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The Best Of Kotaku, This Week

Welcome to the Best of Kotaku, where I round up all of this week’s best content. Up above is some poster artwork Nick Stokes worked on for his brother Gabe’s 16th birthday. Awww how sweet. They came out great, Nick. Thanks to Svalts for the find. Now let’s move on to reading this week’s best…

What You Get When You Mash Game of Thrones And The Princess Bride Together

It’s been a while since I last watched The Princess Bride, but this video by CinestirTV is still pretty clever. I’m sure many of us have reacted to Game of Thrones in the same way as the grandson, eh? Here we are. It’s Friday. Got any plans? I need to finish two review games for…

Tomb Raider Performance Test: Graphics and CPUs

Although this year’s Tomb Raider reboot made our latest list of most anticipated PC games, I must admit that it was one of the games I was least looking forward to from a performance perspective. Previous titles in the franchise have received mixed to positive reviews, but gameplay aside, their visuals weren’t exactly mind-blowing so…

Defiance—the SyFy TV series tied to Trion Worlds’ shooter—isn’t out yet but a second season is already being planned

Moving is No Excuse for Skipping This Week in Gaming Apps

I’m not even supposed to be here today, but the portable nature of mobile gaming means that even in the middle of packing everything I own and putting it in another place, I still have time to play a ton of titles. Yay. I probably could have skipped this weekly feature altogether, but when I…

Eurogamer asks: are the rich old men ruining Kickstarter?

Nintendo is Moving its NYC Offices, Shipping Some Jobs West

In a move that probably won’t affect you, Nintendo is making some changes to its presence in New York City. Don’t panic! Their Nintendo World Store near Rockefeller Center in midtown is sticking around. No changes there. But the company’s Park Avenue offices, where I participated in a transcontinental video-conference interview with the creators of…

SimCity Boss Says They ‘Rejected’ Any Offline Mode, Clarifies Server Use

Stop holding your breath for an official offline mode for the new SimCity. It doesn’t seem like you’ll be getting one, perhaps ever. In a detailed blog post addressing concerns about server usage and the new game’s always-online connection, Maxis general manager Lucy Bradshaw refined her studio’s position and offered a thank you to players…

LocoCycle Looks Like a Little Bit of Knight Rider, a Little Bit of Spy Hunter

When Microsoft showed off a glimpse of Twisted Pixel’s upcoming game at E3 last year, I hoped that it would be a spiritual descendant of Road Rash Now we get a look at actual gameplay, it looks more like a funny fusion in the vein of man-and-machine buddy comedies like Short Circuit. A level from…

Mario, Where Did Your Skin Go?

Check out this vinyl Mario by Rsin Art. They call it “Death Blooms,” and it’s easy to see why. The aesthetic is reminiscent of Dia De Los Muertos art—specifically, calaveras. Which, you know, is pretty cool even if it’s weird to see Mario like this. This Mario will be featured in the Game On show…

We’ll Hear About Battlefield 4 This Month. It Better Have Rain In It. [ENHANCED]

Here’s an image hyping Battlefield 4, sent to us by a tipster on the same day that Battlefield publisher EA confirmed that the game will be shown in San Francisco on March 26. We haven’t been able to confirm if the image is real, but it’s got the same downpour motif as EA’s invitations to…

Capcom and Valve Team Up for Free Resident Evil 6 x Left 4 Dead 2 Crossover [UPDATE]

Suddenly, the mother of all zombie apocalypses is about to happen. This just wound up in our inbox: Capcom and Valve are pleased to announce the Resident Evil® 6 x Left 4 Dead 2 project. This crossover project between two of the interactive entertainment industry’s most respected publishers will see characters from Left 4 Dead™…

Turn-Based Combat Is The Best Kind Of Combat

Editor’s Note: I’m on vacation today, but since I know you’re all craving your regular dose of JRPG goodness, I’ve enlisted the wonderful Kirk Hamilton to jazz up Random Encounters this week. Be nice! —Jason Schreier Oh boy, here we go. If I’m gonna take over Jason’s column for a week, that means I’m gonna…

Your Mission is Simple. Replace the Gun With a Thumbs Up.

Thank you, Thumbs & Ammo, for making my Friday. I haven’t been able to stop laughing at these manipulated images of famous gun-toting heroes without their weapons. Who knew so much humor could come from brandishing opposable digits instead of a blaster or an Uzi? You know what other medium features a lot of guns?…

It’s Football, But Futuristic, Turn-Based, And Played By Robots

In 2011, indie developer Mode 7 Games released a turn-based strategy game called Frozen Synapse. It was pretty good. Now they’re following that up with Frozen Endzone, which is “futuristic, highly-stylized, exaggerated NFL football” according to PC Gamer You control five robots, but here’s where it gets interesting: you both move at once, with the…

Creating a Video Game With Nintendo Sounds Stressful, Amazing and Unreal

Some time during the three-plus years the Nintendo 3DS video game Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon was in development, the game’s main development team in Canada received a visit from Shigeru Miyamoto, the lead creator of The Legend of Zelda and Super Mario Bros. Miyamoto, who works primarily out of Nintendo’s headquarters in Kyoto, has famously…

You’re Crazy if You Don’t Get Super Stickman Golf 2 Right Now

As a rule, I like sports in video games better than I do in the real world. For someone like me who’s never been great on the court or field, taking an athletic endeavor and adding a layer of the fantastic to it is one of the best joys that a sports title can offer.…

Man, I Wish I’d Gotten To Beat A Cop At Video Games

Kids these days have all the fun. It’s bad enough they have cellphones and high speed access to the internet, but now they get to fulfill one of my lifelong dreams – beating a cop at video games. The video above is a report from ABC affiliate K2TV in Cheyenne Wyoming, about their third annual…

This Tomb Raider Fan Film Gives You the Lara Croft You Like. Both of Them.

Even if you like the new Tomb Raider reboot like me, you still might be pining away for the more assured version of the series’ iconic heroine. So, it’s a great thing that this fan film give you a bit of both. The vulnerability of the new version of Lara Croft gets folded in with…

Nintendo sent us this famed photo today to announce Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D‘s launch on May 24. Cute.