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Valkyria Chronicles Is Coming To PS4 In The West

The PlayStation 4 version of beloved strategy-role-playing game Valkyria Chronicles, previously announced for Japan, will also head west this spring, Sega announced today. This remastered version of Valkyria Chronicles will run at 60 FPS and cost $30. Says Sega PR: Valiant citizens of Gallia, to arms! Bid farewell to your loved ones, because it is…

Series creator Toshihiro Nagoshi showed off some Yakuza 6 gameplay on a Sega stream last night. The upcoming installment of the under-appreciated series is a PS4 exclusive due out this fall in Japan. Who knows when it’ll get a western release? Contact the author at [email protected]

Great World of Warcraft Tool Helps Managing Pets And Making Some Gold

With each patch and expansion, WoW is getting bigger and bigger, with more stuff to collect. It’s getting impossible to keep track of everything. Certain UI tweaks and plugins help, but managing hundreds of collected pets, for example, is still a chaotic process. A recently finished site called WoW-Pets helps a lot in this. Thanks…

18,000-Piece LEGO Arkham Asylum Has A Cell For Everyone

This is a fantastic, giant LEGO version of Arkham Asylum, created by Australian LEGO enthusiast Dayton His model of the well-known institute (via Brothers-Brick) for DC villains has a whopping 18,000 blocks inside and took around 4 months to build and collect all the necessary pieces. I feel this was the milestone for me as…

Morrowind, As Told By Facebook Posts

Morrowind, the third Elder Scrolls RPG, has a rich and somewhat complicated story. Luckily, now we have a Facebook timeline to simplify it all. Humorously. It was whipped up by redditor TheTitanova, using this Facebook wall generator, and posted to r/morrowind last week. Basically, it’s a cleverly written account of the backstory and the in-game…

Mighty No. 9 Delayed Yet Again

Although Mighty No. 9, the Megaman-like, crowdfunded platformer, was originally expected in April 2015, its release date was first moved to September 15, then to February 9 of this year. This latest delay shifts the date to spring 2016. At the earliest. The delay was revealed ina project update sent out today to backers of…

After 4419 Days, The World’s Oldest Torrent Is Still Being Shared

On December 20, 2003, a torrent file was created for an ASCII version of The Matrix. In January 2016, after countless other albums, movies and TV shows have come and gone, it’s still active. Since there’s no official world governing body of the torrent scene,the guys at TorrentFreak are the closest thing we’ve got, and…

Look At This $400 Fallout 4 Figure

First teased in December, threezero’s Fallout 4 figure is now finished and ready for sale at the end of the month. It’s a $400 work of art. Standing 14.5” tall (36.8 cm), and modelled after the default face option for the game’s male character, it’s got 35 points of articulation, so many that even the…

Mod Turns Star Wars Shooter Into 2D Fighter

You won’t be able to see whether Darth Vader’s lightsaber can deflect a hadouken or witness the power of Chun Li belting the snot out of Han Solo, but it’s a cool twist on Jedi Knight that should at the very least help rectify the memory of that trashy Star Wars beat-em-up from the 1990’s…

In Nowhere Men, Scientists Are the New Pop Idols

Rock and roll and science are commonly thought of as polar opposites: one sexy and dangerous, the other nerdy and inscrutable. But a great comic-book series imagines that the world would be a million times cooler if the two were one and the same. Originally published 1/22/16 Nowhere Men is a post-Steve Jobs comic. It…

Lost In Harmony Is One Of The Sweetest Rhythm Games I’ve Played

This carefree scene of teens sharing a skateboard ride is actually part of the touching tale of two friends coping when one is diagnosed with a severe disease. Who said rhythm games couldn’t tell important stories? Certainly not games like Elite Beat Agents and Deemo, a pair of emotionally-charged rhythm games that come to mind…

The Ugliest Characters of Black Desert Online

Some people are using the “best character creation tool” out there to make hideous monstrosities in Black Desert Online, and the results are hilarious. Originally published 1/21/16 Not only is the character creator available as a stand-alone download right now, the developers of Black Desert Online are also holding a contest for the ugliest characters…

More Like D’awww-out

Eight-day-old Charlotte already has a favorite Fallout 4 companion. You’ll have to check out photographer Lauren Petersen’s website for more from the shoot, as we pretty much just blew our cute budget for the year. Okay one more. I’m sure Charlotte will grow up to do great things for the Commonwealth. Whichever parent survives will…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Final Fashiony: The Winners!

Last week I asked our Photoshop-savvy readers to give us a video game fashion model who could give Final Fantasy’s Lightning a run for her money. Our winner gives her a run for her monkey. I am so sorry. Let me make it up for you by establishing a school to teach children to collect…

The Division, IRL

Kirk and I are currently holed up in my apartment in Manhattan, where we’re trying to survive Snowpocalypse 2016. Looks eerily like Ubisoft’s upcoming The Division, doesn’t it? (This version probably has the best framerate.) More photos, via Kirk:

Mystery Of The Assassin’s Creed Unity Cake Easter Egg Finally Solved

One would think an easter egg that involves eating delicious-looking cake would have been uncovered within the first few days of Assassin’s Creed Unity’s release, but no. It took a year and change for this Unity secret to be revealed, and the payoff is quite delicious. Players have been eating Unity’s cake since its November…

Streamers rejoice: Skype now hides your IP address by default The move should cut down on game streamers being harassed and DDOSed by folks resolving their Skype address into an IP.

A Brief Tour Of The Legend Of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD

While most of us have to wait until March to play The Twilight Princess HD on Wii U, Nintendo Minute’s Kit and Krysta have been there, done that and posted nearly 10 minutes of gameplay. Did the world really need HD Oocca? The game’s nightmare-fuel human-faced birds have never looked so crisp and clear, which…

One Day These Will Be Some Of The Rarest PlayStation Games

With digital game sales slowly overtaking physical releases, there could come a day when game collectors have nothing to collect but data. Publisher Limited Run Games is attempting to prolong the magic with small print runs of formerly digital-only games. Mighty Rabbit Studios’ nostalgia-crammed Saturday Morning RPG is getting a digital release on PlayStation 4…

Bruce Wayne Doesn’t Want to Be Batman Again

Last month, Bruce Wayne—who came back from the dead with no memory of his former life as a superhero— found out he used to be Batman. This week, we see how he comes to grips with what that means. Originally published 1/22/16 Since last summer, Gotham City’s been under the protection of a new Dark…