Folks, the Kinect lives! A new platformer called Fru just came out for the Xbox One’s motion sensor. It uses the sensor in a really clever way, as your body affects the layout of the 2D platformer. Take a look. This might be one of the last Kinect games, but could also be one of…
I’ve been a fan of South Park for nearly 20 years. I’ve watched every episode, played every game, and at one point even dug up a copy of series co-creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s first movie, Cannibal: The Musical (unexpectedly good!). In other words, you’d think they wouldn’t be able to keep surprising me.…
Nintendo released Super Smash Bros. Melee 15 years ago on a console that sold less than its competitors, the PlayStation 2 and the Xbox. In 2001, and even in 2005, I would not have believed God if he told me that Melee will draw 2,372 entrants to this weekend’s Evolution Championship Series (EVO) 2016 in…
The tensions between the modding community and Bethesda continue to rise this week, with a prominent modder claiming that the developers took heavy inspiration from his Fallout: New Vegas mod without giving him any credit. On October 2015, BaronVonChateau released a major Fallout: New Vegas mod calledAutumn Leaves. You can watch the trailer for it…
Grow Up, a sequel the delightful Ubisoft platformer Grow Home from last year, arrives on August 16. This time around, the world is much, much bigger, as your cute lil’ robot tries to reach the moon.
Yesterday, the Trump campaign finally acknowledged Pokémon Go. Finally. The Republican frontrunner’s newest anti-Clinton smear ad made a nod to Niantic’s hit app (“Crooked Hillary No!”), probably explained to him by his interns. Given Pokémon Go’s apparent resonance with the The Donald’s campaign, I wondered how popular the game was in the gilded palace of…
Miguel Mercado is an artist from The Philippines whose Overwatch images aren’t made for memes. They’re made for framing and display. Most of these were made as a fan (indeed, we featured one of them a while back), but his latest Ana portrait was a request from Blizzard. You can see more of Miguel’s work…
Track: Madame George | Artist: Van Morrison | Album: Astral Weeks Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.
Niantic head John Hanke told Reuters that he hopes to launch Pokémon Go in 200 countries and places worldwide “relatively soon.” Said Hanke, “Why limit it?”
On July 15, 1983, the Family Computer was released in Japan. Video games were never the same. Shortened to the “Famicom,” the system went on to spawn countless classic titles and proved that home consoles were not some passing fad. Thank you for that, Famicom! The console was also reborn as the Nintendo Entertain System,…
American military bases are starting to issue heads-up about, you guessed it, Pokémon Go On Facebook, for example, Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickamposted dos and don’t for military players, spelling out things they need to keep in mind. It’s not a stern warning, but rather, some sensible tips and a friendly reminder. “With the new Pokémon…
It’s a shame they’re in this and not, you know, a video game. This is seven minutes and 36 seconds of Metal Gear pachi-slot, which Kotakufirst introduced last month. Look at these cutscenes! They feel wasted. Just imagine a Metal Gear Solid 3 remake that looks like this and then start feeling slightly glum. Sigh.…
Viking Burial Tombs. Gamla Uppsala, Sweden. By Josh Viking-Juvrud. JPGs is a photo peek into wherever gamers might find interesting. If you’re a photographer and have images you want to share, drop us a line!
Pokémon Go’s European rollout continues, with the game now available for users in Italy, Spain & Portugal.
Satellite Reign, a very good video game (especially if you like Syndicate) just got even better with the addition of co-op for the game’s campaign. It’s a free update, and it works both online and via LAN.
It’s almost impossible to understate the impact WipeOut had on the maturation of video games
Last week, a Pokémon Go player found a dead body in Wyoming. Today, the same thing has happened in New Hampshire. 7 News in Boston reportsthat the body was found floating in a brook at Rotary Park in Nashua earlier today. A Pokémon Go player had made the discovery while wandering the area catching pocket…
Pokémon Go’s staggered global release has meant that a lot of Android users have resorted to installing the game via APK file rather than wait for their local Google Play Store. Nintendo would rather you don’t do that. Despite the game being free to download, and all copies connecting to the same in-game store regardless…
A backer of the infamously expansive space shooter Star Citizen has argued for, and won, a sizeable refund on his $2550 pledge to the game on the grounds that “the product remains unfulfilled and no longer constitutes the product(s) I originally purchased.” The correspondence—originally shared on the Something Awful forums—shows a lengthy conversation over email…
Columnae is an adventure game in which your choices determine the order of its chapters. Your decisions influence the future and the past. It takes place in a world devastated by environmental catastrophe. Also I guess some kind of calamity turned everybody into silhouettes? The game is currently on Kickstarter
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