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Community Revived For Sixth Season By Yahoo

Greendale lives on. The folks behind Community announced today that they’ll be making a sixth season with Yahoo, following their TV cancellation earlier this year. No word when the nerdy cult classic will come back or where we’ll be able to watch it, but at least “six seasons and a movie” is still a very…

A Message From Level 1 Boss

Despite what probably amounts to years of experience facing what must be thousands of intrepid heroes, the Level 1 Boss you find in most RPGs is usually fairly predictable and weak. And while the heroes continue to level up and earn status and gear in their communities, Level 1 Boss never makes any kind of…

​Pokémon‘s Pallet Town Has Never Sounded So Smooth

Everyone loves video game town themes. They’re so relaxing; there’s no need for tension or strife, because we’re safe at home. We don’t have to fight battles or solve puzzles; it’s time to take it easy. The Pallet Town theme from Pokémon Red/Blue/Yellow is a particularly relaxing town theme, and it’s made all the more…

New Hyper-Violent The Walking Dead Statue

Here’s a new The Walking Dead statue by McFarlane toys, featuring Rick Grimes taking down a trio of zombies: The statue is based on a sketch by Robert Kirkman: You can preorder now: This hand-painted piece not only includes Rick Grimes and three full zombies, but also three zombie heads and a slew of body…

Captain America Celebrates The Country’s Most Horrible Statistics

With Independence Day right around the corner, Fox’s Animation Domination mixes a comic book icon with horrible U.S. statistics to make everyone a little more depressed. Statistically speaking, every country in the world could have one of these songs made about them, tailored towards their worst qualities in order to sound as terrible as possible.…

Six Insane Zelda Speedruns

Summer Games Done Quick is over, but the crazy speedruns and insane moves will live on forever. I haven’t watched all the runs yet, but some of my absolute favorites are the Zelda games, which take some serious skill and precision to master like this. It’s amazing how these speedrunners know every single trick and…

These Guys Re-Created A GTA V Trailer In Real Life

A group of Spanish filmmakers called Zapruder Films put together this sweet live-action re-creation of the original GTA V teaser trailer from way back in 2011. Also, they set it in Madrid. The whole thing is pretty great, and they put the original trailer in the bottom left corner for reference, so you can see…

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Deals: Wolfenstein, Watch Dogs, Playstation Plus, The Legend of Korra

Whatever your platform you can grab the surprisingly good Wolfenstein: The New Order on the cheap today. PC gamers get it for $30, while it’s $40 on all the consoles. [Wolfenstein: The New Order] Watch Dogs is also discounted across almost everything today, starting at $47 on the PC and going up to $53 for…

Oh Good, The New Ninja Turtles Movie Is Getting A 3DS Game

I was really hoping there wouldn’t be an official physical video game product based on the upcoming live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie, if only to avoid seeing these ugly mugs on store shelves. Coming in August from Activision, the company that’s made a name for itself for releasing average Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles video…

Shigeru Miyamoto, We Have An Answer To Your Question

Mr. Miyamoto, you recently asked me to ask Kotaku‘s readers to say which games they’d like you to make for the Wii U. Your question was extremely popular and I got a lot of replies—more than 3,000. And a lot of them involved a particular word: Metroid It’s not quite that simple, though. There were…

How I Learned I’m as Bad as Everyone Else in GTA Online

The world of GTA Online is a violent and unforgiving place. It is a realm of meaningless deadly violence – like Watford high street on a Friday night. Other players just want to shoot you or steal your stuff, or shoot you and then steal your stuff. They rampage through the city streets committing acts…

And Now Some Free Garden Warfare Content From PopCap’s Sponsors

Two new free Plants Vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare character variants drop today, courtesy of Aquafina FlavorSplash. How do you feel about free sponsored content? The Berry Shooter and Citrus Cactus arrive today with the free Tactical Taco Party Pack downloadable content pack, the latest in a series of free premium content added since the launch…

‘Moms Against Gaming’ Is My New Favorite Twitter Account

Meet @MomsAgainstGam, a noble crusader in the fight to keep our children away from the menace that is video gaming. With powerful tweets like “disease and poverty are a direct result of Gaming,” @MomsAgainstGam is helping expose the painful truth that video games must be stopped. Well, not really. This is a parody account, masterfully…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Metro: Last Light: Just Bopping Them on the Head • Blade and Soul: The Ani-TAY Review • TAY Explores Comics: Iris Zero • Mekakucity Actors: Rockmandash’s Ani-TAY Review TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

​What Happened to the Lost Thundercats Games

Thunder, thunder, Thundercats… no! Come with us, children of the 1980s and journey through a twisted tale about why there was only one terrible game based on the mega-popular fightin’ cat-people cartoon. Old-game archivist Larry Bundy digs deep in the sketchy game publishing history tactics of three decades ago to find out why a seeming…

Which Video Game Genre Is Your City?

From the survival horror streets of Chicago to massively multiplayer Los Angeles, Dorkly has taken a handful of U.S. cities and described them — with uncanny accuracy — in terms of video game genres. They describe the dangers of Chicago thusly: Intermittent pockets of extreme danger and safe zones. Filled with stories of an awful…

356 weapons, 19 boss trophies, and 4 fishing trophies make for one hell of a display room in Terraria According to the owner/builder, redditor critcodedtuna, every item save for the Space Dolphin Machine Gun, which cannot be crafted or found in-game, was gathered by hand. Everything you can hang on weapons racks plus all 23…

A Quick Look at Civilization Revolution 2

JFK, stealth bombers and Silicon Valley are coming to the next Civilization game. Oh and lasers, too. It’s about to get all modern up in here. In the video above, I take in a near-final build of Civilization Revolution 2, the sequel to the built-for-consoles spin-off of Sid Meier’s popular strategy series. You’ll see some…

Good Job Folks, There’s A Grass Simulator Now

First Rock Simulator, and now this. Though it’s not a new Greenlight developer, so at least nobody had to pay $100 to get this listed. I’ll just let the description speak for itself: Have you waited all your life for a game that brings plot and gameplay together? Well we have the game for you.…