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13 Years Later, Final Fantasy X Is Still Great

I have spent ~20 hours playing the HD remake of Final Fantasy X—out today for PS3 and Vita. In short, it’s wonderful. Play it. To try to capture what my experience has been like, here are the notes I took while playing FFX on PS3, presented with no edits whatsoever: Wow this game looks great.…

Infamous: Second Son, New Humble Bundle, Amazon PC Sale [Deals]

Pre-order your copy of Infamous: Second Son today and get a $25 Dell gift card thrown in. Obviously you’ll have to spend that $25 on something Dell sells, but as you can see they do sell games. [Dell] Thanks For An Awesome Year, Here’s To Many More A year ago today, not entirely sure how…

You Can Only Play This Cool Smash Bros. Stage On The 3DS

When it comes to the teases Nintendo’s been doling out for the upcoming Smash Bros. games, the Wii U’s been getting most of the love. There’ve only been a few scant glimpses of the 3DS version. The latest screens of the portable all-star brawler shows what a level based on Super Mario 3D Land will…

Kickstarter Game ‘On Hold’ Two Years After Raising $53,000

In July of 2012, a man named Jay Pavlina raised $53,509 on Kickstarter for his game, Super Action Squad. Two years later, the game is “on hold”—and Pavlina is saying that his Kickstarter was “a bad idea in the first place.” It’s yet another cautionary tale for anyone who regularly backs Kickstarter projects in hopes…

​Good Grief, It Looks Like The Peanuts Movie Will Be Adorable

Just look at it. This tiny teaser popped up this morning, announcing thefirst next feature film for Charles Schulz’ iconic comic strip. It’s going to be CGI but with a style that attempts to reproduce the trademark hand-drawn, squiggly linework that brought Snoopy to life. I love Schulz, Charlie Brown and Peanuts a lot. This…

​The Prophet of Virtual Reality

Palmer Luckey, the the man behind Oculus virtual reality goggles, is shockingly young. He may be responsible for one of the current hottest things in tech, but he’s just 21. And he says the kind of things people that age say when they’re bold enough to dream out loud. “If we can have perfect VR—if…

SimCity Finally Gets An Offline Mode Today

One year later, SimCity will finally be playable without an Internet connection—a new update, live today, adds an offline single-player mode to the controversial city-building game. EA’s got a full FAQ clarifying what this mode will entail. You’ll be able to play the newest SimCity offline whenever you want—on both PC and Mac—and they’ve even…

The Challenge of Leaving Castlevania (and Konami) Behind

Koji Igarashi is 46 years old. Dubbed “Iga” by fans, he’s best known for his work on the Castlevania series. Nearly half his life was spent making games at Konami. Yesterday, he announced he was leaving that company, and in an exclusive interview with Kotaku, he explains why. “I was at Konami for 24 years,”…

You Can Beat Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes In Ten Minutes

The new Metal Gear Solid is short. Really short. Kirk called it “a sliver of a larger, more complete game,” and even Hideo Kojima admitted last year that it’d have been ideal if Ground Zeroes was part of the real Metal Gear Solid V, which will be out at some undetermined point in the future.…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Opinion: A So Long To DLC As We Know It • The Beauty of Art and Reality in Anime • Why Jedi Knight Deserves A Comeback TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

What’s The Best Gaming Chair For Your Desk?

In our never-ending quest to outfit our desks with the best mice, keyboards, and monitors, let’s not forget we also have to sit somewhere to use them. Back in 2012, Lifehacker asked its readers what the Best Office Chair was, but today we’re focused on gaming. So tell us, what’s the best gaming chair for…

​The Xbox One Improves a Little Bit More Next Month

Microsoft’s newest console just got a significant update a few weeks ago, changing a whole bunch of stuff in the process. Next month’s update won’t be quite as wide-ranging but it still adds tweaks that people have been asking for. April’s Xbox One update gets detailed on the console’s news site, bringing news about improved…

Everyone Who Was Upset About Deus Ex: The Fall Can Play It On PC Now

Remember the outcry over Deus Ex: The Fall, the mobile side story to Square Enix’s hit Deus Ex: Human Revolution? The game just hit Steam, so everyone can be happy now. Yay! Well, except for console gamers, who’ll have to wait until someone turns it into a digital download for PSN or Xbox Live Arcade.…

The Diablo III auction house is gone. Just as promised back in September, as preparation for Reaper of Souls, Blizzard removed one of the most hated features of the game. Completed transactions can still be claimed until June 24, 2014, but searching and bidding is no longer possible. We have to find or craft our…

Ripped, Modded Waluigi Thrashes The Competition in Smash Bros.

That’s how you introduce a character, even if it’s not official. Waluigi might only join the battle in Super Smash Bros. Wii U as an assist trophy, but to ease the pain, modder Apoc Hedgie made his own version of Luigi’s skinny rival. He’s called Walurambo, and he’s the perfect combination of Rambo and Waluigi…

Half-Life 2 Gets Bloody When Roleplayed

One of the ways you can wait for a new Half-Life game is to join a roleplaying server, set in Half-Life 2‘s City 17, and play as a citizen. Made with the Source Filmmaker, Mendelevius’ over-the-top example shows that on these servers, surviving can be even harder than, for example, in DayZ HL2RP In A…

“Never say never. I would do it again, in some fashion.” South Park creator Matt Stone mentions the possibility of doing another South Park game in a recently published pre-Stick of Truth-launch interview with IGN

8-Bit Survival Game Is a Beautiful Journey Through Nature

That scene almost makes you forget how the game is actually about the world ending in an infinite winter. This is Echo of the Wilds. Apart from making a strong argument for the legitimacy of pixel art-based graphics for games made in the twenty-first century, on the surface, it focuses on surviving, resource gathering, and…

Doom: The Mercenaries, the mod which turns Doom into a particularly action-heavy Resident Evil game, is now fully released. The trailer for the final version is above, and it’s looking as fun as ever. See the mod’s forum thread for more info. [via DSOGaming]

The Best Way To Learn Dothraki Comes on VHS

If you wanna raise your kids to be blood-hungry nomad horselords, you need to start early. This entertaining parody of Game of Thrones (and British language teaching program Muzzy) by Nacho Punch does a really good job of setting up that special mood those older As Seen on TV-type ads used to have. Though I…