Four infinite combinations discovered last month in Street Fighter X Tekken all will be obliterated by a patch scheduled to move by mid-May, Capcom said yesterday afternoon.

The combos affected Kazuya, Kuro, Xiayou and Pac-Man. Two were console exclusive characters (Kuro and Pac-Man, on the PS3) and Xiayou's infinite hinged on a one-frame link between attacks. Notably, none of these infinites involve characters from Capcom titles, which developed this game.

Other fixes involve changes to frame data and and the means to block an attack (or not be hit by one). The post at Capcom-Unity has full details.

Street Fighter X Tekken patch notes, infinites, frame data and more addressed [Capcom-Unity]

Ha ha, but who plays Modern Warfare 3 on PC amirite? Well, people do in numbers enough that Activision's finally decided to sell them the "Content Collection 1" made available to Xbox 360 gamers earlier this year. It's the first post-release content to become available for this version of the game.

Content Collection 1 will be available on May 8, offering four multiplayer maps and two Spec Ops missions, stuff that Call of Duty Elite subscribers have been able to play since January, and others have been able to purchase since March (and April on the PS3.)

Modern Warfare 3 DLC available on PC in May [Shacknews]

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.

Filmmaker Films Daughter Every Week for Twelve Years, Puts Together Time-Lapse Video

Filmmaker Frans Hofmeester spent the past twelve years hovering over his daughter Lotte with a video camera - as fathers are wont to do. Recently, he took snippets of footage from all 600+ weeks he had on film, and pieced together this mesmerizing time-lapse: Birth to 12 years in 2 minutes, 45 seconds. View »

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Metta World Peace's Elbow Waged War On James Harden's Head

Metta World Peace earned an ejection from today's Lakers-Thunder game when his celebration after a second-quarter dunk included an elbow to the side of James Harden's head. View »

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Studio Exec Forces Jason Segel to Lose Weight, Since Thin Women Don't Marry Chunky Guys

We often hear about actresses urged to get skinny for a role - Anne Hathaway's crash diet for Les Misérables and Beyoncé's "cleanse" for Dreamgirls spring to mind - but rarely are we made aware of male actors subject to the same pressure. However. Last night on The Late Show, Jason Segel revealed that "the studio president" - that would be Ron Meyer, head of Universal - forced him to lose weight for The Five-Year Engagement. View »

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A Reminder of Just How Cool the PS Vita Can Be

So PS Vita sales are nosediving. And Sony must be worried, because these are dark times for the Vita. Dark times. But just as everyone is forgetting what an impressive piece of hardware the Vita is, Sony released the PlayStation Developer Suite to allow developers to create apps for the Vita and other PlayStation certified devices.
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This Man Put A Cadillac CTS-V's Engine In A 1968 Camaro

Engine-swap stories are a car nerd's answer to celebrity dating gossip. (Seen Kristen Stewart at the Chateau Marmont swapping spit with a 389 tri-power? Let us know.) But a first-gen Camaro with the still-beating heart of a wrecked Cadillac CTS-V? Papa Razzi, call the front desk. View »

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Dad Leads Kids on a Bohemian Rhapsody Sing-Along to Get Them Pumped for School

It's something of a daily tradition for Mr. Cool Dad and his kids: Singing Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" on the way to school. "Depending on traffic," says YouTuber southlandification, "we can usually start the song as we pull out of the driveway, and pull into the school just as the song ends." View »

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Worst People Ever Catch Foul Ball, Refuse To Give It To A Crying Child, Are Vilified By Michael Kay [UPDATE]

An unfortunate scene unfolded in Arlington tonight as a pair of Rangers fans caught a foul ball tossed into the stands by Mitch Moreland in the eighth inning of Rangers-Yankees, then refused to give the ball to the toddler sitting next to them-instead choosing to pose for pictures and generally behave like douchebags. View »

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First Look at the Snooki & JWOWW Show

Here's a preview of the Jersey Shore spinoff - titled Snooki & JWOWW - that was supposed to be about two single girls and their friendship. But because of Snooki's situation, it's instead about a single woman trying to make the most of this MTV development deal after her friend went and fucked it up for them by getting knocked up and subsequently engaged. View »

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What's Behind The Curtain At The World's Most Exclusive Supercar Shop?

