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The Best of Kotaku, The Week of March 17

GDC week is over and we have no more Project Morpheus’ and Oculus Rifts to play with 🙁 But if you want to read about our impressions of both of these and catch up on other interesting articles from this week, feel free to browse Kotaku Selects The image above is by mnrART. This is…

Photos of people trying to figure out the Device 6 puzzle at Simogo’s GDC booth.

Amazon has jumped on the bandwagon and discounted the Xbox One Titanfall bundle by $50. Use code X1AMAZON at checkout. Same discount applies to the “standard” model which is bundled with Forza 5. [Amazon]

Gallery of Call of Duty: Ghosts concept art and graphic design by Thomas Szakolczay

Five Highlights of the Game Developers Conference This Year

Now that the Game Developers Conference is over, our GDC cartoonist Elizabeth Simins is here to tell us about the top five things she experienced while at the conference. Some are smaller, quieter moments. Some are more overt things that many people who attended GDC this year will recall as a highlight—like meeting wonderful new…

It’s Like Zelda, But Your Sword Can Reprogram The Entire Game

These days most people know the basics of the top-down action adventure game. You know, “the Zelda-like.” Character with a sword, walking through dungeons, solving puzzles and fighting monsters, opening chests. Time to introduce a major twist, no? Enter Hack n’ Slash, a new game from Double Fine and one of the most creative and…

Final Fantasy XIV… As A Super Nintendo Game

Square Enix made this video. It’s wonderful—like their 16-bit FFXIII video—and makes me wish they’d turn this into a real game. Here’s what that boss looks like in the real Final Fantasy XIV, by the way:

A Simple Adventure Game Lets You Convince A Character You’re God

The 4th Wall lives up to its name, since the main character is talking directly to you within a minute. The game doesn’t offer much choice, but the whole thing is only 5 minutes long, and it offers a few chuckles along the way. Check out this video by YouTuber ThingsWePlay, and you can play…

​If Robin Hood Starred In Metal Gear

He robs from the rich and gives to the poor; he also navigates high-tech compounds and dodges robot enemies like Solid Snake. That’s the setup of Volume, the in-development stealth game from Thomas Was Alone-creator Mike Bithell. I caught up with Bithell at GDC earlier this week and he gave me a demo of an…

The Best Final Fantasy Music

Over the past couple of decades, Final Fantasy has done many things very well: stories, characters, art direction, chocobos, all that jazz. But one thing has always made Final Fantasy stand out among its peers: the music. Most of the credit for that music goes to Nobuo Uematsu, the tremendously talented composer responsible for the…

BioShock Art With A Glow-In-The-Dark Secret

We already know that there’s a connection between the two iconic locales where the Bioshock and BioShock Infinite happen. Turns out all you need to do to go from Columbia to Rapture is flip the light switch off. The image above comes from artist Mark Englert, whose New Eden print will be premiering at the…

Sony’s Working Hard To Make PS4 VR That’s Cool And Won’t Make You Sick

A couple of days ago, I felt like I was standing in a shark tank. Some time before that, Sony’s head of PlayStation game development, Shuhei Yoshida, fed a dinosaur and the company’s top PlayStation researcher, Richard Marks, stood next to the Mars rover—all in virtual reality, of course. With any luck, you will eventually…

$50 Off The Xbox One Titanfall Bundle, GTAV, Sidewinder X4 [Deals]

Walmart has the Xbox One Titanfall Bundle for $450, and Best Buy has price-matched. That’s a $50 price drop, and an even further cry from the original $500 package that wasn’t bundled with a game. Seeing this kind of discount from a mainstream retailer like Walmart is something worth talking about, and something worth buying…

Hideo Kojima’s Top Five Metal Gear Solid Characters

If you’ve played the Metal Gear Solid franchise, you probably have a few favorite characters. Guess what, Hideo Kojima does too. Some of his picks—like Snake and Otacon—are to be expected. Others, like Raven, Psycho Mantis and The End are a bit more surprising. If you watch this video by IGN, you can hear the…

Watch A Game Evolve 60 Times In 80 Seconds

Please Be Nice is a crazy idea that some Dutch students came up with last week. The idea: make a game that gets changed by the players. Only a week in, they’ve already made over 60 versions, and we’ve got a video of the results. They’re currently working on version 73, although the first 45…

Ubisoft Confirms Assassin’s Creed Unity

Here we go. Two days after we showed you the next Assassin’s Creed, Ubisoft’s confirming it. Video footage above. Assassin’s Creed Unity is out this holiday for PS4, Xbox One, and PC. It’s not coming to last-gen platforms, as we reported earlier this week. We’ve heard that Ubisoft is working on a different game to…

Cats Playing Fruit Ninja

It’s not just humans who like playing Fruit Ninja. Cats in particular seem to love the swipe-to-slash game. This compilation is brought to you, oddly enough, by Fabulous Mr. Pug. Next I think we need a competitive Fruit Ninja tournament to determine the very best Fruit Ninja cat player I wish my cat was into…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Why We Grind in RPGs • How Online Gaming Helped Me Deal With Social Anxiety • J-Stars Victory Vs: The TAY Review TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

If Bitcoins Were Around In The 90s

Mining and trading with digital money in the early years of the internet would have been problematic if not catastrophic, as SquirrelMoney’s video shows us, taking us back to the not-so-nostalgic dark side of the 90s web. Log in to a Nigerian site on Geocities—while your dial-up connection disconnects three times in a row—then buy…

Dim the lights on that DualShock 4, baby, and let’s set the mood. According to Sony exec Shuhei Yoshida, you won’t be able to turn off the lightbar on the PS4’s controller completely after a firmware update in the near future but you will be able to lower the brightness of the LED.