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And the real height difference between Samus and Little Mac in Super Smash Bros. Wii U? Masahiro Sakurai’s here to show us, to make things clear Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest, funniest game-related screenshots and art that we can find. Send us suggestions if you’ve got…

Does Your Insurance Cover Street Fighter Characters?

I’ll tell you what. When I park my car, the thing I fear most isn’t theft, careless drives, or hazardous weather. It’s Ryu. Courtesy of Kotaku reader Kazegami_1, this commercial for Anadolu Sigorta, one of Turkey’s largest insurance companies, shows the iconic fighting game character making quick work of a sedan in a real-life bonus…

People Are Finding New Ways To Get Upset At Total War: Rome II

Total War: Rome II went from being one of 2013’s most promising games to one of its most disappointing. Indeed, it took months of patches and updates to even get it to a presentable state. Not that performance and AI were the last of the game’s troubles. A fresh uproar has kicked off following a…

What If Dishonored Had No Bad Guys In It…

The Old City is an exploration game that’s currently in-development for the PC. And pardon me for making such a crude comparison, but my brain looks at the architecture and processes this as being “Dishonored without all the bad guys”. And that’s pushing my buttons. Set inside “a decaying city from a civilization long past”,…

Developer Making “Singleplayer RPG Adventure”…With His Kid

Nick Pasto, the developer behind the excellent Abobo’s Big Adventure, is making a new game. With his daughter. Who is eight. It’s not for a school project, it’s not some cheap little gimmick game, it’s a real game, one that’s promising to be a fairly epic 2D adventure, with boss fights, levelling-up, fancy gear, the…

This Isn’t Really A BioShock Screenshot, It’s Cosplay

Yup, this is a thing now. Nathan DeLuca and Eve Beauregard are the cosplayers at the heart of this BioShock Infinite tribute, falling through the sky in the name of fancy dress. Sure, the background is from the game’s promotional art, but if you’re expecting cosplayers to be able to construct a floating metropolis they…

​Oh Hey Look, More Incredible Dark Souls Shots

If the best video-game screenshot artist around wants to spend a bunch of weeks cataloguing Dark Souls, that’s just fine with me. Dead End Thrills is still at it, and has posted some more beautiful shots from the game over at his site. Some real doozies up this week. Check out some highlights below, and…

Kid Shot Dead By Cops, Witnesses Say He Was Holding Wii Remote

Police say that 17 year-old Christopher Roupe was shot and killed because he answered the door pointing a gun. Everyone except the Police say he opened the door holding a Wii Remote. Roupe was shot and killed last Friday night when Police arrived to serve his father a probation violation warrant. He opened the door…

The Bravely Default Live Concert Was So Good It’s Ridiculous [Update]

I haven’t seen many performances like this in service of anything, let alone dedicated to the soundtrack for a handheld video game. And yet here we are, watching a gigantic ensemble that mixes electric guitars, multi-part vocal ensembles and a philharmonic orchestra with pyrotechnics, shred guitarmonies and stage-leaps. And the show is almost entirely dedicated…

Everybody Games: GaymerX, a con that celebrates diversity and inclusivity, launched a Kickstarter for its upcoming conference in July. The con will host a wedding for a Portal proposal we featured last year, along with a variety of panels and speakers/guest appearances from folks like Bioware’s David Gaider and WWE star Darren Young. Full disclosure:…

‘Twitch Plays Pokémon’ Is Breaking Parts Of Twitch

Twitch Plays Pokémon,’ the stream where thousands of players try to control a single trainer in Pokemon Red, is pretty popular—so popular, in fact, that whenever we posted about it, we’d get a number of reports from unhappy streamers who claimed the chat function in other completely unrelated streams were being affected by Twitch Plays…

​What’s The Worst Game You’ve Ever Bought?

Not everything is worth the price we pay for it. In fact, some games aren’t worth the disc they’re printed on. Today I thought I’d ask you guys about the worst games you’ve ever bought, the ones you really regretted purchasing. You could’ve put that money toward a new blender, or a cool pair of…

World Of Warcraft‘s New Orc Female: Now 100 Percent Less Stupid

Of all the race/sex combinations getting a graphical overhaul in World of Warcraft’s upcoming Warlords of Draenor expansion, none needed it as much as the female Orc. How I hated her stupid old face. The body was fine — a powerful frame with well-defined muscles. Sure, she had no fingers, but who did back in…

​A Comic That Perfectly Captures The Evil Genius Of Eve Online Players

One giant, horrifically expensive space ship destroying another, while its crew erupts in gleeful laughter. Yep, that sure looks like EVE Online. Starting today, you can get the first issue of a new comic-book series based on the infamous sci-fi corporate warfare MMO for free. Created by Daniel Way and Tomm Coker, EVE: True Stories…

All The New Features In Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD

HD visuals, new dress-spheres, a crazy new tower dungeon in which every action is turn-based… these are the new features in the upcoming remakes of Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy X-2, which are out on March 18 for PS3 and Vita. Really, the only thing not to be excited about here is that you…

The Power Brokers Behind Some of Gaming’s Top People

PLUS MORE GAMING SECRETS AND RUMORS: A new Gauntlet? When Ken Levine made the surprise announcement on Tuesday that Irrational Games was shutting down and only a small group of employees would be retained as he migrated to a new venture, one thing came to mind — the 2008 contract negotiations between Levine and Take-Two.…

What’s In The Box?! Oh, It’s A Playable Flappy Bird.

The original Flappy Bird may be gone, but it continues to live on in all sorts of tributes—and not all of these tributes are digital. Take this awesome cardboard box contraption, for example—it’s a machine that lets you play Flappy Bird ‘in real life.’ It’s also just as tough as the original Flappy Bird. Excellent!…

Gearing up for the release of Reaper of Souls, Blizzard is showing off the new Clans and Communities features coming to Diablo III in patch 2.0.1. Clans are guild-like invite-only affairs, while communities are more casual groups sorted by interests, geographic location and the like. You can find out all bout bothon the Diablo III…

Someone Made It So All The Cars In GTA V Try To Kill You

The only thing better than Grand Theft Auto V is Grand Theft Auto V with cars that go crazy and try to murder everyone on the streets. The GTA V Carmageddon mod has been around for a while, and this new video by taltigolt does an awesome job of showing it off. Watch and enjoy:…

I Didn’t Even Know I Wanted A Spelunky Metroid Mod Until Now

I don’t know how this game went this long without this mod, but that doesn’t really matter: Here it is, at last, Spelunky done Metroid-style. The title screen and music alone should fire you right the hell up. Wait! What? Where do I get it? Unfortunately, the mod maker, joey4track, has not made it publicly…