Italy's "supercar gulch" (our coinage) comprises the well-known (Ferrari, Lamborghini), the mysterious (B Engineering and its Bugatti-based Edonis) and the defunct (Cisitalia, Bizzarrini). Here, in a nondescript building near Modena, an Argentinian disciple of Leonardo DiVinci builds amazing Italian sports cars with the finest, hand-built German engines. Let's take a look inside Pagani Automobili S.p.A. View »

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This Incredible Video Shows All Roads, Air, and Shipping Routes on the Entire Planet

Scientists are thinking about starting a new geological era: the Anthropocene, the period of geological, environmental and biological transformation of the planet by humans. Cities, towns, shipping routes, global roads and air networks are all changing Earth. This video shows the extent of this change. View »

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This Trailer for Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance is Pure Torture-In Live Action

Raiden is beaten, bloodied and in trouble and somewhere, something's gone nuclear, not in a good way either. We have to wait until April 30 to find out who will, or even can, make it right. The tagline on this live action Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance trailer seems to put that on you, dear viewer. View »

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Philip Humber Has Pitched Major League Baseball's 21st Perfect Game Of The Modern Era

Journeyman pitcher Philip Humber joined the list of hurlers to have completed pitching's most difficult feat when he shut down the Seattle Mariners and led his Chicago White Sox to a 4-0 win at Safeco with a nine-strikeout perfect game, the modern era's 21st. View »

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The Dudes of Mad Men Play Handsomest Bowling Game Ever

Did you know that in addition to being talented and handsome, Jon Hamm is also great at bowling and building dicks out of Play-Doh? He recently teamed up with Mad Men collaborators Matthew Weiner, Vincent Kartheiser and Rich Sommer to bowl for charity against Team Nerdist, headed by Nerdist podcast host/son of a professional bowler Chris Hardwick. The results are endlessly charming and entertaining. View »

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Watch Kim Dotcom Race An F1 Driver In Video ‘Seized By The FBI'

Before Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom came under pressure from the feds he shot this video of himself and partner Finn Batato racing Germany's famed Nürburgring racing circuit in three of his crazy cars with F1 driver Kimi Raikkonen. According to Dotcom the final edit was "seized by the FBI." View »

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Ellen Degeneres Reads Aloud ‘50 Shades of Grey'

You know, an Ellen narration might actually be the key to making it through the 528 pages of E.L. James' crayon-drawn erotic novel 50 Shades of Grey. View »

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Stanley Kubrick Apparently Rose From The Dead To Direct Nike's Newest Ad

For a commercial that ultimately revolves around the selling of shoes and jerseys, there's a lot going on here: Marshawn Lynch, a wrecking ball, Troy Polamalu, a Larry Fitzgerald-branded sports car, Larry Fitzgerald, burning tires, Marshawn Lynch running, Darrelle Revis, a floating jet engine. View »

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Watch President Obama and Jimmy Fallon Slow Jam the News

President Obama's much hyped appearance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon got off to a great start when the two, with help from the Roots, slow jammed the news. Pure gold. View »

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How important is Metta World Peace to the Los Angeles Lakers? Well, NBA 2K12 says the team would win the Western Conference with him in the lineup. As it is, he's suspended for the next six games, and that's exactly as long as Denver will need to dispatch the Lakers, according to the game.

In an all-background sim of NBA 2K12 with the most current roster, released yesterday—and its depth chart is adjusted to reflect the absence of World Peace—Los Angeles won the first two games at home, then lost four straight to the Nuggets. On the bright side, L.A., this concludes all of Artest World Peace's suspension, so you'll get him back in time for your next game, which will be around Oct. 30. He got the timeout when he went all Thunder-Punch He-Man on James Harden of the Oklahoma City Thunder last Sunday.

After getting 32 and 41 points from Kobe Bryant in games one and two, the Lakers gagged away a 10-point lead in the fourth quarter of game four to knot the series, and utterly disintegrated in the thin Rocky Mountain air, losing 108-80 in game six.

