Evan Narcisse

Gearbox’s Next Big Game Is Going to Be Very Different from Borderlands

It was the guns that did it for the Borderlands games, wasn’t it? Thousands, millions, umpty-trillions of weapons to find, collect and love more than some actual flesh-and-blood human beings. Well, in Battleborn, the people who made those games want to do for characters what they did for guns in Borderlands That’s not to say…

​Grant Morrison’s The Multiversity Remixes What Makes DC Comics Great

Earlier this year, Marvel Comics debuted new variants of their Captain America and Thor characters. The new Captain America is a black man and the new Thor is a warrior woman. Those changes made a lot of fans upset. But comics legend Grant Morrison is featuring a black Superman and loads of racially diversified, gender-swapped…

After Learning to Make Video Games, What Comes Next

You’re going to want to keep track of six video games coming from New York University’s Game Center. One of them might be a spiritual successor to the hit PlayStation 3 game Journey and another one is on track to be a great multiplayer game that blends elements of starship game FTL with Star Control…

Murasaki Baby: The Kotaku Review

I have a three-year-old daughter. I probably shouldn’t be playing Murasaki Baby, a game which is, in essence, about leading a toddler girl into and out of danger. But, like fatherhood, I volunteered for this responsibility. The dangers here are metaphorical and not physical, yet Murasaki Baby feels all the more disturbing for it. It’s…

​Somehow, Somebody Transformed Trials Fusion into Donkey Kong

How? How this is possible? Last time I saw anything retro-centric in the latest version of Ubisoft’s super-tough motocross game, it was an homage to old-school games of yore. That was cool. But this—an incredibly accurate remake of the first Donkey Kong—is insane. It’s the work of track creator PATI-I, who nails the look of…

President Obama Showed Up in Smash Bros. Today

POTUS vs Samus. The Commander-in-Chief vs. the galaxy’s most feared bounty hunter. Who wins? Let’s watch. A Mii character done up as Barack Obama showed during the Smash Bros. portion of today’s mega-long Nintendo Treehouse livestream. The armored Obama—who looked like a gunner specialization—faced off against Dark Samus. For a while, POTUS appeared like he…

​Let’s Examine Grand Theft Auto V‘s New-Gen Trailer

We finally know when the PS4, Xbox One and PC versions ofGTA V will be coming out. Here’s a look at the souped-up open-world game in action. Better visuals are one thing but this upcoming version of GTA V will also be adding new vehicles, weapons and activities to the already-packed virtual city of Los…

Leaked Video Shows Kinect-Controlled Gears of War Strategy Game

Rumors of a Kinect-centric Gears of War game had been circulating for years after Microsoft introduced the motion-control sensor to the world. One game called Gears of War: Exile was confirmed as cancelled two years ago. But, what looks like footage of another gesture-based Gears game has surfaced. It… it doesn’t look good. Embedded in…

Beautiful Video Game Environments Get a Book That’s Just As Pretty

Walking through a well-designed landscape can be the best part of some video games. Great gameworlds can amplify the dread, excitement or sadness you’re meant to feel while playing. Some of the very best have been collected in a student-made book that’s just as pretty. Created by a trio of German design students, New Eden…

Here’s What The New Batmobile Looks Like

Another movie with Batman in it, another re-design for the Batmobile. This one looks like something halfway between a car and a tank. With filming underway for Batman v Superman, director Zack Snyder unveiled the Bat-car that Bruce Wayne will be driving in the upcoming DC Comics/Warner Bros. movie. This doesn’t look anything like the…

Pro Gamer Teaches You How To Shoot Better

It’s easy to think that the people who play video games for a living are just lucky enough to have fast reflexes that make them good. But, pro players study the games they excel at from every possible angle. Here’s what it looks like when a top-level player explains the best way to aim and…

Grant Morrison’s New Sci-Fi Comic Is About How F***ed-Up Hollywood Is

Grant Morrison writes weird comics. Comics filled with streets that talk, a Joker that squeezes Batman’s ass and a Superman who saves the universe by singing to it. Some of those lovingly bizarre ideas get pulled from his own life and experiences. But the head-trip material from his newest stuff comes from this reality’s nexus…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Five Games to Keep an Eye On • Everything We Know About The New 3DS So Far • Destiny: Who’s Playing?? TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

A Good Game for Griefing

Playing IDARB made me feel a tiny, tiny little bit like a NBA player at the free throw line when fans are trying to mess with his focus. Except, in this case, what they did gave me diarrhea. On its face, IDARB—short for It Draws a Red Box—is a super-simple action/sports/platforming hybrid where up to…

Returning to Middle-earth is going to take a little longer for Xbox 360 and PS3 owners. It’s just been announced that the release date for last-gen versions of Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor has shifted to November 18 (November 21 for Europe). PS4 and Xbox One versions will still be coming out on September 30 (October…

U.S. Military Using Xbox 360 Controller For New Laser Gun

Controlling military hardware with video game input devices isn’t new. Drones, bomb defusal robots and other battlefield equipment have steered by Xbox 360 gamepads for a while now. But the newest weapon using a Microsoft-made controller might be one of the most powerful ones yet. It’s a laser on top of a truck that shoots…

You Just Can’t Trust Puzzle Games Anymore

I saw two inventive, perception-centric games at PAX last week that got me thinking about how much we take for granted when playing games in a first-person perspective. In one of them, you’re playing as someone who think he’s a god. In the other, you’re getting yelled at by one. Both of them challenge you…

A Quirky Take on Turn-Based Strategy

The Behemoth makes games that are infamous for challenging players’ reflexes. But the next game from the indie dev studio slows things down a bit, putting the emphasis on planning instead of speed. Alien Hominid had players jumping and shooting through a brutally tough 2D side-scroller. Castle Crashers‘ co-op brawling put a premium on fast…

​Hell Is Like a Disney Musical In Saints Row IV‘s Expansion

Last time out, the Saints Row series went crotch-first into superhero sci-fi territory. Now, its newest expansion Gat Out of Hell is going the occult horror route. But the game’s creative director Steve Jaros says you don’t to worry about them “shitting out variants” to the open-world franchise. I spoke with Jaros last week after…

A Video Game About How People Actually Talk to Each Other

Imagine being lonely. Not ‘no dates for a year’ kind of lonely. No, we’re talking no physical human contact for days on end, with only a voice on the phone for company. Then, things start to get tense. Trust erodes. What would that do you? Firewatch aims to find out. The indie game is coming…