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Some things are fun in a group. Some things are fun alone. And something things are just unpleasant without the company of others. An online research site polled nearly one thousand of its users about things people find painful when flying solo. More »

Facebook honcho and newly married dude Mark Zuckerberg might be dealing with Facebook stock headaches, but he can take solace in one thing: If his social media business goes south, he can always get unpaid work as an extra in Chinese documentaries. More »

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Just in case you hadn't yet picked up on the heavy - and welcome - inspiration The Road has had on upcoming Xbox Live Arcade title Deadlight, check out this new trailer. So, yeah, it's the dead world/broken society of Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic tale with zombies thrown in. More »

Given the nature of this job, and the fact I make an almost annual pilgrimage to Japan, I've been meaning for a while now to get off my butt and learn more of the local language than simply what I need to order a beer. Hiragana Pixel Party is just what I needed to knuckle down and get... More »

Time to check in again with the Outerra project, an engine that's currently being developed that threatens to make video games more awesome. How dare it. The last time we checked in, things were on a planetary scale. More »

So much of what makes zombie survival mod DayZ so enjoyable to play is in the intangibles. You can't sum it up in bullet-points, or just say "it's fun", you need to experience a night in the dark with no food or water, on the run from both the living and the dead, to really get a handle on... More »

Jak & Daxter cosplay. I don't know why there's a lady in Jak & Daxter cosplay this week, but I don't care. I applaud her for it. I also applaud the Team Fortress 2 squad you'll see in the gallery, because they realise it's not the guns or the outfits that are the most important things in TF2... More »

If this video is real - and given its shoddy quality, that's no guarantee - it would appear the BBC have some issues using Google Image Search. For a piece on Amnesty and the United Nations Security Council's response to events in Syria last week, it seems the BBC's production crew needed a... More »

First shown off at this year's Toy Fair, there'll soon be a line of action figures based not just on Halo, but on the Halo gear your little Xbox 360 avatars can wear. More »

You might think you love Blade Runner—and if you don't, you should!—but do you love it enough to track down and digitally recreate a prop that most people have never even noticed? More »

Slow action in North America as the United States takes a break for cookouts on Monday. Mass Effect, Prototype and Arkham City all have notable content drops. More »

Saturday evenings, either by design or accident, is when the biggest "holy shit?!" moments go down at Blip Festival. Last night, day two of Blip Fest 2012, continued the traditional and then some. That video above is Omodaka. More »

No sports video game—no video game, I'd argue—is as harangued as Madden NFL. Read any forum thread, read the comments to any story, including this one, and the list of gamer demands for the upcoming release is quite long and quite detailed. More »

Nearly 20 years ago, three household names in Nintendo gaming took a shot at drawing Kirby inside the official strategy guide for Kirby's Adventure. Masahiro Sakurai, the game's creator (and creator of the Super Smash Bros. series); More »

In news certain to delight indie games fans, Minecraft has done something that has not been seen in a long time—knock a Call of Duty game out of the top two on the Xbox 360's most-played list. To put this in perspective, the only thing that knocked Call of Duty: More »

Not too much of a huge surprise, as Electronic Arts earlier this month told everyone it'd be publishing another Need For Speed title in the final three months of the year, and everyone figured that would be Need For Speed: More »

Joey Logano, the driver of Gamestop's No. 20 Toyota in the NASCAR Nationwide Series, by all rights won Saturday with his outstanding Hitman-themed racing suit, patterned to look like a jacket and red tie. More »

Well, I believe this is the Kotaku 'shop equivalent of a hat trick. Pan_1da7 was both a dual finalist in yesterday's 'Shop Contest and the overal finalist (that's happened only once before) and he's followed that up with the next day's TAYpic. More »

We're in the red zone for pre-E3 bullshit. A week before the show is usually when we get a dumptruck full of fakes, bogus retailer listings and LinkedIn resumes confirming everything but the return of the Dreamcast. More »

Welcome to your Sunday read of the week's best in web comics. Make sure to click on the expand button in the bottom right to enlarge each comic. Virtual Shackles by Jeremy Vinar and Mike Fahmie published May 25.—Read more of Virtual Shackles Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich published May... More »

Pancake, the Borderlands 2 loot dog, and a cat dressed in Journey cosplay, were the brave animal subjects of our mad photoshop laboratory last week. No doggies or kitties were hurt during this production, but we sure did have a lot of fun putting them in weird poses. More »

Blip Fest 2K12 is officially in effect. As previously noted, we'll have a nice and meaty rundown once the dust has settled. But for those who have not purchased their tickets yet, or simply cannot attend for whatever reason, here's a small sampling of how night one shaped up. First we have More »

Last week, Sanzaru Games, the maker of Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time said the game would also release on the PlayStation Vita at the same time it arrives for the PS3. More »

Publishing executives say complimentary stuff about their upcoming games all of the time. So what. But there's an unusual history with Sleeping Dogs, which Square Enix will release Aug. More »

Remember the Minecraft-playing couple who got engaged at MineCon back in November? Well, yes, they have now been lawfully wed and kissed and no man put asunder and all that goes along with the big day—including an outstanding Minecraft-themed throwdown for the reception. More »

We've featured Joey Logano, the driver who races the No. 20 GameStop Toyota in NASCAR's Nationwide Series, several times before. He's had some awesome car wraps before, hoods dedicated to Bioshock 2 or Red Dead Redemption—things that still look a little strange turning left at 120 mph. Well,... More »

You may have heard that Canabalt's on sale this weekend as part of the Because We May sale. But if you see something called Canabalt HD on the App Store, don't buy it. More »

Nintendo has yet to release the official hardware specifications for the Wii U, and it's something Gearbox's Brian Burleson, senior producer on Aliens: More »

Have you heard that video is a big thing over at Gawker Media? It's true, we watch and post a lot of videos each week. Here are some of the best videos of week, culled from an array of Gawker Media sites. More »

If you're not up to speed on what Bethesda's Dishonored is all about, two things should fill you in nicely. One is Stephen Totilo's "18 Things You Should Know About Dishonored." And the other is that image at right, of a guy leaping off a rooftop and stabbing a dude in the neck. You'll be doing... More »

What's happened in the business of video games this past week ... QUOTE | "The reputation Activision has acquired is unfair."—Dee Brown, head of Spider-Man developer Beenox (a studio acquired by Activision in 2005), talks about the relationship his team has with the publisher and how... More »

While generally not a big week for new releases, Memorial Day in the United States is a sales holiday for video games as much as it is for mattresses, hardware, refrigerators and everything else. More »

I've featured deviantART user wazzy88 here on Kotaku before. But, being a huge fan of Wall-E, I couldn't help but feature his Pokéball work again. Wazzy88 has plenty of other half Pokémon, half other nerdy things that I also enjoy up on his deviantART page that you should check out. Moving on to... More »

Chinese artist Xi Zhang works for online gaming powerhouse Tencent. He's been in the video game business for nearly ten years now. Some concept artist's work is shooting for realism. More »

Max Payne 3 does a lot of things right—from the relentless, blood-soaked gunplay to HEALTH's astonishing soundtrack. But it's not a particularly choice-based game; More »

It's only a teaser for a full trailer but this video on Game Trailers TV offers a glimpse of what Crystal Dynamics' reboot of Tomb Raider is going to look like. More »

Hey there, Kotaku. I don't know if you're as excited about the long weekend as I am, but if you are, you must be really excited. The weather should be lovely, the days have gotten long; More »

Artist Jamie Sneddon's 8-bitscapes is a collection of prints showing video game characters let loose in the real world, taking over locations like Cologne, Hong Kong and Manhattan. Some are here to destroy us. More »