Elsewhere in the first round of the simulation, the eighth-seeded Philadelphia 76ers tip off at this moment against the top-seeded Chicago Bulls, on TNT. NBA 2K12 says the Sixers will go seven games before losing 107-97 in the finale; Orlando dispatches Indiana in six to set up an all-Sunshine State second round versus the Miami Heat, winning in six against New York. Boston eases past Atlanta in five.

In the Western Conference, San Antonio cruises by Utah in five; Memphis likewise defeats the L.A. Clippers 4-1. The big stunner, in addition to Denver ending the Lakers' season, is the Dallas Mavericks taking out second-seed Oklahoma City in 6 games. The Thunder suffer an eight-point third quarter and get walloped 120-78 in the clincher.

In the second round, NBA 2K12 calls for a four-game sweep of Memphis by the Spurs, to face Denver, which prevails in six over Dallas. In the Eastern Conference, Boston stuns the Bulls in seven to meet the Heat, six-game winners over Orlando, reprising their second-round matchup from last year.

Conference winners, according to the game, will be the Spurs in five and the Heat in five, an eminently safe call. Incidentally, the simulation with Artest in the lineup had the Lakers facing Miami in the finals.

I only simulated through the conference championships. I'll revisit this when the actual Finals pairings are set.

Finally, you may be wondering what happened to Biff Tannen's Sports Almanac. I got an email from the future, with a picture showing Biff's apartment totally trashed, pages from Gray's Sports Almanac shredded and littering the living room, a shattered Mr. Fusion hurled into the fireplace.

Biff was 20 games underwater and it seems his bookmaker sent some old-school thumb breakers from 1976 to collect. "o xant gelief theyd do tfis," Biff writes. "i swar i was gona hut it big w/nhl plaoofs." Sorry Biff.

Announced back in March, the Xbox Live port of Dragon's Lair was dated for May 18 by Microsoft yesterday. The game will feature Kinect support, allowing you to jump out of the way of the Lizard King and dodge the columns on the mechanical horse, if you so prefer. Digital Leisure is handling the port and the Kinect support.

Judging by that video I'm very skeptical that Kinect can make this game any more manageable. It'll be fun if by fun one means "dying a lot." Dragon's Lair is the product of an era when game experiences were designed to be short so that they kept sucking quarters from your pocket. Therefore, this features a ton of trial and error, even if you know exactly what to do. And I've beaten Dragon's Lair across multiple platforms at least a dozen times.

A premium theme and picture pack is available now on the Marketplace if you're that fired up about Dragon's Lair. Or check out the upcoming documentary on the game.

What's happened in the business of video games this past week ...

QUOTE | "Nintendo has to let Mario games on non-Nintendo devices."—Nanako Imazu, Tokyo stock analyst, talking about what Nintendo has to do to reverse its massive loss for last year.

QUOTE | "This is the bombshell waiting to go off."—Rob Fahey, veteran game journalist, talking about kids spending massive amounts on free-to-play games without their parents' knowledge.

STAT | 151%—The huge rise in iPad sales during Apple's second fiscal quarter, as the company managed to sell through another 11.8 million iPads.

QUOTE | "LucasArts effectively canned a game that was finished."—Steve Ellis, co-founder of Free Radical Design, talking about the events that lead to the collapse of their studio.

STAT | 10.5 million—Total number of Wii and Wii U consoles, combined, that Nintendo is predicting they will sell in the period from March 2012 to March 2013.

QUOTE | "It's weird that [second-hand] is still allowed."—Rasmus Hojengaard, Crytek's director of creative development, talking about how it'd be great if consoles could block the use of used games.

QUOTE | "If Nintendo wants consumers to adopt the Wii U, it needs more than competitive graphics and another gameplay gimmick." —Chris Grant, Editor-in-Chief of Polygon, with other editors talking about what Nintendo should do to make the Wii U successful.

QUOTE | "You will see bigger publishers start to get nervous." —Investor and entrepreneur Steve Dengler, talking about how the Kickstarter publishing model could change the game industry.

STAT | $5 billion —Size of the Korean game market in 2016, up from $2.7 billion today, according to a report from analyst firm DFC Intelligence.

