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Tiny Super Mario 64 Secrets You May Not Have Noticed

Super Mario 64 didn’t skimp out on small details—take, for example, the penguins in Cool Cool Mountain. They do more than just provide you with stars, you know. GameXplain breaks down some of the neat things you might’ve missed about ’em, like how the baby penguin cutely mimics Mario. Aww. Maybe I wouldn’t have cruelly…

SimCity Redemption Day, SteelSeries Mousepad, Castlevania [Deals]

It goes without saying that SimCity had its issues at launch, but a year later, the game’s all grown up and even sports an offline mode. If you think it’s time to give the game a chance, you can get it today from Amazon for just $20. If you already own the game, the futuristic…

One Of Infamous: Second Son‘s Best Parts Doesn’t Happen On the PS4

I thought I Finished Infamous: Second Son. Turns out there’s plenty left. Infamous: Second Son came out on Friday. If you picked up before the weekend, it might be the case that you’ve blown through the main storyline already, soaked up all those tasty powers and are purging the Department of Unified Protection out of…

Who Should Have Been Street Fighter’s Latest Character?

You can’t please everyone, especially on the internet, so the people at OutsideXbox have offered up 9 suggestions for characters that should have been the latest addition to Ultra Street Fighter IV, instead of “Cammy with a mask”. I’m not a big Street Fighter fan, so I didn’t have any strong feelings on this issue……

Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes – PS4 vs. Xbox One vs. PS3 vs. 360

With every new cross-gen video game comes a new opportunity to compare technical performances across most of today’s big gaming consoles, and Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes is no exception. The super-technical folks at Digital Foundry have put together a great breakdown of the technical specs in the latest MGS game, complete with video…

Someone’s Pretending To Be Obama While Playing Titanfall

Probably the best thing about these videos from GameSocietyPimps is that everyone involved is such a good sport. Often these “character plays a multiplayer first-person shooter” pranks lean toward the cruder side, but this impression artist stays in fairly true character. Imagine Key & Peele’s Obama skit but a little less…angry. But in these rounds,…

Here’s the painted version of NECA’s Booker DeWitt figure. Should be available for preorder at your favorite webstore today.

Your PS3s and PS4s are about to get 37% more radical. OlliOlli—the hit side-scrolling skateboarding game that came out for PlayStation Vita earlier this year—will be coming to Sony’s home consoles this summer. There’s also an update on the way that will fix a crash bug and include other stuff, too.

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Why Post-Game Content Sucks• 10 Reasons Awesomenauts Is The Best MOBA • A Tale Of Dark Souls II Cooperation TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

If Disney Characters Were In The Middle of a Zombie Apocalypse

They would survive and adapt easily, or at least that’s what deviantART artist Kasami-Sensei‘s artwork suggests. He put several Disney characters into the Walking Dead universe, making all the appropriate changes. It’s weird to see Anna from Frozen with an M4 carbine, but you can’t survive otherwise. Here are some highlights. My favorite is definitely…

Everything Happens In The Latest X-Men: Days Of Future Past Trailer

I think we might have gathered a few too many X-Men, you guys. Not that I mind a whole lot of X-Men. It just makes for a very scattered theatrical trailer, where it feels like all of the things are happening at once. Maybe Bryan Singer is making them cut the X-Men: Days of Future…

Imagine what MacGyver could do with a modern day smart phone. Fairplay Digital has announced it’s cobbling together an official mobile game based on classic action-adventure TV series. Fairplay will reveal the game in the coming weeks, after which it will explode as Richard Dean Anderson leaps away from it in slow motion.

The Cuccos from The Legend of Zelda are making an appearance in Super Smash Bros Wii U, and in the picture above, Toon Link is in trouble if he’s really about to hit one of them. You shouldn’t bully them… they might hurt you Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some…

YouTube Stars Play Blizzard’s Upcoming Heroes of the Storm

Heroes of the Storm, Blizzard’s upcoming MOBA, looks fun when big YouTubers, like TotalBiscuit, StarCraft’s Husky, Jesse Cox and a few others team up to try out the game, which is currently in alpha—a fact that explains why it looks a bit empty at the moment, compared to, say, DOTA. The clip above is from…

That’s One Way To Build Titanfall‘s Giant Mech

Though jumping in that titan would probably be a bad idea, one of the employees of an EB Games store in Melbourne, Australia came up with the best way to use up empty Xbox One and 360 boxes: he built an almost life-sized titan from Titanfall to guard the store. UPDATE – Kotaku Australia has…

The Latest Unreal Engine Gives Us The Prettiest Lighting Effects

Hopefully we’ll get to see something similarly pretty in our lifetimes—well, that’s not the main problem. Something similarly pretty but in-game, and with an acceptable framerate. Yeah, that’s it. Until then, we have videos to gawk and “ooooh” at. Like these two, spotted by DSOGaming, which showcase the lighting effects Unreal Engine 4 is capable…

Star Wars Podracer from Kerbal Space Program Can Actually Fly

Anakin’s podracer doesn’t hold a candle to this one. No sir. Redditor m1sz created an actual, working podracer in spacecraft-building simulator Kerbal Space Program, and even made a video of the podracer in flight. Well, not just that—like any good Kerbal Space Program footage, it starts with a prototype crashing. And ends with a prototype…

You Can’t Kill Like BioShock, But You Can Shop Like BioShock

The two “real” bottles of BioShock Infinite vigor we posted about last year were nice, but you know what, these two might be even nicer. Their packaging design was the work of Zoe Brookes, formerly of Irrational Games. That Murder of Crows box looks like the swishest bottle of Scotch on Earth…if, you know, it…

New Infamous Game Is Secretly Pretty Funny

Cute, Infamous. Very cute. If you haven’t seen, the rest of the game is pretty great too. If you end up picking it up, be sure to keep an eye on some other signs as well (click “expand” on the one below to read the fine print). inFAMOUS in case of emergency… [Reddit, via Gamefreaks]

Custom Articulated, Light-Up GLaDOS Figurine

Custom GLaDOS figurine by Sabretooth. The figure has multiple points of articulation and a light-up eye, and is approximately the same scale as NECA’s Chell figure.