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Video Game Violence That I Love

A whir, a pop, and then the head explodes. Ceases to exist, really. Ropy tendrils of gray-black goop spiral outwards from the point where the head used to be, and then the body falls heavily to the ground. There’s precious little time to think about what I just saw, because another enemy is headed my…

The Fastest (Fakest) Way to Reach Level 30 in Destiny

Once you hit level 24 in Destiny it’s pretty much a grind to grab the best legendaries and exotics, and then a grind to level them up to max capacity to slowly churn through the levels up to 30. But, thankfully, goldvision here has some phenomenal, totally useful tips to skip all that junk and…

Number of Smash Bros. 3DS Copies Sold

In addition to announcing the release date for Super Smash Bros. Wii U, Nintendo revealed official sales data for the 3DS version of the popular fighting game. After only a few days in the US and a couple of weeks in Japan, Smash Bros. 3DS has sold more than 2.8 million copies. Those aren’t Call…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Terror in Resonance: The Ani-TAY Review • Silent Hill 2 and the Terrifying Nature of the Mind • TAY Explores Manga: Hayate X Blade TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

Want an Apple-1 Motherboard Built by Steve Wozniak? That’ll Be…

Important pieces of technological history will be up for up for grabs at the Bonham’s History of Science auction later this month. Among their pieces is an original Apple-1 motherboard that Wozniak made in Steve Jobs’ garage. It’s valuedbetween $300,000 and $500,000. Most of the other pieces up for bidding are a bit older, and…

Microsoft Technology Will Finally Let You Give Video Games the Finger

Now, here’s some Kinect functionality that I wouldn’t mind in a video game. I could’ve used this when I reviewed that awful Steel Battalion game a while back. This video from Microsoft Research surfaced a few days ago, showing off the continuing evolution of the company’s Kinect motion tracking initiative. The system on display here…

Nvidia Makes Gaming Notebooks Much More Powerful… Again

Nvidia’s 800m line of laptop graphics chips? They’re sotwo months ago. Today the company that’s been one-upping itself for years does it again with the Maxwell-based Geforce GTX 980m, promising 75 percent of the performance of its desktop counterpart. Three-fourths the power of a full-sized desktop GPU might not seem all that impressive from the…

Nine Things You Probably Didn’t Know About The Lion King

A scene that took three years to finish, the sound of an F-16 jet fighter and moments we can’t unsee after watching CineFix‘s latest clip about The Lion King Disney’s classic turned 20 this year, and after all these years it still looks incredible. Watching the video means you’ll get to learn stuff like: 1.…

Custom SNES Is An Homage To Everything Castlevania

Artist Vadu Amka turned his PAL SNES console into the embodiment of darkness, just in time for October. It’s a Castlevania-themed one, and it’s not just a repaint, it has a huge whip, an additional skull, a coffin, and other emblems of the series: SNES Castlevania by Vadu Amka [via Pixalry] To contact the author…

Super Smash Bros. Finally Comes To Wii U Next Month

Super Smash Bros. Wii U will come out November 21 in North America, Nintendo announced today. It’ll launch alongside a wave of Nintendo’s amiibo toy figures. This follows the release of the portable version, Smash 3DS, which came out last Friday. The Wii U version will be $60 retail, or $100 as part of a…

Below is My Most Anticipated Xbox One Game

It is lazy to describe a game by comparing it to other ones, but it’s also terribly useful sometimes, so here goes: Below incorporates some of the most captivating elements from two of my favourite game series, Zelda and Dark Souls, and I think that’s why it has me wrapped around its little finger. This…

Hacker Turns His Living Room into Mario Kart

Good thing those banana peels are virtual, huh? In Japan, a gent named Ken Kawamoto used projection mapping and Romo, a robot that’s controlled via iPhone app, to “recreate Mario Kart” in the living room. Kawamoto calls this “Romo Kart.” As noted on Hack A Day, there’s a Xtion motion sensing camera and a video…

A Murder Mystery Where You’re Already Dead

Yes, you’re dead, and you’re trying to figure out the identity of your killer. You’re a murder victim in an adventure game that looks just like Earthbound Why Am I Dead At Sea is the follow-up to the very similar Why Am I Dead, which was uploaded to Newgrounds in 2012 November. You’re a murder…

MMO-racer The Crew will be a few weeks late, arriving on December 2 instead of November 11, Ubisoft announced in a blog post. Good news is that this means there will be another closed beta test, which Ubisoft says they’re planning to carry out in November, this time on the PS4 and the Xbox One.

Kingdom Hearts III Is Being Made with Unreal Engine 4

In a recent interview, game creator Tetsuya Nomura revealed that Kingdom Hearts III is now being developed on Unreal Engine 4. Oh. Alright, then. It was largely assumed that Square Enix was using an in-house game engine for Kingdom Hearts III like it is for Final Fantasy XV. That would make sense, no? The Unreal…

Digital Storm Bolt II: The Kotaku Review

The second generation of Digital Storm’s super-slim Bolt system has a clear advantage in the gaming PC’s leisurely march towards the living room: tiny little feet. I didn’t realize how important tiny little feet were to a slim gaming PC until I met the Bolt II. Honestly I didn’t immediately recognize the bits of black…

The Horror Of 554 Simpsons Couch Gags All Going Off At Once

Here’s 25 years’ worth of Simpsons couch gags. All playing at the same time. You (by which I mean your ears) have been warned. The horror. The collective lurching death dirge—as though 25 years of pop culture suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced—weirdly reminds me of the noise Futurama‘s Hypnotoad makes. COINCIDENCE?…

I’m Developing A Serious Racing Wheel Problem

Late last night, during my fourth day of playing Forza Horizon 2 with Mad Catz’ Xbox One Pro Racing Wheel, I began to wonder if force feedback in my hands was enough. Why isn’t my chair shaking? Shouldn’t I feel the vibrations of the road beneath my feet? Oh no. It’s been ages since I’ve…

​Watch People Panic And Die In Alien: Isolation

Alien: Isolation isn’t exactly a “fun” game to play. It’s super stressful and really difficult. It’s definitely fun to watch other people play it, however. Once this game is out, I sense there will be a lot of good times to be had watching people hide, flee, and panic as they attempt to survive. In…

If A Game Looks This Good In GIFs, It’s Doing Something Right

I am a man of simple tastes. I like games with fluid animation, and I like making animated GIFs. When I get to combine those two things, boy howdy am I a happy camper. That’s the trailer for Children of Morta, an indie dungeon-crawler from the folks at Dead Mage. Its sprites are reminiscent of…