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With Any Luck, Call of Duty Just Made Tea-Bagging Uncool

Nothing against tea-bagging in first-person shooters other than it being played out, stupid-looking and annoying. But I guess it’s also super-hilarious, hence this immortal awards show moment a couple of years ago. Uproarious! Now. Despite the good people at Microsoft’s Halo development team trying to re-dub “tea-bagging” as “victory-crouching“, the former is still a thing.…

What’s The Best Gaming Keyboard?

It’s time for another edition of Co-Op, the segment where we ask Kotaku readers to nominate, narrow down, and vote on the best products in a given category. This week is all about gaming keyboards, and we’re looking forward to seeing what you all come up with, and where features like mechanical keys land on…

Funky Tecmo Super Bowl Mod Creates Street Version of Gridiron Classic

A legion of editors have kept the nearly 22-year-old Tecmo Super Bowl relevant with mods that allow the game to be played with the modern NFL or college teams. Well, did you know the series also has a 7-on-7 arcade-style version, too? It’s free. “Street Tecmo” debuted quietly about a year ago on the TecmoBowl.org…

Diablo Origami Is Glorious

These incredible figures of Tyrael and Diablo himself are the work of an avid Diablo fan, TaeHyeon Hong from South-Korea, and he made them out of nothing but paper. Hong used something called the kirigami technique, which basically involves cutting up pieces of paper and morphing them like origami figures. It’s how he created this…

Lightning Returns Video Shows A Different Class Of Final Fantasy

Got your skepticism goggles on? Okay. After months of gameplay footage and details, I’m ready to call it: Lightning Returns looks like the best single-player Final Fantasy we’ve seen in years That’s right. AsRandom Encounters fans undoubtedly know, I’m on record as disliking both previous games in the Final Fantasy XIII trilogy, which will end…

If You Can’t Pull Off These Awesome GTA Stunts, Try Using Moon Gravity

A month into its release, most everyone has figured out that every curb is an opportunity for an insane stunt jump in Grand Theft Auto V—with or without the moon gravity cheat enabled. Some of the drivers behind the stunts in this video say they pulled off these feats without using Moon Gravity, and yes,…

Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: DocSeuss sings the praises of the original Thief games and wonders at the direction the franchise’s newest title seems to be heading in. Josay! offers a list of do’s and don’ts of stuff that should/shouldn’t be in upcoming games and hardware. And NotGoodForYou argues that…

Check Out Xbox One’s New Friends List

It stands to reason that Xbox Live on Xbox One would adopt the basic features of social networking—following friends, activity feeds and such. Larry Hryb of Xbox Live explains how all of that works in this video of the console’s Friends app. Remember, your friends list expands to 1,000 under the new Xbox One, but…

One of the villains hunting the Dark Knight in Batman: Arkham Origins must hate water. Revealed during the game’s spotlight panel during this past weekend’s New York Comic-Con, the Electrocutioner is one of the super-assassins looking to collect a bounty on Batman’s head. It’s a safe bet that some of that electrified villain tech will…

Nothing Makes Monday Bearable Like Fresh-Squeezed Gaming Apps

Since we can’t all go back to bed, let’s play some gaming apps instead. Here are eight of the latest and/or greatest to get us started. Well, get you started at least. I’ve already played these, and once I post them I have to actively pay attention to whatever my co-workers are talking about. Grand…

Here’s what you missed during the overnight shift: GTA V’s Trevor Tells Fan To Go F**k Himself Attack On Titanic Pokémon Cosplay Loki Does A Great Owen Wilson (As Loki) Impersonation The Slightly Terrifying Alternative To Oculus Rift

That’s a lot of male protagonists! It’s hard to tell who’s having the best time in Steam user Vikster’s crowded G-Mod mash-up And don’t worry, here’s theladies edition, which is just as busy and cool as the above one. Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest,funniest game-related screenshots…

First Look at Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 Remix

Next year, Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 Remix will hit the PlayStation 3. Here’s your first peek. The new remix includes Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix, which was previously a PS2 Japan exclusive, Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep Final Mix, which was previously on the PSP and also a Japan exclusive, and HD remastered cinematics for…

The Slightly Terrifying Alternative To Oculus Rift

The first thing I thought when I saw these was, hey, they look like the visors from the Final Fantasy movie. Then I sighed. The second thing I thought was, hey, these sound way cooler than the Oculus Rift. Not that they will be, but upon reveal in this CNET hands-on, the tech running them…

Loki Does A Great Owen Wilson (As Loki) Impersonation

British actor Tom Hiddleston, aka Loki from Thor/Avengers, does impressions. Like this one, where he was asked at Aussie film shindig Popcorn Taxi if he could do Owen Wilson. If Owen Wilson was Loki. Sounds nutty, but boy, it’s pretty good. Incidentally, if you’re ever in Sydney – or hey, live there – Popcorn Taxiis…

Here’s The First New Star Wars Character Since Disney Took Over

He’s called The Inquisitor. He hunts Jedi. He’s a Darth Vader sidekick.

Oh, Walter White Was Also In This Sweet Old Video Game Commercial

When Breaking Bad finished, I rounded up some of dorkier roles lead actor Bryan Cranston had been in over the years, from Power Rangers to anime. One role I completely missed, though, was one of his best It’s this brief appearance in an ancient Atari 2600 commercial for Mega Force, one of the best examples…

GTA V’s Trevor Tells Fan To Go F**k Himself

During a panel at the New York Comic-Con this weekend, fans got a chance to chat with the voice actors behind Grand Theft Auto V. Or if not chat, then have the guy who plays Trevor jump off the stage and come at a fan (at the fans’ request!), as though the game had suddenly…

Hacker Claims League of Legends Maker Buried a Finished Card Game [UPDATE]

Someone has claimed to hack the Twitter account of the president and co-founder of Riot Games, the makers of League of Legends, using it to publish images and templates from a completed-but-unreleased League of Legends card-based game. “Riot doesn’t want you to play this game,” said “Jason,” the hacker. The breach occurred today at 1:16…

NYCC Cosplay: A Female Dr. Doom, A Male White Queen and Kick-Ass Korra

Man, I was either laughing with delight or staring in awe at almost all of the cosplay you’ll see in this gallery. Obscure characters, sexy gender swaps and straight-up well-executed costuming are all on display here. And it needs to be said that the dude done up as the White Queen—dubbed Emmet Frost by a…