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The Best Of Kotaku, This Week

Welcome to The Best of Kotaku, where Tina usually rounds up our best reporting, funniest stories, and otherwise favorite Kotaku content of the week. But Tina’s on vacation! Never fear. I’m the one collecting these gems. I dare say it was a good week. A wild one, to boot. (The art up top is from…

Let’s Guess What Happens When In The New Season Of Game Of Thrones, Based On The Episode Titles

Have you heard? Game of Thrones, the fantasy book-series-turned-television-show comes back on HBO soon. At the end of this month, to be specific. Most of the episode titles are out now, though. Courtesy of Winter Is Coming, they are: Ep. 301 – Valar Dohaeris Ep. 302 – Dark Wings, Dark Words Ep. 303 – Walk…

Multiplayer gaming can be a drag thanks to jerks and harassment. Here are some tips to make the experience a better one.

The new They Might Be Giants album Nanobots is a lot of fun. It’ll be out next week, but you can stream it here

Check out this cool essay about games, free jazz, and learning to improvise.

The Scariest Clowns And Jesters In Video Games

One of the most villainous ways to raise the fear level in a game is to throw in a psycho clown. That clown is hides behind his stupid fake smile, searching for a way to earn your trust. Clowns are pretty common in video games, both old and new, so this time we selected some…

Anonymous sources tell GameSpot that IGN has cancelled this year’s IPL6 tournament

Smash, Burn, Hack and Duck Your Way Through This Week in Gaming Apps

I finally caved and picked up a new full-sized iPad this week, so it stands to reason that this Week in Gaming Apps be bigger and higher resolution than the last, with a plug that doesn’t fit any other the ones that came before it. I’ve only had the iPad 4 since Monday, and I’ve…

Look At How Cool You Get To Dress In The Next Shin Megami Tensei

Demons, mature themes, samurai—blah, blah, blah. That stuff is important, but guys, look. Look at the things you get to wear in Shin Megami Tensei IV. That scarf. That jacket. There’s probably more; this gameplay footage by SCRAWLfx is short. Either way, I’m excited. Personalization is important! The world might be rather desolate in this…

Nickels, Dimes, and Quarters

The video game industry is just that. An industry. Which means that it exists in a capitalistic world. You know, a free market. A place where you’re welcome to spend your money on whatever you please… or to refrain from spending that money. Those companies that put these products out? They’re for profit businesses. They…

This Real-Life Version Of Black Ops 2 Reminds Me How Violent Black Ops 2 Is

It can be easy to become desensitized to Call of Duty‘s brand of realistic-yet-cartoonish violence. As motion-captured video-game dudes blow each other away over and over again, whatever I’d normally feel at watching that kind of carnage melts away. I see the game for what it is, and it stops having an impact. Videos like…

Just what Super Hexagon always needed: a dubstep xXx420XxX_NoScope trailer.

This Renegade Shepard Probably Beats Your Renegade Shepard

Sterling Archer, the star behind the animated spy sitcom airing on the FX network (also called Archer!), is hands down one of the biggest jerks on TV. We’re talking like, someone so awful that he makes Walter White from Breaking Bad look like a nice, upstanding guy. He’s rude. He’s self-centered. He’s a womanizer. He’s…

This Is About As Close To The Original Final Fantasy As You Can Get Today

When I was a young whelp, back when my writing career involved pictures of dragons and a black-and-white spiral notebook, I spent a lot of time playing the first Final Fantasy It was one of the toughest games I owned, and I loved it not just because it was pretty, and engrossing, and creative, but…

Crytek Head: So Far, Crysis 3 Is Our Masterpiece

Crytek head Cevat Yerli has come out in defense of his studio’s latest game, Crysis 3. In an interview with Gamasutra, Yerli says that the game is “so far, our masterpiece,” and that he feels it’s better than both Crysis 2 and the original Crysis in all aspects. He blames the game’s tepid reception on…

Insanely popular multiplayer battle arena game League of Legends is now available in delicious Mac flavor

British celeb Charlie Brooker says the PS4 controller is just like your mom.

Now There’s A Way To Lose Weight by Playing Skyrim

If your guess was “play Skyrim while on a treadmill”—yes, sort of. The device you see in the video above is called the Omni, and it’s a virtual reality/treadmill hybrid that allows you to walk and look around naturally in a game. Well, as natural as “walking in place in a contraption while wearing glasses”…

ChefVille ‘And the Date Goes On’ Quests: Everything You Need to Know

While time may soon run out on the First Date event in ChefVille, Zynga just couldn’t help itself. The ChefVille team has released another new quest series that needs to be completed within the event’s remaining three days. While the quests are voluntary, you can earn some additional rewards by completing them, so we’re here…

This is What the Unreal Engine 4 Can Do For Skeletons, Fedoras, and a Game That’s $300,000 Short

Project Awakened is supposed to be a big open-world action game that lets you play as any super-hero you could dream up. But it’s $300,000 short of its Kickstarter goal with just five days to go. That’s probably why we now get to see a glimpse of what the next-gen Unreal Engine 4 could do…