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Jenn Frank wrote a great review of AC:NL over at Paste. Give it a read!

Spelunky will get Daily Challenges starting August 8th, and these are new adventures that are randomly generated every day. They are the same for everyone, and you only get one chance to try the latest one. There are even special leaderboards…but this is for the Steam version only.

Chalk Drawing Of Donkey Kong Comes To Disorienting, Terrifying Life

Well, this is cool. And a little bit brain-hurting. The folks at AweMeChannel (previously of Duck Hunt drawing-fame) have done a new 3D Escher-inspired drawing of Donkey Kong that moves. You can watch them put it together, but that won’t make it make anymore sense once they set it in motion. Perspective! How does it…

The World Needs A Kanye West Video Game

Today is the official release of Kanye West’s music video for Black Skinhead, a song off his latest album, Yeezus. You can watch and interact with it here: the website lets you speed up and slow the song down, as well as take screenshots of a weird CGI Kanye. Strange, yes, and yet in-tune with…

It was raining today, so I stayed inside and watched cartoons. The mouse got away from the cat!

A Gorgeous Game Of Mystery And Survival On The Surface Of Mars

You’re alone on the surface of Mars, and you’re running out of oxygen. What happened? How did you get here? How can you stay alive? And what mysteries lay hidden upon the Red Planet? Those are the questions at the heart of Lacuna Passage, an in-development exploration game from Random Seed games. We’ve been following…

All Of Hyrule Clashes In Bloody, Total War

Most conflicts in Hyrule, the setting of the Zelda games, are small-scale. A young man enters a dungeon, fights some monsters. That’s about it. But what about the BIG Zelda wars? Those are what’s on display in Hyrule: Total War, a mod for Total War: Medieval 2. The mod has been around for a while,…

Watch Us Play… DARK, And See Vampire Sam Fisher Kill Everyone

Well, to be honest, a vampiric Sam Fisher would be far better at killing everyone than Eric Bane. At the very least, he’d make it fun. I suppose it’s hard being a vampire though, I shouldn’t judge. DARK is out now on Xbox 360 ($50) and PC ($40). But so are other stealth games. Just…

Jocks are the weirdest

How much are you benching these days, bro? Yeah, me neither. I’m not so into the whole GYM thing but we’ve got a jock here in Motown who is always “flexin!” Gym rat (Gym Tiger?) Leonardo invited me over to his casa today to see his gym. Nah, it smelled bad. As you can see,…

A Game As Old As Your First Digital Watch

If you owned a digital watch when you were a kid, you probably played “The Digital Watch Game.” Of course, you probably didn’t call it that. You probably called it “screwing around with my rad digital watch.” But it was a game all the same. The goal? To start and stop the stopwatch as quickly…

This Unofficial Final Fantasy VII Web Series Sure Is Ballsy

You may remember the mock-up trailer that circulated last fall, promising an unofficial Final Fantasy VII fan film. At the time, director Gionata Medeot told me he wasn’t worried about Square Enix’s lawyers stepping in and trying to take it down. Well, today the team launched a Kickstarter to raise $400,000 for the project, which…

When Games Make Break-Ups Even More Difficult

Having an ex in the age of Facebook is no easy thing. Between social networks and texting, it’s difficult to feel as if you can completely cut ties with someone. Do you keep them as a friend? And if you do, how much do you allow yourself to read about their life without you? Do…

Playing Earthbound For The First Time? Tell Us What You Think.

Earthbound is officially out on the Wii U’s virtual console as of last Thursday, and now a whole new generation of gamers gets to experience Nintendo’s quirky role-playing game for the first time. Are you one of those gamers? Are you playing Earthbound for the first time? Post your thoughts, opinions, questions, etc. (Free tip:…

This Game Makes You Want to Kill Thieves—and Become One, Too

You’ve got a nice family, a decent amount of square footage and a nice little bundle of cash saved up. Of course, you want to protect it. But, somewhere out there is someone with all the same things and, with the right planning, you can keep all (or most) of the things in your home…

Runescape 3 Is Here, And Only A Bit Broken

Look at that trailer. That’s the bold future of the world’s most popular free-to-play MMO. A future I look forward to experiencing should this black screen issue ever get resolved. The third major update (counting Runescape HD) to Jagex’s original free-to-play sensation has launched as promised, but I am not seeing any of these fancy…

What Happens When You Prank Call The KKK As A Black Fallout Character

As you might expect, the soundboard conversation by ICEnJAM isn’t exactly, uh, cordial. The reason is that the character—Boxcars from Fallout New Vegas—has dialogue referring to an ambush by a group of Caesar’s Legion soldiers. These soldiers forced him to enter a lottery, where he came in second place. That means he got to keep…

Don’t F**k Up: A Video Game For Drunk People

I love it when bars and restaurants have video games. Whether it’s a wall-to-wall gaming experience like Barcade or a random burger joint in Berlin, it’s always a good thing. Which is why I’m fascinated by the Grasshopper Round Table, and the game Don’t F**k Up, developed by Studio Mercato. The Grasshopper Round Table is…

This LEGO Nintendo Could Almost Pass For The Real Thing

We’ve featured LEGO recreations of Nintendo hardware on Kotaku before, but I’ve never seen anything quite this authentic. Built by Flickr user weltall1028, this baby is the splitting image of a real Nintendo Entertainment System, right on down to the little man inside your console who tells the games where to go. More pics below:

This Game Kicks In Tactical Strategy’s Door, Takes A Bullet

I love that door-kicking moment. In a military first-person shooter, it’s the moment when you rush into the room and everything goes all slow-motion — can you pick off all of the enemies in time? In Gun Media’s Breach & Clear, it’s the moment you find out if your men live or die. Crafted by…

The Moneysaver: Blacklist, PSN Cash, Robotech, Headsets, Black Flag

It’s all over but the saving. The Steam Summer Sale is so an hour and fifteen minutes ago and your regular Moneysaver is back with a vengeance. We’ve got a jam-packed post with tons of game deals, multiple gaming headsets, accessories, lots of apps, and probably the best Media section we’ve ever had. PC •…