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Metal Gear Solid V Might Break Canon, But Kojima Says That’s Okay

“The first thing is, I shouldn’t have talked about clones,” said Hideo Kojima, laughing. He was joking. I think. Kotaku‘s Evan Narcisse and I were sitting in a swanky hotel room with the creator of Metal Gear Solid, and we’d just spent some time talking about his next game, Ground Zeroes, which is a prologue…

New Ken Block Video Turns Car Into Giant Pinball

Race and stunt driver Ken Block is the master of gymkhana. Don’t know what gymkhana is? It’s this video. In which he propels a car around a “track” like it had been built in a video game and he’d done nothing but play it for ten months straight. This clip was made to promote the…

See Battlefield 4 Running On PS4 Remote Play

One of the PlayStation 4’s coolest advertised features is Remote Play, which will allow gamers to play PS4 games on their Vita handheld. We’ve already seen a demo of Assassin’s Creed IV running with Remote Play, and now you can get a taste of Battlefield 4 IGN‘s Greg Miller has shared this Vine video which,…

​Finally, A Game Where You Argue About Slashfic

What if Wolverine and Battlestar‘s Number Six met and fell in love? What if Desmond from LOST had a torrid affair with Benedict Cumberbatch’s Sherlock Holmes? We cannot stop asking these questions. We will not! Might as well make a game out of it. That’s the idea behind Slash: Romance Without Boundries, a new card…

If we can interrupt the fun stuff for a moment… The Philippines was wracked by a devastating hurricane this past weekend with more than 10,000 people feared dead. If you’d like to help relief efforts, here’s a list of places you can donate to. To our readers in the Philippines, our thoughts are with you.

Watch The Entire Minecraft Documentary For Free, Right Here

Minecraft: The Story of Mojang—the 2012 documentary about the game, its creator and its impact on video gaming culture—is now free to watch in its entirety thanks to YouTube. You can watch it all here—but you’ll need an hour and 45 minutes to do so. The documentary is by 2 Player Productions and explores the…

The Ultimate ‘Round The World’ Gaming Tour For A Mere $9,000

Got a long vacation coming up? Have a spare $9,000? UK travel agency Sta and Game have put together a 14-stop ‘Round the World’ tour that takes gamers to London, Tokyo, Phuket, Boston and beyond. “The Epic Gaming Adventure“, as Sta is calling it, is the sort of trip I would have mapped out for…

XCOM: Enemy Within Comes Out Tomorrow, Get it for 33% off

XCOM: Enemy Within hits digital shelves tomorrow, but you can take 33% off its price using code GMG25-C5729-7SY25 over at GreenManGaming. [GreenManGaming] Owen Good says you should definitely play it. Follow Kotaku Deals on Twitter to never miss a deal. Get in touch with Shane Roberts on Twitter or by e-mailing Shane@Gawker Every weekday the…

The PS4 is out in four days, and Kotaku’s review will go live at 9am Eastern on Wednesday, November 13. Look forward to that and tons more coverage as this week continues.

Fancy Retro: check out these awesome decal stickers for NES controllers—there’s this Zelda one, which matches modern Zelda Wii Us,and also Earthbound decalsavailable for purchase here.(Via Tiny Cartridge)

Brilliant news: In early 2014, the excellent indie starship-management game FTL will get afree Advanced Edition that adds all sorts of new stuff. Even better, the game will finally come to iPad, also in early 2014. Yessssssss.

Welcome To The Humble Indie Store

The Humble Bundle has long been the best value in gaming, and things are about to get even less humble with the debut of the new Humble storefront. Humble has been letting indies use their checkout system for a while now, so it’s no surprise that they’re formalizing the whole thing into a browsable experience.…

​Apparently Hideo Kojima Loves The PS4 Pillow, Too

Sure, the PlayStation 4 is the main attraction at Sony’sbig New York press event today. But a surprising upstart has stolen a bit of the spotlight: The PS4 Pillow. Behold, in all its glory: Ever since people at the event started sharing pictures of the pillow on social media, it’s become quite the thing. Metal…

The Best Game Ending Of The Last Generation

As we at Kotaku planed out the final couple weeks of our Last-Gen Heroes series, we considered the possibility of a list of the best endings of the generation. “But game endings all suck,” Luke said. “Well, except for The Last of Us,” I replied. And so, rather than put together some list of the…

So That’s What Happens When Repel Wears Off In Pokémon

We might experience hundreds of random encounters over the years in Pokemon games, but everyone seems to remember one specific kind of encounter: Zubat ones. It always happens a little like this: You’re deep in some cave somewhere. Your Pokemon are hurting bad; you need a Pokemon center. You’re almost at the end of the…

50 Of The Best Movies Ever, Akira, Dexter, X-Files, PS Vita [Deals]

Build yourself an awesome blu-ray collection in one click. Amazon is offering the Best of Warner Bros. 50 Film Collection for $180, which is over $400 off the original retail price, and quite the bargain for 50 amazing films. The last time we listed this (for more), it was one of the most popular items…

10-Year-Old Faces Felony After Cops Say He Spent $800—on Minecraft?!

I have no idea how the hell this is even possible but a 10-year-old kid in Nebraska is facing felony-with-an-F charges for using his grandmother’s credit card to spend $800 on a video game online. Authorities and local media say the game is Minecraft. The hell? If there is even $800 worth of skin packs…

GTA V Comes To PC And Mac… As A Screensaver

You might not be able to play Grand Theft Auto V on your computer yet, but you can at least enjoy hundreds of user-taken photos of GTA V and Grand Theft Auto V with Rockstar’s official Snapmatc Screensaver. This kind of makes me wish I had another PC on my desk, set up specifically slip…

How Mandatory Game Installations Will Work On PS4

Call it installation or call it caching, but the bottom line is that you will have to save large chunks of PlayStation 4 games to the system’s hard drive. It’s not an option. It’s mandatory on Sony’s next-gen system. Today, at a stylish waterfront hotel in New York City that’s been taken over by Sony…

It’s The Biggest Week In Gaming Apps Ever

Seventeen amazing games — that’s got to be some sort of Week in Gaming Apps record. I go on vacation for a week, and all the good games come out at once. Luckily a good portion of my vacation was spent sitting on my ass with my iPad or Nexus 7, downloading bite-sized games and…