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If you like reading about games, check out “StoryBundle.” It’s a new pay-what-you-want bundle of ebooks about video games, including work from some great writers, from Geoff Keighley to Ian Bogost. You can pay whatever you want and get the first six; pay more than $12 and you’ll get three more good ones.

Are you in New York? Do you like Civilization V, and art? Stop by the Whitney museum to see Me Playing Civilization, a performance art piece that consists of… a guy playing Civilization V, seven hours a day, five days a week, until May 25th. For more about Me Playing Civilization, check out the interview…

You Are Never Too Old To Cosplay

Aww. Now I can’t stop thinking about cosplay couples growing old together, never feeling too old to hit the convention circuit to share their love of dressing up as their favorite characters. Here’s the Popeye cosplay in full: That’s love, right there. ♥ To contact the author of this post, write to [email protected] or find…

​Choose Your Own NSFW Adventures with Batman, Spider-Man and Stan Lee

The Dark Knight’s greatest enemy may not be the central antagonist of the next Batman video game but that doesn’t mean you can’t hear Mark Hamill do his rendition of the Joker anymore. This Clown Prince of Crime? He literally poops on Batman. Thanks, Robot Chicken! The return of Hamill as the Joker is only…

Nobuo Uematsu loves indies—the famed composer best known for his work on the Final Fantasy series is going to work on the upcoming strategy game Defender’s Quest 2. Cool!

Is that you, Tex Murphy? It remains amazing to me that in this, the year of our lord 2014 AD, we are getting a new Tex Murphy game. But we are, thanks largely to the magic of Kickstarter. Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure launches on April 22 on Steam and GoG, and I will…

Why I Haven’t Been Playing Last-Gen Games Much Anymore

Now that the PS4, Xbox One and Wii U are all out, you’d think it’s the perfect time to dive into games on the PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii. Games on those systems are typically cheaper and there are a ton of worthwhile titles released for them already, many of which are already in our…

Watch A Robot Destroying Threes, Live

Matthew Wegner is working on a cool-looking game, but in his free time, he built an actual physical robot that plays Threes, the puzzle game that we’re obsessed with. You can watch it playing live on Twitch right here. According to the text on the stream, he just created the robot, and it seems the…

Japan’s Big RPG Bubble

Earlier this week, Square Enix boss Yosuke Matsuda said some things that left a whole lot of RPG fans scratching their heads. “Due to having split [the development mindset] according to regions around the world, we weren’t able to see this clearly up until now, but fans of JRPGs are really spread around the world,”…

Tekken Tag Tournament 2 Gets Added to EVO 2014 Line-Up

Whether you love or hate Namco’s long-running Tekken series, you have to admit that it sure was weird not seeing its latest installment as part of the EVO 2014 line-up. But, Heihachi Mishima fans can rest easy now: Tekken Tag Tournament 2 has just been announced as one of the titles that the world’s best…

The Deep Sea Is Terrifying, And This Game Proves It

My hands are sweating. As I walk inside narrow metal hallways, I notice that I’m hearing things that, frankly, I’m not even sure are actually there. Hollow screeches. Faraway wails. It reminds me of seeing a shadow in the corner of your eyes, a darkness your sight never catches up with but that you’re still…

Free Month of Xbox LIVE, New Humble, Indiana Jones, GTAV [Deals]

Signing up for Bing Rewards (which you should do anyway), gets you a free month of Xbox LIVE. No-brainer. You do have to use the service a bit to get the reward, but it’s nothing major. [Bing] New Humble Weekly hosted by Destructoid | Critter Crunch is awesome. This has been a bit of an…

Finally, A Video Game That Lets You Worship Gabe Newell

The wonderful folks at Giant Bomb got their hands on a copy of Crawl, which lets you explore a dungeon where your friends are the monsters. It looks like the game’s sense of humor is already living up to its excellent trailer. You can check out the gameplay in the video below. It’s an early…

Every Death In Game of Thrones So Far [SPOILERS]

In case you needed a reminder that nobody will ever, ever be happy on Game of Thrones, here’s a three-minute catch-up on every death we’ve seen on-screen so far, courtesy of Digg. Thanks, George RR Martin. Game of Thrones season 4 starts on Sunday. Expect lots of sex, blood, and sweet house insignias.

Battlefield 4 Players Have Finally Found The Megalodon

Not only has the Megalodon that everyone was searching for finally been found, but it isn’t disappointing in the least. Note how it gracefully explodes when it hits the water. It’s become apparent that the most interesting part of Battlefield 4 are the many easter eggs. They started with the Megalodon rumors, which nobody was…

What’s Inside the Amazon Fire TV

They’ve done it for the PS4, the Xbox One and damn near ever high-profile piece of consumer electronic tech that’s come down the pike in recent years. Now, iFixit’s popping open the Amazon Fire TVand documenting the innards of the online giant’s streaming mini-console. All of the Fire TV’s hardware gets pried open in iFixit’s…

Five-Year-Old Boy Exposes Xbox Security Flaw

Meet Microsoft’s newest security researcher: Kristoffer Von Hassel. He lives in San Diego. He loves video games. And he’s five years old. He’s also a better hacker than any of us. Von Hassel cracked into his dad’s Xbox One account by finding a backdoor in the password verification screen, as ABC 10 reports. He entered…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Silver Spoon: The Ani-TAY Review • Power Fantasies are Great, and Here’s Why • Memories of Launch Day: Xbox 360 • Zooming in (and out) on Games • Sometimes the Best Stories in Games Don’t Come from a Quest Log TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY…

How The Batmobile Works In Arkham Knight

I really wish Warner Bros. had released footage of their next Batman game, Arkham Knight, because I’d like you all to see what they’re doing with the Batmobile. It’s not quite what you’d expect, I don’t think. You can drive it, of course, which is a first for the Arkham series, screaming down the streets…

Here’s A Sweet Short Film For The Elder Scrolls Online

This five-minute short, released by Bethesda today, tells you absolutely nothing about The Elder Scrolls Online, which is officially out today for PC and Mac. But hey, it’s a pretty snazzy film and a solid way to start your Friday morning. Very Return of the Kingish. Enjoy.