Evan Narcisse

Watch Golden Axe Get Ripped to Shreds in 9:27

Raise your hands if you spent a whoooole lot of time playing Golden Axe on your Sega Genesis. I sure did and never in my wildest dreams did I think it could be finished in under ten minutes. That’s exactly what Jason ‘honorableJay’ Feeney does in this speedrun video hosted at Speed Demos Archive. Feeney…

This Week’s Nintendo Download Takes You Out into the Streets and Gives You Rabbids

I’ve never, ever seen a Google Street View truck out in the wild. And now that I think about it, I don’t know that I want to. It’d be a little creepy, knowing that its magic penetrating cameras are sucking all the data out of my pores without my permission. But if you want to…

This New Game from the Lead Designer of Limbo Pops with Color

Ingenious puzzles and a chilling black-and-white aesthetic helped make 2011’s Limbo a critically acclaimed hit. Now, the guy who crafted much of that indie success’ gameplay has something new coming out, a stripped-down platformer called 140 that’s exploding with rainbow hues. The stark minimalism of Limbo is in evidence here but Jeppe Carlsen’s new game…

World of Tanks Company Buys Gas Powered Games

Wargaming—the developer of mega-popular free-to-play online game World of Tanks—just announced that they’ll be acquiring Gas Powered Games, the company responsible for Dungeon Siege and Supreme Commander. Major layoffs at Gas Powered and the cancellation of their Wildman Kickstarter project made the company’s future look uncertain. For Wargaming, this is another move that seemingly preps…

New Super Mario Brothers U DLC Puts Luigi in the Spotlight

The House of Mario is celebrating Luigi’s 30th anniversary by releasing several titles focusing on Mario’s twin brother. The New Super Luigi U DLC will rework existing levels in New Super Mario Brothers Wii U to deliver new experiences where players will control only Luigi. Nintendo president Satoru Iwata said that work on the DLC…

On the PlayStation Blog, Naughty Dog confirms that The Last of Us is being delayed until June 14th.

Spawn Creator Todd McFarlane Said that 38 Studios’ Unfinished MMO “Was Going to Raise the Bar”

Thing I didn’t expect to learn at Toy Fair: the guy who created Spawn loves crazy video game rabbits. Specifically, Todd McFarlane loves the titular characters from Ubisoft’s wacky Rabbids franchise and thinks that that they’re going to be a huge pop culture phenomenon. I talked to McFarlane earlier this week at Toy Fair and…

Wreck-It Ralph’s Deleted Scene Would Have Mashed Up The Sims With Grand Theft Auto

When it hit movie theaters last year, Wreck-It Ralph had tons of little details that made the Disney film feel one of the few that got video games right. It’s available for download today and a new interview at MTV reveals that some of the best stuff—an open-world social game where Ralph goes to mope…

Here’s How Disney Infinity Is Different from Skylanders

The folks behind Disney’s next big move in the gaming space know what you’re thinking. They know that you’re already comparing Disney Infinity to the Skylanders games. After all, their upcoming title is a video game/collectible toy hybrid where figurines of Disney movie characters come to life and romp around in a video game, just…

Six Comics That Channel Some Sort of Love This Week

If you’re here in the Panel Discussion programming block, you might be a lapsed comics reader, trying to find a way back to the JLA Satellite. Or you might someone killing time until you pick up your weekly Wednesday pull list. Or maybe you’ve said goodbye to dozens of longboxes to embrace the promise of…

The Joker is Broken. Young Avengers Aren’t. Let Panel Discussion Tell You Why.

These might be the most important words in comics: “Hey, have you read that?” The medium’s lifeblood has always been the word-of-mouth that passes from one reader to another. The only query that might surpass the above is “So, what’d you think?” Hence, this recurring feature in Kotaku‘s slice of comics programming, where comics critics,…

The Secret Ingredient Needed to Make Anything a ‘Real Game’

There’s been some heated discussion as to whether Proteus—Ed Key and David Tanaga’s award-winning lo-fi ambient exploration game—can be called a game. All the back-and-forth boils down to just so much fooferaw. But, if you want to nail Proteus down to a more restrictive, AAA-centric definition of what a game is, then cartoonist Zac Gorman…

Avengers, Angry Birds and Star Trek Enterprises: Toy Fair 2013, Day 3

Hasbro transforms and rolls out to the beat of its own drummer. The giant company held court at its own preview space during Toy Fair 2013, blocks away from the trade show’s epicenter. On display were Star Trek and Transformers-centric updates to the Kreo building blocks, toys tied into this year’s Thor: the Dark World…

Rayman Legends Lead Designer Poses With People Protesting the Game’s Six-Month Delay

Rayman Legends—hotly anticipated as one of the best third-party games coming to the Wii U—was supposed to hit the Nintendo console in two weeks. But, Ubisoft announced a six-month delay for the game last week so that work can be done on porting it to the Xbox 360 and PS3—and Wii U owners have been…

Gamestop and Best Buy (per The Sixth Axis) say The Last of Us will release on June 18, not May 7th.

Robot George Washington, Dirty Schwarzeneggers and KHAAAAAAN: Toy Fair 2013, Day 2

Scroll ahead. Look at James Tiberius Kirk whuppin’ on Khan Noonien Singh. God, isn’t that just beautiful? God bless Diamond Distributors for making that thing. Diamond also showed off Tomb Raider minimates, Iron Man and War Machine designs from Iron Man 3. But that Kirk vs. Khan set… it’s one of the best things I…

Walter White, Wonder Woman and Jon Snow Walk into a Bar: Toy Fair 2013, Day 1

Toy Fair descends onto Manhattan’s Jacob Javitz Convention this week, bringing with it loads of plastic you don’t care about. But Toy Fair also shines a spotlight on the weirdest, coolest collectibles and playthings that you’ll be lusting over for the next twelve months. In these images—taken by Kotaku video editor Chris Person—you’ll see statues…

In This Week’s Injustice Comic, Superman Does the One Thing Batman Never Would

You might know that DC Comics has an Injustice comic running which sets up the stage for all the brawling in the upcoming fighting game. The story by writer Tom Taylor and artists Mike Miller and Jheremy Raapack is appearing in digital form first, with print editions following. Check out this excerpt, where Jimmy Olsen…

Oh, Come On: 67% of Polled Republican Voters Say Video Games Are a ‘Bigger Threat to Safety’ Than Guns [UPDATE]

Want proof that the maddening campaign to make video games a scapegoat for gun violence is working? Just check out these poll results where the vast majority of people essentially say that video games are scarier than guns. At first blush, the latest press release from Raleigh-based firm Public Policy Polling seems like a typical…

A New Trailer for Dreamfall Chapters Promises an Emotional Finale to a Beloved Adventure Game

Dreamfall Chapters will introduce an all-new world in the upcoming sequel to the acclaimed adventure game series. Under development by Red Thread Games, the previously announced project is being led by Dreamfall creator Ragnar Tørnquist, who secured the license from Funcom where he worked on The Secret World MMO. A Kickstarter to help fund the…