Artists Explore NES History Through Animated GIFs

More than 40 artists from around the world come together for Back to Bits, a curated art project exploring video game history via a series of gorgeous animated GIFs. You’ll probably want to save them all. In the first installment of the ongoing series, artists capture the essence of NES classics from the ‘80s and…

FBI Says Alleged Hackers Used FIFA To Steal Millions From EA

The FBI believes that a group of hackers made millions off a scam to defraud the publisher Electronic Arts, and today the government is going to court to try to take them down. This morning in Texas, defendant Anthony Clark will go on trial for conspiracy to commit wire fraud after allegedly working with three…

That Is A Big-Ass Turtle

MOOD, the same guys behind the very successful Fall of Gods (and who have worked on games like Hitman) are back with another “cinematic novel”, this one called Brimstone They call these things a “crossover between written novel and gorgeous concept art from movies”, combining page after page of big, high quality art with a…

Let’s Watch A PS4 Pro Get Taken Apart

I’m a lot more interested in seeing a PS4 Pro be slowly dismantled on camera than I amin ever going out and buying one I mean, there’s no higher scientific or consumer point to this beyond getting a look at some basic stuff like popping the top off, but seeing all those panels and screws…

Ten Years Ago Sonic The Hedgehog Was At Its Worst

On November 14, 2006 Sega celebrated the 15th anniversary of Sonic the Hedgehog with a 3D adventure marred by unfinished ideas, a convoluted storyline, sloppy mechanics and horrendous loading times. And they sealed it with a kiss. Sonic the Hedgehog’s official title was revealed at E3 2005 by series creator Yuji Naka, the last remaining…

Japan Now Has Sushi Burgers

You know, like, hamburgers with sushi in them. Yummy? As pointed out by Otakomu and Entabe, Japanese sushi restaurant Sushiro is offering what it’s calling the “Saba Burger.” “Saba” is mackerel, and the burger is filled with said fish, sushi vinegar rice, and shiso. So yeah, it’s shime-saba nigirizushi, or cured mackerel hand-pressed sushi, slapped…

Watch Dogs 2’s Fake Ubisoft Employees Aren’t Psyched About Assassin’s Creed Leaks

Watch Dogs 2 takes place in a fictionalized version of San Francisco that occasionally cuts pretty close to the real world. For example, there’s a Ubisoft marketing director in the game who is not happy about Assassin’s Creed games being leaked to the press. As you’re exploring Stanford University in the game, you come across a…

Hayao Miyazaki Is Still A Hard-Ass 

Think Hayao Miyazaki has gone soft in his old age? Nope. As our colleagues at io9 reported, Miyazaki is keen to come out of semi-retirement to make one last feature film. Back in 2013, he officially announced that he would no longer make full-length movies. Since then, he’s worked on other projects, including a short…

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Old Elder Scrolls Game Takes Over 60 Hours To Walk Across

For those playing (or re-playing) Skyrim right now and thinking, gee, this sure is a big game world, remember: for 1996’s Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall, Bethesda weren’t feeling quite so constrained Recalling that it’s one of the biggest game maps ever made, How Big is the Map? decided to do his thing and walk from…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Mask-uerading

What can I say? Dishonored 2 has me at a bit of a loss honestly. Watching Corvo don the mask again simply didn’t have the same effect on me as it did in the first game. In fact, it felt kind of…ridiculous? I mean, after murdering that many people and more or less completely changing…

The Week In Games: Who Watches The Watch Dogs?

Only in the glorious and all-too-bizarre world of video games could something be named Watch Dogs, and then eventually get a sequel called Watch Dogs 2 I guess it’s not altogether different from calling your movie Must Love Dogs, a phrase which, out of context, makes no sense and left me feeling more than a…

Did Ubisoft Sneak A New Game Announcement Inside Watch Dogs 2?

In Watch Dogs 2, there’s a mission about stealing a video game trailer from an in-game version of Ubisoft. With WD2 almost out, footage from that trailer has leaked online, and we’re wondering… is it actually a real game? I mean, my first thought watching this was: I would actually play this. Those spaceships, that…

The NES Classic Carries Over Classic Glitches

If you were one of the few people lucky enough to get your hands on the recently released NES Classic, than you’ve probably already been relishing its retro aesthetic and extensive library, even as you curse its short controller cords But what you might have forgotten is that, because the NES Classic simply acts as…

Shaq’s Rocket League Team Wins North American Championship

Yesterday evening, NRG eSports took a best-of-seven series 4-2 against rivals Orbit eSports to become the North American Rocket League champions. The win cemented their bid for top-place seeding at the global championship later this fall in Amsterdam, as well as earned them $13,500 for their talents at using rocket-propelled cars to smash giant inflated…