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Here Are 10 Free Platforming Games

While the indie scene produced many high quality, profitable games in 2012, there were still plenty of developers doing it for the love. Why not give their games a play? Over at the Indie Games Blog, they’ve compiled a list of their top ten free platformers for 2012.


Talk Amongst Yourselves

This is where Kotaku readers go to talk about the stuff we’re not already posting about. Think of it as the official unofficial Kotaku community forum.


Community Kudos

And with this last post from me, we now return you to your regularly scheduled programming. Thanks Kotaku, for all the good times. And here’s the place to find out if you’ve won one of Marky Mark’s special little bits of swag around his desk.


The Chronicles Of Onederboy: The Abysswalker

In our last chapter, Onederboy had defeated Smough and Ornstein in the quest to beat Dark Souls without levelling up. In doing this, I was granted the ability to teleport between bonfires, making quick progress throughout Lordran. In order to reach the final boss, I had to get certain souls from the Lords of the land. It’s time to get to work.


Hackycat Developer On Scratching The Indie Itch

A short while ago, Aussie developer Ken Wong was working on the largest triple-A title made in China for the West, at American McGee’s studio, Spicy Horse. Now he’s back down under, working as an all-rounder making indie games. And in the last 12 months he’s come up with Hackycat, the hackysack game where you juggle cats. It looks hilarious — but Wong says there’s more to it than a gimmicky internet joke. We spoke to him about his development past, present, and future.


How Dead Space 3 Became Free At JB Hi-Fi For Some Pre-Order Customers

JB H-Fi have stopped taking pre-orders for the Dead Space 3 Limited Edition, and will not be able to fulfil existing pre-orders for the game — they are, however, offering a free standard edition of the game to anyone affected.


Scribbletaku

I’m guilty of giving you another easy one yesterday. So I’m going back to what I did with Wonder Boy in Monster World. This will be a specific moment in a game, instead of a loading screen or the most iconic imagery. See if you can guess the game!


What Are You Playing This Weekend?

The games releases are on a slow uptake that will kick into overdrive in a few weeks, and from that point on, it’s not going to let up for the entire year. In one of your last “quiet” weeks, what will you be spending your time playing?


With 3D Printing, We Can Make Our Own Action Figures

Those official action figures… And hell, even those unofficial ones, always cost more than they should. But we’re entering a brand new day — one in which we can make our own action figures. Kotaku AU fan Siegey was left to look after his work’s 3D printer, and… Well. He made a Mario.


While You Were Sleeping

A thousand hamsters on a thousand wheels have been running all night in our elaborate, Rube Goldberg news machine. We promised them that if they ran hard enough, the best of them would get a golden pellet. I’m on my way downstairs to pick out one very hard working hamster, while you guys get caught up on the overnight news.


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