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What’s The Best Gaming Monitor?

Today’s topic is Best Gaming Monitor, and we’re leaving that intentionally open-ended. Your choice does not have to be a monitor with “Gaming” in the name of the product. I’m very interested to see which specs like screen size, resolution, inputs, screen type, and ease of use are most important to people, and which don’t…

Penny Arcade Extends Olive Branch, Apologizes For Dickwolves Fallout

Four days after provoking debate about his comic strip’s most notorious joke, Penny Arcade’s Mike Krahulik offers a level-headed explanation of his position about the strip and the actions that followed it. He expressed many regrets. During an interview this weekend, Penny Arcade artist Mike Krahulik said that he thought pulling the Dickwolves merchandise from…

A Video Game About The Holocaust

Video games, as a general rule, do not cover serious tragedies, mostly because there aren’t a lot of ways to get satisfying gameplay out of something like the Holocaust. So it’s fasscinating to see the re-emergence of Imagination Is The Only Escape, a game about one of the biggest atrocities in human history. Director Luc…

If Only Modern Pokemon Games Looked Like This

Yes, Pokemon X & Y looks excellent, visually. But even so, looking at the photoshop handiwork of Justin—Bieber, it’s hard not to fantasize about an entire Pokemon game in this particular style, with backgrounds like these. I mean, it’s gorgeous! So much detail. Take a look: Granted, we don’t have to leave the sprites to…

Canadian Pikmin Stunt Looks Like a Nintendo Fever Dream Come To Life

Nintendo’s Canadian branch recently outfitted some people in Pikmin garb and jumped a pink Pikmin vehicle off a ramp, at the risk of giving children and adults nightmares. Surely I’m not the only one who feels like I’m having a fever dream while watching this? Or is this how the world looks if you do…

Take A Look Around The New Minecraft: Mass Effect Edition

Sadly, Minecraft players on the Xbox 360 don’t have access to the countless mods and texture packs available on the PC version. Well, now there’s at least one interesting pack available, for $3.99. Seems a bit steep for some new textures, skins, and a small map, but I suppose it’s better than not playing Minecraft…

Layoffs At BioShock Developer Irrational Games

Irrational Games laid off a small number of employees this week, Kotaku has learned. The studio behind BioShock Infinite, now working on two downloadable content packs for the critically-acclaimed shooter, says the layoffs won’t affect development of the DLC “in any way.” When reached by Kotaku, Irrational sent over this statement: In an effort to…

Of Course, Bayonetta Creator/Twitter Maestro Hideki Kamiya Loves Shoes

I couldn’t help myself from blurting out “Nice shoes!” when Hideki Kamiya stood up to shake my hand. Look at them. Is it any wonder why I had to give them props? The chief visionary behind The Wonderful 101 had just finished answering my questions during an interview at PAX last week when his footwear…

Another Lovely Final Fantasy Fan-Film That Will Probably Never Happen

This is a trailer for a fan-film based on Final Fantasy VI. It looks fantastic. And it will probably never be made. That may sound overly cynical, but history has not treated these sort of projects well. Just a month ago, a team of film-makers launched a Kickstarter for their Final Fantasy VII fan-film, and…

Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: Stormborn isn’t just doing great Pokemon drawings. You should check out the Smash Bros. wish list artwork he’s been doing, too. Nach shares some great photos of Paris in a new PhoTAYgraphy Club post. And Aestevalis runs down some of the new anime series that…

I’d Forgotten This All-Girl Fighting Game Was A Thing

Man, what was that game again? The one where the women are all kidnapped and forced to fight, with the Nobel Peace Prize winner in the fishnet top and cut-offs with electrical tape over her chest? Man, good thing Kung Fu Factory decided to get rid of… oh wait, they’re still making Girl Fight? And…

The Wii U grows exponentially more interesting, with the addition of outstanding modern platformer Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams and classic role-playing game Breath of Fire II in today’s Nintendo Download. What other wonders lurk in this week’s selection of digital downloads? Behold!

Now That’s A Lot Of Mass Effect Cosplayers!

We’ve already seen brilliant costumes from this year’s Dragon Con, but we simply couldn’t resist this absolutely packed Mass Effect group shot, photographed by one of the attendants, Pam Marotte It’s really hard to pick a favorite, with all the costumes being so well-made and varied (and not just a dozen Shepards and Talis). Maybe…

Watch The First 12 Minutes Of Call Of Duty: Strike Team

Activision droppeda surprise mobile Call of Duty on iOS today, and it’s two, two, two games in one. Call of Duty: Strike Team gives players the ability to switch between first-person shooter and top-down tactical strategy with the press of a button. Want to see how it works? Keeping in mind that the video recording…

Activison Just Released A New Mobile Call of Duty

Today, Activision is rolling out Call of Duty: Strike Team, a $7 mobile-exclusive Call of Duty title for iOS devices. The game offers a full-fledged story campaign taking place in 2020, and a survival game mode with leaderboards. Both game modes can be played in either the usual run and gun first-person mode, or in…

Freaky GIF Heads You Will Never Forget

This is the GIF art of 28 year-old Serbian artist Milos “Sholim” Rajkovic. His work takes seemingly bland, but ubiquitous individuals and packs their heads with mechanical parts. The result is surreal. “[The] models for my GIFs are politicians, corporate people, or just pretty faces from the commercials that we watched hundreds of times during…

A deeply unsettling horror-adventure game makes a return. I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, the ’95 point-and-click adventure based on the sci-fi short story of the same name, is once again available via GOG. It’s one of Kotaku’s must-play classic PC games, so you might wanna take a look—but prepare to be depressed.

Vladimir Putin Is An Artist

While visiting a school in Russia’s Kurgan region, President Putin drew this. It’s not what you probably think it is. Apparently. When a student asked him what he drew, Putin replied that it was a cat from behind. Oh. I thought it was a vagina. Or a penis. Or a vagina penis. Just think of…

Farming Simulator graces European and Japanese consoles today. If you’re in either of these two regions, you can now officially head out and grab the game for Xbox 360 or PS3 Those in North America will have to wait a bit longer for their copies, which will be here “shortly.” Until then, here’s the launch…

Banished Is A City Builder That’s All About Choices

We’ve talked about Shining Rock’s hardcore medieval city builder before, and yes, the game’s still around! In fact, in a recent interview, the creator yet again confirmed that Banished would definitely be out before the end of the year. Talking to PC Gamer, Luke Hodorowicz, the sole developer working on Banished, also discussed the importance…