I played 20 minutes of Paradox’s new city builder, Surviving Mars, at E3. The demo showed off different phases of planet colonization, from early moments establishing a livable area to later on, when I had multiple inhabited domes to work with. The game draws on real-world science and seems complex. If, however, you want more…

Pillars of Eternity Comes To PS4 And Xbox One

Pillars of Eternity is coming to consoles, following in the footsteps of other big isometric role-playing games like Torment and Divinity. It’ll be out for PS4 and Xbox One on August 29. I got to play a brief demo of the PS4 version at E3 last week, and the new user interface seems like a…

“PPAP” Singer Now Doing Layton’s Mystery Journey Puzzles

The Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen guy is doing puzzles to mark the upcoming release of Layton’s Mystery Journey: Katrielle and the Millionaire’s Conspiracy. This particular one seems kind of tricky! Can you figure it out? The iOS and Android versions of Layton’s Mystery Journey will be released worldwide on July 20. It will hit the 3DS this fall.…

Fallout 4 Modder Makes Joke ‘Creation Club’ That Spits Out Random Items

Bethesda’s Creation Club is a new program that’ll allow select development teams and modders to develop, polish, and release Fallout 4 and Skyrim content alongside Todd Howard’s magical toy factory. Modder CDante’s “Creation Club” is a different kind of club entirely. A golf club. CDante’s new Fallout 4 mod The Creation Club adds a golf…

A Very Detailed Look Inside Finn & Jake’s House From Adventure Time

Max Degtyarev is an artist from Russia who specialises in cutaways, my most sacred of artistic fetishes. One of his latest works is Adventure Time’s Tree Fort, and it brings a ridiculously detailed and realistic vision to the cartoon universe. Below you’ll see not just the full illustration, but some detail shots as well showing…

Elite‘s Aliens Will Be A Nightmare To Fight

Since 2015, Elite Dangerous players have felt some kind of alien presence hovering on the periphery of their space trucking adventures. Recently, things came to a head, with players making direct contact with Thargoid ships on multiple occasions. Where is this all going? I spoke with senior designer Sandy Sammarco during E3 to find out.…

Heather is back from E3 and ready to beat up more bosses in the sci-fi Souls-like The Surge. Watch her totally not die live on Twitch

Huh, Black Mesa Is Still Not Finished

I played Half-Life remake Black Mesa, and really liked it! I also in the intervening years completely forgot that it wasn’t technically finished, since it ended on Earth and not, as the original game did, on the alien planet Xen. That’s because Black Mesa’s developers thought, like the rest of us, that Valve’s ending sequence…

After Three Years, Someone Actually Beat Threes

Oh, you thought Threes was just an endless little time-waster for subway rides and long lines? Turns out you can actually beat the game, a feat accomplished for the first time a mere three years and four months after Threes was first released. Or, to be more precise, as Threes co-creator Greg Wohlwend points out,…

Call of Duty: WWII Bringing Big Changes To Multiplayer

With Call of Duty: WWII, Activision is making some significant changes to the series’ multiplayer mode, including new social features and a complete overhaul of the perks and class systems. During livestreams and panel discussions at E3 last week, developers from Sledgehammer Games went into detail about the changes that the studio has made for…

Point: Helix From Arms Is Bad; Counter-Point: No He’s Not

Here at Kotaku, we have strong opinions about video games. Currently, Arms’ DNA-themed fighter threatens to tear this snack website apart. Helix is Arms’ gooey fighter whose signature “Blorb” arms squirt blinding goo on opponents’ faces. Depending on who you ask, Helix is either a lovable snot ball with tons of competitive potential or a…

Twitch Is Now The Only Third-Party Place To Watch Blizzard Tournaments

Video streaming platform Twitch announced a two-year collaboration with Blizzard Entertainment today, where the service will receive exclusive third-party streaming rights to tournaments like the Heroes of the Storm Global Championship and Overwatch APEX League. As esports continues to expand, securing broadcast rights will start to become a growing contest in the industry. Much like…

Pillars of Eternity II Lets You Run Your Own Pirate Ship

The second Pillars of Eternity is aiming to be the Baldur’s Gate II to Pillars of Eternity’s Baldur’s Gate. And if that line makes no sense to you, here’s another selling point: It’ll let you helm your own pirate ship. Last week at E3, I watched a brief demo of Pillars of Eternity II and…

Nice Cosplay, Texas

A-Kon, a convention in Texas that attracts over 30,000 fans, was held between June 8-11 at the Fort Worth Convention Centre. Here’s some of the best cosplay in attendance. Both the video and photos below were shot by Mineralblu, and you can see more shots from A-Kon at his Facebook page

Darkest Dungeon‘s DLC Adds More Awesome Bad Times For Your Party

The new Darkest Dungeon DLC, The Crimson Court, tacks a couple more stressful mechanics on top of an already stressful game. I love it. Darkest Dungeon is a game about losing—you will lose all your party members as they explore dungeons, they will all lose their sanity, and you will lose the game. Despite being…