Evan Narcisse

How I Talked About Video Games Over The Holidays

This year, I left my hometown of New York City to go west to Los Angeles for the holidays. I took my PS4 with me to a friend’s house—in the hopes of making a dent in my personal backlog—but wound up barely touching it in the 10 days I was away. But I did something…

A Look Back at Some of 2014’s Coolest Cosplay

When you travel all over the country documenting the skill and enthusiasm behind some of the best cosplay going, you’re bound to capture a bunch of truly excellent moments. The folks behind the Cosplay Boom documentary series did exactly that and are sharing some of their favorites. Bask in the wow, won’t you? The thing…

Kotaku‘s Favorite Comics of 2014

It’s an arms race out there in superhero-movie-land. Seems like everybody wants to adapts comics into something else. That’s cool. But let’s not forget the ancestral medium whence all that excitement originates. Because comics had a damn good 2014. Announcements for movies that are years away from release excite fans. The vision for those films…

A Cute Little Holiday Present From the Makers of Device 6

The Sensational December Machine is like a snow globe that you can go inside of. What’s in there? A beautifully drawn, vertiginously presented holiday fable that’s a great little meditation on what it means to give and get something. Totally free and made in three weeks, the latest release from Simogo is the indie developer’s…

It looks like Dark Souls‘ PC version may not be getting worse after all. The takedown action aimed at eliminating the dissemination of DSFix—the modder-made patch that makes the PC version of Dark Souls actually playable—appears to have been the result of a big misunderstanding, according to a new update on NeoGAF.

Playing Basketball With a Portal Gun Would Be Awesome

Two scientists get their hands on an Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device. Do they try to unlock its secrets? Eventually, maybe. But, first, there’s an epic game of hoops to be had. The best parts, for me, in Corridor Digital’s ‘Portal meets b-ball’ short are the hilarious faces the two lab coat-wearing experimenters make while…

Mike Colter, the guy who’s been playing the newest Halo character has just been cast as super-strong hero Luke Cage in Marvel/Netflix’s upcoming interlocking Defenders miniseries, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Seven Things You Might Not Know About the Nintendo 64

You’ve seen the famous Christmas video. You know how important Super Mario 64 is to the design history of video games. But there are a few other nuggets of information about the Nintendo 64 that you may not know. Let’s learn, shall we? In the latest stop-motion retrospective from VSauce3, the beloved Nintendo console in…

Fan-Made Marvel vs. DC Movie Fight Will Only Happen in Your Dreams

Some people have hated the times when the world’s biggest superhero companies have crossed over with each other. Me? I’ve always loved DC vs. Marvel events. It’s a shame nothing like, say, Superman vs. Spider-Man will almost certainly ever happen on movie or TV screens. Superhero movies cost too much for anything like a movie…

A Look Back At The Year In First-Person Video Games

Remember that horrible-looking Rambo FPS? Seems like so long ago, right? But it came out this year. A shaky start, but things got better from there. Thank God. This retrospective by YouTuber Gggmanlives isn’t all-encompassing but manages to hit most of the highlights and regrettable lows of the past year’s hands-centric releases. Sure, you may…

Spider-Woman Gets Her First Costume Change in Decades

Ever since her debut in 1977, Jessica Drew’s superhero costume has looked pretty much the same, despite a few tweaks over the decades: a tight red unitard with yellow accents and big webs stretching from arms to legs. But Spider-Woman’s got an all-new look coming soon and it’s radically different. The new Spider-Woman costume got…

Evan’s Top Ten Games of 2014

There are surprises every year in video games and 2014 was no exception. Some of the surprises from the last twelve months were good enough, for me, to stand head and shoulders above everything else that came out. What shocked me about my favorite 2014 games? How about the fact that the Nintendo-exclusive Bayonetta 2…

Street Fighter’s Blanka Is a Monster at Trolling Other Video Games

First, he romped through the real world, making people’s lives miserable. Now, he’s showing up in Dishonored, Minecraft and a few other virtual locales to screw things up. Damn you, Blanka. This clever video by Street Troller switches up the formula established by older Blanka trolling clips and plops the green-skinned World Warrior into other…

Uncharted 4 Could Look Better, Says Photographer

Most people probably looked at the first footage of Nathan Drake’s next adventure and were impressed by how Uncharted 4 looked. Not photographer Adam Myhill. He thinks the lighting in A Thief’s End could be improved. And went ahead and showed how it could happen. Myhill’s a guy who’s worked as a lighter, photographer and…

The Binding Of Isaac Gets A Freaky Fake Movie Trailer

The brutally tough Binding of Isaac is a game that manages to be extremely disturbing, despite having a cartoony art style. Now, it’s gotten a very creepy tribute in a fake cinematic teaser that will almost certainly give some folks nightmares. Done by YouTuber bloodrunsclear, this trailer for a Binding of Isaac film that doesn’t…

Here’s What GTA Online‘s Heists Will Look Like

Good news: Rockstar’s showing a look at the online heists GTA V players have been waiting for. Bad news: there’s still no release date, with only a broad time period of early 2015 mentioned. IGN has a video trailer that previews some of the action that will be included in the multiplayer variants of GTA…

Good Job, Cosplayers. The Hobbit Effects Creators Are Impressed.

Most cosplayers do their costume-making several degrees of separation away from the professional designers who create the big-budget looks they emulate. So they don’t get the chance to hear what the concept artists and visual effects maestros think of fan-made work. But, some of the folks who’ve worked on the Hobbit movies recently got to…

You Don’t Need Water to Swim in Far Cry 4

Today’s Highlight Reel shines the spotlight on enemies who show up out of nowhere, bad guys with invincible leg anatomy and a weirder-than-normal GTA V car-jacking. I shat my pants – DayZ – Emil Bergman Ankles of steel – JollyFellow93 Dat Payback – Brekk1e He wouldn’t let me pass like a gentleman – Mork Games…

25 years ago, Hollywood tried to make the Nintendo Power Glove look cool. Today’s the 25th anniversary of The Wizard, the movie that was essentially a big commercial for Nintendo where Super Mario Bros. 3 was revealed to the world.

DmC—the 2013 reboot of Devil May Cry—is getting an improved, new-gen edition next year. Upgrades include an beefier framerate, enhanced graphics and tougher difficulties, along with all DLC bundled in with the March 17 release. More details here