QUOTE | "The company thought we had rocks in our head."—EA Sports President Andrew Wilson, recalling how EA responded when he gave a presentation that said they could get 11 v 11 players online in FIFA Soccer.

STAT | 670 million—The number of tablet devices expected to be in use globally, with Apple's iPad accounting for a third of all new purchases in 2016 according to Forrester Research.

QUOTE | "It is an epic franchise that has trail-blazed more than a few industry-leading player experiences."—Chuck Beaver, story producer on EA's Dead Space franchise, publicly eating his previous words saying Epic's Gears of War has the worst writing in games.

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If you want to get in on Guild Wars 2's beta test this weekend, well, you'll need to go ahead and pre-purchase (as in buy, like, right now) the game to get that code. Fortunately, there's a deal on its deluxe edition if you were so inclined (the standard edition offers beta access; it isn't discounted). Not looking for that? Well there are more than 60 other deals, bonuses and discounts below in the latest Moneysaver.

Software

Guild Wars 2 Digital Deluxe Edition (PC download) is $71.95 from Green Man Gaming (next best $79.99). This Digital Deluxe Edition will get you into this weekend's beta test (April 27-29) plus access to additional in-game skills and items. Regular edition is full price $59.99 everywhere. [Dealzon

• May 15 release Max Payne 3 (360, PS3) is $47.99, free shipping from NewEgg through Sunday. PC version is also $47.99 but releases two weeks after the console versions. Next best deal is $60 at Amazon and comes with a $10 bonus credit, elsewhere $60 no bonus. [Dealzon]

• Yesterday's release Risen 2: Dark Waters (PC Download) is $44.99 from Amazon. Next best is $50. [Dealzon]

• Tuesday, May 1 release Sniper Elite 2 (360, PS3) is $40 plus $3 shipping from Fry's, then $47 and $48 shipped from Overstock and Buy.com. [Dealzon]

• Toys ‘R' Us is still running their Buy One, Get Another 50% Off sale for games $19.99 and under (601 titles). [Dealzon]

• Last day for Amazon's Buy 1, Get 1 Free sale on $5 PC download games. Includes 73 titles published by 1C, including: Kings Bounty, the Men of War series, and Space Rangers 2. [Dealzon]

• Tron: Evolution Collectors Edition (360, PS3) is $29.99, free shipping from Toys 'R' Us. List price is $130. [Dealzon]

• Prototype 2 (360, PS3) with Limited Radnet Edition access code is $49.99, free shipping from NewEgg. Next best is $55. [Dealzon]

• DJ Hero Renegade Edition Turntable Bundle featuring Jay-Z and Eminem (360) is $37.99, free shipping from NewEgg. Next best is $43. [Dealzon]

• Bleach: Soul Resurreccion (PS3) is $37.20, free shipping from Amazon. List price is $60 [Dealzon]

• Gears of War 3 (360) is $24.99, free shipping from Toys 'R' Us. Next best is $37. [Dealzon]

• Dead Rising 2: Off the Record (360) is $19.99 from Amazon. Next best is $30. [Dealzon]

• Kinectimals (360) is $14.99 from Amazon. Next best is $22. [Dealzon]

• Fortune Street (Wii) is $31.85, free shipping from Buy.com. Next best is $37. [Dealzon]

• Warhammer 40k: Space Marine (PC) is $14.99 from GameStop. List price is $30 [Dealzon]

• Mass Effect 2 (PC) is $9.99, free shipping from NewEgg. Next best is $15. [Dealzon]

• Assassin's Creed Revelations (PC download) is $24.99 from Amazon. Next best is $50. [Dealzon]

• Dragon Age 2 (PC download) with Dragon Age: Origins is $19.99 from GameStop. [Dealzon]

• Might & Magic: Heroes VI (PC download) is $16.99 from GameStop. Next best is $50. [Dealzon]

• Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Augmented Edition (PC download) is $14.99 from GameStop. [Dealzon]

• Batman: Arkham City (PC download) is $14.99 from GameStop. Next best is $30. [Dealzon]

• The Lord of the Rings: War in the North (PC download) is $9.99 from GameStop. Next best is $30. [Dealzon]

