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The Last of Us Ended Perfectly, And It Doesn’t Need A Sequel

As the old saying goes, “Video games beget more video games.” Successful video games beget sequels. And The Last of Us seems by any available measure to be a successful video game. That being said, I hope it doesn’t get a sequel. WARNING: MAJOR SPOILERS FOLLOW FOR THE LAST OF US. The spoiler train is…

The Real Reason Nintendo Will Never Make A Pokemon MMO

We want it. We have to have it. Our desire for it burns like the heat of a thousand suns, but what would happen if Nintendo did make a Pokemon MMO? Gaming humor site Dorklymay be on to something here. I doubt even Valve’s Gabe Newell could save us. For more sick and twisted video…

Rumor About Xbox One Family-Sharing’s Downsides Has Flaws of Its Own [UPDATE: Microsoft Debunks]

We prefer to report on rumors that we can prove are true or outright debunk, but sometimes we get the ones we have to address without being able to say with certainty one way or the other. Enough of you ask about it; we need to tell you what’s up, as best we can. The…

How To Deal With Your Jerk Friends And Other Advice

In this week’s Ask Kotaku I answer a bunch of questions covering newly announced games, your friends and life at Kotaku Sorry I missed you guys last week. I was busy running around LA like a maniac and being really tired and stuff. But I’m back! So let’s get into this week’s questions on Ask…

Okay. Yes. I’m Cautiously Excited For Lightning Returns: FFXIII.

Square Enix has a lot of work to do. With Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII—the third game in what has become the Final Fantasy XIII trilogy—the folks at Square not only have to conclude Lightning’s story in a satisfactory way, they have to figure out how to appeal to RPG fans who were turned off…

Indie Developer Pulls Out Of PAX, Citing Penny Arcade Controversies

The small studio behind the upcoming first-person exploration game Gone Homesay they’re pulling their game from the next big PAX show because of their rising discomfort with the show’s organizers. “This morning we stopped pushing those long-held reservations about [Penny Arcade founders] Jerry and Mike into the back of our minds.” writes Steve Gaynor, head…

The Moneysaver: Fez $5, FTL $2.50, Hotline Miami $3, Haswell

Rise and save, Mister Reader. Rise and… save. Not that I… wish to imply you have been sleeping on the job. No one is more deserving of a deal, and all the effort in the world would have gone to waste until… well, let’s just say your Moneysaver has… come again. The right promo code…

Today marks the launch of the “All Hail Galvatron” event in Transformers Legends, slipping the free-to-play iOS and Android card game a little 80s animated movie continuity. The highlight of the event is the debut of Rodimus Prime, the little jerkwad who got Optimus Prime killed. I hope he gets eaten by Sharkticons.

Sony Releasing 4.45 PlayStation Firmware Fix Next Week

Gamers whose PS3s were rendered unusable by last Tuesday’s 4.45 PS3 firmware update will find relief on Thursday, June 27, with the release of a new system update that Sony believes will fix things. “We have identified the issue related to the PlayStation 3 software update (version 4.45) that impacted a small number of PS3…

Remember that awesome Peggle 2 announcement? Here’s the same announcement, only more extreme. We’re talking like, unicorns and explosions type of ridiculousness. And it’s official!

An In-Depth Chat With The Genius Behind Super Smash Bros.

Masahiro Sakurai is in pain. The creator of Super Smash Bros. suffers from calcific tendonitis in his right shoulder, and it shows: Sakurai often holds his arms as he talks, and he says he can’t use a regular mouse anymore. It hurts too much. Still, he is cheerful and friendly—if a little subdued—when talking about…

Is Marvel Heroes Worth Playing? How Do You Feel About Raccoons?

Between issues with early start and the official release being the week before E3 2013 craziness, I’ve not had much time to play Gazillion Entertainment’s “Marvel Diablo” since my days in the beta, so when people have asked me over the past few weeks “Is it worth playing,” my response has generally been “Oh my…

General Zod and Man of Steel ’s Superman Fly Into Injustice Next Month

With the Man of Steel movie debuting as a big hit, it’s no surprise that the movie’s version of Superman will be coming to the fighting game featuring the DC Universe’s biggest heroes and villains. And the Man of Steel skin will be joined by a playable General Zod add-on, who we first saw in…

I Fight Dragons Plus Phantom Breaker Equals One Awesome Music Video

As demonstrate in our recent Man of Steel discussion, I love me some I Fight Dragons. I also love pixel art. So when the Nintendocore band teams up with the makers of Xbox Live Arcade’s Phantom Breaker: Battle Grounds for a pixel-perfect music video for their song “Move”, why it’s the best day ever. “If…

In an interview with The Guardian, Infinity Ward executive producer explains the core of the Call of Duty franchise: “I want every team to be making its own creative statement. Call of Duty has a creative statement. For single player it’s that cinematic, movie-like experience that’s immersive and pinned on storytelling. It has those big…

Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: DocSeuss wonders if this week’s Xbox One announcement means that someone else won E3. And I_Kluge throws some love in the general direction of Fat Princess And you can always go join the voices talking about video games and life in TAY Classic and in…

Just when you’re expecting a satirically goofy take on what makes video games different from other forms of art, Cracked goes ahead and doles out a semi-serious, mostly on-point article about that very point. You’ll laugh but you’ll also nod in agreement, too.

Call of Duty: Ghosts Appears on TV, Gives us “Press X To Bark”

Tonight’s featured demo on Late Night’s Video Games Week was a few minutes’ worth of the new Call of Duty’s canine companion demonstrating his abilities of sneaking, silent killing, and… barking. The demo, which takes place in the rather devastated-looking outskirts of San Diego, has the dog, Riley, take down several guards—in fact, the actual…

Our Favorite Onion Gaming Articles

Earlier this week, we were having a laugh around the Kotaku campfire at The Onion‘s latest video-game sendup: ‘Fully Leveled-Up Video Game Character Marvels At How Far He’s Come.’ These guys are pretty damned good at poking fun at video games, and they’ve been at it for ages. Why not pull together our favorite stories…

The conversations between the villagers in Animal Crossing: New Leaf never cease to amaze me. Without exception they’re all mildly insane. What’s the weirdest thing an Animal Crossing townsfolk has said to you?