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Someone Turned A Burger King Toy Into A Game Boy Color Nano

Back in 2000 Burger King made these cute little plastic Game Boy Color toys with analog games built-in. Now someone’s taken one of those toys, crammed a Raspberry Pi Zero into it and turned it into a working Game Boy Color (and more) emulator. Redditor ChaseLambethhad been working on a similar project for months when…

Give Us Your Best Tabletop Moments, Earn Praise And Fake Points

As the pantheon-blessed people at Out of Context D&D Quotes have shown us, moments from tabletop campaigns can be inspiring, poignant and weird. Mostly really, really weird. Hi, readers. I’m Mary, I’m doing some weekend work for Kotaku, and I’ve been playing tabletop games since college. I’ve written characters, worlds, and lots of ugly fights…

The LEGOification Of Overwatch Continues

Yesssss. Bring us more Overwatch LEGO characters, Tim Schwalfenberg. Between your glorious Tracer, last week’s D.Va and Dead Frog Inc.’s Zenyatta, we’re well on our way to collecting the whole set. Our friends over at The Brothers Brickare slowly catching Overwatch fever. It’s too late for Omar, and Jennifer will break soon. Who can blame…

Creators Of Star Wars: Battlefront 3 Fan Remake Say It’s Getting A Steam Release

For years fans of the Star Wars: Battlefront series have been bemoaningthe loss of the rumored canceled third installment of the game. Mod team turned full-fledged developerFrontwire Studios is creating their own version of the game, and they say Valve is prepared to distribute it for free on Steam. Galaxy in Turmoil began as a…

Convention Circuit: Toys, Cosplay and Terror, Oh My

Got big plans this weekend? If your answer is no (or an unenthusiastic yes), you could always head to your friendly neighborhood con. Just because we’re stuck inside working all weekend doesn’t mean you have to. Every week, we’ll round up cons with cosplay, gaming, collectibles, or anything else we find particularly awesome. We’ve linked…

Virtual Reality Arachnophobia Therapy Is A Definite Nope

Virtual reality experience Arachnophobia is an application aimed at helping people overcome “irrational fears” of extremely venomous and aggressive spiders. After playing for five minutes, I’ve decided to hang on to my fear a bit longer. I am not fond of spiders. As I’ve explained previously, this is partly because spiders are the bite-sized living…

Skylanders Imaginators Proves It Can Do Plunder Fist

Earlier this week Activision introduced Skylanders Imaginators, a game where players can make any character they wish, with a child’s drawing of a character named Plunder Fist. Some commenters were concerned that they did not include an in-game image of Plunder Fist, so I asked them to make one. It really was kind of a…

Someone Recreated Rick and Morty In Fallout 4, And It’s Amazing

Damn, Rick and Morty fit surprisingly well within the world of Fallout 4. YouTuber UpIsNotJump created a pretty extensive machinima of Rick and Morty within Fallout 4, and if you like the show at all, you absolutely must watch this. I lost it when the TV scenes started playing, and even characters like Summer and…

Inside The Secret Fight Clubs Of Dark Souls

As the week comes to a close and the temperatures rise, flip on the AC and check out Worth Reading, our guide to the best games writing around. Hey, You Should Read These “Ridealong: The Underground Fight Clubs Of Dark Souls III” by Brendan Caldwell For the many hours I’ve spent with Souls, I’ve never…

Watch Us Perform Digital Heart Surgery On Donald Trump

Look, we tried to keep Trump alive. Honest. As you may have heard, Surgeon Simulatordebuted an “Anniversary Edition” this week, and one of the new things this revamped version comes with is a mode that lets you cut open none other than the Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump. Below, you can watch Gawker writers Marina…

Jacob’s Ladder Helped Inspire Silent Hill, And It’s Free On YouTube

If you haven’t seen Jacob’s Ladder, now is the perfect time to change that. Paramount Vault is an overlooked YouTube channel where the company publishes old films, usually the stranger and more obscure ones. As of today, that now includes the still-creepy Jacob’s Ladder, one of many movies that inspired the original Silent Hill game.…

Someone made an NES version of The Witness, and it looks wonderful. Check it out right here. (You’ll need an emulator to play.)

Bless These Hard-Working Mirror’s Edge Kids

Near the entrance to your base in Mirror’s Edge Catalyst, two young cyber-runner rebels have taken the aphorism “practice makes perfect” to heart. You’ll pass them on your way to meet with your rebel boss. The game doesn’t tell you their names, so I’m assuming they’re called “Apex and Daedalus” or “Jinx and Bosco” or…

Final Fantasy II Retrospective: The Black Sheep Of The Series

When you first open up Final Fantasy II, you’re asked to name four characters. Seconds later, those characters are stuck in an unwinnable battle, and you’re forced to watch them die. This is part two of Kotaku’s Final Fantasy Retrospective, in which we take a look back at every mainline FF game leading up to…

Regarding A Fake Kotaku Article

An article concocted to attack one of our writers and our publication as a whole several years ago continues to make the rounds, most recently in a video that’s garnered more than 500,000 views on YouTube in the last two days. To make it clear to those not able to figure this out on their…

Dangerous Golf: Cool Concept, Boring Execution

Crash mode was a divisive addition to Burnout, and you either loved it or hated it. Personally, it’s what really brought me into the Burnout series; it felt like a series of destructive puzzles. Dangerous Golf, a new game from a group of Burnout vets, is an attempt to make a whole game out of…

The Internet Has Turned Overwatch’s Play of The Game Into An Incredible Joke

Overwatch’s “play of the game” is supposed to be a post-match highlight that showcases a moment of badassery, but the internet has transformed the feature into so much more. You’ve probably already seen examples of this in action, but basically, the play of the game has become a big meme where people splice together footage…

Watch Us Play Soft Body, A Puzzle Game About Doing Two Things At Once 

Soft Body is a new(ish) puzzle game for PS4 and Steam from game developer Zeke Virant. It’s a $13 test of your ability to control two blobs through a field of bullets and barriers, each steered with a different analog stick. One blob is weak but can paint walls. The other can take a bullet…

Uncharted 4 Solves The Series’ Identity Crisis

Depending what part of an Uncharted game you see him in, Nathan Drake is either a wisecracking dude clinging to a cliff face or a cold-blooded murder machine. Players have to do a fair amount of mental gymnastics to believe that this is the same guy in both instances. Uncharted 4 makes that cognitive exercise…

Suikoden Fans Beg Konami To Put The Games On Steam

It’s unfortunate that Konami, a Japanese gambling company, owns the license to Suikoden, one of the greatest video game series ever made. Still, fans haven’t given up yet. The Suikoden Revival Movement, a wonderful group devoted to raising awareness and trying to bring life to Konami’s now-dormant RPG series, today launched a campaign called #SuikodenOnSteam.…