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Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: In Defense Of Derivative Games • My Backlog — Banjo-Kazooie • Grisaia no Kajitsu: The Anime You SHOULD NOT Be Watching • TAY Explores Comics: Kurozakuro TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

The upcoming PS4/Xbox One/PC version of Grand Theft Auto V will come with new cars, new guns, and a “Murder Mystery” mode that sounds a lot like that one noir game that was set in L.A. Rockstar’s got more details here

Ten Video Game Vehicles With A Cartoony Redesign

I could totally watch a special episode of Wacky Races with artist Ido Yehimovitz‘s re-imagined video game cars leading the way. Trevor with his pickup could easily replace Dick Dastardly, but not even he could stop Axel’s taxi from Crazy Taxi. I guess the titular tank from the Metal Slug series is already cartoony in…

Maingear’s PC Gaming Cube Has Changed

My first professionally-built gaming PC was a Maingear X-Cube, a charming little black box filled with joy and wonder. It looks almost nothing like the younger, sleeker models Maingear’s just announced. They’ve come from the future. My X-Cube has no glowing window, unless you counted the flickering of the motherboard network port light through the…

The legendary Pokémon Rayquaza is about to crash into a group of flying-types. DeviantART artist Arvalis made a really good job on this. Those tiny animated parts make this version of the serpentine beast totally badass. Rayquaza by Arvalis [DeviantART] Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest, funniest…

Real-Life Football Stadium Looks Glorious in CryEngine

The Emirates Stadium in Holloway, London was opened eight years ago. It’s England’s third largest stadium and home to the Arsenal Football Club. And now, it’s also the subject of an awesome CryEngine map. The man behind the project is a Turkish environment artist by the name of Gökhan Karadayi, who’s currently working with TaleWorlds…

Japan Is Good at Halloween

Impressive. Most impressive. When I first arrived in Japan many, many moons ago, Halloween wasn’t really a thing here. But in the last few years, it’s gotten bigger and bigger. This year might be the biggest Halloween yet! That is, until next year. Then, we can have this conversation again. Sure, while Japan still hasn’t…

PS4’s New Share Play Feature Actually Works

Having seen PS4’s newShare Play in action, the response from a room of journalists was firstly “it actually works,” closely followed by “how are people going to abuse this?” This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK The idea behind Share Play, the most prominent feature of Sony’s soon to arrive and feature-packed Firmware 2.0, is…

Being Scottish With An Xbox One Is A Daily Struggle

But only if you want to use Kinect. Hello, my name is Mark Serrels and I’m overwhelmingly Scottish. People are sometimes taken aback by just how Scottish I am when they first meet me. The blank vacant stares of people trying to understand what the hell I’m saying: I recognise this look. I know it…

Indie RPG Is An Apocalyptic Sausage Fest

Lisa takes place in a bizarre, unpleasant world without women. There are grotesquely elongated spider men, writhing flesh pile people, and giant intestine walls, though. So that’s something. Luke wrote about the game, subtitled “The Painful RPG,” back when it was on Kickstarter a year ago. Since then it’s made quite a bit of progress,…

You like Earthbound? The cool people at Fangamer are running a Kickstarter for a bunch of stuff including an Earthbound handbook, an album and a documentary. Back it here

Official Civilization LEGO Doesn’t Include Nukes (Or Pottery)

It’s not a smug Gandhi, or a Great Library, but this new project on LEGO’s Ideas platform is nevertheless an official piece of Civilization LEGO. It just needs some votes to help turn it into a real thing you can buy. Unlike most other submissions to Ideas, which come from fans, this actually comes from…

The End Of The World Doesn’t Always Have To Be Brown

Submerged is an exploration adventure from ex-BioShock devs that takes place in the technology-spattered ruins of a place that’s seen better (and less water-logged) days. If you ask me, though, it looks almost… pleasant? Don’t know about you, but I’d hang out there. I love it when a single shot/gif of a game can make…

Valkyria Chronicles Is Coming To PC!

The original Valkyria Chronicles, a gorgeousstrategy/RPG for the PS3, is getting a late (but very welcome) port to the PC. Sega just confirmed it via Twitter, with more info to come. If you never played it, know that for all its flaws (it got tough), this was a strategy game with a ton of personality…

Fallout 3’s First Level Does Everything Right

I’ve been thinking about the apocalypse a lot lately. It’s partly because of the intense drought in California. But mostly, it’s been because of Fallout fans. For the last few months, there has been one thought keeping many Fallout fans afloat: maybe, just maybe, Bethesda will announce Fallout 4 on October 23rd—otherwise known as the…

New Minecraft LEGO Kinda Misses The Point Of LEGO

While there have always been jokes about Minecraft LEGO – the toys have done much of what the game does for decades without its help, thanks – this new set takes things to a whole new level of “wha huh?”. It’s called a Minecraft Crafting Box. It’s a box full of LEGO pieces. The box…

No More Getting Half-Naked On Stream, Twitch Says

No shirt, no shoes, no service. Uber-popular game streaming service Twitch has made a slight yet impactful change to its rules of conduct. Where once it merely put a big, fluffy blanket over all naughty bits—banning “sexually explicit acts or content,” which included “nudity, stripping, or performing/discussing sexual acts”—it’s now seen fit to prohibit sexually…

​Playing a Fake Arcade Game Will Make a Weird Game Weirder

When first signs of life appeared for The Black Glove, it quickly became clear that the former BioShock devs working on the first-person game wanted it to be a bit bizarre. So, their homage to old-school arcade games won’t just be a fun, nostalgic mini-game. Those creatures are going to break through into the funky…

​A Surreal RPG That’s Too Spooky For Me

With Halloween just days away, now is a great time to get in the mood with some spooky video games. So here’s a free action RPG that harkens back to the spookiest gaming machine — The ZX Spectrum. The Midnight Station is such a strange amalgamation of ideas. In it you play as a sentient…

Which Of Fantasy Life‘s Roles Did You Play First?

Level-5’s lovely little life-simulator/role-playing game, Fantasy Life, begins with players choosing one of 12 different lives to serve as their entry point into this colorful little world. Which was your first? Do you begin with a traditional RPG job, asJason Schreierdid with his Wizard, or do you start off with something more mundane? Patricia Hernandez…