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Fans Bring Classic Lord Of The Rings Game Into The HD Era

Once upon a time, EA had the rights to the Lord of the Rings (film) series, and they made a bunch of games. Many of them were surprisingly good, like Return of the King, but two in particular stood out: the Battle for Middle Earth RTS games. They were very good, combining powerful hero units…

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Pyre‘s Composer On The Challenges Of Creating His Most Diverse Game Soundtrack Yet

Bastion and Transistor are complicated games with emotional depth. Supergiant Games’ latest, Pyre, follows its predecessors—this time with a focus on existential questions of freedom, religion anddogs with mustaches. Accompanying the games are equally as complex and gorgeously arranged music by composer Darren Korb. As the audio director and composer for the now eight year…

The Fake Sega CD Exclusives We Never Knew We Needed

Anyone up for a game of Cool Spot Buries the Bodies or Don’t Make the Dog Happy? The Sega CD is often cited as one of Sega’s first big missteps on their slow spiral out of the console market. The system was criticized for featuring far too many Genesis ports and Full Motion Video (FMV)…

Meet Final Fantasy XII‘s Most Obnoxious Family

Final Fantasy XII’s gorgeous locales are filled with vast deserts that host blinding sandstorms. Its jungles are shrouded in mist and mystery. The game’s ruins are beautiful even when the undead rise from the trap-laden ground. Then there’s that damned family hanging out in the aerodomes. They can die by firaga. After letting Final Fantasy…

Gaming’s Weirdest Mashups That Worked Surprising Well

Titles like Puyo Puyo Tetris and Street Fighter X Tekken prove that bringing two successful franchises together can yield a match made in heaven. But every now and then two brazenly different intellectual properties form an unholy union that manages to get things right. The somewhat surprising success ofMario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle for the Nintendo…

Last Day of June Is Beautiful, Touching, And Emotionally Draining

2013 was a trying year. That August, two months after losing my job, death took my favorite uncle. Weeks later on Labor day, it came for my mild-mannered orange tabby. I think about mortality often, more so as my parents grow older. Given these thoughts, playing Last Day of June was more difficult than I…

Splatoon 2‘s Salmon Run Is More Fun With Ridiculous Enemy Nicknames

Though the hype surrounding the sequel to everyone’s favorite squid fighting simulator has died down a bit, players are still flocking to the games ever-changing horde mode. Salmon Run drops a team of four inkings onto a small map with a host of possible challenges. Water levels rise and fall, waves of fog creep in,…

The Amazing Music Of The No More Heroes Series

If I could dig my Wii out from wherever it’s hiding to replay No More Heroes and its sequel, I would. Since that’s impossible, I’ll instead ask: What better way to celebrate the return of Travis Touchdown than by listening to some killer tracks from this gem of a series? Last week’s announcement of a…

OK K.O.! Is Charmingly Imperfect

With Regular Show officially out of production and Adventure Time in the midst of its final season, the head honchos at Cartoon Network are hoping audiences will tune in to witness the goofy antics of their newest show — OK K.O.! Let’s Be Heroes. Featuring an overly optimistic lead and a super powered supporting cast,…

Ben And Narelle Are Here To Take Over Your Lazy Labor Day

Kick back, relax, and join us for some interesting articles and general silliness. The regular Kotaku staff has the day off and we’ve been tasked with filling the site with pictures of cats hard hitting pieces that cover important topics such as cartoons, No More Heroes, Final Fantasy families, Salmon Run nicknames, and more. So…

New PS4 Exclusive Is Perfect For Making Anime Characters

Everybody’s Golf golf features a robust character creator, which can churn out iconic anime and game characters. Kotaku’s Tim Rogers already checked out the character creation and its running animations. They are spectacular. While on Twitter, people have been crafting game and anime inspired avatars: Looks like it’s possible to make just about, well, everybody.…

Japanese Convenience Store Dresses Up In Dragon Quest XI

In Osaka’s geek district Den Den Town, one Lawson convenience stores is covered in Dragon Quest XI The store really went all out. The walls and floors are covered in Dragon Quest with DQXI merchandise and sound effects in the store. Besides the one in Tokyo, there are only two in the whole country that have…

Godzilla Gets The Hello Kitty Treatment

Hello Kitty is famous for being cute. Godzilla is not. What happens when Sanrio has a crack at Japan’s most famous monster? This. With Godzilla: Kaiju Wakusei (Godzilla: Monster Planet) coming out this November, Toho and Sanrio teamed up for a series of cute Godzilla designs, which will be available this fall in Japan. As…

Mario Is Officially No Longer A Plumber

According to Mario’s newly updated, official Japanese-language profile, the iconic character isn’t working as a plumber. This shouldn’t be a total surprise, because the character seems to do everything but plumbing. But doesn’t going down Warp Pipes count? Doesn’t appear so! Here is how the recently uploaded Mario profile explains the character: All around sporty,…

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The Witcher Turns 10, Releases Very Nice Video

The Witcher series is 10 years old this month, and to mark the occasion CD Projekt Red released this teary lil’ clip. We had some good times, gang. And now…I can’t seem to scrape this irritating dust out of my eyes. Unsolicited CDPR Suggestion: I know everyone there is very busy with Cyberpunk, but if…

227 Artists Remade An Episode Of Super Mario World’s Cartoon

This is The Mama Luigi Project, a year-long effort to bring together over 200 artists so that they could completely reanimate one of the most famous episodes of the Super Mario World TV series: Mama Luigi. 255 scenes had to be done, with almost every single one of them featuring a different art and animation…

Star Wars Destiny is normally a trading card game (meaning you buy decks, ala Magic or Pokemon), but this new version bundles a bunch of characters and cards into a pre-loaded box designed specifically for two players.

As of Sunday afternoon, the SNES Classic at Nintendo’s PAX booth remains safely behind glass. Note that it has once more been rearranged compared with yesterday and Friday, which raises further questions about the ease with which the case can be opened. We will continue to monitor the situation as it develops.