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In Last Week’s Comics, Angry Gamers Nearly Killed Superman

Modern DC Comics give us such memorable moments as an evil Superman snorting Kryptonite or Batman and Catwoman having sex. The publisher’s New 52 line has also just brought us a three-part story in which the super-villain Mongul has attempted to dominate the Earth by harnessing the rage of gamers. What a plan! The storyline…

If Classic Childhood Characters Were Badass Lunatics

French digital artist Sylvain Sarrailh has a spectacular gallery on DeviantART of skylines, nature and abandoned landscapes. Here, we can also find our favorite loveable and good-natured childhood cartoon characters, turned into… something quite different. It’s a big gallery—here’s some of our favorites: Denver doesn’t really care about his pink sunglasses anymore. Teletubbies is now…

SimCity is Finally Getting Offline Play

After insisting a year ago that such a mode was nearly impossible, offline play is coming to SimCity, Maxis has announced. It will be delivered in Update 10 for the game. A timeframe for that update was not included in the announcement. “We are in the late phases of wrapping up its development and while…

It’s official. Confirming the earlier rumor, the Onslaught DLC for Call of Duty: Ghosts will release Jan. 28. Activision released the following short trailer detailing the first episode of a four-part Extinction-mode story. It doesn’t look anything like Call of Duty.

Mario & Co. in Wonderland, which is a bit darker than the Mushroom Kingdom. And the best part of DeviantART user SkribbliX’s fan art? No, not the edgy princess or the evil Goombas, but the Donatello Koopa! Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest, funniest game-related screenshots and…

What if Rambo Had Been a Hat-Loving Goldfish?

If there’s one thing I love about Greenlight, it’s all the insanely creative people it attracts. Like the creators of this side-scrolling shooter, Shütshimi To quote the website, Shütshimi is “a randomized shoot’em up about a muscle-bound fish with memory problems defending the seven seas.” It’s a fast-paced game for PC and the 360 where…

Gatorade had a mobile game last yearin which water was portrayed as “the enemy that hinders performance”. Sigh.

New Muppets Trailer Nails Stupid Internet Comments

This new trailer for the upcoming Muppets movie aired during the Golden Globes, hence the initial preoccupation with awards. A focus which swiftly shifts to some trailer producers who know their internet comment routines a little too well.

The Difference Between Anime Fans And Everyone Else

If you respond to this as a furiously upset anime fan (who cannot take a joke), note that you are the unwritten sequel to this comic. If you’re laughing, Caldwell Tanner is the man to thank Critically JaPanned [loldwell, via neatorama]

Ladies Against Humanity Would Be The Card Game’s Perfect Expansion

You know what there’s a lot of in Cards Against Humanity? Bodily fluid jokes. Know what there aren’t many of? Jokes written by ladies (the game’s creators are all dudes). The site Ladies Against Humanity fixes this by offering up their own (and some community-submitted) options. While this could have been license for a whole…

Xbox Twitter Account Hacked By…Syrians

The Syrian Electronic Army, ostensibly a political activist group, must have had some downtime over the weekend, because instead of going after political opponents of the Syrian leadership they went and hacked one of Xbox’s Twitter accounts. The company’s Xbox Support account – which sounds like a roughplace to work– was taken over for around…

Cosplay From The End Of The World

Growing up in Russia in the 1980s and 90s, Dimitri Seizef was inspired by all kinds of dark, moody and dystopian fiction, from video games to movies to comic books. No wonder then that he’s carried that love through to his cosplay business. Nuclear Snail Studios, Seizef’s venture, doesn’t just do cosplay for fun; he’s…

Fans Are Making The Ultimate Tony Hawk Game

A small group of fans (thanks morten, %gone, quazz, chc, krad, demo and frost!) have taken Tony Hawk’s Underground 2 and modded the pants off it, adding a bunch of levels and getting the whole thing running in 1080p. They’ve also improved online play, added new skater customisation options and even included settings that’ll change…

Dad Has No Idea What He’s Doing in Grand Theft Auto

Video games provide a fertile field for generational gap humor. One young man just took his father for a spin with Grand Theft Auto V (and some wine), secretly recording the observations. He seems to grasp the central theme. “Take that copper! It’s society’s fault!” It helps that father and son are British, as nonplussed…

‘Nickname Jerseys’ Do Some Strange Things to NBA Live

Want to see something weird? Boot up NBA Live and make sure to install the latest roster update. Now select either the Miami Heat or Brooklyn Nets. Go out to the court, and LeBron James’ player indicator now says “King James.” This is part of the kit-bashed way NBA Live, to its credit, added the…

Thor and Loki’s Stop-Motion LEGO Rumble Gets Much More than an A+

This brotherly throwdown is the work of Jordan Tseng, 17, who writes in the video’s YouTube introduction, “I’m going to have the University entrance examination [in] 2 weeks.” Yeah. Just go ahead and pass him already. That’s assuming Tseng, of Taiwan, is going to study film and/or animation, of course, because this very well done…

It’s Hard to Make a Game When Nintendo Doesn’t Use Xbox Live, Says Dev

An unidentified developer of a third-party game that launched with the Wii U—and man, that shouldn’t be too hard to narrow down—has written for Eurogamer a thorough post-mortem of his studio’s experience developing for the console. It touches familiar themes of the console’s struggles, but in a more detailed, firsthand way. The money quote, though,…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Mario Horse

Whether sad or merely embarrassed, this still is a horse dressed in a ridiculous Super Mario costume and it still could use some cheering up. I have the perfect idea: a Kotaku ‘Shop Contest. Come on, it’s a horse cosplaying Nintendo’s mascot. Leaving aside the inevitable Luigi swaps, there are dozens of other possibilities for…

A-Rod May Not Be in MLB’s Next Video Game, but Virtual PEDs Will

Alex Rodriguez was suspended yesterday for the entire 2014 Major League Baseball season. I’ve emailed the makers of MLB the Show to ask what this means as far as the roster of the next game, which releases in March. One thing that probably won’t change, however, is The Show‘s own form of performance enhancing drugs.…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: High Class Hookah: The Winners

Last week’s ‘Shop Contest asked for creative interpretations of game consoles as smoking paraphernalia. We’ve got 15 overall finalists in this week’s roundup, including overall No. 1 r1ggs. Thanks to everyone who participated. There will be another Shop Contest tomorrow. Barrel_Trollz Bizwax Brandon0151 BuckshotTed GiantBoyDetective Ginger Snap halfbeast Kaiochi pribian psyko-faze r1ggs SkiBum232 theonlyboom uscg_pa…