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Kerbal Space Program Gets Its First Big Update Since Release

“Turbo Charged” is the name of the 1.1 update for Kerbal Space Program, the space rocket building/kerbal murdering sim released in late April last year. After a year’s worth of development, and a short hype-filled pre-release period this past couple months, the update is now fully released. Taken from the KSP discussion thread accompanying the…

Minecraft as American Political Commentary

Today, courtesy of a Minecraft map, we get a glimpse of a grim future brought on by an economic crisis, which started shortly after Donald Trump became President of the United States. Made by PlanetMinecraft’s Jossieboy, the map, titled “No Future,” is his way to deliver commentary on today’s political climate. As he put it:…

Per 2K Games’s announcement on Twitter, Mafia III comes to PC, PS4 and Xbox One on October 7. There’s a new story trailer which you can watch above, and you can read about Kotaku UK’s early impressions of the game at last year’s Gamescom here.

BioShock director Ken Levine is working on an “interactive live-action film based on Twilight Zone,” writes Wired. Levine’s partnered with media company Interlude for the project, whose technology will “allow viewers to determine what the characters do” in the film.

Final Fantasy IX Is Out on PC

Following its recent mobile release, the ninth Final Fantasy, originally released on PlayStation nearly sixteen years ago, has finally popped up on Steam. Per the developers’ announcement, here’s what you get for buying the game on PC: Relive this classic Final Fantasy adventure with Zidane and his crew with a bunch of new features including:…

Track: The Final Battle / Grand Cross | Artist: Nobuo Uematsu | Album: Final Fantasy IX Original Soundtrack In-game video (spoilers, obviously): Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

When Kerbal Space Program Hype Reaches Dangerous Levels

Pictured above: a flying revolver destroying a locomotive, in a creative expression of one’s hype towards Kerbal Space Program’s big upcoming 1.1 patch Made by redditor JeanTheDragon, the winged gun was an answer to a series of Hype Trains posted to the KSP subreddit in anticipation to the update. Here’s one such train, created by…

A Salt Portrait of Daenerys Targaryen

As in, a portrait made of actual table salt. Of Game of Thrones’s Daenerys, Mother of Dragons. Neat! The portrait was crafted by artist DinoTomic, also known as AtomiccircuS on DeviantArt. It’s his third piece of salt artwork overall, but his first salt portrait (the other two, here and here, were a pair of mandalas.)…

Track: Longing | Artist: Motoi Sakuraba | Album: Dark Souls II Original Soundtrack Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

Yep, Unreal Engine 4 Is Still King of Digital Room Porn

Run-of-the-mill room porn is one thing, but it takes something like Unreal Engine 4 to elevate it to a whole new level. This apartment might not exist, but I still really really wanna live there. Or at least go there and stare at things. Maybe take an apple. Unreal Engine 4 apples are nice. The…

Track: The Rains of Castamere | Artist: Ramin Djawadi & Sigur Rós | Album: Game of Thrones: Season 4 Soundtrack Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

Track: God Knows… | Artist: Aya Hirano | Album: Suzumiya Haruhi no Tsumeawase Relevant scene from The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya: Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

Codemasters Acquires Recently Shut Down Driveclub Studio

Codemasters, the British publisher and developer behind the F1 and Dirt racing series, among a long list of other games, is joining forces with DriveClub’s recently shut down developer, Evolution Studios. In addition to Codemasters taking on “most” of the studios’ staff, former Evolution Group Director Mike Hocking will also become the company’s new VP…

Minecraft Times Square Is Way Less Crowded

And, since the Minecraft version of Times Square is not an absolute clustereff of pedestrians, you get to hang around and enjoy the sights. Yay! Built by PlanetMinecraft’s qq1394236817 for a larger city map, this recreation needs a little bit of tweaking to run on your copy Minecraft. By default, when you download the map,…

Reimagining an Undertale Date

Undertale, naturally for an RPG where you can befriend monsters, has dates. A fan decided to slightly expand one of them. Note that there’s spoilers for Undertale’s Pacifist Route below. This series of concept art pieces, done by Redditor Agentalex9, shows what Frisk’s encounter at Undyne’s house could have been like if it had started…

A Minecraft Tribute to Monument Valley

Monument Valley is a pretty great iOS game. It’s so great, in fact, that it inspired a pretty great Minecraft map to go with it, and it does invoke the game’s visuals quite well (that is, until you go first-person, like you tend to do in Minecraft.) According to its creator, dennisbuilds from PlanetMinecraft, the…

Diablo II’s Final Boss, Looking Unusually Badass

This Baal is more like the Baal I’d imagine after dying over ten times in Diablo II Act V’s Worldstone Chamber. The above model is the fifth and final piece of a 3D fanart series about the act bosses of Diablo II. The artist, Svein Yngve Sandvik Antonsen from Norway, first started working on the…

GTA V Mod Lets You Play as The Flash

Here’s a GTA V mod, in case you ever wanted to run so hard that you create a tornado and suck up all nearby objects. In GTA V This script mod which, of course, turns you into The Flash, was made by JulioNIB (via DSOGaming), he of legendary status in the modding community and purveyor…

Track: A New Home (“Undertale” Remix) | Artist: Ace Waters, TeraCMusic & Eruption | Album: Determination Original: Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

Our Favorite Games from March

It’s the first of April, but the games listed here aren’t jokes. On the contrary! They’re actually quite good, in various ways. From indies to triple-As, expansions to re-releases, the 19 below were our favorite games last month. Bunker Punks An extremely cool, fast-paced, roguelike shooter that’s really fun to play, even in its current…