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Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: Dear Video Game Expert—Marsh Naylor’s column that answers your burning questions in most humorous fashion—takes on swimming and Red Dead Redemption. JJtheTexan’s lost-games-of-Nintendo survey dives deep into the pool of Game Boy one-offs that very few people remember. NotGoodForYou offers up an opinion piece about…

Ten Random PS4 Questions Answered

2,000 PSN friends! No PS Plus subscription needed for Netflix! Jet black (not piano black)! Via Sony’s official PlayStation Access YouTube channel, here are some answers to PS4 questions you probably didn’t know you had.

This Punch-Out Homage Makes It Seem like Superman Had It Easy

The case has been made that, without his freeze breath, super-speed or invulnerability, Superman really ain’t that tough. In the famous 1978 Superman vs. Muhammad Ali comic, a de-powered Kal-El had to face up against The Greatest of All Time and got smacked around by the champion. But, when you compare Ali to Little Mac’s…

Grand Theft Auto V‘s And Max Payne 3‘s Combat Compared, Side By Side

We’ve reported previously about the shooting mechanics in Grand Theft Auto V, and how it’s going to be somewhat identical to what we’ve seen in Max Payne 3. And now Youtuber datarace1 delivers the visual confirmation, with a side-by-side gameplay comparison. Why fix something if it ain’t broke? The only differences I could catch were…

Quick Q&A: He Used to Like Achievements

Here’s something new for you. A Q&A from Kotaku with a top gaming person—short enough that you can read the whole thing before the bus arrives, before it’s your turn in line, before your date is back in his/her seat. Weekly. First-up: game designer Cliff Bleszinski. Bleszinski is the former creative lead at Epic. His…

How do you transform poor Lucas from Mother 3 into something completely horrifying? Tighten his body and swap his face with Wario’s. The unspeakable result would be a hysterical Smash Bros. character, that’s for sure. Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest,funniest game-related screenshots and art that we…

“The truth is we were doing prototype tests of Pikmin for the DS and 3DS, but it turned into unit management with only the touch pen, and no matter what it just didn’t seem like Pikmin.” Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto to 4Gamer, on their early plans to develop Pikmin 3 for handhelds instead of the Wii…

Our Australian comrades report that after being re-submitted for classification, Saints Row IV has again been refused classification by the Australian Review Board. No decision has been made about the game’s “safe” low-violence version yet.

Some Lucky Humans Got To Sit In A Macross Cockpit

The Osamu Tezuka Manga Museum – located in Takarazuka, home to this goodness – has been running an exhibit lately that would have made my inner seven year-old’s brain explode. As part of its Macross: The Museum exhibit, there to celebrate the series’ 30th anniversary, there’s an amazing recreation of a VF-1 cockpit from the…

Most Ouya Owners Aren’t Buying A Damn Thing

When you play an Ouya, you can try a demo of every single game available, without ever having to buy a thing. Which is exactly what most owners of the tiny Android console are doing. In an interview with The Verge, CEO Julie Uhrman has said that while “Monetization on Ouya is so far better…

A Board Game About Prison Gangs (And Yes, There Are Shivs)

The Oleg Story is a board game about being in prison. You’re not trying to get out of the place. Just get by. Maybe you’ll be someone’s special friend. Maybe you’ll be a bully. Maybe you’ll bully the bullies. Maybe you’ll team up and just…I don’t know, pump iron and get tattoos. Each player controls…

Now Video Game Magazines Are Getting Hacked

People hacking video game companies, that I get. But really, messing with a video game news outlet? That’s a bit much. Last Friday, moderators on the PC Gamer forums noticed some “suspicious activity”. Turns out a script had somehow been hidden in a forum post that had been designed to steal a user’s profile information…

Cosplay That’s Kickin’ Like Bruce Lee

It’s another bumper cosplay roundup this week, as some late Comic-Con uploads are joined by shots that are just awesome, regardless of the time of year. Not to take anything away from some of the more complex builds featured this week – that Charr is mighty impressive – but my favourite might be Leon Chiro’s…

The Best Zelda Movie That Doesn’t Have A Cosplaying Link In It

See? What’s even funnier is that the guy’s actually in a pretty good doom band. Lost Woods on accordion…on a unicycle…in the woods [YouTube, via Geekologie]

The Biggest Space Fight In History Involved Over 4000 Pilots

There’s an epic battle going on in EVE Online right now, involving around 4000 people and enough space hardware to make screenshots look like bee swarms. It’s taking place in the 6VDT system, and the two sides are CFC/Goon and the TEST Alliance. UPDATE –Looks like TEST Alliance are bugging out. You can watch it…

From the Mouths of Babes …

If David Vonderhaar, design director for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, thought shining a light on the rancid Twitter spew coming from the game’s so-called fans would curb those reactions, well, think again. It’s still going strong, and someone’s curating it all. Consider this a to-block list for your own Twitter feed.

We’ve seen first-person representations of Super Mario Bros. World 1-1 before. If you’ve ever pondered what Green Hill Zone’s Act 1 from Sonic the Hedgehog would look like in first-person view, here’s a virtuoso remake of the stage, courtesy of Machinima.

A Locker-Room Talk Might Have Spared Us From Yesterday’s Fez Fiasco

The things I said were out of line and the mouth that said them would soon be out of alignment, too. That’s the polite version of a one-way conversation about 20 years ago in a far off arena, when the difference between criticism and a harangue was expressed to me in very physical terms. In…

You Only Threaten the Ones You Love …

Crime is a constant feature of video games writing. Somewhere, someone is doing something illicit with them—sometimes comically stupid, sometimes tragic. Games and consoles are currency, objects of dispute, sometimes even weapons themselves. Kotaku‘s Police Blotter is here to round up the latest in games crime. ‘Loud Xbox’ Creates a Domestic Disturbance SPRING HILL, Fla.—An…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Sharksassin

Shark Week returns next weekend, so to celebrate it, let’s goof on the obvious sharksploitation in the latest screenshots for Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag. Either the image itself here offers something hilarious, or a well placed star, or well chosen still from Sharknado could help bring the funny, too. Snuffy the Seal dying a…