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A cyborg bounty hunter riding a velociraptor riding a fire-breathing shark—Last Man Standing art by Maciej Kuciara.

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Arcade Classic Gauntlet Is Getting A Remake

First released in 1985, Gauntlet was a genre-defining arcade dungeon crawler. Now, it’s being re-released for PC, in the form of a top-down co-op action RPG, all prettied up and modernized for a new audience. Magicka creator Arrowhead Game Studios is developing the new Gauntlet, which will feature full Steam Machine and SteamOS integration along…

How The Turn-Based Angry Birds RPG Works

Last week’s oddest announcement, Angry Birds Epic has now soft launched in Australia and Canada, giving players pretending to be in those countries a chance to find out just what the hell is going on. Let’s take a look. If they wouldn’t have been sued out of existence, Rovio should have called this game Angry…

From lowly sprite in 1985, to fearsome beast in 2014. Above is concept art from Chaos Reborn, the reboot of 1985’s Chaos: The Battle of Wizards, a turn-based strategy game for the ZX Spectrum. Creator Julian Gollop, who also worked on the original X-Com, recently launched a Kickstarter campaign for Chaos Reborn Chaos Reborn [Kickstarter]…

So shiny. Sakurai’s latest screenshot of the day for the next Super Smash Bros. shows us what the Smash Ball will look like on the Wii U.

How Popeye Inspired Pac-Man, And Other Interesting Pac-Man Facts

Like how the famous Pac-Man Google Doodle cost the US economy over $120 million. Yikes. DYKGaming, the undisputed master of all gaming-related trivia, is back to tell us about one of the most influential, popular, and… well, fun, games of all time, Pac-Man. Have a look below, if for nothing else than to check out…

Early Sonic Boom Designs Caused “Discomfort” to Original Sonic Team

At one point, the current iteration of Sonic and his friends looked even more different compared to their original selves. So much so that it caused quite a few headaches to the series’ original creators. Speaking to GameSpot, Bob Rafei, head of the studio in charge of the character redesigns, said that early on, the…

The Newest Street Fighter Character Is…

The fifth and final new fighter to be added to the upcoming Ultra Street Fighter IV will be Decapre. She’s new, while also being not new. It’s weird. She’s not a new character, having first appeared briefly in Street Fighter Alpha 3 as an NPC (which you can see in the intro to the video…

Help A Man Build A 300-Foot Water Slide In The Middle Of A Road

Artist Luke Jerram wants to build a 300-foot-long slip-and-slide right down the middle of a street in Bristol, England. That is God’s work you are doing, Luke. It might seem absurd, but it actually has a shot of happening: being a slip-and-slide, all they’d need would be some tarps and a hose (OK, maybe a…

Stuff got 12 of the 13 Steam Machines due for release this year together, took them apart and tested them out. Then got them all together for this family photo. Check it out for rundowns (and 360-degree gifs) of every machine except Valve’s own unit.

Trolling This Dating Service Should Be Cruel, But It’s Great

As Bart Simpson has shown, trolling people looking for love is usually a dick move. The trick, then, is to keep it short, keep it simple, and make it funny. Hello Let’s Date is a Tumblr that chronicles the text adventures of a Tindermember who…well, he’s about what you should expect from a dating service…

One Gamer Has More YouTube Subscribers Than Rihanna, Bieber

If anything is going to roll up 2014, the internet and video games together in one single fact, this has got to be it. Felix “PewDiePie” Kjellberg, one of the most well-known “Let’s Play” gamers on the planet, now has over 25 million subscribers (he’s doubled his tally in just a year). Compare that to…

Indie Shooter Inspired By Badass Battlefield Gifs

You know, as important as it is to have games taking inspiration from classic literature, philosophy and the human spirit, sometimes it’s nice to hear a developer say you know what, screw it, we made this game because we were playing two other games that were awesome. So it is with Jetgetters, a game that’s…

Alessandro Ituarte made this retro version of Campo Santo’s promotional image for Firewatch.

Anyone Who’s Ever Loved A Pet Should Watch This

I posted this week’s special Brawl in the Family video comic in today’s edition of Sunday Comics, but I felt it needed a place of its own. As a friend put it, this is the tragedy of pet ownership spoken in the vernacular of video games. And that’s why I spent half the day reading…

This weekend also marks the 5th birthday of one of the most popular titles in mobile gaming history. Lima Sky’s Doodle Jump has been downloaded more than 150 million times since its 2009 launch, appearing on Android, iOS, Windows Phone 7 and 8, Nintendo DS, Xbox 360 and Symbian. Such gleeful hopping.

Happy 15th Anniversary, EverQuest

On March 16, 1999, Sony invited players to venture into the world of Norrath for the first time. EverQuest has been changing lives ever since, including mine. I’m not just talking about my bout of addiction, which I chronicled on Kotaku years ago. The original EverQuest changed the way I interacted with people. By giving…

The Killer Mega Man Jacket That Might Not Happen

The latest creation from video game clothing designer Enzo Volante is this outstanding Mega Man hooded jacket, which won’t get made unless Capcom gets enough preorders. Capcom has teamed up with Volante Design to dangle this incredibly sexy jacket in front of Mega Man fans hungry for any kind of love they can get. The…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: The Pokemon World Cup

Welcome to my first official Kotaku ‘Shop Contest. I would have gone with something fluffy and light for my first go round, but when the most important soccer event in the entire goddamned universe is threatened by Pokemon, there can be only one response. In case you hadn’t heard, Japan is bringing Pokemon to the…