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Running Out, With Steam

Steam and Amazon are back to finish off your bank account, or whatever’s left of it after the holidays, anyway. There are 12 deals on Steam right now, six of which expire in three hours, among them the Left 4 Dead series, FTL and L.A. Noire. Amazon is running its “Better Than Steam Sale, involving…

The Best Of Kotaku, This Week

Welcome to the Best of Kotaku, where I round up all of this week’s best content. Above is proof that if there’s anything to do with Portal and cats, you know I’m going to post it. And I have the creator, JustynaDorsz, to thank for supplying me with one. Moving on to our Best Of…

Wow, This Rom-Com Where A Zombie Falls For A Human Looks Surprisingly Good

Love in the time of rotting flesh, I tells ya. Here is footage of the first four minutes of the movie ‘Warm Bodies,’ (courtesy of Fangando’s YouTube account) which is loosely based on the book by the same name. The premise is that ‘R,’ the zombie protagonist, eats a young man’s brain and is then…

You Won’t Believe This Crazy Tomahawk Kill In Black Ops II

At first I was like ‘oh boy, this shit again. Someone lobs something across the map and it manages to connect.’ But then I saw what it connected with and how, and damn. That shit cray. Kudos, YouTube user orickjamez.

This Portable SNES Looks Like It’d Fit Right In at an Emergency Command Post

Modder robotairz of Reddit today shared a gallery of this portable Super Nintendo, which he says he made last year but just got around to uploading today. The emergency-management-services yellow of the toolbox and the super snug, shock-proof interior make this thing an awesome addition to someone’s disaster preparedness kit. robotairz was offered $900 for…

When Is Cheating In A Game Okay?

I can tell you exactly when I ruined Pokemon for myself. It was when I enlisted the help of an Action Replay and an obscure program that let me do just about anything in the game. It was like playing god. Pokemon god. And having this powerful ability completely changed how I see cheating. I…

How To Sneak Behind The Wheel Of A Pelican Dropship In Halo 4

Ever since I crash-landed in one in Halo: Combat Evolved, I’ve had a soft spot for those big ol’ UNSC Pelican dropships. As it turns out, it’s possible for three players to team up in the campaign level “Reclaimer” and hop behind the wheel of one, despite the fact that the story doesn’t call for…

Retro City Rampage arrives on Xbox Live and WiiWare on Wednesday. It’ll be $15.

The Best Surprises Of 2012

Sure, 2012 was a year rife with disappointments. But it was also filled with surprises of the best sort. Since we brought everyone down last week with our list of the biggest disappointments of the year, we thought it only proper to also share the best, most welcome surprises. Here now, the best surprises of…

Kinect Registers Curse Words And Lets You Grief Friends in Dead Space 3

Will Dead Space 3 be scary or not? It’s not quite clear yet. But if it is, if it manages to make some of you scream, then something might just happen in-game—if you happen to be playing on Kinect, that is. According to a CVG interview with DS3 executive producer Steve Papoutsis, it works like…

NBA 2K13‘s Replay Cam Gets Rid of Its Own Red Ring of Death

For as long as I have sought to illustrate posts with screengrabs from the NBA 2K series, I have despised its replay camera. Dedicated guys like MessenjahMatt can still produce virtuoso recreations of famous Air Jordan commercials using the game’s PC version, but for the rest of us shlubs on a console, getting a Sports…

The Final Week in Gaming Apps of 2012

It’s been a good run, but this is it: our final collection of worthwhile mobile games and Gaming Apps of the Day of the year. If this were a television show I’d cut to a montage right about now. Yep, still not a television show. Instead I’m stuck telling you about the games I’ve played…

The Perfect Game Follows These Eight Rules

Over the years, I’ve played a truckload of video games. Since my youth, when I fell in love for the first and only time—Metroid was what did it, on a chilly autumn night, me with my shirt off, thumbing the controller, over and over, until it hurt—I haven’t been able to recreate that feeling of…

How Do You Make a Zombie Apocalypse Kid-Friendly? Ice Cream, Of Course

A few years back I played a little Wii game called Cold Stone Creamery: Scoop It Up, and advertainment piece that involved assembling ice cream cones for random customers passing by a storefront. Thefty Jack’s Zombie I Scream is pretty much the same thing. Well, except your customers are undead and somehow the U.S. government…

A Very Cinematic, Very Deadly Race In Battlefield 3

This video might feel familiar. And it might be because you saw one like it here on Kotaku a while back. Well YouTube creator Kutkop345 is back with another episode of Death Race and it makes the game look just as stunning as the first video did. Take a look.

These Halo 4 Armor Abilities Didn’t Make The Cut

What didn’t make it into the latest Halo? According to the video above by TheHaloCouncil, which shows stuff found in the code of Halo 4, at least two armor abilities. These would be the “hacker” and “teleport” abilities. The former can undo the armor ability of your targeted victim. Say you deploy your hardlight shield:…

Xbox Live’s cloud storage is currently down. We’ve reached out to Microsoft for comment and will update if they reply.

Ten Crazy JRPG Predictions For 2013

This is the last new Random Encounters you will ever read in 2012. Shed a tear. Okay. Now that you’re done crying, let’s talk new years. I imagine that 2013 will be an interesting year for JRPG fans in both good and bad ways. So I’ve drawn up ten JRPG-related predictions—some ridiculous, others not-so-ridiculous—for the…

I envy Android gamers playing Superbrothers Sword & Sworcery for the first time. It’s $1.99 on Google Play right now.

Tomb Raider Will Have Multiplayer, Studio Confirms

A recent retail listing in the UK indicated that Tomb Raider‘s 2013 reboot will have a multiplayer mode, with playable characters including “Lara’s Shipmates or Yamatai’s Scavengers.” In a Tweet today, an executive for Tomb Raider studio Crystal Dynamics confirmed that the game would have multiplayer, and that details are forthcoming in the next Official…