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Ganon Is Finally Playable In A Zelda Game

Hyrule Warriors may be a spinoff from the main series, but it’s still a Zelda game. And here we have it, a Zelda game where the series’ most famous villain is finally playable (til now he’s only made playable appearances in Smash Bros. titles). As a character who is only usually seen in dark, moody…

There’s a little Nintendo Direct going down at 11pm ET for Hyrule Warriors. You can watch it right here.

NOTE: The game’s title is actually 90S COPS

The Ladies Of Smash Bros.

Artist Adam Vian has drawn up every single female character announced so far for the next Smash Bros. The Lucina one is just killing it Adam is half of SFB Games along with his brother Tom. If you’ve ever heard of/played Detective Grimoire, that was them!

The Stomping Land Developer Says Game Isn’t Dead

Last year dinosaur survival game The Stomping Land made $114,060 on Kickstarter, and a few months ago it hit Steam Early Access. The developer claimed there’d be weekly updates, new features, and well, anything to round out a barebones experience. Then they disappeared. Until now. In multiple places developer SuperCrit, headed up by Alex “Jig”…

Japanese Arcade Cabinets Are Works Of Art

Is it weird that I am more into arcade hardware than I am arcade games themselves? There’s nostalgia attached to old arcade cabinets, and I get that, but I’ve always been partial to the unique designs employed – and still used – by Japanese companies. Their cabinets always seem…cuter. Like something from the near future.…

The Idiotic Adventures Of Futurama‘s Zapp Brannigan In Fallout

“Captain’s log: the Wasteland just got sexier.” A redditor who goes by the handle NVSK has put together a series in which he roleplays the bumbling, ceaselessly baffling captain Zapp Brannigan fromFuturama, aka Maybe The Greatest Cartoon, in Fallout: New Vegas So far the result has been pretty darn funny, not to mention impressively in-character.…

Real Human Should Probably Have Taken Damage From This Jump

I’ve seen parkour videos where the perspective makes it look like a video game. I haven’t seen many where I actually hold my breath and think, boy, even in a video game that might have been fatal. But nope, not here, because Ethan Swanson – a stuntman – doesn’t just make the jump, he also…

That is a pretty good gif. (via)

The Inventory Of A Soldier, Over 1000 Years Of War

Photographer Thom Atkinson is to thank for this captivating series of shots that show everything an English soldier has carried into battle (or at least near a battle) over the last 1000 years. As you can probably guess, there are more magazines and snacky treats now than there were at the Battle of Hastings. While…

Watch Dogs Cops vs The Indestructible Crime Car

The law is the law in Watch Dogs. If you break it, you’re getting gunned down—regardless of whether or not you happen to be human. Or at least, that’s what happens in this video by Tom Schneider where the police obsesses over trying to shoot down a car. Likely nothing more than an isolated bug,…

GameStop Is Overhauling Trade-Ins, Will Offer More Money [UPDATE]

GameStop is overhauling trade-ins and launching a new program that will wind up giving people more money for the games they sell, Kotaku has learned. The new initiative, which will launch on August 18, will simplify GameStop’s trade-in structure, reducing the complexity of what has become an unnecessarily obtuse service. No longer will you have…

​What Snowpiercer Was All About

If you’ve been readingKotaku and paying attention to the stuff that a lot of our writers like, you’ve probably watched Bong Joon-ho’s terrific post-apocalyptic train-tale Snowpiercer. And while the film’s allegory was likely pretty obvious to anyone who was paying attention, it was often conveyed in some smart, subtle ways. This new video from Evan…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: The Guardians Of Gaming: The Winners!

Before heading out of town last week, I entrusted a simple task to our crack team of Photoshop-savvy space outlaw readers — put The Guardians of the Galaxy in all of the games. Now they are. Excellent. After a bit of a bummer of a homecoming, today was greatly brightened by going through all of…

How Evil Can You Be In The Sims 4? We Did Some Experiments

I tried to be as evil as possible in The Sims 4, and I was not disappointed. You might have heard that The Sims 4 removed a (according to some players) pretty key series feature: pools. While swimming was, in previous games, a great way to build up athleticism and take a load off, many…

People Who Went to the Moon in the Destiny Beta Over the weekend Bungie released a detailed infographic with some cool statistics from the Destiny beta. A few of note: 851,264 players went to the moon 1969 claimed to land on the moon but faked it (get it?) 777,000 players also used the Destiny companion…

She’s Making An Honest Game About Sex

I went to Brooklyn, New York to visit Nina Freeman, who is currently making a game called Cibele. It is an autobiographical game about Nina’s experience having sex for the first time with someone she met through an online game. The game uses real filmed sequences and sections of an MMO-like game to tell an…

If Pokémon Were A Free-To-Play Mobile Game

Imagine, if you will, a world where Pokémon isn’t just something you can buy for $40 or so. Imagine Nintendo’s collectible critter game as… free-to-play Redditor ktrcoyote has envisioned a world where Pokémon is a free-to-play game for iPhones, and the results are hilarious. Pokémon: All The Bravest has a nice ring to it, don’t…

Watch The First Seven Minutes Of Star Wars Rebels

You can watch the action-packed first seven minutes of Star Wars Rebels below. It’s all classic Star Wars, including a crowded marketplace, gun battle with Stormtroopers, and speeder bike chase. And nothing could be more Star Wars than introducing a new, slightly different type of Stormtrooper to turn into an action figure: Via Rebels Report…