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Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Why Players Can’t Stop Playing Destiny • Hopefully Hatred Is a Better Game Than Its Trailer Promises • The Evil Within: What It Is And What It Could Have Been TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

The New 3DS Is the Portable Nintendo Should’ve Released Years Ago

I’m not saying the original 3DS is bad. I’m not saying that at all. What I’m saying is that the New Nintendo 3DS seems so good. It would’ve been nice to have this from the get go. But, wait, you say, what is this? What’s so damn new about it? The New Nintendo 3DS is…

A TIE Fighter and the Iron Giant, from artist-slash-game-dev Derek Laufman. These are part of the Inktober campaign, where artists create one ink drawing a day in October to improve their skills. Laufman’s already pretty good, as you can see. There’s more of his stuff below, and on his deviantART and Tumblr pages. Derek Laufman…

Amazing Unreal Engine Project Took Just 7 Weeks to Make

Unreal Engine 4 is capable of some great visuals, but it can’t just come up with them by itself. For that, you need some talented individuals—like this seven-student group from Montreal’s National Animation and Design Center. The students’ task was basically to design, model, and animate a chase scene in seven weeks. What they came…

That Sweet Destiny Stunt Came From The Moon

You’ll need to be a Hunter to pull this off, since the Bladedancer’s super is the only way to stay in the air this long, but here you go. People can jump the Hellmouth on the moon. If you haven’t played the game, that’s a big jump You can even do it without a Sparrow…

From now until 10am PDT Thursday, you can play Civilization V for free. If you’ve somehow never picked it up, now’s your chance.

Now This Would’ve Made For A Great Mario Movie

MARIO (V.O.) (sullen): “You ever feel like you were out of joint with the world, Doc? Like you didn’t fit?” Max Landis, son of famed director John Landis (The Blues Brothers, Michael Jackson’s Thriller video, Coming To America, many more) and writer of Chronicle has released a colossal 436-page hypothetical Mario movie script he wrote…

Indie Dev Threatens Gabe Newell, Has Game Removed From Steam

If you’re a developer selling a game on Steam, it’s probably not the best idea in the world to tweet a death threat to the guy who owns Steam. That’s what indie developer Mike Maulbeck did earlier today, though, and it’s now something he probably regrets. The day should have started off pretty well! Maulbeck’s…

Big Strategy Game Fails Kickstarter, Makes Giant Monsters Sad

Human Resources, a strategy game from the same team behind Planetary Annihilation, looked cool! There were giant robots and giant monsters. Despite this, and the studio’s previous success using the service, the game’s kickstarter has tanked. We normally don’t post about every Kickstarter that fails, but this one is a little more interesting. Uber Entertainment…

​The DualShock 4 Has Become A Pretty Great PC Controller

If you’re using a controller to play a PC game—I know, I know, shhh, it’s okay—chances are the on-screen prompts you see will match up with an Xbox controller. But you don’t have to use Microsoft’s controller with your PC; you’ve actually got a lot of options, including the PS4’s DualShock 4. I really like…

​We’re All Tired Of Gamergate

I know many people who don’t like Gamergate who are tired of it. They’re not alone. I was talking to a Gamergater last week who seemed tired: tired of all the Tweeting, tired of all the arguing. I watched a video of a Gamergater who seemed downright exhausted. And then another: he seemed tired, too.…

The Search For The First Video Game To Say ‘F***’

Video games drop the F-bomb a lot these days. Not so long ago one game used it 5,688 times. It wasn’t always that way, though. (OK, we’re in the story now, not on the front page. I can say fuck. Thank fucking goodness.) YouTuber DanDan went on a quest to find out exactly which video…

Legion Is The Nicki Minaj of Mass Effect

We already know Legion like to dance. It’s probably not a stretch to think he eventually branches out from just doing the robot, right? Here is Legion, dancing along to Anaconda thanks to Revolution72 Studios. Because butts, I guess? Here is Legion’s original dance: And here’s Anaconda, in case you wanted the full song: If…

Tiny People Tripping Over Each Other

My favorite videos on the internet are the ones that are difficult to explain. “Why am I watching this? What makes this good?” This video of tiny 3D people falling down is one of those special videos. VFX artist Dave Fothergillused a crowd-simulator for Maya called Miarmy to make a horde of running people, then…

The New Borderlands‘ Secret Raid Boss Killed In One Hit

Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel‘s mean, green barfing machine of a secret boss thinks it’s so tough. It can nearly one-shot players lower level than it is. One player, however, figured out how to one-shot it right back. The above video demonstrates how to take down Iwajira in a single hit, and it’s, well, pretty nuts. My…

Everything Goes Wrong When You Try To Kidnap Everyone In The Sims 4

It all started with a simple investigation: how many Sims can one fit in a grid in The Sims 4? Then, everything gets out of hand. In order to answer that question, PrettyGrumpyBearGame ends up kidnapping everyone in The Sims 4—that is, until the game stops spawning sims. Then PrettyGrumpyBearGame has to take matters into…

The fighting game community is uniting on Reddit to help out the family of gamer Terrance “PushaTee88” Moore, who passed away during a tournament in California last week. You can check out the thread here.

The Pokémon Battle That Shouldn’t Have Been Cut From Red And Blue

It’s easy to dismiss Professor Oak as a doofy academic who can’t even remember his grandson’s name. But originally, Pokémon Red & Blue designed Professor Oak as a powerful trainer the player could face off sometime near the end of the game. This battle, as some hardcore Pokémon fans know, was cut. But according to…

This Final Fantasy VI Wu-Tang Clan Mash-Up Is Weird And Wonderful

If you’re wondering what this image is, yes: it’s a silhouette of a chocobo with the iconic Wu-Tang “W” cut out. And yes, that can only mean one thing: someone finally mashed up key verses from the Wu-Tang Clan with songs from Final Fantasy VI. The end result is about as whacky as you’d expect.…

Candy Crush Saga Sequel Arrives To Refresh A Faltering Fanbase

After two and a half years of candy crushing, fans of King’s massive gem-matching hit could use a little break. Enter Candy Crush Soda Saga, releasedtoday on Facebook and coming soon to mobile. Here’s how my time with Candy Crush Saga normally goes. I’ll start up the application on my iPad, and try my hand…