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NBA Live Dribbles Out a First Look at Actual Gameplay

NBA Live 14 announced its launch date earlier this week—Nov. 19, which is curious, as that is four days after the PlayStation 4 launches and still there’s a PS4/NBA Live 14 launch bundle (currently sold out) due to drop on Nov. 15. OK, well, while we get that sorted out, here’s the first look at…

The Legend of Zelda’s abysmal CD-i adaptation from 20 years ago—Link: The Faces of Evil and Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon—were KGB’d out of Hyrule Historia, the series’ canonical volume. MTV Multiplayer asked series director Eiji Aonuma why, and got a rare comment from Nintendo about one of the worst games of all time.

Yep. Madden‘s Eyebrow-Shaving Bet Was B.S. After All

We said we’d keep any eye on this nutball wager between Madden endorsers Colin Kaepernick and Russell Wilson, who met last week. Looks like no one lost anything, thanks to the magic of digital editing. Check out the comments on that YouTube video. Some folks are seriously hacked off that Kaepernick didn’t do the deed…

Why I Created the ‘Washington Whiteskins’ in a Football Video Game

A few months ago a guy reached out to me over Twitter with a common question, but for an unusual purpose. He asked if gamers can create or rename teams in Madden NFL. No, I replied, that hasn’t been a feature for several years. His reason for asking is probably why: the guy wanted to…

Capcom’s PS4-Exclusive Deep Down Will Be Free-to-Play

Deep Down, Capcom’s strange, beautiful, displaced-time online RPG, is going to be free-to-play, and its beta will appear “near the launch of the PlayStation 4 in Japan,” Sony’s president of worldwide studios said via Twitter after the news was announced at Tokyo Game Show earlier today. As was revealed earlier this week, PlayStation 4 will…

Why the PS4 is Waiting Until February to Launch in Japan

A dearth of Japan-focused titles is why Sony is slowing the roll of the PlayStation 4 there until Feb. 22. In fact, western appetite for a next-generation console well outpaces that in Sony’s home country, said company executives to Eurogamer “Perhaps you could say that a few western developers have been more aggresive in readying…

The Best of Kotaku, The Week of September 16

Morning, Kotaku. How are you doing? Still playing GTA V? Since last night? Haven’t slept or ate at all? Oh, ok, glad we’re on the same page then. When you’re taking breaks in between, how about browsing some of our best content from over the week, collected over at Kotaku Selects? Our guys in Asia…

BatDad Is The Best Dad. Also Maybe The Worst.

Can you imagine being a kid and having your dad sometimes sport a Batman mask as he waits for opportunities to parent you in that iconic gritty Batman voice? That’s exactly what Vine user BatDad does, and it’s amazing. Well, for us, the viewers. His family seems to go between amused, nonplussed and annoyed based…

Seeing Game of Thrones Actors In Sesame Street Is A Little Weird

Peter Dinklage and Lena Heady have a life outside of butting heads as the Lannister siblings in Game of Thrones. I know that. It’s still kind of strange (if not amusing!) to see them both on a show like Sesame Street, though. I mean, it’s so wholesome! They’re not plotting any schemes! What is this?…

A Lovecraft-Inspired Game That’s Sillier, Smarter Than It Is Scary

With both Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs and Outlast released so recently, it might seem as though there wouldn’t be room for another horror game. But the free browser horror game Catachresis fits neatly in between them. Developed by Cameron Kunzelman, Catachresis is a sort of linear story-game-non-game thing that combines the verbose, too-big-and-awful-to-actually-contain monsters…

Guy Re-Scores All Of Ni no Kuni‘s Music

This is pretty incredible: 23-year-old musician Sam Joseph Delves put together an orchestra and re-scored the RPG Ni no Kuni in its entirety. “With the help of BBC documentary composer Howard Davidson I was able to take the music to the studio with a purpose built video game orchestra in an attempt to film and…

An N64 That Looks Like It’s Straight Out of Tron

Man. What a gorgeous N64. Just like most of Zoki64‘s work, it’s so pretty that I’d almost feel bad for using the console at all, if I could use it. Almost. Consoles are meant to be played, people. Here’s a video that gets you up close with the console and controller: (Via it8Bit)

Grand Theft Auto V GIFs Are Here To Destroy The Internet

Thanks to the deep and immersive world of Los Santos and the hysteria surrounding Grand Theft Auto V, people are already having a ton of fun with the game online, including using our favorite format: the GIF. It’s still early and GTA V has a massive open world, so this is possibly only the tip…

IGN shares the great little story about why a former Sonic the Hedgehog developer kept a short poem near his desk. The poem read: “Shigeru Miyamoto is a fart.” It wasn’t an insult; it was a motivational tool!

Kojima: Waterboarding, Torture “Needs to Be Done” In Games Like MGS

While Metal Gear Solid is a franchise that has included torture in the past, not only are more and more games including it recently—GTA and Splinter Cell, for example—it’s still a sensitive subject that’s hard to pull off tastefully. So naturally, it’s always a thing that people like to discuss—particularly, how to handle it properly,…

Let’s Analyze This Week’s Weirdest Nintendo News In a Positive Way

Two days ago, Nintendo revealed how two of their biggest Wii franchises, Wii Fit U and Wii Sports, would be returning on Wii U. They are both arriving on the Wii U in very unusual ways. And there’s one very telling catch. Let’s go glass half-full on this one, shall we? Wii Sports is coming…

Your Xbox One And PS4 Can Hook Up

This is it, guys. The console wars are over. Your PS4 and Xbox One don’t need to fight—they can hook up instead. See, the next Xbox has an HDMI-in port, so you can plug in an HDMI cord and output video from another device, like your TV cable box, and run it through the Xbox…

A New Jaws Game With A Text Adventure Twist

You’ve probably seen Steven Spielberg’s epoch-shifting 1975 blockbuster Jaws, and if you grew up playing games, you’ve probably played a video game based on the film. But you probably haven’t played a video game version quite like this. The new, free browser game Jaws: The Text Adventure takes classic scenes from the film and cleverly…

Awesome Breaking Bad Mini Episodes You Might’ve Missed

Hey there. Newest episodes of Breaking Bad got you down? It’s OK. Let’s take a minute to look back on happier times earlier in the show. Not just any moments, mind: let’s talk about the mini-episodes that you may never have watched at all. Not only are they often hilarious—which we might need, given how…

It’s Friday. Let’s Talk About JRPGs.

So. Thanks to a whole lot of unfortunate timing, I haven’t been able to put together Random Encounters for the past few weeks. Next week we’ll be back for real. This week, I’ve got two requests for you: 1) Send me some questions! Shoot an e-mail to [email protected] with the subject “Random Encounters.” The best…