Taco Bell Made A Taco Out Of A Fried Egg, And It Is Delicious

Taco Bell continues its grand tradition of wrapping things that are not tortilla shells around other things and calling them tacos with the Naked Egg Breakfast Taco. It’s a shimmering wonderland of breakfast grease, wrapped in a very firm fried egg. The Naked Egg Taco is part of Taco Bell’s continuing efforts to get people…

Heat Signature Is A Thrilling Game About Spaceship Heists

Heat Signature’s clock is ticking. Ten seconds until I get detected in an enemy spaceship, and I haven’t even assassinated my target. Finally, I find them. It’s over in one cruel slice of my long blade, but the timer is still counting down, and the ship is a labyrinthine hulk. I run. I see a…

Here Is A Thing That Happens In Destiny 2

Destiny 2, a video game in which players travel through space trying not to get their raids ruined by glitches, is full of fun easter eggs. Here’s one of them. Spoilers for Destiny 2‘s main campaign follow — don’t watch the video unless you want to be spoiled: Sometimes, you see enjoyable things in video games…

Student’s Overwatch Concept Art Is So Good, Even Blizzard Is Talking About It

One Thai computer art student gave the Overwatch community something we didn’t even know we wanted, and now, a lot of us want it very badly. Yesterday, student who goes by RM-Parfait posted a concept design (a project for her Master’s) for a Thai support hero on the Overwatch forumsand, in response, fans begged the Overwatch team…

The Worst Strategy Guide Ever Made

Pop quiz: does the name “PlayOnline” make your blood boil, or at least cause one of your eyes to start twitching? No? Lucky you. If it does, you might be familiar with the worst strategy guide in video game history. This article was originally published in May 2015. We’ve bumped it and edited it for…

How Akira Toriyama Designed Android 21

As recently revealed, Dragon Ball FighterZ has an original fighter called Android 21. Even though the character was created by Namco Bandai for the game, the company explained how the character was designed by Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama. While at Namco Bandai earlier this week in Tokyo, Kotaku participated in a roundtable discussion with…

The Booths Of The Tokyo Game Show 2017

The Tokyo Game Show is underway! Today is the first business day, which means the show isn’t yet open to the general public. The masses of people won’t arrive until Saturday, giving us unobstructed views of the booths. Sony’s and Square Enix’s booths are among the biggest. Capcom’s, as usual, is a standout.  

Here’s the Japanese special edition for Secret of Mana As you can see, it is pretty hot shit. You got your game, your soundtrack, figurines of the three characters, and then a freaking pop-up book with the Mana tree, so you can set the figures next to the tree and recreate the game’s iconic cover…

Game Of Thrones Has Some Beautiful Paintings In The Background

Game of Thrones is shot in some pretty exotic locations, and also has some great CG work, but not everything you see on the screen is a mix of real life and computer wizardry. There’s still room for good old-fashioned matte painting when it comes to the scenic backdrops. Artist Simone De Salvatore has shared…

The latest issue of Heterotopias, a very cool magazine about video games and architecture, is out on September 22. It’s got pieces on bathrooms and Mirror’s Edge Catalyst, among other things.

As you get off the train for Tokyo Game Show, you’re greeted by the main characters of every Final Fantasy. It’s an ad for a 30th anniversary art exhibition starting in January here in Tokyo. I went up and down stairs until I found Terra and Bartz. (Well, Tina and Butz.)

Working For Nintendo Used To Be Hell, But At Least We Got Cool Music Out Of It

Super Metroid has one of the most famous themes in video games. If you’ve ever wondered where it came from, you’ve got the nightmarish working conditions of 1990s video game development (and some impromptu one-man karaoke) to thank for it. In an interview on Nintendo’s site, Composer Kenji Yamamoto remembers that during the development of…