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It’s Finally Time to Meet the Pyro

The Pyro. A man (or possibly woman) shrouded in mystery since Team Fortress 2 launched in 2007. We’ve gotten to know his compatriots. We’ve gotten to know lunch. Now it’s time to Meet the Pyro, and it’s an incredibly disturbing meeting indeed. In some twisted corner in the back of my mind, this is exactly…

Rayman Legends Is More Collaborative Than Origins, But Just As Fun

At a Nintendo event in New York yesterday, I got to play two quick rounds of Rayman Legends. If you’ve played a Rayman game, particularly the recently-released Rayman Origins, the game will be instantly familiar to you. Side-scrolling adventures with up to five players make Rayman Legends the perfect party game platformer, with guaranteed giggles…

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Signs of a PlayStation 4 Shooter We May Never Play and a Vita One Made Too Quickly

Editor’s Note: The mysterious figure known as Superannuation is back with more fistfuls of gaming gossip about the people who made SOCOM, a mystery Crytek project and…more Dead Rising?. What has Superannuation dug from the Internet this time to share with you wonderful Kotaku readers? Read on. Some secrets are no longer secret. A handful…

SpyParty Isn’t Done. But This Guy Has Reviewed It.

We’ve been optimistic about SpyParty, the long-in-the-making competitive multiplayer game that pits one player as suave spy in a party and the other as a sniper who has one bullet and perfect aim. We think the game’s shaping up well, but we won’t review it until it’s done some time later this century. Jacob Tierney,…

The Best Skyrim: Dawnguard Videos I’ve Found So Far

Skyrim‘s first piece of DLC came out yesterday, and with it came a deluge of cool new videos to show off all of the cool new content. I’m still powering my way through Dawnguard, which Bethesda is calling an expansion pack. My review will be up Friday morning, so until then, check out some of…

A Gateway Drug To Bring You Back to Magic: The Gathering

I, like many a reformed* geek, have many fond memories of playing Magic: The Gathering in my youth. My time with the game took place entirely during middle school, when after school each day we would ride public transportation (this was a big deal!) and go sit with the high school kids in our town’s…

I Really Didn’t Need Those New Mass Effect 3 Endings

I loved the Mass Effect 3 ending the way it was two weeks ago. It’s a shame that many Mass Effect 3 fans didn’t feel the same way. Editor’s Note: What follows are thoughts on the ending of Mass Effect 3, both before and after the newly-released Extended Cut DLC. Needless to say, there will…

Great, Official Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon Artwork Justifies New Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon Preview

I played Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon yesterday. I think the game will be good, but then I thought that a year ago and yet today scientists are still trying to determine the difference between the game’s E3 2011 demo and the game’s E3 2012 demo 2011. 2012. What a difference a year doesn’t make! Or…

New Mass Effect 3 DLC Could Revolve Around Rogue Reaper

Mass Effect 3 could get a new piece of downloadable content revolving around a Reaper named Leviathan, according to files extracted by a BioWare forum poster yesterday. (Potential spoilers for potential Mass Effect 3 DLC follow.) According to the files, which were extracted from yesterday’s “Extended Cut” DLC and dumped on Pastebin, you’ll have to…

Talk Amongst Yourselves

Welcome to Kotaku’s official forum, known affectionately as Talk Amongst Yourselves. This is the place where we gather on a daily basis to discuss all things video game and existential. Want to talk about new games, old games, games that aren’t even out yet? Knock yourselves out! Did you hear the thumping electro bass of…

40 Years of Atari All at Once, All for You

40 years ago today, Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney got together and founded the company that catapulted the world into the video game era. It was called Syzgy. Or it would have been, but Syzgy wasn’t available, so they called it Atari. The rest is a gigantic, four decade-spanning infographic celebrating the company’s rise from…

A Closer Look at the Wii U’s Xbox-esque Pro Controller

On the latest episode of Nintendo Can’t Win For Trying*, we’ve got the Wii U Pro Controller, which has been criticized for both being too similar to the Xbox 360 controller (well, to be fair, it does) and for having one major difference from the Xbox 360 controller. (They put the right stick where?) I’ll…

Memorize the Fighting Moves of Your Favorite Persona Characters

Perhaps I constructed that headline incorrectly. What it should read is “Memorize the Fighting Moves of My Favorite Persona Character and Five Others”, because no one could ever defeat Chie Satonaka. I guess that would have been too long. Persona 4 Arena comes to North America on August 7, and Atlus is rolling out a…

You Think You Can Hold Up Tifa’s Suspenders?

While Square Enix still hems and haws over a Final Fantasy VII remake, cosplayers continue to don the duds of the game’s iconic heroine, Tifa Lockhart. A white t-shirt, suspenders, a mini skirt and red boots, Tifa’s character design is simple. It’s also one gaming’s most memorable and easily identifiable. Anyone can put together a…

That’s No Moon…It’s An Insanely Detailed Death Star Made Out of a Ping Pong Ball

Japanese craftsman tatumaru5963 took a ping pong ball, cut a piece out of it, made some alterations, painted it up and hey presto. A teeny tiny version of the Second Death Star. I look at the size of this thing, I try to think of the skill needed to get it looking this good, and…

This is Why I’m So Damn Excited About Carrier Command

I’ve been chipping away at Carrier Command’s beta for a while now, and telling most people who’ll listen how much fun I’ve been having. Those who know the track record of developers Bohemia Interactive (ArmA) or the limitations of the original game it’s based on (first released in 1988) often wonder why that is. This…

Meet the New Woman Behind Lara Croft

Developers Eidos have done away with the long-standing tradition of having a real-life Lara Croft promote a Tomb Raider game. Instead, they’ve done something far more useful: brought in someone to actually play Croft in the game English actress Camilla Luddington will basically be Lara Croft in the upcoming Tomb Raider reboot, as she’s done…

Argh This Game Just Threw Up All Over The Inside of my Brain

This is TRIP. By Axel Shokk. There’s not much to it, apparently, just wandering around exploring a world, checking out some animals. But what a world this is. It’s like an acid trip sat down and learned how to program in Unity. If the trailer above doesn’t send you lunging for a way to end…

What a $750 Pair of Star Wars Figures Look Like

You know what? Never tell me the odds. It was only yesterday I took a look at Sideshow’s new Boba Fett figure, and today, they’re wheeling out two more. Well, one? Two figures, but they come in the one box. The pairing is an obvious one: C-3PO and R2-D2. Unlike the company’s Sixth Scale pieces,…