Dude Spends 4.5 Years Building Fantasy Kingdom In Minecraft

Welcome to the Kingdom of Galekin, one of the most impressive Minecraft creations I’ve seen in a long time. The work of one guy, Linard, it’s a sprawling fantasy world of hiw own creation, complete with multiple cities/settlements. I like that rather than being a recreation of an existing place from a TV show or…

Twelve Minutes Of The Modern Warfare Remastered Campaign

If any last generation shooter deserved a remaster, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare was at the top of the list. I got to sit down with the campaign today. Here’s a playthrough of “Charlie Don’t Surf” for you to enjoy. Modern Warfare Remastered will release alongside Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare on November 4th…

Destiny players: Did you compete in the first Trials of Osiris? If so, how’d it go? Let me know how you did, what you thought of the new map, what weapons you had success with, etc. My own quick thoughts: The map (Last Exit) is weirdly balanced for 3v3, and I really didn’t like it…

New Anime Trolls ‘Boys’ Love’ Fans With Stupid Art

Gakuen Handsome is the wikiHow art of anime. Maybe it’s sincere. Probably, it’s winking at you with an ironic smile. Definitely, it is disorienting and hilarious. Originally a romantic adventure game, the Gakuen Handsome anime’s first episode aired today on Crunchyroll. It its three and a half minutes, a protagonist who was maybe drawn in…

Stardew Valley’s 1.1 update, the first big one since launch, is now live. Highlights include new marriage options (Shane and Emily), divorce, new farm maps, new areas, new building types, magical construction. See all that stuff in action above.

Mission Impossible Is The Best New Addition To Lego Dimensions

Disguised as a foreign dignitary, top IMF agent Ethan Hunt slips into the embassy party completely unnoticed, his friends Mr. T, Finn, Abby Yates and Harry Potter trailing close behind him. This is so dumb. It’s perfect. Of all the new content that recently launched in the first wave of season two content for Lego…

Popular Minecraft YouTuber Opens Up About Eating Disorder

YouTube celebrities, especially women in the beauty vlogging community, have been open about how their extremely public job affects their mental health. In many cases, showing their face to millions of people has led them down dark paths. Self-harm, anxiety, depression and eating disorders are just some of the mental health issues inspired by being…

Four Years Later, Mass Effect Fans Are Still Trying To ‘Fix’ Tali’s Sex Scene

When people think ‘Mass Effect’ and ‘controversy,’ the first thing that typically comes to mind is the commotion around the endings, but that wasn’t the only thing fans took issue with. Remember the whole thing around Tali’Zorah’s romance? (NSFW and spoiler warning.) Tali is a romance able squadmate who, throughout the entirety of the saga,…

Digital Homicide Drops $18 Million Lawsuit Against Steam Users, Says Their Company’s Been ‘Destroyed’

A couple weeks ago, notorious developer of crappy Steam games Digital Homicide made waves by suing 100 anonymous Steam users, who they deemed a “hate and harassment group,” for $18 million. Now, however, the suit’s been dismissed. In a motion to dismiss filed last week, Digital Homicide said that their business had been “destroyed,” rendering…

What We Loved (And Hated) About Hit Dating Sim Mystic Messenger

Dating sim Mystic Messenger is blowing up, simulating the too-real experience of falling in love with mysterious people online. It’s a relatable otome (“maiden”) game in which, brilliantly, anime boys—and one girl—interact with you over a fake chatroom and text messages. Your character stumbles upon the fictional Mystic Messenger app under strange circumstances, and, over…

Newest Madden Puts Sun On Wrong Side Of The Sky, EA Vows To Fix

The makers of Madden NFL 17, the most realistic football game on Earth, have confirmed to Kotaku that their latest game puts the sun in the wrong part of the sky. During evening games in Los Angeles, the sun appears to set in the east, a problem that probably won’t be fixed until next year’s…

An Excellent 105-Minute Review Of Star Wars: The Force Awakens

So, so many years after his now-famous reviews of the Star Wars prequels, Mr. Plinkett returns with some (well, many) thoughts on The Force Awakens. Among other things.

An Intense 1v4 And Other Amazing Plays From Last Night’s Counter-Strike Tournament

The final rounds of the ESL One New York Counterstrike: Global Offensive tournament were held last night. You’ve already seen someone toss their gun at another player in the semi finals. Here are some other amazing plays from the final match between Natus Vincere and Virtus.pro. NaVi defeated Virtus in a three round contest, taking…

Batman, Resident Evil Appear To Be Timed PlayStation VR Exclusives

In another sign that the competition between expensive virtual reality headsets will be waged as a platform war, ads for the PlayStation VR releases tied to the Batman Arkham and Resident Evil series indicate they will be exclusive to Sony’s VR offering for quite some time. An ad for Arkham VR, which is a $20…

Massive Overwatch Cosplay Steals Show At TwitchCon

There was a cosplay competition at TwitchCon last week, and it was won by this enormous Reinhardt getup that just gets better the closer you look. I mean, yes, it’s huge! Impressive scale. But there’s so much more to it. It moves, for one, as you can see when Chad from Hoku Props goes to…

A Giant Super Mario 64 Hack That Reinvents The Game

Super Mario 64: Last Impact is the result of 4,000 hours of work by Kaze Emanuar, and it looks incredible. You may know Kaze from other Mario hacks—he recently also the horrifying mod that replaces every texture in Super Mario 64 with Toad’s face, for example. This time, he’s back with something bigger and more…

Modern Warfare Remastered Requires Infinite Warfare To Run

A lot of Call of Duty fans are more excited over the remastered version of the original Modern Warfare than Infinite Warfare’s future shenanigans, but they can’t have one without the other. Either a full digital purchase of Infinite Warfare or the physical disc is required for the remaster to run. Modern Warfare Remastered is…

Our Favorite Games From September

Happy fall, readers! The weather’s getting colder, which means it’s the perfect time to curl up inside and play video games. Here’s all the new games the Kotaku staff enjoyed in September. Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander We enjoyed our time with this indie game, which is a mix of FTL andXCOM You can get the…