• Crysis (PC download) is $4.99 from Amazon. Next best is $20. [Dealzon]

• Brink (PC download) is $4.99 from GameFly. Next best is $20. [Dealzon]

• Batman Arkham Asylum Game of the Year Edition (PC download) is $4.99 from GameStop. List price is $20 [Dealzon]

• Aliens vs. Predator (PC download) is $4.99 from GameStop. Next best is $10. [Dealzon]

Hardware

• Nintendo Wii short black console with New Super Mario Bros. game and Music CD is $137.99, free shipping from Buy.com. Next best is $150. [Dealzon]

• ZOTAC GeForce GTX 560 Ti Overclocked 1GB GDDR5 PCIe Video Card is $169.99 after rebate, free shipping from TigerDirect. Next best is $196. [Dealzon]

• Hanns-G 27-inch HL272HPB 1080p 2ms LED Monitor is $249.99, free shipping from NewEgg. Next best is $274. [Dealzon]

• Asus 24-inch VS248H-P 1080p 2ms LED Monitor is $179.99, free shipping from Buy.com. Next best is $199. [Dealzon]

• Samsung 128GB 830 Series SSD is $135.99, free shipping from NewEgg. Next best is $170. [Dealzon]

• Lenovo has IdeaPad Y570 coupons that drop two configs with Quad Core i7-2670QM, 2GB GeForce GT 555M, 8GB RAM to new lowest-ever prices by $30. Get 500GB HDD plus 32GB SSD, Blu-ray for $919; or get 500GB 7200RPM HDD for $749. [Dealzon]

• Lenovo IdeaPad Y470p 14-inch laptop with Quad Core i7-2670QM, 8GB RAM, GeForce GT 550M is $729, free shipping from Lenovo. That's cheapest ever by $20. [Dealzon]

Digital Distribution

The following listing of digital download bargains are grouped by distributor. For more, see Deals4Downloads' roundup.

Amazon
• Men of War Assault Squad Game of the Year edition is $5.00, save 87 percent.
• Dark Fall: Lost Souls is $12.99, save 68 percent.
• Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Standard Edition is $9.99, save 67 percent.
• Might and Magic: Heroes VI Deluxe Edition is $18.69, save 66 percent.
• Serious Sam 3: BFE is $13.60, save 66 percent.
• Sword of the Stars: Complete Collection is $9.99, save 50 percent.
• From Dust is $7.49, save 50 percent.

GameFly
• BRINK is $4.99, save 75 percent.
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GamersGate
• Section 8 is $4.95, save 83 percent.
• Blood Bowl Dark Elves Edition is $4.99, save 75 percent.
• Gratuitous Space Battles Complete Pack is $18.99, save 63 percent.
• AI War Alien Bundle is $16.99, save 62 percent.

Get Games
• Sid Meiers Civilization V is $7.49, save 75 percent.
• Medieval 2 Total War Gold Edition is $2.49, save 75 percent.
• Napoleon: Total War™ Imperial Edition is $4.99, save 75 percent.

GMG
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GOG
• Syndicate is $2.99, save 50 percent.
• Lands of Lore 1+2 is $2.99, save 50 percent.
• Crusader: No Regret is $2.99, save 50 percent.

Impulse
• Magicka Collection is $4.99, save 75 percent.
• Batman - Arkham Asylum GotY Edition is $4.99, save 75 percent.
• Universe at War: Earth Assault is $4.99, save 75 percent.

iTunes Store
• Aralon: Sword and Shadow HD (iPhone) is $0.99, save 86 percent.
• Anomaly Warzone Earth (iPhone) is $0.99, save 50 percent.

Mac App Store
• Monster Truck Hero HD (Mac) is $1.99, save 72 percent.
• Worms Special Edition (Mac) is $4.99, save 50 percent.

Mac Game Store
• Cities in Motion (Mac) is $7.98, save 60 percent.
• Gratuitous Space Battles CE (Mac) is $9.99, save 55 percent.
• Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Mac) is $19.95, save 50 percent.

Steam
• Sniper Elite is $2.49, save 75 percent.
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is $39.99, save 33 percent + Free Weekend.

