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Portal 2 Looks Fun Even Without Portals

A few months ago, we took a look at Aperture Tag, a Portal 2 mod that replaces the portal gun with a gun that can shoot the blue and orange gels to craft the levels into a bouncy, speedy wonderland. It’s finally out and it’s looking even better than before. The mod adds a whole…

​My Favorite EVO 2014 Matches Were the Ones With the Least Action

There doesn’t need to be a lot of movement to create excitement in a top-tier fighting game showdown. Just look at these EVO 2014 matches from this past weekend. Sure, the Justin Wong Marvel vs. Capcom win was a moment for the ages and Louffy’s string of victories on his way to the championship was…

Weird Al’s New Video Is A Brilliant Grammatical Smackdown

Al “Weird Al” Yankovic has been making music for 38 years. His newest CD—and probably his last traditional album—drops today. Here’s Word Crimes, the wonderful video for his great send-up of Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines. “You should never / write words using numbers / unless you’re seven / or your name is Prince.” Hear that,…

​Futurama In 3D is Strangely Breathtaking

Look, I don’t want a 3D Futurama movie and neither do you. But I’ll be damned if this test shot doesn’t give me the shivers. In the clip above, artist Alexy Zakharov rendered the iconic skyline from the intro of Futurama in glorious, heartbreaking 3D using 3Dsmax, Nuke, Photoshop and After Effects. He also made…

24 Recap: It’s All Over

PREVIOUSLY ON 24: Cartoon villain Cheng Zhi gets his hands on an override device that can take over the world; U.S. president James Heller tells Jack to go find it before World War III breaks out; Cheng turns out to be working with the Russians; Jack and Mark Boudreau work together to raid the compound…

Deals: Game of Thrones Season 4, PS4 Preorders, Funimation, LIVE Cash

Preorder the Games of Thrones Season 4 blu-ray to lock in your preorder discount and as always get preorder price guarantee. Just as with season 2, season 3 hit low prices before release, before bouncing back up for quite a while, and we expect the same pricing behavior from season 4. Best Buy has jumped…

Gigantic, A Gorgeous New Game From The Lead Designer Of StarCraft

Announced today by independent developer Motiga, Gigantic is a “genre-bending online game” with an incredibly pretty debut trailer and a concept that could be called “offense of the ancients”. Rather than having teams of players attempting to keep the other team from taking out their base, the base becomes part of the players’ five-man team.…

Mario Kart 8’s Yoshi, On A Yoshi Bike, In Yoshi’s Valley

What’s better than one Yoshi? Two Yoshis? What about…get ready…three Yoshis? Boom. Done. Well, sort of. Never one to shy away from bizarre self-referential humor, Nintendo made a character, a vehicle, and a racetrack modeled off its adorable green dinosaur for Mario Kart 8. While I haven’t encountered anything like it yet online, this means…

LEGO Bioshock Infinite Diorama Is Simply Massive

The exterior of the Bank of the Prophet in Bioshock Infinites was one of the most memorable parts of the game, and it’s just simply incredible in LEGO form. This massive build was made by the talented Imagine Rigney and was exhibited at BrickWorld last month. If you haven’t seen it, there’s no need to…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: If My Heart Had Wings: The TAY Review • Trainime – Summer Season 2014 Part 5! • One Piece Unlimited World Red: The TAY Review TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

Magnificent Failure Of A Convention Now Has Its Own Simulator

If you are like me, you may not have been able to attend the spectacular failure that was Dashcon. Lucky for us, some brave soul has stepped in to create a near-perfect simulation. If you aren’t caught up on the Tumblr fan-convention that descended into legendary chaos over the weekend, I urge you to read…

Why Monster Hunter’s Monsters Are So Awesome

People play Monster Hunter for plenty of reasons. There’s the challenge – there aren’t many other games out there that give you the same rush as felling a slobbering, explosive-slime-smearing Brachydios after hours of trying. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK Others might play it for the comforting grind, the amassing of a huge…

Don’t Starve’s expansion pack, Reign of the Giants, is coming to the PS4 on July 22nd, developer Klei Entertainment has announced. The new stuff will cost you $4.99, unless you’re a PlayStation Plus member. Then you get a snazzy ten percent discount at launch.

Adventure Time Goes Really Well With Game of Thrones

Artist Joe Hogan and Mike Vasquez’s crossover series are the best example that Adventure Time and its style is just perfect for mash-ups. Their latest piece has really serious and funny-looking Game of Thrones characters. Their prints will be available at this year’s Comic Con or, alternatively, you can grab them on Etsy Here’s the…

A Game About Pizza-Delivering Ninja Girls… And Bullying

In a grim, dystopian future, a lone delivery girl-slash-ninja who works for her dad’s pizza parlor must overcome her biggest enemy: a clique of rival, megacorp-allied delivery girl-slash-ninja. Ninja Pizza Girl looks like a traditional platformer on the surface, but instead of death, the heroine faces depression. Your enemies try to humiliate you by mocking…

WoW’s Draenei Next Up For a Visual Upgrade

Blizzard’s ongoing improvements to World of Warcraft have now reached the Eredar with a new look for the Draenei. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK Art director Chris Robinson says, “The original was one of the better character models in the game, so it didn’t require a ton of translation—but with higher-resolution textures and…

These Virtual Rocks Look Damn Good

Rocks are everywhere in video games. They sit by roads, roll around as debris, make up whole rooms, or even sometimes star in their own games—they’re pretty important! So really, it’s no wonder there’s a whole, pages-long forum thread dedicated to crafting and sharing the prettiest 3D rocks. The thread, titled “Rawk – Post any…

Smoking Simulator Simulates Not Just Smoking, But Murderous Rampages

Smoking Simulator is, thankfully, a little more involved than the name suggests. This isn’t a simulation of the act of smoking. It’s a simulation of the act of trying not to (or to) kill everyone around you one the smokes run out. The game was made for the same Indie Game Maker contest as Purrkour,…

The Horror Of Crysis 2’s Crouching

Crysis is a first-person series. There is no third-person perspective. And we should be forever grateful for that. Why? Because this. This is what happens when you tinker with the game and see things from outside the player’s body. Because it’s an FPS, there is no head. There is also no concern given to things…

Some Folks Think A Doctor Who Character Looks Very Mass Effect

On the left, here’s a character from the new series of Doctor Who. Does he look at all familiar? Maybe he’s, ahem, calibrating your memory? British fans and media, including Eurogamer, have been quick to point out the similarities between the character and Mass Effect’s Garrus, especially since some of the show’s creators are on…