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I’d Have Expected More Glamour from a $5,000 NES Cartridge [UPDATE]

But nope! For that kind of luxury, you need to pay at least three to five times as much As spotted by Wired, over at eBay, one gamer is apparently saying goodbye to his collection of NES carts, which includes this original, “Super Rare” Nintendo World Championships cartridge. Since its condition is, as the eBay…

You Can Upgrade the Un-Upgradable Steam Machine. But it’s Not Easy.

Alienware, purveyor of pre-built PCs of all shapes and sizes, has recently revealed their plan to introduceyearly upgrades to their model of Valve’s PC-slash-console-hybrid Steam Machine, justifying the decision by saying that their machines will not be upgradable. Turns out, that’s not quite the case. “We’ve purposefully designed the Alienware Steam Machine to be smaller…

Shovel Knight hits PC, Wii U, and 3DS on March 31, which should be good news if you’ve been itching for some high quality retro-platformin’ action. Also, there’s a lovely new trailer for you to watch above. Enjoy!

“There is a lot of power in [Xbox One and PS4], and I don’t want to say we’re using them to their capacity, but we’re fairly close to doing so. On [Xbox 360 and PS3] we probably would have had to sacrifice nearly half of our vision.” CD Projekt RED founder Marcin Iwiński, in an…

Perfect Recreations Of Star Wars Film Sets. For Your Action Figures.

These are not official playsets. They’re pieces of art, made by a fan, and are painstakingly-accurate recreations of some of Star Wars’ most iconic movie sets, giving his action figures a “realistic” place to stand. Most are from the original Star Wars, though there are a few from TESB and ROTJ as well. They’re as…

Own A Vita? Go Play OlliOlli, Right Now

Looks like myexcitement for OlliOlli was justified. This game is the bees kneepads. Out now on PlayStation Vita, OlliOlli is a skateboarding game that takes after the Tony Hawk series in its love of combos and scores, but strips almost everything away except the tricks. So you play it in 2D. There’s a handful of…

A Guide To American Football For “Liberals, Ladies & Limeys”

The Super Bowl is coming up. It’s one of the biggest sporting events in the world. Weirdly, this is in spite of the majority of people on this planet not knowing how the hell American Football is actually played. This video is here to help. The name is a joke; it’s actually a damn fine…

Fire Glass: take a look at how one firefighter is using Google Glass to help him kick ass and be a hero. It’s amazing.

Let’s Take A Trip Back To The 90s With Pokémon

I can’t decide if these old (and edited?) Pokemon videos found by Everything Is Terrible are amazing, embarrassing, or both. I’m sure we’ll look back on current ads and feel the same way about them too—that’s just how it is. But for now, we can laugh and cringe at these old ads freely. And in…

Morrowind Still Coming To Skyrim, Still Looking Fantastic

The team behind Skywind, a fan project aimed at transferring Morrowind to the SKyrim engine, have released another trailer. Thanks, guys. Not like I needed the extra sense of longing. The mod is hopefully going to be out by the end of the year, but then, it’s a fan project, not a retail game bound…

Attack On Titan Cosplay Is Getting Out Of Control

Some cosplayers really know how to take it to the next level, let me tell ya. Last year, we had an amazing Japanese cosplay group that went all out with their Attack on Titan cosplay. This year, we’ve got a German cosplay group that filmed an elaborate cosplay video over the course of four months…

Here’s that DayZ wallpaper you were looking for, courtesy of the one and only Dead End Thrills

Judge Dredd Is The Jerk Cop Future-Los Angeles Needs

You know Dredd. Big, beefy, never takes off the helmet. Kind of a jerk, isn’t he? Why do we like him again? Maybe you know him from the excellent 2012 movie starring Karl Urban or the less-good 1995 feature film where Sylvester Stallone played him. Or it could be you’re either a fan of the…

​Steal Money In This Game, Get Actual Money In Real Life

“Earn cash and win prizes just by playing video games!” We’ve seen that type of empty promise on dozens of fake-out ads all over the internet. But thanks to one creative indie developer, this weekend it’ll really be possible to do just that. The game in question is Jason Rohrer’s The Castle Doctrine, a multiplayer…

IndieStatik founder Josh Mattingly has stepped down from his position “for the immediate future” following his apology earlier this week for sending crude sexual comments to a female game developer

Report: Pixar Will Make A Star Wars Movie

When you own both Pixar and Star Wars, the most logical move would be to let Pixar make a Star Wars movie, no? Well, that’s exactly what Disney is planning according to The Latino Review. A Pixar film would be one of many tie-ins that would happen with Episode VII—for example, there are rumors of…

The creators of the Banner Saga are fighting to keep the game’s name. In a statement sent to Kotaku, Stoic Studios say: Two years ago, the three of us at Stoic set out to make an epic viking game: The Banner Saga. We did, and people loved it, so we’re making another one. We won’t…

Watch The First Three Minutes Of The Last of Us: Left Behind

Hope you haven’t unhooked your PS3 yet; 2013’s Kotaku Game of the Year is getting a new story on February 14, and you can watch the cinematic intro here. (Don’t worry—it’s not as traumatizing as the first few minutes of The Last of Us.) I am totally ready to dive back into the world of…

Jimmy Fallon Makes Fun Of Nintendo’s Money Troubles

Jimmy Fallon can’t pass up a good zinger, and on last night’s Late Night, he let into Nintendo for their recent money problems. Check it out in the video above. Clip via Late Night with Jimmy Fallon

Instagram Ruins Pokémon Snap

Back in the days of the original Pokémon Snap, there were no filters to toy with. But if there was a modern Pokémon Snap game? Chances are, it would have a few Instagram-y options for all the Pokémon pictures we take, like in this video by The Warp Zone I’d be okay with that, personally.…