Well. This is one of the weirdest things we’ve heard in a long time. If you’ve missed it, Sony Pictures – the company’s movie studio business – was recentlyhacked. The contents of what was obtained from the breach are still being sifted through, but according to a report on Buzzfeed, there’s a secret business deal…
The act of “swatting”, or sending armed police to somebody’s house as a prank, is up there with about the dumbest things you can do. So when police in Canada and Florida got a chance to actually arrest someone suspected of faking a school shooting, they went right after him. A 17 year-old Canadian (pictured…
Carlos Nuñez de Castro Torres is a Spanish concept artist and illustrator who has most recently worked on the Castlevania: Lords Of Shadow series. Would it have been that hard for the designers on Michael Bay’s Transformers movies to do something like this? This Starscream has some of the organic complexity they went for, but…
VaultOfTheSixturned 30 last month, and to celebrate he turned his entire basement into one of the Vaults from the Fallout series. Yes, there was cosplay, and yes, there was cake. The rolling door to greet guests is a nice touch, but it’s the TUNNEL SNAKES RULE graffiti that’s just the best. Guests even got to…
Yeah, there’s a HD remake of Halo on the Xbox, but let’s not forget, Bungie’s classic shooter was also released on the PC. So fans have stepped in to do what Microsoft won’t, and update the game with more contemporary visuals. We first wrote about this mod/overhaul over a yearago (which is transferring the game…
Keenly aware that people’s Steam accounts are filling up with garbage – like cards and emoticons – Valve is giving people a chance to pulp them and turn them into what are essentially Steam Bucks. And then use them to bid on real games. It’s called the Steam Holiday Auction, and works like this: This…
The PS4’s reign as the best-selling next-gen console is over. At least for one month. Having ditched Kinect, cut the priceand aggressively bundled its console in the lead-up to the holiday season, Microsoft has announced that during November the Xbox One finally outsold the PS4 in the US. By how much we don’t know, but…
This week, classic PC shooter Doom turned 21. So if you see someone in green slide up next to you at a bar and scream RIP AND TEAR, buy the guy a drink. To celebrate, John Romero, one of the key figures involved in the creation of the game, shared a ton of artwork from…
Track: [NSFW] | Artist: Love Sex Machine | Album: Love Sex Machine Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.
Far Cry 4’s guns didn’t just fall into the game by accident. Someone had to build them. And one of those people was Ubisoft artist Greg Rassam. In addition to the last few Far Cry games, he’s also worked on Ubisoft series like Prince of Persia and Rainbow Six. You can see more of Greg’s…
For the last ten years, Andy Baio has been performing an experiment on his son. It is equal parts cruel and fascinating. Rather than let him play whatever video game he wanted, Baio made his boy work his way to modernity by playing through the history of video games chronologically. Starting with 1979’s Galaxian. His…
David Hall makescustom LEGO minifigs. To get around copyright, he can’t call these amazing figures “Destiny” or “Star Wars” pieces, but we all know the score. And are thankful for it. The detail on the Destiny figures in particular is wonderful. The Titan – sorry, “Adversary Slayer” – is $32, but since he’s so close…
Been a while since I played Crusader Kings II. I must have missed the patch notes about this.
Michael Baxter, an Australian prison guard, has more Simpsons characters tattooed on his body than I can either remember or recognise. His entire back is covered in a collage of the cartoon’s cast, with the Simpson family themselves flanked by everyone from Guntherto Kent Brockman, who resides just above Baxter’s asscrack. The tattoo forms part…
Simon Stålenhag is a Swedish artist who has done concept art for film, commercials and video games. He’s also half of the development team behind 16-bit platformer Ripple Dot Zero You’ll notice a theme running throughout his work. Like Super 8, if Super 8 had been any good. You can see more of Simon’s work…
Video games don’t usually get into the Christmas spirit. Which is a shame! So it was nice to see that, upon reinstalling Crusader Kings II yesterday, I ran into this: a new holiday soundtrack to one of the most bloodthirstygames ever made. Seems it came out last year, as free (and optional, you can disable…
2014 was a big year in video games. Maybe not the biggest, but alongside some disappointments came some truly great games. This video covers pretty much all of them. Not all of them. If you’re a fan of Generic Indie PC Crafting Hybrid Game Still In Early Access On Steam, you might not find your…
Forget the bustedremake. Forget the cash-hungry mobile games. The best SimCity Maxis ever made is still available, and as of now it’s a free download on EA’s Origin store. I’m of course talking about SimCity 2000, the game that struck the perfect balance between accessibility and the finer tuning of city-management. More devoted fans might…
Having been in production for years, James McVinnie’s End of the Line short film has now been finished. And it’s as good as the trailershad you believe. McVinnie, who has worked at BioWare and on stuff like Black Mesa, is admittedly a little more “professional” than your average Source Filmmaker user. But whatever. What he’s…
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