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Most Kickstarter Games Are, Surprise, Missing Their Release Date

While some high-profile success stories are giving people hope, let’s not pretend that everything is OK with every game funded on Kickstarter. Because it’s not. UnSub has for a few years now been tracking the progress of successful Kickstarter video game campaigns (only those that actually hit their funding target). This latest version of the…

You Are A Penguin, Or Are You? Much Scary.

Check out the game here. Watchlistis where we show off gameplay of new and upcoming games. You’ll see some videos that aren’t on the front page of Kotaku, and hopefully some games you haven’t seen before!

While Playing Game Jam Games, I Might Have Done Sex 53 Times?

How do you do it? When a little girl gets left home alone with her dolls, she tries to figure out the mysteries of adult life. Check out the game here, or watch the video above. How Do You Do It was made at Global Game Jam 2014 by Emmett Butler, Nina Freeman, art by…

Go Berserk For Some Terrific Cosplay

Persona 3 cosplay. Assassin’s Creed IV cosplay. Star Wars cosplay. Hobbit cosplay. All these, and more, on this week’s instalment of FANY PANTS *cue delightfully up-beat TV intro music*. To see the larger pics in all their glory (or, if they’re big enough, so you can save them as wallpaper), click on the “expand” button…

You Can Sink Los Santos With GTA V’s Game-Changing Mod

Who says you need a PC version of a game to get fantastic mods? Because this is the PS3 version of Grand Theft Auto V, and it’s so different it may as well be an all-new game. Made by Bushigan, it requires a modded PS3 (because you need to move some files around), but once…

A Man Has Spent Three Years Trying To Walk To The End Of Minecraft

There’s a place in Minecraft called the Far Lands. It’s the point where the game’s code, which builds each world procedurally, starts to collapse under the weight of its own sums, breaks apart and glitches out. The New Yorker has a great interview with Kurt J. Mac, a man who is trying to walk to…

12 Beautiful Options For Your Next Desktop Wallpaper

Joanne Harper is a screenshot artist, risking life and (her graphics card’s) limb to bring you pictures of video games so pretty you’ll want to stick them straight onto your desktop. The images below weren’t conjured in a marketing office for a magazine cover. They’re screenshots, albeit ones taken with unplayable amounts of filtering and…

Street Fighter II Reimagined as a Rock Opera, in Three Acts

Seven years ago, an indie band in Texas joked among themselves that the Street Fighter continuity would be fertile soil for an old-fashioned rock opera. Three albums later, they’ve finished the story they want to to tell. It’s the tale of Ken and Chun Li, primarily, though all of the other characters from the Street…

It appears Retro City Rampage is headed to the Nintendo 3DS, possibly next month, according to the game’s creator, who says the game’s missions and minigames have been reworked to fit the 3DS. A release date should be announced this week.

Pre-orders on Steam usually required a support ticket to undo. Not anymore. Users now can cancel them themselves prior to the release date. The refund goes directly to a user’s Steam wallet, regardless of original payment method. [Steam user forums]

Justin Carmical, Import Game Aficionado Who Advised Others, Dead at 42

Justin Carmical, a YouTube personality who, under the name “JewWario,” posted instructional videos on importing and playing Japanese video games on western consoles, died on Thursday. Carmical’s wife said on Facebook that he took his own life; he was 42. “You all made him so happy, every time he was recognized from his videos, it…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: The Sad Keanu Figure

Someone up and 3D-printed an action figure of the Sad Keanu Reeves meme, inserting it into several amusing dioramas with other legitimate action figures. So, if it can be done in real life, it can be done in our ‘Shop Contest. We have more than just the lead source image below; check back through Luke’s…

Monster Hunter 4G will be released in the west as Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate Save data from Monster Hunter 4 will be transferrable to the new game. It will release in Japan this fall and in the west in 2015.

Luigi’s Mansion recreated in Animal Crossing: New Leaf. By Rae Broom of StreetPass Princeton. Her town’s Dream Address is 7300-3355-9805.

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Gabe’s Gaze: The Winners

Gabe Newell’s stoic, almost pleading expression—Yes, I am posting to r/gaming; to r/motorsports too!—touched many in this week’s Kotaku ‘Shop Contest. So many I lifted the usual 20-finalist cap to get in the best ones. There are 31 inside, including overall No. 1 Zhesty! Even with a super-sized 50-percent-moar ‘Shop Contest roundup, inevitably someone got…

This is what the entire stadium in Tecmo Super Bowl would look like, according to @VideoGameMayhem. Clean, classic stadium design, but I think it could use a newer video scoreboard. [via TecmoBowl.org]

That ugly looking Nintendo World Championships cartridge for sale on eBay has been bid up to more than $99,000 over the past two days. The auction closes in two hours.

Man Dashes Into Burning Home to Rescue … an Xbox

OLATHE, Kansas—A man fled his burning home early Friday morning but re-entered it to rescue his games console, according to a local news report. The Xbox, whose identity (original, 360, or Xbox One) could not be confirmed, was apparently unharmed. The unidentified man was treated for smoke inhalation after rescuing the system. The console. The…

New trailer: Yoshi’s New Island. The game launches March 14 on the 3DS.

Candy Crush Makers Remove a Game Accused of Being a Blatant Copy

In the world of flash games, derivatives vastly outnumber original concepts, so the charge someone copied a game is quite common. But the makers of a Pac-Man-style game in 2009 say they have an email proving that King, the outfit trademarking words like “candy” and “saga,” ordered a developer to directly copy their work. Writing…