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Luke Ranks The Mario Kart Games, Worst To Best

A Mario Kart game came out recently, and some people at Kotaku said it’s the best ever. Others disagreed. This quickly leads to jokes about Mario Kart DS, the merits of balloons and arguments over just how close to perfection Double Dash got. To appease the great Pecking Order, then, and to settle the debate…

Your Dream Of Playing A Morrowind Dark Elf May Finally Come True

Dark elves are pretty sweet, you know? They’re like elves, only cooler In Skyrim, dark elves—known in The Elder Scrolls lore as the Dunmer—were relegated to a ghetto in a single city. But if you played Morrowind, you got to interact with them a whole lot more often. That’s because Morrowind the game is set…

Tired of “Videogames”? Thanks to a new Chrome extension from engineer Doug Tabacco, you can now replace every instance of the one-word usage of “videogames” with the two-word “video games.” Although whatever your browser says, the one vs. two-word debate will rage on…

The Beautiful Faces Of Skyrim

Photographer Andrew Cull and some friends have held a little contest to see who can take the best “portraits” of Skyrim characters. The winners are absolutely ridiculous Sure, it helps that in each shot the visuals appear to have been modded to within an inch of their lives, but whatever, they’re still great “photos”. There…

Name And Publicly Shame Your Most Useless Pokémon

As awesome as owning Pokémon would be, it would undoubtedly come with some drawbacks—just like owning real pets would. But if the newest Pokémon trend is anything to go by, it would be kind of hard to stay mad at our Pokémon. Right now, tons of artists are taking the “pet shaming” meme and are…

Do Nintendo Miis dream of virtual sheep? Probably. But they also dream of much more peculiar things than that in Tomodachi Life. Like an altar to an old NES accessory, for one. StreetPass Princeton got a glimpse into one of the whackier dream sequences I’ve seen come out of Nintendo’s new sim game, and the…

Sakura Spirit, As Told By Steam Reviews

Maybe you haven’t heard of lewd visual novel Sakura Spirit, which is currently available on Steam. That’s OK, because Sakura Spirit’s Steam reviews are here to help. Even if you have no interest in playing it, it’s hard not to be struck by the reviews of Sakura Spirit—most are silly. And given that the game…

The New Civilization Is Getting Thrashed On iTunes, With Good Reason

At first it doesn’t look so bad. Two and a half stars out of five isn’t terrible. That average score, given by nearly 500 iTunes users to the two-week-old Civilization Revolution 2, isn’t glorious, of course. But maybe Civilization Revolution 2 is at least mediocre? That’s partly right. It also costs $15, and it might…

A Video Game That Really Gets What It Means To Come Out

“I’m bisexual,” Nicky says to his mother. “Sexually attracted to both men and women.” “You can’t be both,” his mother snaps back. “You have to pick one.” “That’s…not how it works,” Nicky responds. “At all.” His mother does not understand. As you continue to have this conversation, gliding your cursor over increasingly painful dialogue prompts,…

Actually, Batman: Arkham Origins Was Awesome

You know what game was actually pretty damned good? Batman: Arkham Origins. You wouldn’t know it by looking around online. While the game does have its supporters, a cursory tour of the Internet gives the impression that most Batman fans thought it was a disappointment. Released last fall, Origins had a lot working against it.…

​The Rarest Known PS4 Trophies

You’re one of them. The accomplishment addicts. The trophy trackers. You need to get them all. Well, here are some PS4 trophies you might not want—or be able—to get. The PS4 is a young system that’s still in the early stages of building out its software library. Still, the system is home to a few…

Check Out Pikachu’s New Cosplay Outfits

Though we detailed some of this last week, here’s some footage of Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire’s new mega, secret bases, and yes, Pikachu dress-up. Too cute. Here’s what The Pokemon Company has to say about the Pikachu cosplay: First introduced in Pokémon X and Pokémon Y, Pokémon-Amie returns in Pokémon Omega Ruby and…

Watch The Wii U Get Torn Apart In The Name Of Trivia

Now that the Wii U is officially a viable console it’s time to tear it apart in stop-motion to see what sort of fun trivia makes it tick. Vsauce3 continues its proud tradition of stripping gaming devices down to their base components while cleverly revealing important tidbits about them you may not have known, like…

New Ocarina of Time Glitch Lets You Shoot Arrows Without A Bow

Despite being released nearly 16 years ago, speedrunners are still finding neat glitches inside of Ocarina of Time. Take this “action swap” glitch that was documented over the weekend, for example—which lets you perform some cool item shenanigans. Speedrunner Zas_ details a glitch which allows Link to shoot arrows despite not actually having a bow…

Deals: Crazy Xbox One and PS4 Bundles, Plus and LIVE Discounts, Cosmos

Last week we brought you an awesome PS4 bundle, and today the Xbox One gets its turn, or two turns rather. You can get the Kinectless Xbox One for $360 right now, or opt for a Dell bundle with the console, 12 months of Gold, and a $100 Dell gift card for $439 12 Month…

Even super-villains play Threes, according to this panel from the newest issueof the ever-excellent comic Superior Foes of Spider-Man. But if the bad guys play that game, then what kind of unscrupulous character plays 2048?

Here’s a new educational Assassin’s Creed Unity video from Ubisoft that is partly historically accurate. The French Revolution didn’t have Arno the Assassin in it, of course!

Watch Someone Use Mario Kart 8’s Super Horn Like A Total Jerk

People cutting their teeth online in Mario Kart 8 know this moment all too well. Say you’re racing towards the end of the track. You’re in second place. Maybe third. Things are still close, close enough that you’re not going to give up just yet. Then, this happens: Some jerk comes in with a super…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Reggie Rejected Me Four Times: The Wii U And What Nintendo Thinks Of It • Inside All Of Us Resides A Hero • Anime: The Birds And The Bees Of Any Japanese Class • TAY Explores Comics: Binbogami Ga TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow…

​Injured Wrestler Wants People to Buy Him a PS4 to Help Recovery

This is probably a joke. Or maybe a sad reality. But it’d make a great wrestling storyline. The man known in Scottish wrestling circles as Red Lightning is not in prime shape anymore. What Andrew Wason needs to get back to peak form, so he says, is a PS4. So he started up a crowdfunding…