Uncharted 3 Is Free For All North American PS3 Owners Right Now [UPDATE: Down]

UPDATE (11:49am): Looks like Sony took down the listing. Bummer. Original post follows: The PlayStation Store is listing Uncharted 3 for free right now. This isn’t just for PS Plus members; anyone with a PlayStation Network account can download the third game in Nathan Drake’s adventures without paying a cent. Looks like this is only…

The True Enemies of Dark Souls II Are Those Bloody Ledges

So many mysteries, so many unopened chests… The most frustrating parts in a game like Dark Souls II are not just the bosses, but also the ledges with loot that just looks unreachable. The chest in Max and Sam‘s clip however is probably just a mimic. Better leave that alone. Dark Souls II – The…

Organizing A Real-Life Street Fighter Tournament Would Be Painful

M. Bison, the host of Street Fighter’s fighting tournament has to realize that destroying Mercedes S-Class cars and temples full of elephants would be a bit expensive, even for a would-be world dictator. Pete Holmes suggests Atlanta for the entire tournament. Well, I know someone here at Kotaku who’d be happy with that location. Street…

One City In China Is Cracking Down On Net Cafe Smokers

Secondhand smoke is terrible, but good luck getting away from it when you visit an internet cafe in China. In recent years, restrictions on smoking have been passed on locations such as restaurants and net cafes, but even so, people still smoke. Now, in China’s city of Wuhan, the authorities are cracking down. In a…

Chinese League of Legends Pro Apologizes To Fans For Poor Performance

Professional gamers, like professional athletes, have their up and downs. When they disappoint, they have to face their fans and that’s exactly what a Chinese League of Legends pro did. CaoMei (Strawberry), whose real name is Wei Handong, plays top laner for a Chinese LoL Team, Team WE. After a poor performance in this past…

Turning School Into An RPG Where You Level Up By Studying

I thought we all agreed gamification was deeply uncool and never to be mentioned again? That hasn’t stopped Classcraft’s RPG-based program for schools spreading to 25 countries and planning to go freemium. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK According to Venture Beat (via Technobob) there are 7,000 kids over 25 countries currently levelling up…

Nintendo DS title Brain Age has been released on the Wii U’s Virtual Console. The game will be available in Japan free of charge until June 30. After July 1, the game won’t be downloadable and after that its status is TBA. No word yet on a Western release. [Pic: yutaro365]

Star Citizen Is Now Letting Spaceships Shoot At Other Spaceships

Having had little to do for months but walk around their hangars, backers of Star Citizen are finally getting their hands on some dogfighting with the rollout of the game’s Arena Commander simulation mode.

The June Xbox One update – which brings stuff like external storage, free games and the option to use your real name – has begun rolling out

Luigi’s Death Stare Makes TV News

This is Luigi’s Mario Kart 8 death stare. On New York’s Fox 5 TV news.

Creepypasta Wiki Issues Statement Saying Slender Man Isn’t Real

The tragic events in Waukesha, in which two young girls are accused of stabbing a friend, have brought internet myth Slender Man into the mainstream spotlight. So much so that the Creepypasta wiki, unofficial home to stories involving the character (and others like him), has had to issue a statement confirming that he is not…