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Take a Look at the First New Star Wars Arcade Game in Years

The best part of the Star Wars arcade games of yore was how they transported you into the movies, letting you be the one destroying the Death Star and defeating the Empire. A new bunch of Star Wars machines are going to do the same thing for today’s audiences, starting next January. Star Wars Battle…

Player Beats Smash Bros.’ Hardest Boss Without Taking Any Damage

Cripes. I haven’t even been able to defeat Master Core on Smash Bros.’ harder difficulties at all yet, so watching this Ganondorf defeat a level 9 Master Core without taking any damage is baffling. Seriously, スマブラチャンネル is a beast for pulling this off. Level 9 intensity, for those that don’t know, is the highest difficulty…

Mulan’s ‘I’ll Make A Man Out Of You,’ But About Pokémon

I can barely handle this Li Shang version of Ash Ketchum. Heck, I can barely handle most of this parody of Mulan’s iconic song, ‘Make a Man Out Of You.’ It’s just too good. EsquirebobAnimations packs this video with a ton of clever references to Pokémon, and the process involved with training Pokémon—all in the…

Dragon Age: Origins Is Free On PC Right Now

To prepare for next month’s Dragon Age: Inquisition (out November 18 for PC/PS3/PS4/XB1/360), EA’s giving out the first game in BioWare’s fantasy RPG series for the price of absolutely nothing. Right now. You’ll need an Origin account to download a free copy of Dragon Age: Origins, but hey, it’s a great game, and it’s totally…

Is Flame Over the Vita’s Next Indie Hit?

Flame Over is what Spelunky would be if you played as a firefighter. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK It’s damned hard, but oddly compelling; every failure strengthened my conviction that I could do better next time, even if I rarely did. It stars a little cartoony firefighter – sadly not the shirtless, charity-calendar…

A Game That Reminds You How Messed Up Bullying Is

Chiwatin isn’t your typical video game hero. He pees himself when he gets scared and the snow in the northern Canadian landscape turns yellow under his feet. I wanted to laugh at this the third time it happened, when I realized it wasn’t some weird rendering bug and an actual design decision. But then the…

Rewatch Alien, Get Dragon Age: Origins for Free, and More Deals

This gorgeous 35th Anniversary Limited Edition of the original Alien is the kind of packaging that one of the greatest films of all time deserves. We just ran a deal on the Alien Anthology set the other day, and when asked by a commenter if they should watch all four films or just the first…

Frozen Would Have Been An Excellent Super Nintendo Game

If only Frozen had come out during the 16-bit heyday of Disney video games. Then we’d have fond memories of this CineFix 16-bit interpretation, instead of Frozen Free Fall on the iPhone. Hasn’t Frozen fever died yet? Dammit, no. Now that the fourth season of the hit real-life fairy-tale series Once Upon A Time has…

Waiting Five Hours To Get Fired In Five Minutes

Today we’ve got another batch of stories from people who have been affected by the never-ending cycle of layoffs that hovers menacingly over the video game industry. For months nowwe’ve been covering the way game publishers and development studios treat their employees in an attempt to spotlight the painful and unstable environment behind many of…

(LOTR) Worlds Colliding

Thank you for this one, Reddit’s Morbzor. These Shadow of Mordor memes are starting to get pretty good, if you ask me!

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Chariot: The TAY Review • Trainime New Season Impressions! Part 1 • Game of The Week—Not Very Stealthy, But Great Nonetheless [GoldenEye 007] • Short Peace: The TAY Review TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

Two Wrestling Experts Dare To Re-Play 1999’s WWF Attitude

Kefin and Adam from the Attitude Era Podcast are cautiously excited for the upcoming release of WWE 2K15. In the run up to the game’s November release, they decided to fire up their N64 and revisit one of the biggest wrestling games from their childhoods with jaded adult eyes. WWF Attitude! Kefin Mahon: Released in…

This Animated Earthbound Tribute Is Just Incredible

Look, let’s be straight: if you’ve played Earthbound, it is impossible to watch this video and not tear up a little bit. Just try. I dare you. Animator Sagan Yee has been working on this short film—POLLYANNA—on and off since 2010, and she describes it as “a simple re-tellingof the major events in the game.”…

Four Board Games You Should Avoid At All Costs

Some of these board games Jimmy Fallon brought to his show, such as “The Sinking of the Titanic game” or “Big Foot,” are just too cruel, but they exist. Some of you might even have them in the basement. The other two could easily turn out to be one of those weird party games though.…

Free Driveclub Delayed Until Paying Customers Can Connect

What happened to the free PlayStation Plus version of Driveclub that was supposed to be available to subscribers this week? According to game director Paul Rustchynsky it’s being held back until the retail game’s connectivity issues are ironed out. Players are having trouble connecting to Driveclub‘s servers, and while the game can be played offline…

As you can see, minor glitches can help NBA 2K15‘s sideline reporter do really efficient in-game interviews. via r/GamePhysics and YouTube Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest, funniest game-related screenshots and art that we can find. Send us suggestions if you’ve got them. To contact the author…

The trailer for the upcoming backer-exclusive alpha version of historical RPG Kingdom Come: Deliverance paints an idyllic picture of a medieval village. Presumably, it shows what the place was like before that corpse-packed-battlefield dealio. The game is still on track for a late 2015 release on PC, Xbox One and PS4.

If I Moved to Space, This Is Where I’d Live

I don’t think I have the brains to become a terraforming scientist, though. I’d just tag along and look out windows all day. This scene was created by 3D Environment Artist Liam Tart, who’s worked on games like Black Mesa, Natural Selection 2, and more recently, Alien Isolation. He chipped away at this project in…

Watch the Start Screens for Damn Near Every Game Boy Title

Don’t worry. They’re in alphabetical order. Like he’s done for the NES and the SNES before, YouTuber NicksplosionFX has assembled the introductory moments of almost every game released for Nintendo’s gray brick-like handheld. It’s probably not the entirety of the Game Boy catalog but don’t let any gaps stop you from basking in the inventiveness…

Yep, There’s Gonna Be A Virtual Reality Version Of Batman’s Bat Cave

The bat cave. No one can know about it. It’s Batman’s lair of perfect solitude, of secrecy crucial to his every plan and action. His survival. So of course we’ll all soon be able to track our muddy virtual shoes through it. Hurrah! Warner and visual effects company OTOY are working on a virtual reality…