How Some Of Game Of Thrones’ Biggest Shots Were Made

While we’ve seen some concept art from the last series of Game of Thrones, tonight I thought it’d be cool to look at some of the VFX work done on season 7. Rodeo FX, a studio with offices across the world, was tasked with coming up with some of the series’ biggest shots, from the…

Video Game Atlas Has Over 40 Maps Of Your Favourite Cities

Virtual Cities is an upcoming book by Konstantinos Dimopoulos that takes a very hard look at some of the most famous cities in video games, from GTA V’s Los Santos to Yakuza’s Kamurocho to Fallout’s New Vegas. Each city covered includes not just a big map, but also “beautiful, subtly coloured ink drawings, and in-depth…

God Of War, One Month Later

The new God of War didn’t need downloadable content or multiplayer to remain interesting throughout its first month. It had patches, easter eggs and even a big social media controversy. God of War came out on Friday, April 20, same day as Nintendo Labo, but reviews started running a week earlier. Many, including ours, were…

A Heist Game Where You Steal Pieces Of 15,000 Player-Made Levels

The Steam Workshop for Garry’s Mod—the monolithic physics sandbox that emerged from Half-Life 2—contains 15,974 maps made for all sorts of different game types and purposes. Jazztronauts is its own separate heist game, but it takes place on those maps. Yes, that means it already has nearly 16,000 levels. Jazztronauts is an upcoming free mod…

What We Liked (And Loved) About The Leftovers

Last week I was on vacation, which was a great time to catch up on some TV. Kotaku’s editor-in-chief Stephen recommended The Leftovers to me, an HBO show that finished a three season run last summer. I didn’t expect to like the show as much as I did, and now all I want to do…

One Man’s Quest To Climb To The Top Of Rust

You can do all sorts of stuff in Rust, like collect rocks, role-play as small civil societies, or more commonly just go around mugging people and stealing their clothes. And then there are the players who just want to build weird monuments just because they can. Teun Kornuit, who goes by Mr. Princess in the…

Steam Top Seller House Flipper Makes It Fun To Watch Paint Dry

Imagine if the most annoying thing about tiling your bathroom was waiting for a three-second loading bar to fill up. That’s all it takes in House Flipper, a satisfying game about being a one-man house-flipping business and one of Steam’s top-selling new releases. After taking on a few gigs cleaning up and repairing houses, the…

Street Fighter Footsies Explained In Two Minutes

Street Fighter V pro Justin Wong placed first in the Canada Cup Master Series tournament with the new character Falke, described by some pros as “the worst character in the game.” The reason Wong can succeed with Falke is due to his expert defensive play, particularly when it comes to engaging in the back-and-forth duet…

I Cry Every Time A Legendary JRPG Series Goes Mobile

Over the weekend, Square Enix held a live Star Ocean event in Japan that brought together fans of the RPG series with creators and voice actors for a day of livestreamed festivities. Fans hoping to get news on a new Star Ocean for consoles had their hopes dashed, though, as the spotlight was firmly pointed…

Some of Vine’s Most Famous Videos, Recreated In Fortnite

One intrepid Fortnite player combined the game with the greatest lost artform of our generation: Vines. It’s a masterpiece. It was really only a matter of time until Vine and Fortnite came together. Vines as a platform hosted often hilarious and irreverent six second videos, and although the platform closed in January 2017, these jokes…

Unhewn Throne Is One Of The Best Fantasy Series I’ve Ever Read

I have read many fantasy books over the years, many of them mediocre, and few as captivating as George R.R. Martin’s now-ubiquitous A Song of Ice and Fire. So it was refreshing and thrilling to discover a trilogy that’s nearly as good: Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne, one of the best fantasy book series I’ve…

Overwatch Fans Love Moira And Symmetra’s New Looks

As the Overwatch Anniversary skins and emotes trickle out, fans are getting hyped over a few specific ones. Moira’s new dance emote and Symmetra’s magician skin are sending the fandom into a whirlwind of jokes and fanart. Moira’s dance emote was leaked over the weekend. Whether or not it’s real, Overwatch fans find the idea…

I Enjoyed The New Devil May Cry Even More By Waiting A Few Years To Play It

I’m a big fan of action games, and the cream of the crop is Devil May Cry. The series has always had the right mix of tricky combo creation and carefree fun. When developer Ninja Theory reimagined the series in 2013’s DmC: Devil May Cry, an anarchic mood and redesigned Dante upset some fans, including…

Pokémon Go will get Sun and Moon’s Alolan forms, Niantic announced today No release date yet, but the devs say you can expect an update holding the new variety of monsters within the next couple of weeks.

The Week In Games: Mega Man And Other Androids

There’s a wide variety of games out this week, from art puzzler Gorogoa to a set of Mega Man collections to the much-anticipated Dark Souls Remastered This week continues the trend of taking old games and putting them on contemporary platforms. Dark Souls Remastered, the Mega Man Legacy collections, and even an enhanced Space Hulk…

A Look Inside The Hello Kitty Bullet Train 

Previously, Kotaku reported that Japan is getting a Hello Kitty bullet train. All we saw was the outside. Now, we get concept art showing what inside the train looks like. The train will begin service between Osaka and Hakata on June 30. The train’s first car is called “Hello! Plaza!” and features a Hello Kitty…

Hayao Miyazaki Is The Toughest Critic 

Make no mistake. Hayao Miyazaki of Studio Ghibli fame doesn’t seem easy to please—even if you are his son. Rather, especially if you are his son. Stills from the documentary How Ponyo Was Born have circulated online in Japan. The documentary is not new, and the images are from the sequence in which Hayao Miyazaki…

Japanese Maid Outfits, A Serious Look 

Artist Ray Tatsumi has done an exhaustive in-depth study of Japanese maid outfits, tracing their origins from the UK and the USA. Tatsumi has been working on this chart for a while, and here is the third version: At the top right, you can see how maid outfits originate in the UK, but by the…