Ethan Gach

Gaming’s First Vibrator Turns 15 Years Old This Weekend

The PlayStation 2 version of Rez had one of video gaming's most unique peripherals

Track: Aurora Northern Quarter | Artist: Lone | Album: Reality Testing Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

The Uncharted Movie That Was Supposed To Come Out This Year Now Has A Script

Joe Carnahan, the writer currently attached to a film adaptation of Uncharted, just finished the most current draft of its screenplay according to a recent post he made on Instagram Carnahan, best known for directing The Grey, a movie in which Liam Neesons punches wolves, was revealed to be penning words for Sony’s blockbuster third-person…

Digital Chaos Wins Its First Big Dota 2 Tournament

Just a week into 2017, Digital Chaos showed that their best days are still ahead after taking first place at the ESL One Genting event and making it their first big tournament win since becoming a Dota 2 team back in 2015. After placing second at TI6 last August, the esport’s biggest event of the year,…

Sunday Comics: Get Good

Welcome to Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics that usually occurs on Sunday except when it doesn’t. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira. Published January 7. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published January 2. Read more…

People Have Started Hacking Nintendo’s NES Classic And Adding More Games To It

It was only a matter of time before people found a way to hack Nintendo’s NES Classic, and that time has come. Earlier this week, modders trading tips on a Russian forum discovered a way to add ROMs to add extra games to the system that was previously limited to only thirty A modder going…

Square Enix released a new trailer for Final Fantasy XIV’s upcoming Patch 3.5, “The Far Edge of Fate,” the first part of which is due to release January 17. The update will include a new Feast map, a couple dungeons, side quests, and new gear. The game’s next major expansion is Stormblood, set to launch…

Steam Reaches 14 Million Concurrent Users For First Time In Its History 

Earlier today, Valve’s digital distribution platform reached a new peak of just over 14.2 million simultaneous users. It’s the latest milestone in the platform’s 13 year history and comes shortly after its most recent winter sale concluded earlier this week. Perhaps not unexpectedly, many of the same games that led Steam in revenue for 2016…

The Weekend In Esports: The Smite World Championship Returns To Atlanta

2017’s only just started and there’s already a ton happening in esports this weekend. If you’re snowed in or just looking to completely ignore the world around you, we’ve got you covered. Here’s when and where you can watch the biggest events happening in pro gaming this weekend. Smite The World Championship for Smite is…

CNN Shows Fallout Computer Terminal In A Video About Russian Hacking

In a video from December 30, 2016, CNN used footage from Fallout’s hacking mini-game as B-roll to illustrate reports of recent, real-life hacks committed by the Russian government. Update 1/4/2016: As pointed out by reader Dustin Nikolich, it appears the footage in question was derived from flash game based on Fallout 3‘s terminal hacking created…

Modders Are Adding The Entirety Of Liberty City Into GTA V

OpenIV was used to start cracking open Grand Theft Auto V back in 2015, and now the Russian developers behind the modding tool have set their sites on bringing GTA IV’s Liberty City into the series’ latest entry. The group made the announcement yesterday, stating, “The Liberty City will not replace Los Santos or Blaine…

The Japanese Predecessor To E.V.O.: Search for Eden Now Has A Full English Translation

Released in Japan for the PC-98 back in 1990, 46 Okunen Monogatari: The Shinka Ron was a game developed by Almanic Corporation and published by Enix that hasn’t had a complete, playable English translation until now. The project officially completed at the end of last year by 46 OkuMen. It takes the game that would…

Track: Ascension | Artist: Tycho | Album: Dive Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Epitasis Looks Like One Of Tycho’s Songs Reimagined In Unreal Engine 4

Epitasis is a new project being worked on by Lucas Govatos. It’s a puzzle exploration game in the mold of Myst that was inspired by the soundscapes of electronic musicians like Tycho. It’s also being made entirely in Unreal Engine 4. The game, whose name is Greek for the main action in a play, grew…

Latest Sci-Fi Art From Simon Stålenhag Captures The Strangeness Of The Road Ahead

More artwork from Simon Stålenhag nails that feeling of driving through familiar landscapes dotted with industrial oddities. We’ve featured Simon’s art here before, a couple times in fact, because it’s just so damn good. The latest book collecting his work, called Things from the Flood, came out last November, and followed up on his which…

What Are Your 2017 New Year’s Resolutions?

At some point I resolved to stop making New Year’s resolutions because I was so bad at following through on them. But for that very reason, I returned the next year and every year since inspired to recommit myself to any number of goals I’d probably never achieve. And even though I try to make…

The Week In Games: Welcome To 2017 

2016 came and went and now here we are: the first day of a new year, feeling rejuvenated and refreshed, ready to jump into all of 2017’s biggest and most interesting releases which will be coming…eventually. While the first week of the new year isn’t completely devoid of games, the pickings are sparse. And also demonic.…

The Man Who Worked On The Original Game Boy Explains Why Nintendo Created The DS

Satoru Okada, who was General Manager of Nintendo Research & Engineering before he retired in 2012, said in a recent interview with Retro Gamer Magazine that no one on the handheld team liked the idea of the DS when it was first proposed. If some folks had gotten their way, Nintendo would have produced a…

The 100 Steam Games That Made The Most Money In 2016

Today Valve announced the 100 games that have brought in the most revenue on Steam in 2016. The list is quite varied, ranging from top dogs like Grand Theft Auto V and the company’s own Counter-Strike: Global Offensive to more granular games like Stellaris The is the first time that Valve has put together such…

PS4 Sizzle Reel Highlights Console Exclusives Coming In 2017

This latest trailer shows off a number of games planned for release on the PS4 sometime in 2017, including Detroit: Become Human and Horizon: Zero Dawn, as well as some smaller ones you might not have heard much about like Drawn to Death. Oh, and also Knack 2 That’s right. If we take Sony’s marketing…