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Mojang COO Vu Bui confirmed on the company’s blog that there will be no MineCon in 2014. Instead, Bui said that they are “shooting to have” the next MineCon in the spring of 2015 in London.

The Zelda Soundtrack You Probably Haven’t Heard About

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time has an iconic soundtrack, but the game also has a second official soundtrack that was only released in Japan. It’s really good. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Re-Arranged Album debuted in Japan on December 22, 1999. Arranged and performed by artist MOKA, the 12-track album featured…

A Version Of P.T. That’s Somehow Equal Parts Funny And Terrifying

P.T. might not have much in common with The Stanley Parable, but that didn’t stop Youtuber Its a mirage from mashing up the narration of the latter with the spine-tingling gameplay of the former. It works beautifully, and yet I don’t think I’m brave enough to even play this version of P.T.

A Criminally Underrated Game About A Pig Farmer

Dink Smallwood was a little indie darling that deserved a lot more attention than it got back when it was first released in 1998. Developed by a three-person team at Robinson Technologies, Dink Smallwood was the antithesis of your typical RPG adventure game. You were not the chosen one, or a knight, or even all…

Diablo III On Xbox One vs PS4 vs PC

Diablo III: Ultimate Evil Edition dropped for Xbox One and PlayStation 4 this week, and it’s good. So good, in fact, that it has Kotaku‘s Yannick LeJacq switching his Diablo allegiance from PC to PS4 Now the folks at Digital Foundry have put together a helpful side-by-side comparison of the game running on all three…

Hey Kotaku, I’m Your Guest Editor For The Weekend

There is no need to adjust your television set. Mike Fahey will be back with your regularly scheduled programming next weekend. In the meantime, I’m Cameron Gidari and I’ll be your guest editor for the next 48 hours. You might have seen me around these parts before. I’m thecolorblind guy, the guy obsessed with achievements,…

8/18/2014: The Real Struggle In Game of Thrones

We’ve got a guest editor this weekend, but if you’re just catching up on our stories from this week, you can check them out on Kotaku Selects. Or you can enjoy this thread from Chrys Watches GoT: To contact the author of this post, write to [email protected] or find her on Twitter at @tinaamini

Destiny Takes The Ice Bucket Challenge

“That came from the moon.” Somebody needs to challenge Silent Hills/P.T You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

How Two Great Games Kept Me From Hating Music

I’ve been trying to learn music lately. Like, really learn it. It hasn’t been going well. Fortunately two recent games, Sentris and Crypt of the Necrodancer, stopped me from giving up altogether. I have a bad habit of taking things I love as leisure activities and trying to turn them into more. I mean, look…

It’s Time For A Better Class Of Rap Games

Drake and Lil Wayne came to Queens this week as part of a tour the rappers are co-headlining. It was the third such act to pass through the Tri-State area recently, the first two being Beyonce and Jay Z’s “On The Run” and Eminem and Rhianna’s “Monster” tour. But this one was special. It was…

The Elder Scrolls‘ Most Terrifying Tall Tale

It was only a mod, they said. What could possibly be scary about a mod? A user-made modification, Jvk1166z.esp (pronounced “juhvickoneonesixsixzzzeesp!”) surfaced years ago and was supposedly meant to do… something to The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind. Thing is, nobody quite understood what, because loading the mod would apparently lock up your game for an…

Of Game Developers Are Women The International Game Developer’s Association or IGDA represents the interests of thousands of developers worldwide. Over the past few months, they’ve been steadily releasing data from a recent poll of their members about demographics, working conditions, and more. Here are some of the highlights: The number of women in games…

Team Fortress 2 Characters Are Joining Super Time Force

Team Fortress 2’s Pyro and Saxton Hale, and Left 4 Dead’s Zoey are joining Super Time Force when it’s released on Steam next week. See their adorable pixelated avatars in action below: “All three Valve characters, along with 50 new Helladeck challenge levels and the new Ultra Force power mode are available in Super Time…

Realistic Virtual Baby Is The Stuff Of Nightmares

BabyX is not a real baby. It is a simulation of a baby — one that learns, reads facial expressions and gets bored. It is also frightening to behold. In the video above, BabyX’s shows off its ever-growing vocabulary. She was created by the folks at the Laboratory for Animate Technologies at the University of…

Here’s The First Official (Spoiler) Groot Toy

Is the thing Groot does in Guardians of the Galaxy still a spoiler? Well, it’s now an official toy joining the Funko Pop! line: Yes, an adorable dancing baby Groot. Via Twitter You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

The Rarest Video Game Treasures In America’s Coolest Game Store

Video Games New York is a tiny, cramped gaming store that is full of all sorts of treasures (we even used to host a video segment there!). Every nook and cranny is full of ultra-rare oddities that you can buy. Here are some of them: BuzzFeedVideo went to VGNY and freaked out looking at what…

Is Robin Williams the reason Sid Meier’s Civilization is called Sid Meier’s Civilization? I was just rereading our profile of the iconic game designer and stumbled upon this anecdote, which seems appropriate to share again now: Stealey has a different take: “We were at dinner at a Software Publishers Association meeting, and [actor] Robin Williams…

The Strangest Thing That Didn’t Happen In Fallout: New Vegas

The Wild Wasteland perk lets you see some bonkers stuff in Fallout, but it never quite matches the absurdity of this New Vegas “easter egg.” I can’t really say much else about this video AxiomWrite without giving it away, but let’s just say that the seemingly random, esoteric instructions you’re supposed to follow for this…

All The Reasons Why Remember Me Makes No Sense

Hey, remember Remember Me? No, not the movie that ruined Robert Pattinson for all of us. I’m talking about the gorgeous beat-’em-up game that came out last year. It was a great cyberpunk adventure. But like many ambitious sci-fi games, it didn’t always make sense. It sort of comes with the territory if you’re telling…

Let’s Talk About Star Ocean 2

Welcome to the Summer of Old JRPGs, where we’re playing classic role-playing games and talking about them every week. Check out the full schedule here I have something to tell you, my dear Random Encounters readers. You might not like it, but I think it needs to be said. Star Ocean 2 kinda sucks. I…