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We Convinced Felicia Day And Freddie Wong To Interview Each Other

Internet sensations. Gamers. Co-hosts of tonight’s D.I.C.E. video game awards. And now… Felicia Day and Freddie Wong are also Kotaku interviewers. One time only! They interviewed each other for Kotaku today. About games. About life. And just a bit about taking baths and what to do with nasty Internet comments. Up first, Freddie interviewing Felicia……

Meet The New Sonic and His Next Game

Sonic’s celebrating more than 20 years as a video game icon. So it makes sense that Sega’s giving their furry blue mascot a bit of a facelift—nothing drastic, mind you—along with a new game and TV show in the hopes of keeping the hedgehog moving at top speed. You might be squinting to see what’s…

Crazy-Impressive Nail Art Inspired By South Park, Pokémon And More

Kayleigh O’Connor turned a bad habit into a good one when she realized she could actually design the fake nails she glued on to prevent herself from biting at her fingertips. And, my, has that hobby blossomed. She has an impressive array of designs—that are, sure, a bit impractical—all over her deviantART page, using a…

The Best New Way To Play “F**K, Marry, Kill”

Who would Twitter like to bone: Catherine Zeta-Jones, Javier Bardem, or Franklin D. Roosevelt? Finally we can know for sure.* If you’ve ever been on a road trip with your friends, chances are you’ve played Fuck, Marry, Kill: The Decision-Making Game Of Extremes™. Thanks to some clever programming and a new Twitter bot, now you…

Humble Double Fine, Titanfall, LEGO Movie, Speaker Plugs [Deals]

The latest Humble Weekly features the games of Double Fine, with early access to Spacebase DF-9 for top-tier contributors, and that’s just the tip of today’s deal iceberg. Buying 300 on blu-ray nets you an $8 certificate toward the purchase of tickets to 300: Rise of an Empire. 300 on blu-ray is $8.77 today, so…

If You Have A Vita, You Must Check Out Danganronpa

If you’ve ever wanted to play a game that could genuinely be described as a cross between Persona, Phoenix Wright, and Zero Escape: Virtue’s Last Reward, you’ve gotta look into Danganronpa Out for the Vita on Tuesday (February 11), Danganronpa is a visual novel in which 15 students are trapped in a high school and…

This Nintendo MiiverseSmash Bros. update about Rosalina raises so many weird questions…

Digital Foundry compares the PS4 and Xbox One to determine which one is the better media player. While one console proves superior in some ways, both don’t provide as robust of a media experience as the PS3 does, funnily enough.

Flappy Bird Is Making $50,000 A Day With Mario-Like Art [UPDATE 3]

UPDATE (2/10/14): Following the Feb 8 update to this piece, we’ve now published an apology to Flappy Bird‘s creator and a full accounting of what I believe was going on with reaction to the game. Please find that here. -Stephen Totilo, Editor-in-Chief, Kotaku.com UPDATE (2/8/14): This article was originally titled “Flappy Bird Is Making $50,000…

4 Minutes Of Probably The Weirdest Game You’ll Play This Month

Jazzpunk is a really hard game to explain. It’s like an adventure game that was written by a dozen different people, who all love puns, surrealist art, and computer jokes. Hopefully the video above will give you a feeling of what I’m talking about. If you’d like a more coherent explanation, Leo took a look…

Ubisoft’s JRPG-inspired Child of Light is out April 30. It’ll be $15, and available digitally just about everywhere—PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, and even Wii U.

It Sounds Like Samsung’s Working On Their Own Kind Of Wii U

PLUS MORE GAMING SECRETS AND RUMORS: 2K Games’ documentary about gamers? | A remake of the original Alone in the Dark | A new racing game from the developers of the Sonic racing game? A publicly accessible “Samsung Confidential” presentation Alan Queen, a senior director at the company’s Innovation Lab, gave at last October’s Samsung…

‘Penis Brothers’ Force You To Take Your Pants Off in Rust Or Die

What the… Ok, so we all know that socializing is kind of hit or miss in games like Rust or DayZ, but I…what? Beware that there are digital penisi as well as foul language that some might find funny, others more questionable. The short of it is that there’s a band of self-named “Penis Brothers”…

Final Fantasy VI Is Out On iOS Today

One of the greatest RPGs ever made is out on iOS today. It’ll cost you $15.99, and it’s got touchscreen-adapted controls and a brand new coat of paint. Check it out on iTunes if you’re interested, and pick a side: Team Cool Remake or Team This Shit Is Gross. Or, if you’ve never played FFVI…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Odd Figures You’ll Be Able To Buy Soon • We Have To Learn How To Be Patient Again • Four Web Comics You Should Be Reading TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

Watch This Rock Band Play A Killer Final Fantasy Medley

Good morning. Here is a rock band covering Final Fantasy IV music as a crowd nerds out at Magfest in Maryland. It is awesome. Enjoy. (via On Being Human)

Watch Every Panel At D.I.C.E. Live, Right Here

The top video game designers, developers and publishers are convening in Las Vegas for the 2014 D.I.C.E. (Design, Innovate, Communicate, Entertain) Summit. It’s two days of compelling talks, capped off with the annual D.I.C.E. Awards, and you can watch it all right here. That’s right, this year’s D.I.C.E. is being broadcast, courtesy of the fine…

DayZ‘s Mythbusters Could Save Your Life

No need to waste characters to try out whether shooting someone’s gun would kill its owner or not, how vaulting affects your fall, or whether crawling or rolling are faster. Here’s the first episode of DayZ Standalone Mythbusters, which will hopefully help extend your character’s life in Chernarus. Permadeath is not a nice thing, so…

Have No Objections Against This Ace Attorney Cosplay

This is so well-made. Probably not the hardest costume to create, but that means you can bring the small details to perfection. The cosplayer is a veteran called Elffi, and this is one of his latest works, Godot, the prosecutor from the Ace Attorney series. Here’s another shot, Godot with his favorite drink: Godot –…

This is M.A.V., a third-person shooter where you build destructive mechs to destroy other destructive mechs. Its creator, who’s currently trying to collect $20,000 on Kickstarter to finish the game, named From Software’s Chrome Hounds for the Xbox 360 as a direct inspiration. Lengthy gameplay video above.