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Warhammer Online, due for a shutdown in mid-December, has gone free-to-play as a “parting gift” to those who had an account in good standing as of Thursday. “We will be adding new NPCs to the game in order to power up your characters,” Mythic promises.

It Took One Year to Make This Criminally Insane LEGO Arkham Asylum

Not only did Thorsten Bonsch spend a year of his spare time constructing a gloriously macabre LEGO rendering of Arkham Asylum, he also released an 82-page, step-by-step making-of book that you can download for yourself. Let’s be clear though, these are detailed instructions along with a description of the architectural inspirations for the facility—a 115.5…

A Live-Action Look Back at Dead Island‘s Original Trailer

Remember that haunting first trailer that Dead Island released two years ago? The reverse-time, slow-motion reveal of a zombie child thrown to her death by her father, and the tragedy preceding it all? That thing won an award at Cannes.* Now someone’s gone and shot it in live action. Directed by BJ McConnell, with visual…

Call of Duty‘s original working title was “Medal of Honor Killer,” reports GameSpot. Mission accomplished, I’d say.

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: One Big-Ass Xbox

Oh man, look at this Xbox One! Man, I don’t think my entertainment center’s gonna hold that sucker when it comes out next month. That is huuuuuuge! Let’s ‘Shop it up. What, you need more instruction from me? Hell, a bunch of people already got started when Jason Schreier spied this image last week. We’ll…

Warcraft Artist Dominates Halloween Contest With Game of Thrones Getup

Everyone, meet René Koiter. Halloween may have been three days ago, but we just caught a glimpse of his virtuoso rendering of Khal Drogo from Game of Thrones, which totally blew the curve for Blizzard’s Halloween costume contest. It’s not just the body paint, the leather bracers or the twin sickle blades. Half of the…

Next-Gen Games Will Fill Our New Consoles’ Hard Drives In No Time

The PlayStation 4’s internal hard drive is 500GB, and if you buy and start playing just two of its launch day first-person shooters this month, you may already be using more than a 10th of the drive. Welcome to a somewhat different era of console gaming. Above you’ll the see part of the back of…

News Station Thinks “The Cake Is A Lie” Joke Is Proof of the Paranormal

For anyone that’s played Portal, ‘the cake is a lie’ very well may be an old, tired joke. But that doesn’t mean everyone knows where the joke comes from, judging from some this footage of a recent Oklahoma newscast. The clip above is of KJRH’s coverage of Sooner Paranormal of Oklahoma, a group dedicated to…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Rosemary’s Babies: The Winners

With a face only a mother could love—or a psychopath—My Little Baby 3D adorably spit up on the 3DS last week. We gave you several blood-curdling screenshots and asked you to do your worst. Happily, you kept the really gruesome stuff to a bare minimum. There are 17 finalists inside, including overall No. 1 Docherty!…

Valve Fans Rampage After Game Fails To Hold…A Halloween Event

Valve normally runs cute little Halloween events for some of its games. Team Fortress 2 gets Scream Fortress, for example, while DOTA 2 had Diretide. Oh, except for this year. And boy are people upset Once Halloween came and went with no announcement of a Diretide for 2013, fans of the game went nuts. The…

Cuba Actually Had Arcades. Today They Were All Shut Down.

Cuba has formally cracked down on its nascent arcade businesses, specifically forbidding their operation after they had opened and operated in a gray area uncovered by the law there for the past three years. Arcades and movie theaters are banned—”immediately”—Cuba’s government said on Saturday, according to the CBC. These establishments are not among the 200…

Charity Gaming Marathon Site Taken Down by Hackers [Update: It’s Back]

Earlier in the day, Extra Life, an annual fund raiser held by Sarcastic Gamer was down for more than an hour because of a DDoS attack, organizers said. The site returned around 5:15 p.m. Extra Life benefits the Children’s Miracle Network, and has been held annually since 2008, raising hundreds of thousands of dollars since…

Twitch.tv announced streaming support for Minecraft on PC and Mac, at Minecon 2013, being held this weekend in Florida. This means Minecraft players will be able to stream to the service directly from the game itself. The feature will be live “soon,” says Twitch.

Megan Fox Stars in the Latest Call of Duty: Ghosts Live-Action Trailer

You’re gonna live ’til you die in Call of Duty: Ghosts which, for millions on Tuesday, will be about 16 seconds after spawning. A bombed-out, bro’d out Vegas stars alongside Megan Fox (Bad Boys II, as “Stars-and-Stripes Bikini Kid Dancing Under Waterfall”) in the live-action launch trailer Activision just pushed out for its megabazillion-dollar franchise.…

Meet the Specialists of Call of Duty‘s Extinction Mode

Extinction, the horde mode replacing (or so it seems) zombies for Call of Duty: Ghosts will feature four classes specific to the mode, according to this post yesterday afternoon from the game’s developer. The classes are rather meat-and-potatoes: Weapon Specialist, Tank, Engineer and Medic. The first two are your offensive classes, the second two are…

Peggle 2 will be out “a few weeks later in December” and not on the day Xbox One launches (Nov. 22), PopCap said. An earlier listing by Microsoft called it a launch-day title. The game is a timed exclusive to Xbox One.

The Best of Kotaku, The Week of October 28

Anyone else have a similar Halloween experience? If you were too busy making a costume or whatever else, you can catch up on the week over at Kotaku Selects The Pokémon comic is from Pain Train, one of my favorite places to visit recently.

A Game Where You Are The Terrifying Alien That Soldiers Want To Kill

I’ve killed a lot of aliens in my time. You probably have, too. It’s not often that we get to be the mysterious extraterrestrial that all the humans are terrified of, though. Paradise Lost: First Contact is a game where you get to play as an alien plant thing that comes to Earth via a…

Zombie Game Creator Defends Allowing Players To Kill Undead Children

If you see a kid in a game, chances are it’s one of the few things that is magically immortal—and the reason why is probably obvious. Child murder in games controversial…but that doesn’t mean all developers consider it off-limits. Granted, in this case, we’re not just talking about any children—we’re talking about zombie children. No…

​Play This New Zelda Song Backwards. Trust Me.

If you’re like me, you probably heard the music in the new trailer for The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, enjoyed it, and left it at that. Ah, but there’s a secret hidden within. Listen to the music in the trailer backward, as captured by WiiC24, and you’ll hear the Hyrule Castle Theme…