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Cards Against Humanity was once a Kickstarter asking for $4000. It’s since made over $12 million in revenue. Here’s a great writeup on how the game, and its creators, got there.

Final Fantasy Versus XIII: The PS1 Masterpiece

Final Fantasy Versus XIII sometimes feels like it’s been in development forever. So let’s pretend that it has. And that “forever” is really “since 1997”. Artist Saku Hatakka has done the above image, which takes the look of the oft-delayed Square game and takes it back in time to the Final Fantasy VII engine. “It…

The Wii U has Nothing to Offer a Sports Fan. Does It Even Matter Now?

If it wasn’t obvious at its launch in November, then this past week should have made it clear: The Wii U is functionally irrelevant to sports video games, and there is no reason for any sports fan to buy the console. The only question now is how much that will really matter to the fate…

So, Call of Duty just teased this thing, which means we can look forward to a lot more about Ghosts at the next Xbox’s big shindig on Tuesday.

Deathstroke is a playable character in Batman: Arkham Origins, according to this preorder offer (of course) from Amazon. Click this link and then on the Arkham Origins box in lower right to see it. [via TheSlanted]

Police Blotter: His Face Fought the Law and the Law Won

Crime is a constant feature of video games writing. Somewhere, someone is doing something illicit with them—sometimes comically stupid, but also potentially 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. Faces of Resisting Arrest WEST PALM BEACH,…

Horrid Friday the 13th NES Game Gets This Special Edition Figurine

Friday the 13th, the 1989 game, is widely considered to be one of the worst video games of all time, certainly one of the worst ever made for the NES. So of course it rates a special edition figurine—Jason Vorhees in the strange purple getup he wore for the final, deeply unsatisfying boss battle. Figures.com…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Roboshop

Next week we should have plenty of absurd things and derpfaces coming out of the Next Xbox reveal, so it’s premature to parody that right now. We need a more timeless exploitable, something like—oh, yeah, this bigass statue of Robocop. Here we go. The statue, remember, was a Kickstarter initiative to place a tribute to…

Just in time for Mega Man 5‘s release on the 3DS Virtual Console, Capcom’s offering the game’s soundtrack (57 songs in all) on the Capcom store.

Moneysaver Special Edition: Bioshock: Infinite At Its Cheapest Yet

Deals are just falling out of the sky. This deal is Today Only. You heard it here first. Amazon’s got your ticket to Columbia for its lowest yet, regardless of your platform. If you’ve been putting off playing the year’s biggest game, now is the time. • PC [Steam] Bioshock: Infinite ($35) • PC [Physical]…

In case you were wondering, that incredibly rare instruction manual from the Nintendo 64 video game ClayFighter: Sculptor’s Cut ended up selling for $1,377

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Ridiculous Rift: The Winners

Oculus Rift isn’t even in production and the VR device already has been put to that most basic of human needs—vigilante executions. If experiencing the guillotine in full stereoscopic view isn’t intense enough, feast your eyes on this week’s set of ‘Shop Contest winners, led by arniejolt! Acnyc2000 (This means “Will there be cake after…

Ouya Will Be at E3 … in the Parking Lot

Ouya, the crowdfunded Android gaming console, will be in Los Angeles during E3, but it won’t technically be *at* E3. That’s because its booth will be in “a parking lot directly across from the Convention Center’s South Hall.” Is it this one? That’s according to a message sent to Ouya developers by the company’s head…

Valve was at work on a set of augmented reality glasses when several employees were let go back in the winter. Two of them are continuing to work on the project, with the company’s blessings. The Verge has video of it in action

New Jersey’s state senate voted unanimously for a program that will print up a bunch of pamphlets about the dangers of scary, scary video games and send them home with schoolchildren. The bill, sponsored by Democrats, now moves to the state Assembly.

Madden Special Edition Includes ‘Sunday Ticket’—Even Without DirecTV

Yesterday, EA Sports announced a $100 “Anniversary Edition” for Madden NFL 25 that will include a code offering buyers access to DirecTV’s NFL Sunday Ticket—the channel that lets you watch any team outside of your local market—even if they aren’t subscribers to the satellite TV service. There’s been a bit of confusion as to what…

Patton Oswalt’s Amazing Star Wars Episode VII Rant, Brought To Life

The totally improvised, 7 1/2 minute filibuster from an episode of NBC’s Parks & Recreation last month, in which Patton Oswalt outlines his vision of Star Wars: Episode VII (with Marvel crossovers) could not possibly have been more perfect, could it? Well, yes, it could, actually … YouTube video uploaded by iZacLess To contact the…

Days before the next Xbox’s unveiling, NBA Live‘s social media decides to come out of hibernation. It had been totally silent since NBA Live 13‘s abrupt cancellation in September.

Like Sands Through the Hourglass, So Are the Fake Games of Our Lives

This week, Days of Our Lives joined stock photography services in the business of presenting unrealistically attractive people playing bullshit video games. What is this, Angry Birds X Call of Duty for the Xbox 360? Furthermore, what the hell is that guy playing the game on? A Curtis Mathes console TV from 1976? To contact…

EA Sports Developer Calls Wii U ‘Crap’ and Nintendo ‘Walking Dead’

At the end of a week in which Electronic Arts confirmed it wasn’t developing a thing for the Wii U, one of the software engineers in EA Sports’ Canada studio, in a series of since-deleted tweets, disparaged the console as “crap” and suggested Nintendo should give up on hardware altogether. “The Wii U is crap.…