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‘Fallout 4 E-Mail’ Is A Hoax, Bethesda Says

Did you get an e-mail from someone claiming to be the Bethesda Store? Bad news, my friend: you’ve been pranked. The above image is fake. Like last year’s massive “Fallout 4 ARG,” this is yet another hoax designed to get all of our hopes up only to punch us in the face. A number of…

Probably The Best Trailer You Could Make For A Snowplowing Game

You’re fired.

​Rambo Looks Shorter Than Sylvester Stallone in New Video Game Trailer

Many big-deal Hollywood actors are not tall. They are short. And all kinds of tricky camera angles and techniques get used to make them look like towering heroic badasses. Doesn’t look like they used any of them in the new trailer for the Rambo video game. The game’s an FPS but you see the Rambo…

All The Joy Of The Legend Of Zelda In One Plunderphonic Masterpiece

Artist Jeesh, who we’ve featured here before, plunders sounds from more than two and a half decades of The Legend of Zelda and mixes them all up to to create some of the most delicious ear candy I’ve heard in ages. This is going on everything I have that’s capable of outputting music. It’s a…

​Huge Image Gives a Little Peek Into the Next Halo

All-new console. All-new Halo. And, according to this 343 Industries update, this is a look at an all-new slice of the Halo-verse. Loads of detail in there, eh?

I Finished These 31 Video Games in 2013

For the eighth consecutive year, I’ve counted the number of games I finished in the last 12 months. The number has gone up, even as I played fewer games. I’ve been keeping countsince 2006, the year I didn’t just finish Suikoden V and Star Fox Command but also the likes of Metal Gear Solid 2…

Meeting With Cultists In DayZ Is The Last Thing I Want To Experience

Three pantsless players in spooky masks, walking in the middle of the road towards you in the online survival game DayZ. What could possibly go wrong? We’ve already seen that interacting with others in the game is anything but normal, and it’s just beyond insane when a whole group roleplay as cultists, as in the…

Here’s the latest from Kotaku‘s official reader-written blog, Talk Amongst Yourselves: What I Hate—And Love—About the People and Zombies in DayZ • Kirby’s Dream Land was Ahead of It’s Time in One Crucial Way• The Tom Cruise Movie That Would Make a Great Video Game TAY Classic — TAY Open Forum — Beginner’s Guide To…

Yoshi’s New Island surfaces on the 3DS on March 14. The sequel to Super Nintendo classic Yoshi’s Island has a lovely Friday release date now. Yoshi and Baby Mario are playing middle men to February 28’s Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy and the newly-announced Disney Magical World, releasing on 3DS April 11.

No matter how full the internet is with Metroid fan art, there’s always someone topping it with something special. Here’s an injured Samus Aran with some awesome coloring by DeviantART user muju. Could look at this all day. Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest, funniest game-related screenshots…

Hardcore Studying in China Looks Absolutely Frightening

Exams! If you are a student, you have them. And probably hate them. But your methods of staying awake probably aren’t as interesting—and downright scary—as these. Recently on China’s Weibo, photos are currently depicting the ways some students stay away as they cram for exams, whether that be with clothes hangers or scarfs or whatever.…

Nintendo Reportedly Censored Butts for Americans. Cartoon Butts.

Americans aren’t delicate! And they like a good cartoon butt as good as anyone else. Yet, Nintendo of America apparently removed cartoon butts from Chibi-Robo. In the video below, you can see the Japanese version of 3DS game Chibi-Robo Photo Finder compared with the American version. In the original Japanese version, you can see a…

Two Bad Dudes, The President And A Well-Earned Burger

Everyone always makes fun of the end of Bad Dudes, but hey, what if the offer was sincere? Cartoonist Zac Gorman illustratesthe casual encounter.

Super Smash Bros. Gets A New Old Challenger: King Dedede

King Dedede, who is as bad as baddies get in the Kirby universe, is no stranger to the Smash Bros. series, having been in Brawl. He’s back now in the upcoming Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and 3DS, only this time he’s getting his ass kicked by the Wii Fit Trainer. OK, so he’s…

The Powerpuff Girls, All Grown Up

I’m not sure what you’d call this series. The Powerpuff Women sounds…weird. But whatever they’d call it, if it were real, I’d watch it. Artist Stanley Lau – who we’ve featured on Kotaku beforefor his Street Fighter work – calls them the Power Puffing Ladies. That could work. The Powerpuffs? Power Puffing Ladies [Stanley Lau,…

Hey, A New Skating Game! And It Looks Neat!

Twice in the past 15 years, the skating genre has exploded, then imploded just as quickly as developers struggled to do anything new with it. So it’s exciting to see OlliOlli, a skating game that’s nothing like Tony Hawk or EA’s Skate. Instead, it’s got more in common with something like Canabalt; you’re controlling a…

Rust Is DayZ vs Minecraft, And It Will Kick Your Ass

A crude comparison to make, sure, but also a fair one. Because playing Rust feels exactly like playing the game someone made when they thought “wow, wouldn’t it be awesome if I could play DayZ and Minecraft at the same time?” It’s a survival game (one currently up on Early Access on Steam) that, like…

How EA, League of Legends & Battle.net Were Brought Down By Attacks

Last week, a group calling themselves DERP launched DDoS attacks on the servers of a number of the world’s biggest games (and games companies). It seemed like an awfully big list of victims for such a simple and ancient form of attack, but as Ars Technica explain, there was a bit more to it than…

The Simpsons Pay A Touching Tribute To Miyazaki’s Films

A shadow of its former self, The Simpsons gave up on smart comedy and snappy satire long ago. The crude pop culture gags and associations which took their place are usually awkward and a little bit desperate. Except for this one. Unlike other recent attempts, which feel more geared towards the frantic, fleeting seizure of…

​Why Female Characters’ Boobs Are So Huge

“Because, Boobs,” a short cartoon from artist Nate Ziller, is mostly just for laughs, but it also makes an emphatic point. Why do female characters tend to have such huge breasts? Because a bunch of dudes in a boardroom decided they should. [Via Laughing Squid]