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Heaven is Kicking a Cartoon Rabbit Down a Hill

The last time we checked in on curious indie game Overgrowth wasn’t exactly under the most pleasant of circumstances, so let’s today focus on what the game does best: rabbit violence. An action adventure game, this clip focuses on some of the recent improvements made to Overgrowth’s melee combat system, which in terms of how…

Felix Baumgartner’s Great Leap of Faith

Don’t believe everything you read in the papers. Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner isn’t just a daredevil. He’s part of an order with a much longer, and more deadly past. Leap of Felix – Assassin’s Creed Parody [YouTube, thanks Liam!]

First Look: Battlefield 3: Aftermath, Ready to Shake Up Multiplayer

The next multiplayer Battlefield 3 expansion, subtitled Aftermath, is set in post-earthquake Iran and features four new maps. Other new features include three new vehicles, as well as a new deadly crossbow. Besides all this, there’s a new Scavenger mode, which EA describes as, “an objective based Conquest mode where lost soldiers armed only with…

Hey, Sexy Wolverine!

Hugh Jackman, star of the upcoming Wolverine movie, does the horse dance with Gangnam Style maven PSY. Both PSY and Jackman tweeted out pics of the singer’s visit to the Wolverine set in Australia. Hijinks, until somebody gets their arm sliced off! Slicing gangnam style!!!! [@RealHughJackman] Had a great time [@psy_oppa] Kotaku East is your…

Good Luck Eating this Ridiculously Large Sushi All By Yourself

Things in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture just feel big. The city isn’t nearly as jam-packed as in Tokyo, but the automotive town’s streets are wide and expansive (thank Toyota for that!). And the numerous cafes serve up generous portions that are known as “Nagoya sized” (名古屋サイズ). But this sushi isn’t Nagoya sized. It’s utterly insane. In…

Next Week, The New York Times Has a Tetris Surprise

Congratulations are in order for Kotaku reader Caleb, who wrote a crossword puzzle that the New York Times will be publishing next Thursday, October 25. What’s cool about Caleb’s puzzle is that he didn’t take the easy route and just submit game-related questions. I’ll let him explain: All of the black squares in the grid…

Judge Dredd Explains Why Most Video Game Movies Aren’t Up To Scratch

Karl Urban knows a thing or two about movies based on video games. He’s been in one. He’s also been in Lord of the Rings (above), Star Trek, The Bourne Supremacy and now Judge Dredd Given that Karl Urban starred in the not-quite-as-bad-as-other-game-to-movie-conversions-but-still-quite-bad Doom, we figured he might have a rough idea why filmmakers have…

Minecraft Meets Slender in This Dark, Creepy Mod

I know, you’re likely sick of Minecraft by now, and probably of Slender as well, but this combination of the two might light a fire under you. Or at least convince you to watch it for two minutes. It’s of a Minecraft mod called Slender’s Forest, which is recreating the basic gist of Slender: The…

Turns Out Princess Peach’s Parents Are Kinda Racist

Peach may love Mario, but as this clip from Robot Chicken shows, her parents are a little less enamoured by the Mushroom Kingdom’s saviour. And who can blame them! They’re royalty, he’s a plumber. Dude really needs to wear a suit. And do a better job of keeping his drug habit at bay.

Yup, There’s Now Some Zelda and Mario in Your Scribblenauts

As your best guesses and Photoshop efforts had already worked out, the upcoming Scribblenauts Unlimited will feature cameos from some of Nintendo’s biggest stars, including Mario, Link, Zelda and Luigi. Weirdly, these characters will only be available in the Wii U version of the game, not the 3DS edition. And what’s more, you won’t be…

In addition to a new champion, League of Legends also got itself a “new” map today

A College History Class About Video Games? Sign Me Up.

I have a history degree from the Australian National University. Earned through books, and papers. I used to be totally OK with that, until today, when I see that history students at the University of South Carolina have it way better. Prof. Joseph November is running a class next year called Computer Games and History.…

This is What a Lot of the Internet Looks Like

When people say the internet is just a series of tubes, they’re not too far from the truth. It’s made up of tubes, cables and data centres, which have to sit in enormous, industrial buildings. Like the monstrous ones internet monolith Google makes use of. These stunning pictures posted by the search and advertising giant…

Let’s Get Trapped In The Closet All Over Again

Sure, R Kelly’s Trapped In The Closet is already a magnum opus. I’ve watched (I think?) all of the episodes so far, and have marveled at their bizarre genius. But hey, we can always have more, right? After announcing that he is preparing to debut 20 (!!) more episodes of the saga, R. Kelly went…

A Son Takes His Father on a Tour of His Boyhood Home—in a Video Game

When you introduce a video game to an older relative who doesn’t play them—a parent or a grandparent—and they realize they’ve underestimated how detailed, how immersive these things really are, the conversations you have after that really are special. If this hasn’t happened for you, ask anyone for whom it has. Or better yet, just…

If You’re Streaming a Game Online, Don’t Start Jerking Off on Camera, OK?

Poor Slooshi. The League of Legends player was livestreaming one of his rounds earlier today when, in a fit of boredom, he decided to alt+tab and do something else. Like, uh, go watch some porn. And knock one off. In a scenario that makes your standard “go to high school naked” nightmare seem like a…

After three years on the drawing board, Elise the Spider Queen finally joins the roster of League of Legends champions

Congratulations, Ash, You Finally Caught Them All

Nice to see Dan Hipp back in the saddle, brightening up our day with amazing video game art. This time around, it’s a Pokémon piece, showing what happens when Ash finally gets around to catching them all. It’s…well, he’s entitled to celebrate it however he wants. This just isn’t quite how I pictured it. Wish…

Lightbox Interactive, the studio behind Starhawk, has shed some employees as it moves from the PS3 to iOS development.

Having Gone Six Years Without Saying Anything Offensive, Steve Lyons Gets a Job in MLB The Show‘s Booth

Steve Lyons, whose 15-year broadcasting career is dotted with numerous insensitive remarks—one of them enough to get him fired—is taking a seat in a more controlled environment: MLB 13 The Show. As reported by Operation Sports, Lyons said via Twitter at the end of last month that he was recording “lots of VoiceOver work for…