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That Awesome Car Crashing Game Finally Gets A Real Name

We’ve been writing about Bugbear Entertainment’s single-player vehicular carnage simulator, Next Car Game, since January. No longer. From now on we’ll be writing about Bugbear Entertainment’s multiplayer vehicular carnage simulator, Wreckfest. Yeah, I buried the lead there a bit. What’s important about this news is that the $30 Steam Early Access game that’s provided lonely…

Tiny Handheld Console Actually Plays Games

Everything about this is small: the screen’s less than an inch across, the resolution’s 96 by 64 pixels and it costs $75. The whole thing’s so cute if it was a dog it would wear a dress and live in a handbag. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK This tiny gaming system is actually…

This is a Skyrim screenshot. It’s from DSOGaming’s latest roundup of ENBSeries-modded Skyrim shots, proving, once again, that Skyrim can be the planet’s prettiest game to take photos of—provided you take the time set up those mods, and have the (beastly) rig to support all that eye candy. Look below for more. Skyrim Screenshot Roundup…

Want to know more about all those graphics options PC games have? PC Gamer has posted a comprehensive multi-page guide which explains everything from anti-aliasing types to anisotropic filtering and texture quality, with plenty of example images and even some benchmark statistics. Head over here to check it out

The GameCube’s Secrets, Revealed

Hidden intro screens. Controllers that don’t exist. Dolphins. The GameCube has quite the collection of secrets and easter eggs. Did You Know Gaming’s latest video takes a look at the venerable Nintendo GameCube, which turns thirteen years old this year. And, like pretty much every other game system, it’s far from just a receptacle for…

Saturday Night Live Sketch Skewers the Gap Between Gameplay and Story

You’ve probably noticed it called out in some Grand Theft Auto, Uncharted and BioShock games: those moments where the emotions being presented to you in cutscenes or dialogue don’t match up with what the player’s being told to do. And while that issue has been a point of contention for many years, I wasn’t ever…

A Fan Album As Epic As Smash Bros. Itself

Were it possible, I’d replace every piece of music in my copy of Smash Bros. 3DS with one of the 101 tracks in Shinesparkers’ “Harmony of Heroes”, an amazing 101 track Super Smash Bros. fan arrangement album, now available for free download. Some 60 or so artists contributed to this massive undertaking, announced last year…

Sonic Boom Animated Series Debuts November 8, Doesn’t Look Horrible

There’s no escaping it now. The next chapter of Sonic the Hedgehog history begins on November 8, when the Sonic Boom animated series premieres on Cartoon Network in North America. I think I could actually watch this. While my inner jury is still out on the games, Rise of Lyric (Wii U) and Shattered Crystal…

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

When folks started taking shots from the Tokyo Game Show trailer for Final Fantasy XV and pasting things behind them, I figured Chris Person’s post about it was enough. Now Square Enix has decided to help things along. Fine, let’s do this. Look, this meme has been done to death already over the past couple…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Refilling Destiny‘s Loot Cave: The Winners!

Last week I tasked the Guardians of Kotaku‘s image manipulation community with finding something else with which to fill Destiny’s sadly empty Loot Cave. Then everything went crazy. I normally pick the winner of each week’s contest and the featured entries by going through all of the entries and picking my favorites. This week’s contest…

Tablet Is The Best Way To Play Skylanders: Trap Team

Normally when a big-name video game releases a version on tablet devices, it’s either a pared down version of the console experience or a completely different game altogether. Not only isSkylanders: Trap Team‘s tablet offering the exact same game as on consoles, its portability and convenience makes it the superior version. The console version of…

The Honest Destiny Trailer Celebrates “Gaming’s Hottest 7 Out Of 10”

“The storytelling of Halo, the scope of World of Warcraft and the co-operative fun of Borderlands — may eventually get patched in.” Thus begins the brutally Honest Trailer for Destiny, “The video game equivalent of a beautiful mansion full of cheap Ikea furniture.” Okay, easy target, but Smosh Gamescompletely nails Bungie’s latest, especially with one…

Evolve Looks Good, But Is It $750 Statue Good?

Everybody loves 2K Games’ upcoming competitive monster shooter Evolve, but do they love it enough to start paying off a two and a half foot tall, 35 pound polystone statue of the game’s Goliath? As lovely as the Goliath statue from TriForce is, it’s an incredibly hard sell for me. I can see shelling out…

The Saturday Morning Stream Of Mordor (And We’re Done)

For the past two weeks I’ve had to hear or read about how much almost everyone on the site playing Middle-earth: Shadows of Mordor is loving the game. Now it’s my turn to exterminate some orcs. I’ve spent the past several weeks exclusively playing games involving colorful plastic toys, so something I only need a…

9/29/2014: Super Smashed Bros.

Super Smash Bros. for the 3DS is officially out, and in honor of that I present the Kotaku Selects roundup alongside this wonderful comic by Safely Endangered. Poor Kirby. Enjoy your weekend/catching up on this week’s best content/Super Smash Bros. To contact the author of this post, write to [email protected] or find her on Twitter…

Destiny’s Vault of Glass Has Been Defeated (By Us)

Thanks, team. That was one for the books.

Silent Hills P.T. In Minecraft Is Spooky, Hilarious

Seriously, this is so spot-on. For those not in the know, P.T. is an interactive teaser Konami released to announce that Metal Gear (more like Metal FEAR) creator Hideo Kojima and famed horror director Guillermo del Toro (more like Guillerm-boo del OhNo!) have teamed up to make the next Silent Hill, titled Silent Hills. P.T.,…

Every First-Person Shooter Crammed Into One

Bedlam (not to be confused with that otherBedlam) is a loving tribute to pretty much every first-person shooter since the dawn of time. Or at least, you know, the dawn of video games. It is, functionally speaking, a whole bunch of different styles of first-person shooter, all in one game. There are levels themed after…

Smash Bros. Tells Us ‘Y Cant Metroid Crawl’

Remember PaulyU, the Wii U owner that documented his troubles with Super Metroid on Miiverse? He was the guy that wondered “y cant metroid crawl.” Well, it looks like Pauly got a shout-out in the latest Smash Bros. Here’s Pauly’s famous question: And here’s Smash Bros.‘ answer to that question, as spotted by @Electivirus: Mystery…

The entire 164 track Banjo Kazooie soundtrack is available on Bandcamp. Ex-Rare audio maestro Grant Kirkhope put up the whole thing, which includes everything from level themes to cheerful, five-second victory chimes. You can name your price. Go revel in glorious bird/bear nostalgia and the happiest main theme ever.