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Lindsay Lohan’s Grand Theft Auto V Lawsuit Is Getting Intense

In July, professional meltdown artist Lindsay Lohan filed a lawsuit against Grand Theft Auto V developer Rockstar Games and publisher Take-Two Interactive for using her likeness in their open-world crime game. At first, the lawsuit revolved around a minor character in the latest GTA, Lacey Jonas, an anorexic actress who asks your protagonists to help…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Weird Theory: Do Pokémon have a greater purpose? • NES-30 [Controller] Impressions and Review • In Defense of the Idol Show • The Curious Case of DRIVECLUB’s Identity Crisis • Rockmandash Reviews: Hanasaku Iroha [Anime] TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

What Sleeping Dogs Gets So Right About Being An Asian American

There’s a scene in The Godfather that really resonates with me — not because I relate to it, but because I do not. It’s when Michael has dinner with Don Sollozzo, and they begin speaking to one another in Sicilian. There are no subtitles, and the first time I watched it, I was irritated. “What…

Minecraft comes to Vita on PSN this Tuesday, Sony just announced. It’ll cost $20, but there are all sorts of cross-play/cross-buy features, as outlined on the PlayStation Blog. Wonder how Sony’s execs feel about giving all that money to Microsoft?

Two Players Already Unlocked Every Diablo III Season 1 Achievement

Quite the feat, considering Diablo III‘s Season 1, where everyone started with fresh characters, only launched at the end of August on PC. But still, two guys already managed to climb to the top and get every single one of the achievements. 7880 points in total. One of them is Mikeh on the US side…

An Honest Step-by-Step Guide To Cosplay

It all starts with that fancy Iron Man or Deadpool costume, but then things like platinum-cure silicone molds or even guides on the internet can ruin our progress with the perfect cosplay quickly. The guys at Dorkly have a step-by-step answer though and they show it in their latest comic Click here for more Dorkly…

Someone Took All The Items From A Skyrim Town

Here’s one crazy Skyrim hoarder who stole every single item from the town of Solitude, managed to take it all to Whiterun, and somehow grabbed a screenshot without burning down his PC. His initial plan was to place the items in his home in Whiterun, a town far away from Solitude, but as you can…

Number of Weird Moments in the New Bayonetta 2 Trailer

At least. Bayonetta’s never really been known for its sense of realism. I mean the focus is a witch with guns on her high heels that rips angels apart with her shape-shifting clothes. It’s weird. The Bayonetta 2 launch trailer is a bit more odd than I was expecting though. I still really love Bayonetta’s…

Cost of Nintendo’s Amiibo Figurines

Amazon looks like one of the very first retailers to allow pre-ordering Nintendos line of Amiibo figures. You can place your order for a mere $12.96. You’re reading Numbers, a blog on Kotaku that examines games and culture through the lens of math and statistics. To contact the author of this post, write to [email protected]…

You Can Catch Up on the Best of Dragoncon’s Cosplay in

Dragoncon’s got a reputation for being one of the better cons for cosplay, and this year’s batch proves it. There’s a few Youtube videos floating around taking some great highlights from last month’s convention in Atlanta. If you’re at all interested in the scene, these two videos are worth a look. You’re reading Numbers, a…

Final Fantasy XIII Is 60 GB On Steam

Hope you’ve got a big hard drive! Final Fantasy XIII, which came out today on Steam, will take up a whopping 60 GB of disk space—probably because of all of those cut-scenes. Check it out: It’s locked at 720p, too, so you might want to wait for someone to conjure up an HD patchbefore you…

If You Like Splinter Cell, Thank The Guy Who Played Sam Fisher

Fun fact: actor Michael Ironside, who voiced Tom Clancy stealth juggernaut Splinter Cell‘s main character, super spy murder dad Sam Fisher, nearly quit before the series even got off the ground. As part of a Reddit AMA, Ironside talked about Splinter Cell‘s early days and how he basically didn’t want anything to do with it…

We’re Finally Getting Good Games Based On Movies

Once upon a time licensed video games—ones based on movies, TV shows, or other popular series—were the domain of festering bargain bins and well-meaning grandparents who didn’t know any better. Now Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor and Alien: Isolation are two of the year’s most interesting games. This is a good thing. There have, of course,…

NBA 2K15 Players Report Widespread Problems, Lost Progress

NBA 2K15 has gotten off to a shaky start. Since the game launched two days ago, players have been reporting ongoing problems with many different aspects of the game’s performance—everything from the stability of its online multiplayer to losing progress and stuff acquired in single-player. NBA 2K15 publisher 2K Games has been quick to respond…

Heads Up: Your New Last-Gen Game May Not Get DLC

Console transitions are weird, sometimes sloppy things, and the latest—from PS3/Xbox 360 to PS4/Xbox One—is no different. The newest wrinkle? Games like Forza Horizon 2 and Diablo III are only offering DLC and major updates to current-gen versions. Last-gen, meanwhile, is stuck out in the cold. Forza community manager Brian Ekberg explained the now sadly…

OBJECTION! Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy comes to the 3DS eShop on December 9. It’ll be $30. Unless it’s a technical disaster or something—and we’ll keep an eye out for that—it’ll probably be worth your time. The first three Phoenix Wright games are killer.

Real Life Cars That Look Like They’re Straight Out of Fallout

Sure, the Fallout games have let players command a few cars before. But none of them are nearly as cool as the cars showcased during Wasteland Weekend, a festival dedicated to the post-apocalypse. DweebCast has a good, no-frills rundown of some of the more notable cars at the festival: Don’t worry, though. The highwayman will…

Ubisoft’s Game Developer ‘Limbo’

One morning late last year, not long after Guillaume, a developer at Ubisoft Montreal, had finished working on his newest game, he was told he’d be moving offices. This was not particularly unusual for Ubisoft Montreal, a company that employs close to 3,000 people and works on upwards of ten new video games at a…

​Destiny‘s Iron Banner Event Doesn’t Seem All That ‘Iron’

Destiny’s Iron Banner multiplayer event was expected to be a hardcore, no-holds-barred fracas. It’s called “The Iron Banner,” after all! But as it turns out, it’s not as extreme as some players were hoping it’d be. Destiny is a first-person shooter that works like a role-playing game, in that the gear and abilities you acquire…

Smash Bros. Is Wrecking My 3DS Circle Pad

I was hoping it wouldn’t happen to me. I was hoping I could play Smash Bros. without destroying my circlepad, unlike the unlucky Japanese players we highlighted earlier this year, but no. After 24 hours of playtime, my circlepad is on the fritz—and it’s because I’ve been playing Smash Bros. Take this as a cautionary…