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It's officially PAX weekend! If you're not out and about in Boston checking out games and hanging out with gamers, you can catch up on this week's best content over at Kotaku Selects.Read more...

Escort missions. Not being able to pause when you need to. Never having a line piece appear in Tetris. Read more...

You go through the trouble of collecting all 8 badges and defeating the Elite Four—and in some cases, sometimes you even try to catch them all. But what for? Pokémon games sometimes treat you rather poorly after doing all that work, when you think about it.Read more...

We've seen the character creation system , as well as some of the combat featured in Black Desert , a stunning-looking Korean MMO. But the game also features stuff you can do during your downtime—and it looks like the developers are putting care into small details.Read more...

Why go to a gaming convention when you can go to a gaming convention dressed up as your favorite video game character? Good question.Read more...

Earlier this month, French "transmedia installation designer" Miguel Chevalier (that's Unnecessarily Pretentious Jargon for "artist") turned the Moroccan cathedral Sacré Coeur into a shimmering spectacle of lights and responsive surfaces with his latest project, Magic Carpets 2014. Read more...

Who knew you could make so many different weapons with clothespins? Turns out, if you have three clothespins and some rubber bands lying around, you already have everything you need to make a mini crossbow.Read more...

If there's one thing I've learned about video games, it's that no two bad games are bad in quite the same way.Read more...

While piracy is the pits, you gotta love bootleg covers: they mash up all sorts of things that either make no sense, or somehow make the source material even funnier. In some cases, they even make you wish the game advertised on the cover officially actually existed, instead of whatever pirated game is actually in there.Read more...

Gameloft is streaming The Amazing Spider-Man 2 mobile game on Twitch. You can watch the stream here, until they stop. After that, this message is a waste of time. Sorry, future readers. Read more...

We've long known that the outer-space sim Star Citizen looks gorgeous; that's a big part of the reason the PC game's developers have managed to raise more than $40 million in crowdfunding. At this weekend's PAX East convention in Boston, Star Citizen creator Chris Roberts demoed a bunch of new footage of the game in action.Read more...

Blizzard announced its upcoming Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft single-player Adventure Mode at PAX East today, detailing the challenges players will face as they progress through the new Curse of Naxxramas campaign.

Curse of Naxxramas features a series of unique enemy encounters and boss battles that take place on a new Adventure Mode-exclusive game board with interactive corners. The mode adds 30 new cards to the Hearthstone deck, including bonus cards awarded for completing nine unique Class Challenges.

The Curse of Naxxramas will gradually roll out new Hearthstone content in the five weeks after its simultaneous launch for Windows, Mac and iPad this year. A release date has not been announced. [Image: Blizzard]

Harmonix announced the development of a new free-to-play game at PAX East in Boston today called Record Run. Described by the developer as a "rhythm-runner," the game is "coming soon" to as-yet-undetermined mobile platforms.

Record Run features gameplay that compares to Gaijin Games' Bit.Trip series, according to Harmonix head Alex Rigopulos. The game uses songs from players' mobile devices as the backdrop for its levels, which features a character running down a sidewalk, avoiding obstacles and collecting music records, all seen during Rigopulous' presentation. He noted that Harmonix has "lots of other irons in the fire on mobile" aside from Record Run. [Image: Harmonix]

Agent 47 goes mobile with a "diorama-style, turn-based strategy game."

The AngerForce arrives with the most interesting shmup in ages, and Warhammer Quest goes free for the first time.

If you're one of the (many) people who's overjoyed by Kickstarter's impressive ability to revive underappreciated video game genres, then you should be excited about Last Life. Read more...

Newegg is running an across the board video game sale, covering everything from The Last of Us to next-gen titles and Wii U fitness games. Dig in, but be warned, everything is selling out quickly. Use code VGMADNESS1 on everything for another 10% off. We of course have it all broken out below for you. [Newegg]Read more...

Welcome, friends, to the best Miata mod I have ever seen.Read more...

Finally, an accurate video game trailer. When I started watching this trailer for the upcoming Trials Fusion, I thought it would be the same marketing nonsense as most trailers. Then I started paying attention to what was actually happening on screen, which, yeah, that's Trials.Read more...

Nowhere is safe from Hentai (Pervert) Woody. Nowhere! Read more...

When I heard there was another anime by the creator of Anohana called Nagi no Asukara in the works, I braced for another round of emotional masochism. But while still a story of loss and love , I was treated to a world under the sea that was as beautiful as it was thematically deep. Read more...

For the past few years, Seongsu High School has been compared to one thing online: a maximum security facility. Read more...

Heck, it doesn't even exist. That's why South Korea blogger Laptick decided to create it. Well, at least the packaging and the Game Boy cartridge. Read more...

Anime and games go hand in hand. So now that the winter anime season has come to an end, let's take a look back at some of its gaming moments in glorious gif format. Read more...

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The show is Steven Universe, a relatively new animated series on Cartoon Network about a young boy called Steven, and his intergalactic female warrior friends. Its 16th episode, 'Steven the Sword Fighter' was aired recently and surprisingly, it was full of video game references!Read more...

Today's selection of articles from Kotaku's reader-run community: The Importance of Low Budget Games • Thoughts on Smash Bros Wii U's Zero Suit Samus • Weird Theory: Why Doesn't Link Rule the World?Read more...

We've had you vote on your favorite monitors, mice, keyboards, desk chairs, and mouse pads, but we still need some sound. There's a time and a place for the quality, privacy, and immersion that headphones provide, but today we're nominating desktop speakers. Jump in the comments section and tell us about your favorites, even better if you drop in a link and/or picture. Lifehacker tackled this one back in 2012, so feel free to look to there for inspiration and arguments.Read more...

Getting old is never easy. Candy tastes less sweet, hangovers get ever more brutal, pop music becomes increasingly terrifying. And, of course, video games get harder.Read more...

Kotaku is at PAX East 2014 , ready to bring you all news gaming-related throughout the weekend—but before we get started, let's take a look at the show floor.Read more...