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This Week’s South Park Is All About Minecraft

This Wednesday’s South Park is Minecraft-themed, and if you can’t wait to see Trey Parker’s twisted take on the blocky indie sensation, you’re not alone. South Park has taken on video games before—most notably with a Blizzard-supported World of Warcraft episode called “Make Love, Not Warcraft”—and the results are always spectacular. Their own video game,…

Luke Cage Is Even Cooler In Marvel Heroes, If That’s Possible

Not only is Luke “Power Man” Cage super strong with unbreakable skin, he’s got the ability to summon his Heroes for Hire allies to his side in Marvel Heroes update 1.3, giving folks a whole new way to play. Gazillion could have easily made Cage just another super-strong bruiser, but that’s not what the character…

Permadeath Visits Batman with ‘I am the Night’ Mode

When it was revealed a little while ago in a list of achievements for Batman: Arkham Origins, folks didn’t know what this “I am the Night” mode is, only that it must be big if it’s offering 70 Gamerscore on Xbox 360. In fact it’s a permadeath run through the game—one life. “I am the…

The Year of Luigi is almost over, but that won’t stop Nintendo from launching yet another Nintendo Direct, tomorrow (Oct 1) at 10am ET “focused on Wii U and Nintendo 3DS games launching later this year.” We’ll have all the news for you right on Kotaku as it happens.

Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: Pika? Stormborn finally gets to the most iconic Pokemon in his daily series of pocket monster drawings. Spacegar connects indie classic Cave Story to the oeuvre of rock ‘n’ roll god David Bowie in an interesting way. writes about the joys that come with playing…

More Hands-On Impressions of Valve’s Odd New Game Controller

We’ve updated our story from last week regarding game creators’ hands-on impressions of Valve’s new game controller with new input from Fred Wester, chief of Paradox Interactive. He liked it, but he also has some questions about how mouse-and-keyboard games will work with it…

Want to pick up Destiny when Bungie’s ambitious shooter comes out next year? Here’s what the PlayStation all console versions of the game’s box art will look like. Updated with Xbox versions of Destiny‘s box art.

Attack On Titan In Minecraft Even Has A Colossal Titan

I admit I didn’t see it coming, although after the terrific stuff people did with King’s Landing, this one’s also an obvious choice: One of the towns from the popular anime Attack on Titan got a stunning Minecraft recreation by etheralcat and his friends, with a memorable moment included. The colossal titan is about to…

Odd Man In Cave: “Stop Naming Princesses Zelda”

A tradition based on a great tragedy that only seems to breed more tragedy? Awkward Spaceship has a point — maybe Hyrule needs to revisit its princess naming policy before everything explodes. There are plenty of perfectly good princess names out there that won’t cause powerful evil to arise and threaten the land. Princess Bubblegum…

In an ideal world, we could jump into this 8-bit Breaking Bad game right after the finale of the series. Sadly it’s just an imaginary start screen—a pretty neat one, nevertheless—of an imaginary game, The Legend of Heisenberg, made by Filippo Morini Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the…

Dreamfall Chapters: The Longest Journey has five new screenshots to its name—actually stills from the adventure game’s upcoming twenty to thirty minute vertical slice demo, which will be shown off in the coming months The shots star Kian Alvane, one of the game’s playable characters. Check ’em out below.

A Group of Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim Modders Are Making An RPG

An open-world fantasy RPG, predictably enough. The group, Druid Gameworks, is working on a Skyrim-esque PC RPG which wants to put more emphasis on player choice. Unwritten: Echoes of Twilight, as they call it, eschews the Elder Scrolls series’ main-quest-side-quest structure in favor of a more exploration-based system, where you basically unlock different quests and…

Do You Love Breaking Bad Enough To Build A LEGO Mosaic?

Well, this guy does. Breaking Bad protagonist Walter White is looking quite brooding and mysterious on his LEGO portrait, done by Andy Bauch of HippoBricks.com. Bauch says constructing the portrait took 10 hours and required 2000 LEGO pieces, with the end result, a thirty by thirty inch mosaic mounted on a one-inch wooden frame, weighing…

Why Is It So Hard To Keep Playing Video Games?

How did I do it? When my Super Nintendo arrived I remember playing it during the Christmas holiday. Nine hours a day. Every day. For two weeks. I had no reason to stop, no responsibilities. My Mum once rattled my bedroom door making a big fuss about how I should go outside and play and…

Ten Indie PC Games You Must Keep An Eye On

There are so many small teams out there working on so many promising PC games that it’s often impossible keeping tabs on them. You read about them, you like the looks of them, then the world keeps spinning and you forget all about something you may otherwise have loved. That’s a shame. So we’re going…

The Mouse Of The Future Might Be This Weird Little Thing

This is the iMotion, a controller concept by Intellect Motion. It’s a mouse, that you hold in the air, which doubles as a motion-sensor, and triples as a means of getting haptic feedback. All of which sounds awfully ambitious, not to mention tiring (holding the thing in the air for prolonged use doesn’t look ideal),…

Orbitor, a very pretty game we’ve looked at previously, has been signed to a console publishing deal. So expect to see it…everywhere.

1.26 Billion Facebook Profiles, All In The One Place

Artist Natalia Rojas, who calls herself a “creative technologist”, has devised a way for a single webpage to host all 1.26 billion Facebook user profiles. What’s more, it’s interactive, meaning you can actually find yourself amongst this sea of humanity. It’s a staggering image. Organised by the date a user joined, you can track people…

Let’s Appreciate Grand Theft Auto V’s Panoramas For A Second

Using GTA V’s in-game Snapmatic app – and a very steady hand on the right thumbstick – reader Timothy made some panoramic shots of Los Santos by stitching photos together in Photoshop. They’re great! Grand Theft Auto 5 Panoramas [Flickr]

Adventures In Skyrim Co-op (Cosplay)

Skyrim’s fun, but Skyrim five-player co-op sounds better. That ensemble is joined this week by some fantastic Sailor Moon, a terrifyingly realistic GlaDOS and, awesomely, some Magic: The Gathering cosplay. To see the larger pics in all their glory (or, if they’re big enough, so you can save them as wallpaper), click on the “expand”…