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Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Rusty’s Real Deal Baseball: The TAY Review • Where is the role playing in JRPGS? • My Time Celebrating International Tabletop Day! • Monument Valley: The TAY Review TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

Every Trek Generation Comes Together In Star Trek Timelines

A Star Trek strategy role-playing game that allows fans to build their dream crew out of characters from every generation of the television series? You have my attention, Disruptor Beam. In development for mobile and browsers (oh stop), Star Trek Timelines is a story-driven social game (calm down!) that allows players to explore the galaxy,…

Devolver Digital and Dennaton Games just released a new trailer for Hotline Miami 2, the highly anticipated sequel to 2012’s acclaimed indie gorefest and one of our favorite games for the PlayStation Vita. The video doesn’t court as much controversy as, say, that notorious sexual assault scene from an early demo did. But fans don’t…

All Your Gaming Peripheral Needs In One Affordable Bundle

Best Buy is running a very cool promotion that bundles a Logitech G Series mouse, keyboard, headset, and mousepad together for just 70 bucks. It’s a sweet, very cheap deal for those looking to jump into the dedicated gaming peripheral space or anyone whose gear is getting old. These are quality products, and step-down versions…

“Wherever we may stand today as an industry, I am confident that we will stand somewhere far better tomorrow.” Watch BioWare designer Manveer Heir’s great GDC talk about racism, misogyny, and homophobia in the video game industry. The audience gave him a standing ovation.

​They’re Killing Off Archie In July

The people at Archie Comics just don’t give a damn. They unleashed a zombie apocalypse in Riverdale last year, in which two female supporting characters sort of came out of the closet. Now the publisher is killing off their main character. RIP Archie. Archie Andrews dies a tragic, heroic death in this July’s Life With…

Episode three of The Wolf Among Us is out this week, developer Telltale says—it releases today on PS3, PC, and Mac; and it’s out tomorrow on Xbox 360 (and on PSN in Europe). iOS comes later this week.

Here’s How You’ll Be Killing Nazis in the New Wolfenstein Game

× Man, alternate reality Nazis play soccer much differently than we do here. The newest teaser for Wolfenstein: The New Order shows even more of just how terrible life would be if the Nazis won World War II. We get glimpses of the torture and detention camps that the Reich employs and a good look…

The Making Of A Very Different Kind of War Video Game

“The pattern is always the same,” video game designer Pawel Miechowski told me recently. “People struggle for food, soap and medicine. They trade liquor or any alcohol for bullets or any weapons. That’s what happened in Sarajevo.” That’s what happens in cities wracked by war. That’s what will happen in Pawel Miechowski’s most unusual war…

AMD’s Latest ‘World’s Fastest’ Video Card Is A Liquid-Cooled Monster

After weeks of teasing, AMD has finally revealed the Radeon R9 295X2, the first dual-processor graphics card that actually doubles the performance of a single-processor card. It’s got tubes. Tubes are cool. Well, tubes are cooling at least. Along with a single center fan that doesn’t seem like it would do much for a card…

Kickass LEGO Transformer Turns Into a Game Boy Advance

New York-based LEGO builder Baron von Brunk has a pretty cool and original ongoing series where he builds LEGO consoles with transforming abilities. He made Nintendo 64 and NES Zapper Megatrons, and while we wait for one that can transform into the Nintendo R.O.B., here’s his latest in the form of a Game Boy Advance.…

Christina Hendricks Thinks She’d be a Natural Fit in Game of Thrones

Mad Men‘s advertising office manager, Christina Hendricks, was the guest of Conan O’Brien, where she talked about her desire for a role in HBO’s Game of Thrones, even though she never ever watched an episode of Game of Thrones before. She’ll probably change her mind when she realizes the outfits in Game of Thrones are,…

“It feels like an unnecessary add-on… I’m sure they’re going to release an Xbox One without Kinect. It would be unthinkable that they wouldn’t.” Game designer and programmer Peter Molyneux, in an Edge interview with multiple industry personalitiesabout the Xbox One’s future.

This is Mark of the Old Ones, a physics adventure-platformer with a Lovecraftian twist in which you’re some sort of a tentacled abomination. Watching the trailer I’m reminded more of Gish than anything. A really pretty, horror-themed Gish. It has an ongoing Kickstarter campaign, if you’re interested. Aside: the page has some of the coolest…

World of Warcraft’s Shiny New HD Tauren in Motion

Courtesy of Blizzard, here’s a look at what the Tauren will look, move and act like in World of Warcraft’s new expansion-slash-graphical-update, Warlords of Draenor In a post on the game’s blog titled “Running of the Bulls,” several developers working on the updated character models for Warlords of Draenor came out to discuss the Male…

Dog Tanks, Exo Suits, And More Mercenary King Animations

Paul Robertson posted a huge selection of animations created for Mercenary Kings. See them in action below: You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

GI Joe Figures For Grown-Ups

Marauder, who for years have been making custom weapons and accessories (sandbags, etc) for “adult collectors” of GI Joe-scale figures, have decided to step up and start making figures of their own. If GI Joes are for kids, then these things are for the grown-ups of the Call of Duty generation. Designed for both figure…

Help A PC Classic Return From The Dead

Outcast is one of the best games ever made for the PC. It is also, sadly, one of the most underrated, meaning that it’s never got a sequel. Or a spin-off. Or even a shitty mobile game. But hey, now we’re hopefully getting something. Last year, the creators of Outcast got together and bought back…

Game Of Thrones Game Has You Slapping Joffrey. A Lot.

Remember those sweetGame of Thrones fighting game images? Well, while that’ll (likely) never happen, we can now play the next best thing. Artist Roberto Flores, whose 2D fighting take on Westeros was so damn good, has teamed up with friends Albert Li and Alex Shum to make King Slapper. It’s very much in the same…

Special Xbox 360 Controller Knows How You’re Feeling

We never did get that Nintendo Vitality Sensor (though the company is now working on something grander). A researcher at Stanford, however, has gone and done something similar, only for an Xbox 360 controller. Gregory Kovacs, professor of electrical engineering at Stanford, worked with Texas Instruments (and his students) to develop the pad, which takes…