My New Alarm Wakes Me Up With Mini Games And It Works, But At What Cost

I’ve been having trouble waking up on time recently, so I downloaded a new alarm for my phone that makes me play a mini game before it turns off. It’s the best and worst decision I have ever made. I have no idea why I don’t have any energy right now, but I’ve been sleeping…

Blue Sky Mining

Chris McCabe is a concept artist and designer based in the UK. You can see more of Chris’ work at his personal site

Windows Will No Longer Interrupt Your Games To Annoy You About Updates

We’ve all been there: you’re in the zone with a game—so dialed in that you can practically smell the body odor of the man you just kicked off a cliff—but then, suddenly, it’s gone. Windows has decided it’s update time, and also that you can go fuck yourself. Mercifully, that problem is now history. The…

Danganronpa, Zero Escape Creators Team Up For A New Murder Game

The writer-directors behind Zero Escape and Danganronpa have formed their own studio and are teaming up to create another game about school kids and murders. Fans of both series will likely want to check out Death March Club—especially since the developers don’t think their former employer will continue their old series without them. Danganronpa’s Kazutaka…

Dance Dance Revolution Helps Man Lose 125 Pounds

In 2012, Xopher (as he’s known among the dance game community) was told by a doctor that if he didn’t lose weight, he’d be needing a heart transplant. So began an intensive and life-saving exercise program built around the arcade game series Dance Dance Revolution Growing up in central Arkansas, Xopher has struggled with obesity…

Telltale Is Looking For Another Company To Hire Its Staff To Finish The Walking Dead, Sources Say

Two weeks after Telltale Games laid off the bulk of its staff, the fate of the four-episode final season of the popular The Walking Dead series remains in question. Behind closed doors, the company continues to work on a deal that would provide for the third and fourth episodes to be finished by another company…

The Waves In Assassin’s Creed Odyssey Crash Beautifully

We at Kotaku have been known to gawk at a video game wave or two. We therefore can’t help but marvel at what’s crashing on the shores in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey. Look at these waves, people. In open-world games, you often have to assume the graphics will be decent but not quite what you’ll get…

J.K. Rowling Needs To Stop Messing With Harry Potter

I grew up reading Harry Potter, and it shaped my life to the extent that I have a Deathly Hallows tattoo. As an adult, I wish J.K. Rowling would just me enjoy her books in peace. Harry Potter hit me at just the right age—namely, ten, when I still had time to hope that I’d…

In Space Channel 5 and Dragon Quest VR, The Hero Is You

When I was in sixth grade, my best friend at the time penned a short story for a school assignment that was titled “The Video Game That Sucked Me Into It.” We did not have the lingo of “self-insert fanfiction” or “Mary Sue” at the time—I’m pretty sure neither of us even had an America…

$160 He-Man Figures Are For Grown-Up Masters Of The Universe

Standing 12 inches tall and weighing four pounds, Mondo’s new line of 1/6 scale Masters of the Universe toys are just as impressive now as the originals were back when I was a kid. If you have $160 to spare, you can have the power. When He-Man and friends first hit the toy scene back…

The Good And Bad Of Red Dead Redemption‘s Multiplayer

Before GTA Online, Rockstar Games took a few stabs at online multiplayer within their open world games. Red Dead Redemption for Xbox 360 and PS3 was a big step beyond what was accomplished in GTA IV’s multiplayer. In many ways RDR multiplayer feels like a prototype for GTA Online. With Red Dead Redemption 2 coming…

Armello Is Great On Switch, If You Can Read The Tiny Text

A sublime combination of fantasy board game and card game, League of Geek’s Armello has been one of my go-to competitive strategy joints since it first hit the scene back in 2015. Now it’s on the Nintendo Switch, and while my love remains strong, my eyes can’t quite handle the tiny text of handheld mode.…

Twisting mobile strategy masterpiece Euclidean Lands scores a sequel later this month called Euclidean Skies Creator Miro Straka has teamed up with developer Kunabi Brother to create puzzles that not only rotate but also unfold, allowing for multiple solutions. It’s due out on iOS on October 25. 

Artificial Intelligence Gets Good At Creating Anime Girls

The types of anime-style characters artificial intelligence was making in 2015 weren’t good. But now in 2018, the machines have improved. A lot. As Twitter user Yoshiwo Konogi points out, it’s amazing at how good AI has gotten at this type of art. Have a look below: Earlier this year, the deep learning AI character…

Inside Riot Games’ New League Of Legends Stadium In South Korea

This is LoL Park. Located in Seoul, it’s a brand new esports arena for Legend of Legends. It’s very cool, so let’s check it out. As Inven reports, LoL Park also has a Riot shop, a cafe, a 24-hour PC bang, a commemorative hall with the pro jersey and 3D printed figures of players, a…