The Gamers Front
• Space HoRSE is $20.95, save 40 percent.
• Data Jammers: FastForward is $6.95, save 30 percent.

Kotaku thanks our coupon partners for providing these and other great deals. Be sure to bookmark and search their Kotaku hashtags (#dealzon, #deals4downloads and #dealtaku) for updates throughout the week. Further, to our friends across the pond and north of the border, check the #ukdeals, #europedeals and #canadadeals hashtags and be sure to flag any deals you might have with that.

As always, smart gamers can find values any day of the week, so if you've run across a deal, share it with us in the comments.

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Welcome everyone, to the Best of Kotaku, where I collect all of my colleagues' best work from the past week for your viewing pleasure.

Before we jump into the best content, let's take a look at the image above. Look at it. Isn't it pretty? I like to imagine that Chell decided to stay in the Aperture facilities upon [spoilers] escaping the clutches of GLaDOS and a crazed Wheatley so she can lounge in excursion funnels and get her exercise using the mobility gels. Today's best image found on the Internet comes from Reddit user aparaitre.

Moving on to our Best Of content this week, we kick things off as usual with a comment from the community.

If you want to see the list of nominations (and other random conversations) you can head to my most recent nomination post that goes up every Friday here.

Want to suggest an article, comment, tweet, or any other content on Kotaku to be featured for a weekly Best Of nomination? Drop me a line at tina@kotaku.com with the subject line of "Best Of Nomination." Or any other subject line that will help me sort through and search for them. I'm not too picky.

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The Best Comment From The Community

This week's best comment goes to richardharo for an insightful look into the Norway mass murderer situation and how we should be dealing with him. You can find an excerpt down below, but you should read his full post here.

The only way I would ever be satisfied would be to see Breivik educated, to see him break down crying after he has regained empathy, to see him regret his murders in the name of fascism. To admit he was wrong... only then would I be satisfied.

It's so tempting to say execute him, torture him, but that's exactly what extremist right wingers approve of. They love violence. They love actions dictated by our irrational, negative instincts. It'd be giving him (again) what he wants.

The only correct response to his actions would be to demonstrate they don't work. To defeat his ideas themselves. Answer his fascism with more liberal democracy. I'd allow an increase in immigration into Norway just to throw a wrench in his plans (whereby he estimates that after a three year backlash, the government will make concessions out of fear).

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The Best Max Payne Multiplayer

Stephen Totilo is impressed with Max Payne 3's multiplayer. So much so that it might even rival its single player experience. More »

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The Best (Worst) Death Threats In The Video Games Industry

Stephen talks to Robert Bowling about receiving death threats from gamers. Really disappointing stuff. More »

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The Best New Things in Crysis 3

Douglass Perry investigates what's new in Crysis 3 in this preview. More »

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The Best Convert To Multiplayer in Mass Effect 3

Kate Cox is a big fan of Mass Effect 3, but she surprised herself in getting addicted to its multiplayer. More »

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The Best Lesson in Video Game Marriages

Kate summarizes what marriage is like in video games, including what the benefits to its respective game are. More »

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The Best (Saddest) Departure At G4

Jason Schreier breaks news of Adam Sessler leaving G4. More »

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The Best Weekend Spent Playing Tera

Mike Fahey gets a little too addicted to Tera. nearly lost my... More »

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The Best And Bloodiest Review of Prototype 2

Owen Good has fun being a badass in the overly powerful Prototype 2. More »

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The Best Close-Quarters Shooting in Battlefield 3

Douglass Perry has fun in the claustrophobic halls of Battlefield 3's upcoming DLC. More »

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The Best Things To Know About Dishonored

Stephen visits the Victorian world of Dishonored and comes away with 18 things you should know about the game. More »

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The Best Calming of the Ocean Marketing Scandal

Jason explains how the Avenger Controller bounced back from the Ocean Marketing shenanigans (aka PR SNAFU). outspoken... More »

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The Best World War Waged in Hybrid

Kirk Hamilton enters the hybrid world of Hyrbid, where world wars are waging. More »

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The Best PlayStations Stars Starring In A Battle Royale

