California Has Become An Unstoppable Force In Let It Die‘s Multiplayer

Let It Die is full of tough enemies. Climbing the game’s massive tower is a dangerous affair. But thanks to the game’s multiplayer, there’s one monster that reigns above the rest: California. In Let It Die, players never fight each other directly. Instead, they are able to raid each other’s home base by riding the…

Horror Game Explores A Corrupted, Glitchy Video Game

When I was a child I had an inexplicable fear of opening games on my family computer. They were often my brother’s games, and I was terrified of him finding out. But also, in the brief moment of blackness before a pre-rendered video or pixelated graphic filled the screen, it wasn’t just that I feared…

The Roguelike Platformer Where Anyone Can Lose A Limb

Catacomb Kids is a mix between a roguelike and a platformer, with equal parts magic potions and goomba stomps. You can also chop body parts off pretty much everything. It’s one heck of a challenge and a damn Cool Indie Game. Game designer Tyriq Plummer wanted to do many things with Catacomb Kids. He wanted…

Pokémon Based On Inanimate Objects, Ranked

Some people will tell you that the worst Pokémon designs are the ones based on real-world items, rather than animals. Those people are wrong. Actually, some of the best creatures in the pocket monster roster are ones based on inanimate objects. The thing about inanimate object Pokémon is, you can tell Game Freak actually has…

An Uncensored Sex Game’s Difficult Journey To Steam

Ladykiller In A Bind—which Heather found to be a bold exploration of sexual experiences and perspectives—is finally coming to Steam on January 9. It’ll be fully uncensored, despite the way Valve usually handles these things. For creator Christine Love, reaching this point wasn’t easy. (Warning: this game is definitely NSFW.) Ladykiller In A Bind is…

Mass Effect: Andromeda’s new North American release date is Tuesday, March 21, 2017 for the PS4, Xbox One, and Windows PC. Europe gets it on the 23rd.

The 12 Best Video Games Of 2016

First, we spent a year playing video games. Then we spent a couple weeks debating which ones were best. Here, in alphabetical order, are Kotaku’s top 12 games of 2016. BoxBoxBoy Civilization VI Darkest Dungeon Dishonored 2 Doom Dragon Quest Builders Hitman Inside Overwatch Pokémon Sun and Moon Stardew Valley The Witness

Hallmark Says They Did Not Copy Yuri On Ice, Had No Idea What It Is

Fans of blockbuster queer ice skating anime Yuri on Ice were enraged this week because they believed an upcoming Hallmark movie,Love on Ice, copied the anime’s premise and name. On Twitter, fans called Love on Ice a “whitewashed” and “homophobic” Yuri on Ice rip-off. A Hallmark representative told Kotaku nobody on the movie’s team had…

Porn DVD In Splatoon Box Ruins Little Girl’s Christmas

In what now seems to be a sad holiday tradition, a mother in West Chester, Ohio, tried to buy her seven year-old daughter a video game for Christmas, only for her child to discover a porn DVD when she opened the box. Kristy Greider told WLWT that she bought Splatoon for her daughter at a…

A Brand-New Unofficial Vanilla World Of Warcraft Server Launches This Saturday

Havingsuccessfully resurrected the popular Nostalrius vanilla World of Warcraft servers followinglast year’s Blizzard shutdown, Project Elysium gives players a chance to take a fresh stab at old school player-versus-player with a brand new vanilla PVP server. It’s going to be so crowded. World of Warcraft has come a long way since it launched back in…

Blizzard Is Finally Nerfing Overwatch’s Roadhog

Blizzard is finally nerfing the best thing in Overwatch: Roadhog’s hook. It’s about time—despite the hook’s awesome power, it is most definitely broken. On Blizzard’s forums, Overwatch principal designer Geoff Goodman announced the details of “Hook 2.0,” soon to be released on the PTR. Players have complained for months that Roadhog’s hook defies known laws…

Custom Titanfall LEGO Is Great

There’s a lot to love about Titanfall 2, but one of the best things is the design of the game’s mechs. And while we wait for expensive action figures to hit, we can pass the time with these awesome LEGO models built by Marius Herrmann Via makers, Herrmann has recreated many of the game’s signature…

Damn, Look At These Super Nintendo Sneakers

Just as there must be balance in life, so too must there be balance in sneaker concept posts on Kotaku.com, a website that is occasionally about video games. We have had Adidas designs recently, so now we must share these very nice Jordans. They’re the work of custom sneaker specialists Freaker Sneaks (via Nicekicks), and…

Some Of 2016’s Best Cosplay In Motion

WhileI’ve already rounded up the absolute best cosplay of 2016, that was mostly a collection of static images. And I’m just one guy in Australia. Mineralbluwent to most of the big cons in the US (and some beyond), and took his video camera with him. The video below covers 14 conventions from America and Japan,…

13 Good Games You Can Play On Laptops And Low-End PCs

Sometimes you’ll find yourself out of the house, with nothing but a laptop and a whole lot of time. And while laptops are getting more and more powerful, most are still low-spec machines when it comes to gaming. But just because you’re living out of home with an integrated GPU doesn’t mean you have to…

Tiny Heist Breaks Down Stealth Games

Tiny Heist, by Terry Cavanagh (VVVVVV, Super Hexagon) is a simple but addictive little stealth game which takes some of the genre’s most established ideas and whittles them down into what feels like Metal Gear vs Pac-Man There are guards with search patterns, cameras tracking movement and locked doors, but overcoming most of these is…

It’s Wednesday Addams

Here’s Sladkoslava with some very unexpected (if also perfect) cosplay: Christina Ricci’s Wednesday from the 1991 Addams Family movie.

Civ VI’s Neo Tokyo Is About To Explode

One of the more pleasant surprises with how good Civ VI has been out of the gates has been the game’s urban planning system. Something Haphaz77 has shown off here to terrific effect. This is a game he won as Japan (over 300 turns) using a modified version of the “one city rule”, something that…

Power Grid, A Game About Big Coal (And Big Garbage)

I got around to playing the classic German board game Power Grid (aka Funkenschlag) on the weekend, and absolutely loved it. It’s a game about building and then supplying juice to a power network that stretches across the land. Every turn players first compete in auctions to buy power stations, then buy the resources (oil,…