During Bethesda’s E3 show earlier tonight, there was a cute video starring Keegan-Michael Key about Skyrim coming to Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant. We all chuckled and got on with our lives, because Key is a comedian and that would be a stupid game. And yet here we are, a few hours later, and you can…
In 99% of instances, Twitter is a waking hellscape. But sometimes there is room for joy, even if it comes in the form of video game localisation announcements. 2008’s Tales of Vesperia was released worldwide on the Xbox 360. One year later, it was also ported to the PS3, but that version—enhanced with more voice-acting…
Bethesda’s Todd Howard just announced on stage at E3 that the company’s next big singleplayer RPG is an all-new story set in an all-new universe. Here’s a very brief trailer: Your guess as to what it’s all about is as good as mine. Interestingly, he also described it as a “next generation” game. Maybe it’s…
After a couple of teases and some inside information, we just got our first real look at Fallout 76, an upcoming survival RPG from Bethesda. As we told you last month, this isn’t a traditional Fallout adventure. While in the most immediate sense it looks like one, with its iconic visual style and first-person perspective,…
It’s been years since we got a good skateboarding game, and that fact—coupled with some runaway hope—led fans to expect a Skate 4 announcement at E3 this week. And for a brief few seconds, they thought they’d actually got one. Despite not being mentioned during EA’s E3 press conference, here’s the scene before Microsoft’s show…
Tunic, which was shown at last year’s E3, is back again and it still looks cute as hell. Imagine old Zelda games, only you’re a fox.
Michael Broussard is a concept artist and illustrator who has worked at companies like Telltale and Rocksteady. You can see more of Michael’s work at his ArtStationand personalsites. To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in the top-left corner. Fine Art is a celebration of the work of video…
There’s a fourth Just Cause game on the way. It was probably due to be announced next week at E3, but people logging onto Steam right now are getting preorder ads for it a little early. Here’s the full ad I was just served: Clicking for details doesn’t reveal any additional information or take you…
Minecraft has been big business for Mojang and Microsoft, but they’re not the only ones making money off a game that’s almost ten years old. There are others who have grown up with the game, learned its strengths and weaknesses and now found opportunities to make a living doing what they love. 20 year-old Florian…
This pair of mods, with Mario replacing Link and Bowser replacing a Hinox, brings one of Nintendo’s oldest battles to one of its newest classics. Bowser is by lynard killer, while Mario is by WilianZilv And for something similar, here’s a straight Fire Mario vs Bowser: Thanks Marc!
Generation Zero is the next game from Just Cause developers Avalanche Studios, and its setting will look familiar to anyone who is down with the sci-fi work of Simon Stålenhag. He’s an artist who has made a name for himself with haunting images of a retro Swedish countryside dotted with alien robots, and we’ve featured…
Track: The Beigeness | Artist: Kate Tempest | Album: The Beigeness Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.
If you have any questions about the future, E3’s official Twitter account has been there, seen it and is reporting back.
It’s that time of year again, when the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) and the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS) announce a range of pieces for their Into the Pixel exhibition, a collection of some of the best concept and promotional art in video games. A total of 16 works have been chosen this…
Your “port everything to the Switch” jokes might soon extend to board games as well, with publishing giant Asmodee announcing that the classic Carcassonne is headed to Nintendo’s latest console. It’s not the first board game to appear on the system—who could forget Monopoly—but Carcassonne is important for a couple of reasons. For starters, it’s…
RodPa715 has gone to the trouble of recreating Fortnite’s entire Battle Royale map in Cities Skylines
Nargais one of the best cosplayers on the planet, especially when it comes to Blizzard games. This is her latest shoot, based on WarCraft’s Battle for Lordaeron. Nargais cosplaying here as the Alliance’s Jaina Proudmoore, and made the entire outfit and props herself. All photos by kmitenkova You might remember Narga from last year’s WoW…
Kirk didn’t much care for Detroit in his review of the game, but I still thought the game’s vision of the near future was interesting enough to take a look at in tonight’s Fine Art Below, you’ll find a showcase of pieces that went into Detroit’s development from a range of artists-some of them working…
NBA 2K19 has a long way to go to make good on 2K18’s many missteps. One area it looks to have already improved on, though, is the game’s cover. For the second year running, a Cleveland Cavalier will be on the front of the biggest basketball game on the planet. But this time, you can’t…
Dark Souls not dark enough for you? Try this. Via PC Gamer, Pure Darkness is a mod for the PC version of the game that takes the Tomb of the Giants’ lighting effects and applies them to the entire game. Made by Notaprofi, it might seem like it makes the game—especially boss fights—impossible to beat,…
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