Kotaku Australia's Mark Serrels takes PlayStation's stars into battle in PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale More »

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The Best Video Game Development Questions Answered

5th Cell's creative director Jeremiah Slaczka answers Kotaku readers' questions about how working and developing in the games industry. More »

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The Best (Saddest) Reason You Cry While Playing JRPGs

SPOILER ALERT Aeris died in Final Fantasy VII, but Jason explains that her death was just the set up for the real reason you cried during that scene. More »

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The Best Reasons Why The Walking Dead Game Is Better Than The Show

Kirk likes The Walking Dead. Not the show, the game. More »

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The Best First Look at a Comeback Player

Owen Good visited EA Sports to meet the team tasked with raising NBA Live 13 from the ashes of the canceled NBA Elite 11. More »

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Yes my gatekeeper!!

Last weekend, I was hanging out at a friend's board game night. There were some dice on one table, and a deck of cards on the other. Then, over in the corner, some people started fiddling with a VHS player.

"Oh," I thought. "Um."

Before I knew what was happening, we had divided into teams and were playing a spirited, hilarious game of Nightmare, the classic 1991 board game originally called "Atmosfear" in Europe.

Where do I begin with this game? It is simultaneously exhilarating and funny, never scary but damned if I can't think of any better way to spend 60 minutes with a group of friends. Preferably while drinking.

The only VHS game I played back in the 90's was California Games, which was nowhere near as much fun as Nightmare.

The setup is like this: You have a number, one to six. You press "play" on the VCR. You roll the dice to move around the board. Sometimes, this guy.. this absurd, absurd guy, named "The Gatekeeper," will pop up and yell at you. He is played by an actor named Wenanty Nosul, who is clearly having a lot of fun with the role.

It. Is. Amazing.

Sometimes he yells. Sometimes he snorts (See part 5 above.) He gets progressively more jacked-up looking as the game progresses. He's never anything less than entirely entertaining. And the music. The music! Where do I begin. It sounds like Freddy Krueger music made on a Casio rapman keyboard.

You'll draw cards that will prompt you to scream at people at a certain time; if you scare them, you get a reward. Other cards will make you go and worship the TV, or laugh maniacally until someone asks you what your problem is. It's awesome.

The entire video plays out the exact same way every time—each game lasts 60 minutes, and you have that much time to get enough keys to win. Needless to say, there's limited replay value. But man… you could probably play a version of this game just by using the YouTube videos (which I've collected in the gallery here) and recreating the board somehow.

Though I have to say, it wouldn't really be the same without the actual VCR, with the spotty tracking lines at the corner of the screen.

For a more in-depth look back at VHS games, check out Wes Fenlon (one of our board game night's hosts)'s great retrospective at Tested.com.

I just might have to use this final AV connection I've got on my TV to plug in a VCR. Heading over to eBay…

Yesterday on #Speakup, commenter chadoban asked which video game characters we'd all go gay (or straight) for. Your answers were as varied as they were enjoyable, so Chris Person thought he'd grab some of the most popular ones and render them into gifs.

Check out the gifs below. Enjoy them. Place them on your desktop, or on your geocities homepage. Embrace the temptation.

Up top, we have Godot from Phoenix Wright. Man, that guy is totally the dreamiest character in Phoenix Wright history. Also: There's a "hot coffee" joke in here somewhere but I'm not quite finding it.

Nathan Drake from the Uncharted Series

Oh man, this one is amazing. See how dreamily he looks into the distance as he holds the side of the traincar! Not only is he looking ultra-handsome in this shot, but it also makes me remember one of the best levels in the entire Uncharted series.

Poison from Final Fight and Street Fighter

Well yeah, I can see what the attraction is about here. Ladies, is she beckoning you onward to a fight? Or does she just want to get a little closer? Who can tell, who can tell…

Balthier from Final Fantasy XII

Aah, Final Fantasy XII. One of the Final Fantasys that I don't know much about. That Balthier sure is a good looking rogue though, isn't he?

The Boss from Metal Gear Solid 3

Okay, this one I get. Her strong demeanor, her troubled past; that sexy headband. Too bad about… well, you know. What happens.