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How Many People Play Destiny Every Day?

This weekend Bungie dropped some interesting data that suggests that Destiny is more popular than its mixed reception would suggest. While we’re still waiting on official Destiny sales figures from Activision, it seems that on average 3.2 million people are playing every day. The average player has also logged in 20 times in the month…

South Park Pinball Seems Like Just The Right Amount Of South Park

Zen Studios upgrades its various pinball platforms this week with a tables based on the animated Christmas card that refused to die: South Park: Super-Sweet Pinball and Butters’ Very Own Pinball Game. Awww, Butters. The recent turn-based role-playing game was a bit too much South Park for me to digest in one sitting. A pair…

The Thousand Sunny From One Piece In Shiny LEGO Form

Thanks to veteran builder Alex “Orion Pax” Jones, the famous One Piece pirate ship the Thousand Sunny now has an accurate LEGO version. The best part of it is probably that giant custom sail piece and the golden lion head in front. The crew might be missing, but you can see a tiny Luffy minifigure…

Now RuneScape Is Getting A Collectible Card Game Spin-Off

Coming in 2015 to PC, Mac, iOS and Android, Chronicle: RuneScape Legends is a collectible card game based on a long-running massively multiplayer role-playing game. Crazy, right? The Hearthstone vibe is strong, sure, but the game’s concept sounds quite different than Blizzard’s highly successful dueling card game. Chronicles will be a quest-building game, where players…

Pokémon trainers have a long journey ahead, a post-apocalyptic or at least really dark one, according to kevinbolk‘s superb gloomy drawing on DeviantART. Here’s the full pic of the trainer and his master balls: Pokemon: The Trainer With No Name by kevinbolk [DeviantART] Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of…

The Truth About Bosses In Elevators

Flamy507’s short video about bosses that are only reachable via a giant elevator is so true it hurts. No matter how easy the boss seems, if there’s an elevator, it’s almost certain that it’ll kill everyone. He uses World of Warcraft (remember Serpentshire Cavern?) as an example, but it’s probably the same with every game…

Final Fantasy VI With a Full Orchestra is Damn Majestic

You can now listen to a recording of Final Fantasy VI’s music made by the The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. It’s stirring stuff. The recording was made in June but has only just found its way online. It’s a new orchestration of music from the game arranged as ‘symphonic poem’ called Born with the Gift…

Variety reports that a Resident Evil television series is in the works. It’s apparently slated after upcoming feature film Resident Evil: The Final Chapter is released.

​This Is What Star Citizen‘s Planets Will Look Like

Lots of people who are eagerly anticipating Star Citizen are already messing about inside the currently playable slices of the hotly anticipated next game from the creator of Wing Commander. But other people are not. If you’re one of the latter, then take a look at the game in action. Star Citizen creator Chris Roberts…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Sexy Video Game Halloween Returns

It’s that time of year again, when the specialty shops are packed with “sexy” Halloween costumes aimed at titillating the gaming set. There’s sexy plumbers, sexy elves and sexy assassins all over the place, but they’re generally crap. Let’s show them how it’s done. Yes, we’re revisiting a theme created by my esteemed predecessor. Two…

16 Things You Might Not Know About Killer Instinct

Did you know Donkey Kong Country was instrumental in the development of Rare fighting game Killer Instinct, or that female fighter Orchid was once simply called “Wanda”? You do now, and there’s more where that came from. It’s kind of uncanny, really. I was just flipping through my Xbox One games and decided to screw…

Destiny And Phantasy Star Online Have An Awful Lot In Common

While I wouldn’t go as far as calling Destiny and Phantasy Star Online the same game, this lovely chart from Redditor KytorIndustriesmakes a compelling argument that they pretty much are. Fans of Sega’s Phantasy Star Online series have been making the comparison since Destiny was initially announced, amused that the cool new game everyone was…

Mega Man Gets The Best Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate Tie-Ins

It doesn’t get much better than a cat in a Mega Man costume. Not only does the Blue Bomberget the best action figures, he’s one of the most adorable reasons to pick up Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate for the 3DS when it hits North America next year. It’s not just a cat creature in a…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Fine, We’ll Do Final Fantasy XV: Winners!

And with the results in fromlast week’s ‘Shop Contest, I officially declare the Final Fantasy XV car guys meme over. Let’s see if it went out with a whimper or a bang. It should have been over sooner, but Square Enix went and extended it by releasing high quality transparent PNG files so folks could…

PlayStation’s First TV Show Is Promising Really F****d-Up Superheroes

Ok, Sony, you’ve got my attention. If you’ve read Powers—the psychologically tense police proecedural set in a special unit that deals with superhero-related crimes—then you know that it’s a series where sex, drugs and ultraviolence get tangled up in some really perverted ways. It’s only a teaser but the new trailer for the TV adaptation…

​The New Nintendo 3DS Seems Quicker

When Nintendo announced the New Nintendo 3DS, it said the portable was more powerful than the original. After loading a few games and booting up the machine, the NN3DS certainly does seem faster. In the above video, you can see me and my older son doing a quick speed test. This is hardly scientific! But,…

Live from New York City’s lovely Nintendo World store, it’s the first Super Smash Bros. 3DS National Open Tournament. The tourney runs from 6 to 9 PM Eastern time, so we’re only 40 minutes late telling you about it. Watch extra hard to catch up!

LEGO Bionicle Triumphantly Returns In January

About damn time. After five years of sighing and shaking my head at the Hero Factory line that replaced it, LEGO’s Bionicle line of “Constraction” constructable action figures returns on January 1, with a new story and new cast of colorfully masked heroes. Launched in 2000 in Europe and 2001 in North America, Bionicle was…

Another Woman In Gaming Flees Home Following Death Threats

Game developer Brianna Wu fled her home last night, following what is becoming a distressingly frequent case of women in the gaming scene expressing fears for their safety due to online harassment. Wu, a developer in Boston who recently released the well-received Revolution 60 mobile game, said on Twitter last night that she and her…

Conan O’Brien? The Green Loontern? LEGO Batman 3 Keeps Getting Better

There’s only a month left before LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham hits store shelves, and developer Traveller’s Tales still has surprises up its sleeves. Today talk show host Conan O’Brien, Duck Dodgers as the Green Loontern and more crazy characters were added to the game’s already impressive roster. According to the lovely people at the…