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Crawling Inside This Video Game Is Strangely Peaceful

My copy of Destiny didn’t arrive yesterday, so I had to scramble to find something else to play, what with my schedule having been cleared to play Destiny. So I sat down with Ultraworldinstead. Lucky me. It’s an open-world exploration game, one where you play someone inside a video game, tasked with helping out one…

Well, This NERF Gunfight Escalated Quickly

This video begins with some bored Australian kids. It ends about as John Woo as you can get without doves flying out of something. [via Laughing Squid]

Between the masterpiece that is “Tanooki Bowser” (pictured above) and the amazing Robin Williams tribute from the other day, it looks like the Art Academy: SketchPad community on Miiverse is one to keep an eye on. (Via Bad Miiverse Posts, though I’d argue this is a Great Miiverse Post)

October Xbox One Update Will Make Gamerscore A Bigger Deal

The October system software update for Microsoft’s frequently-evolving Xbox One console will add a Gamerscore leaderboard that will rank Xbox One owners and their friends by the amount of Gamerscore they’ve attained in the last 30 days. Microsoft showed the new Gamerscore ranking system last night in a video highlighting several October firmware system software…

Report: Microsoft Trying To Buy Mojang, Creators Of Minecraft [Update]

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that, according to “a person with knowledge of the matter”, Microsoft is in “serious discussions” to buy Mojang, the studio that made smash hit Minecraft. The deal is reported to be worth a whopping $2 billion, and “could be signed as early as this week”. UPDATE – Bloomberg now…

The First Game Announced For The Apple Watch Is… Arm Wrestling

What fresh new wrist-based interactive entertainment can we expect to see when the Apple Watch launches next spring? How do you feel about arm wrestling? Flying Tiger Entertainment, so excited the press release subject was in all caps, seems quite pleased to announce the first game for the Apple Watch and Android smartwatches, iArm Wrestle…

Kratos Is Even More Imposing Without Arms

Kratos. Now there’s a rage-filled video game character for you. Just look at him, perched there, glaring through the screen. He doesn’t even have limbs and I’m still scared he’s gonna come beat me up. For $600, I can let him try. Gaming Heads has finally pulled the curtain back on its new bust of…

Microsoft Says They’re Replacing Abnormally Noisy Xbox Ones

Is your Xbox One making too much noise? Send it to Microsoft and they’ll give you a new one. The folks behind the Xbox say they’re offering replacements for the “small number of customers” affected by a noise issue that seems to have grown more prevalentafter the Xbox One launched in a number of new…

What Video Game Characters Do When You’re Not Controlling Them

Yeah, video game characters are great when they’re hopping, bopping, and shooting everything in sight, but the best reveal themselves when they’re standing still. No, not like that, you pervert and also me after I wrote that sentence. Idle animations. I’m talking about idle animations. The above video contains some great ones, although I wish…

Hopeful Smash Bros. Fans See Ridley Everywhere They Turn

Truthfully, I’m not the biggest Metroid fan. Still, all the the hype around the possibility that maybe, just maaaaybe, Ridley will be included as a playable character in the upcoming Smash is starting to infect me, too. Take this video by EWNetwork, for example, which analyzes the hell out of a shadow we saw in…

A Quick Overview Of All The Locations In Destiny

Want to know what planets and missions are available to you for Destiny’s launch? If so, you’ll want to check out this map overview. Obviously, this video by MoreConsole contains spoilers—so watch at your own risk. Specifically, it details the the upcoming raid, Earth, Moon, Mars, Venus, the reef, strike playlists, and crucible modes. The…

Years Since the Release of the Dreamcast in North America Sega’s Dreamcast has a special place in the hearts of many as a console a bit ahead of its time. For me, it was a gateway into the world of addictive, zany Japanese games. I played everything from Jet Grind Radio and Samba de Amigo…

Arkham Knight Limited-, White DualShock 4, Marvel Universe [Deals]

The Arkham Knight Limited Edition includes a statue, comicbook, and more. The Batmobile Edition is already gone, but we’ll keep an eye out for more stock. [Arkham Knight LE] DualShock 4. Glacier White. $50. Get these deals and more, and earlier on Deals.Kinja. Connect with us on Twitter and Facebook to never miss a deal,…

Using Mario Kart 8’s Green Shell Like A Champ

Of all the shells on the Mario Kart spectrum, the green one gets the least love. Probably because it’s the hardest to use, compared to the homing missile of the red shell and “The Great Equalizer” that is the blue one. But that just makes a proper snipe with the green bullet all the more…

The Absolute WORST Way To Lose In Mario Kart

Whether you’re just playing for fun or you’re in it to win it, Mario Kart 8 is a game that stirs the competitive spirit. And then, sometimes, you end up losing to somebody who just happened to get a bullet at the last minute. IT’S NOT FAIR.

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Five Games to Keep an Eye On • Everything We Know About The New 3DS So Far • Destiny: Who’s Playing?? TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

EA Will Remove Ray Rice From Madden 15

EA will remove all presence of disgraced NFL running back Ray Rice from Madden 15 in this week’s update, stripping the former Ravens star from all roster lists in the latest edition of their annual football series. Fox’s Mike Garafolo reports that Rice, who was released by the Baltimore Ravensand indefinitely suspended from the NFL…

LEGO Batman 3 Is Getting A DLC Season Pass. I’ve Got A Better Idea.

Today Warner Bros. announced the first-ever season pass for a LEGO game, promising players six downloadable content packs and more than 40 new characters for $14.99. What they should really be doing is bundling their DLC with Minifigs and selling it in stores. If folks want to spend $2.99 apiece only for the six promised…

GoldenEye Watch Face Makes Me Really Want A Smartwatch

Thank goodness for hungry children, because if not for them I’d be blowing $250 on a Moto 360 right now for no other reason than to load it with the watch face from GoldenEye 007. Android enthusiast site Phandroid brings this snappy GoldenEye watch face to light. Dubbed the “Secret Agent Watchface” by its creator…

A Good Game for Griefing

Playing IDARB made me feel a tiny, tiny little bit like a NBA player at the free throw line when fans are trying to mess with his focus. Except, in this case, what they did gave me diarrhea. On its face, IDARB—short for It Draws a Red Box—is a super-simple action/sports/platforming hybrid where up to…