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The Last of Us Bags 10 DICE Awards, Including Game of the Year

Pictured: Ellie sniping down the other Character of the Year nominees from a safe distance. Yep, out of the twenty-four awards available, a whopping ten went to Naughty Dog’s post-apocalyptic zombie survival game at tonight’s DICE Awards show. Plants VS. Zombies 2 and BioShock Infinite were the other two multi-award winning games, bringing home two…

Watch Us Play the Newest Excellent Gundam Fighter

The Gundam VS series is one of Japan’s most popular arcade games and one I have been playing for years. Fellow Kotaku East author Toshi Nakamura, on the other hand, has never played a Gundam VS game. So watch us sit down and spend some time with the newest in the series, Gundam Extreme VS…

Watch The 2014 DICE Awards, Right Here

Hey, the 2014 DICE Awards are on! Right now! And you can watch them right here! Unlike certain other shows, these are a real awards show, the categories voted on by games industry pros. So you may not be as bemused/upset by them as you might otherwise be. Watch live video from DICE on www.twitch.tv

If Those Facebook “Look Back” Movies Were Actually Telling The Truth

Earlier in the week, you were no doubt buried under people sharing their Facebook “Look Back” videos, which were a robot’s attempt to sum up that person’s history on the service. Here’s what one of those videos would look like if it actually got that right Actually, that’s a little unfair. Mine was a cascade…

A Petition To Change The US National Anthem To…Guile’s Theme

OK, take your usual cynicism for online petitions and give it a rest for a day. Here’s something we can all get behind, even if you’re like me and not even an American. A petitionhas begun on the White House site to change the American national anthem to Guile’s Theme. Unlike most internet petitions, which…

Who needs E!, with their expensive cameras and boring interviews, when you’ve got Kotaku editor Stephen Totilo covering the red carpet at tonight’s DICE awards with a phone.

Why Can’t We Ever Just Play As A Kid, Having Fun?

Video games are always so serious. You’re almost always playing a grown-up (or at least a teen), out to save the world, kill things and scowl a lot. Why can’t video games be more like the games we play outside as kids and just be, well, fun? That’s all I can think of watching this…

Fake Zombies Terrorize New York Pedestrians

At this point, we all spend most of our time bracing for a zombie attack anyway… might as well see what happens when people actually experience one. The latest NYC-based “adverprank” (term per Chris Person) is in service of AMC’s The Walking Dead, which returns to finish out its latest season this weekend. Important question…

GTA Cargo: Check out this awesome mid-air cargo plane catch by GTAmissions. Who cares that the stunt jump was failed, really?

App Store Madness Continues As New Terrible Game Tops Charts

While some are still trying to come to terms with just how Flappy Bird got to the top of the App Store charts, another game has come along that will make you wonder just what the hell is going on. Right now, the #2 paid app (#1 paid game) on Apple’s App Store is a…

Human My Little Ponies Are Slightly More Tolerable In Anime Form

Not enjoying Equestria Girls, the Hasbro animated movie in which My Little Pony characters take on human form, YouTube animator Galaxyart got some friends together and magically made this impressive anime take on the hooves-to-hands motif. The art is original, if inspired by popular anime. The designs are fresh and certainly nowhere near as creepy…

Yep, That Looks Like A Feature-Length Minecraft Movie [UPDATE]

Fan films come and go, but making a feature-length Minecraft movie? That’s taking fandom to a whole new level. Enter Birth of Man, the Minecraft fan-film from Rocket Jump co-creator Brandon Laatsch. So far, only the trailer and a Kickstarter exist (the goal is $600,000), but I would not put it past the internet to…

The LEGO Movie Builds A Beating Human Heart From Plastic Bricks

I was not prepared for The LEGO Movie. No really, I was not prepared at all. After months of playing the wondrous trailers over and over again, I was so excited about catching an early showing of the film this past weekend in Atlanta that I could barely even dress myself. It’s a miracle they…

Why do Mega Man characters pose with four fingers held up? I didn’t know either, but now I do, thanks to the latest “Fast Facts” video from Lore

Who said World of Warcraft was dying? For the first time in a long time, the game’s playerbase has stopped the rot, going from 7.6 million user last year to 7.8 today.

​A Heart-Monitoring Horror Game That Gets Tougher As You Get Scared

Horror games can be scary enough on their own—do we really need one that measures our heart rate and gets harder as we get more scared? Maybe we do. Maybe. We. Do. That’s the concept behind Nevermind, a game that’s already garnered a bunch of positive buzz due to its intriguing prototype and is now…

Activision is shifting Call of Duty development to a three-year cycle; this year belongs to Sledgehammer Games. Activision announced the shift during its 4th quarter 2013 financial call this afternoon, says the extended cycle would allow developers to focus on development and downloadable content creation.

The Xbox 360 version of Titanfall has gotten a slight delay. The Xbox One and PC versions will still be out in North America on March 11, but the Xbox 360 release has been pushed to March 25 to give developer Bluepoint “time to put the finishing touches on the game,” according to publisher EA

Adventure Time Creator Has Four Game Ideas For Double Fine

Pen Ward’s been involved in a couple of games in some way or another, but never quite like this. Thanks to Double Fine’s two-week-long game jam—Amnesia Fortnight, aka the reason why Double Fine made Costume Quest, Stacking and others—you’ll get to vote on several pitches to see which the developers will prototype, four of which…

Terrible ‘Girl Gamer’ Sexism, Imagined As Even Worse 1900s Sexism

Take the boys-club crap of the video game internet, put it in a time machine and… you get a funny/sad comic that might just make it a bit more clear just how awful it is for the women who suffer the harassment of unenlightened dudes. By setting this strip in the early 20th Century, cartoonist…