, right? (Note: minor spoilers ahead. I don’t mention…

In Real Life, Super Mario’s Galaxy Would Explode

Shocking as this may be to hear, video games aren’t always realistic. But just how unrealistic are they? A group of physicists took a look at Super Mario Galaxy recently, and their findings show the true extent of the iconic plumber’s disregard for the laws of nature. The tongue-in-cheek study “It’s a-me, Density!,” published in…

Dancing With The Stars Mario Routine Is Actually Great

Last night on Dancing With The Stars, a talent show for adults, contestants Sadie and Mark put together this Mario freestyle routine that’s way more fun than you might expect from a TV show called Dancing With The Stars. Come for the Mario; stay for the samba. (h/t Caleb)

Two Weeks Later, Halo Multiplayer Is Still A Mess

Welcome to 2014, where it is apparently unreasonable to buy a video game and expect it to work properly. One of this month’s biggest culprits has been Halo: The Master Chief Collection, a compilation of Halo remakes that’s been infested with bugs since it came out two weeks ago, with the most prominent problems surrounding…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Share The Load: Memorable Supporting Characters • Far Cry 4 and Exploitation Cinema’s Influence on Games • Final Fantasy Road Trip: Final Fantasy 3 • How Destiny Sucked Me Back in TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

First-Person Walking Shows Just How Good Grand Theft Auto V Looks

With all the gunfights, heist prep and car chases in Grand Theft Auto V, it can be hard to appreciate just how lovely Los Santos is. So, one player decided to stroll through the sprawling West Coast gameworld, all peaceful-like. No punching, no stabbing, just moseying. What you’re seeing in Rapskilian‘s sped-up walkaround video—captured off…

Pokémon As Undead Monstrosities

The purple poisonous Weezing with its connected heads isn’t the nicest looking Pokémon out there, but JRCoffron’s and Stephen Oakley’s fan-piece makes it look like something from Doom or an 80s horror movie. Facing something so grotesque, poison would be the last thing to worry about. JRCoffron made an undead Pikachu too. Not sure I’d…

I Can’t Get Enough Video Game Banjo Music

Banjo Guy Ollie‘s quest to cover video game’s greatest music has only just now reached the “Still Alive” stage, but then his choice of instrument isn’t exactly cutting-edge. Don’t worry, he’s got a whole bunch of video game music under his banjo strap. I’m a huge fan of banjo music that goes beyond the “dueling”…

You Don’t Simply Jump Into This Giant Iron Man Suit

Artist Seungjin Woo‘s redesign of Iron Man is rather large and getting into it might require a bit more coordination than doing it with the regular one. You can see the scale of it by looking at the tiny Tony Stark sitting there comfortably. Here’s the full pic with extra cogwheels and gloomy buildings to…

Assassin’s Creed Unity has some very pretty concept art. This GIF was made from a series of three drawings depicting the Café Théâtre, posted by Ubisoft’s David Alvarez to thePolycount forum’s Unity art dump thread. Check it out to see some more of the textures, models and concepts people have created for the game Art…

Reuters reports that Sony’s planning to focus on maximizing profits from its image sensor business and, more importantly to us, the PlayStation 4. To cut costs, they will limit their TV and smartphone lineup, hoping to boost profits for their video game division by at least 25%, to as much as $13.6 billion.

Dark Souls II Is Coming To PS4 And Xbox One

So you want to check out the newest Dark Souls, but you’re just too lazy to unplug your new console? Namco Bandai’s got good news for you—the fiendish Dark Souls II is coming to PS4 and Xbox One in April. The newly announced compilation package, which is called Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First…

New Book Is A Sega Fan’s Dream Come True

No kidding around here. Sega Mega Drive/Genesis: Collected Works is one of the best video game books I have ever read. I’ve written about it before, mostly because it looked like a nice coffee table book about one of my favourite video game systems. But my copy arrived on the weekend, so yes, I can…

Idea: Stop Watching Movie Trailers

It’s been almost a year since I stopped watching trailers. And I couldn’t be happier. That’s worth considering if you’re losing your mind about an 88-second trailer for a Star Wars movie that won’t be out for another 12 months. The end for me came with, of all things, Captain America. Like pretty much every…

Fan Remake Shut Down. This Is Never A Good Idea.

Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines was a very interesting game that, for all its many problems (it’s kinda broken), has a core of very loyal fans. Because the original game is a mess, some of those fans wanted to remake the game and clean it up. And they would have got away with it too,…

Can You Find Far Cry 4’s Other Secret Ending? [UPDATE]

It’s only been out for a matter of days, but Far Cry 4 has already proven itself quite the treasure trove. Before it was released, an easter egg was discovered that was actually an alternate ending. Since then, one of its creators has continued to hint there’s another, even more secret ending gamers haven’t uncovered.…

Amiibo Nearly Wins Super Smash Bros Tournament

A Fox Amiibo—as in, a CPU-controlled version of a character housed in a tiny action figure—took third place in a Smash Bros tournament against real humans. It was a Fox Amiibo. Of course it was Fox. Twitch streamer dazee recounted the tale in a series of tweets (as spotted by NeoGAF). At a local Smash…

Someone Made A Documentary About GTA V’s…Ocean

Not only that, but the documentary is actually pretty damn good. I’m not sure how scientific this video by 8-BIT BASTARD, and it kind of doesn’t matter. It’s great to watch the marine wildlife just do its thing, and to listen to 8-BIT BASTARD come up with rationalizations for why everything acts the way it…

I Just Soloed A Friggin’ Dragon

See above. Knight-Enchanter is OP.

Five Minutes of Assassin’s Creed Unity At Its Most Ridiculous

Things get pretty hilarious when you stop trying to be a master assassin in Unity. The ever-amusing Criken2 shows us some highlights of his playthrough of Unity, where you will find tons of hijinks. I’m especially fond of when he decides to play the game as Shove The Adults Out of The Way Simulator. Who…