Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: The E3 2016 Decorating Committee 

Sneaks up on you, doesn’t it? As we did in 2014 and 2015, it’s time to dress up the Los Angeles Convention Center in it’s E3 clothes, or at least the E3 clothes we’d like to see it wear. Originally posted 6/5/2016 — We’re halfway there, living on a prayer and all that. Winners will…

Hey, It’s A . . . Oh, It’s Just A Kingdom Hearts 2.8 Trailer

Aqua demonstrates exactly how I feel when I see “Kingdom Hearts” from Square Enix in my inbox and it’s not about Kingdom Hearts III Not that I don’t mind getting a preview of the very-long-awaited third installment of the series via Kingdom Hearts 0.2: Birth by Sleep–A Fragmentary Passage. Aqua looks pretty amazing in the…

Teaching Human Anatomy With Chalkboard Art

Chuan-Bin Chung teaches art at Taiwan’s Shu-Te University, creating impressive chalkboard drawings for students in his Illustration, Anatomy of Arts and Painting Skill classes. The class does have a textbook, but the students do not use it. Instead, as Chung draws skeletal structures on the chalkboard, the students must draw what he’s demonstrating. “The process…

More Dragon Quest Characters Get A Facelift

Like with the original Dragon Quest Heroes last year, the sequel Dragon Quest Heroes II, is taking many of the franchise’s most popular characters and is giving them an HD makeover Checkout the gallery below to see how the character designs have evolved. New to Dragon Quest Heroes II Torneko (Dragon Quest IV, Dragon Quest…

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Fallout 4’s Hancock, In The (Rotting) Flesh

Oh hey, it’s everybody’s favourite revolutionary ghoul, Hancock. Or, actually, it’s Emma Campbell from PCND/fx studio, killing it at A-kon 27 in Dallas last weekend. Photo by Cruz Control

Sega’s Warehouse-Sized VR Shooter Looks Neat

Oh, you can use the Oculus Rift in one spot? And you can walk around a little square with the Vive? Sega, with plans for a virtual reality shooter that lets you run around inside a warehouse, thinks that’s cute. They’re working with Australian company Zero Latency on a giant co-operative shooter which, according to…

Some Fallout 4 Xbox Mods Are Being Stolen From The PC Version

Because users have been modding Bethesda’s games on PC forever, a functional community has evolved alongside the practice. On console? It’s the Wild West, and surprise, some people are being dicks about the finer points of mod creation and crediting. There have been numerousreports(see also: this Reddit thread) of mods—including parts of some of the…

Doom 64 Is The Most Underrated Doom Game

Though credits have rolled on the new Doom, I wanted to keep blowing up imps and pinkies. It seemed like the right time to revisit Doom 64 Doom 64 wasn’t actually developed by id Software; it was created by Midway Games. It picks up after the events of Doom 2: Hell on Earth, when attempts…

Overwatch Is Still Hiding Lots of Clues About A Mysterious Character

On the surface, Overwatch seems like just a wacky, brightly-colored shooter. Don’t let that fool you though. Overwatch hides some secrets which nobody has found yet according to Blizzard. Earlier this year, there were rumblings of a character named “Sombra.” As Eurogamer explains here, some of the maps in Overwatch contain mentions of Sombra in…

Naturally, Somebody Beat Dark Souls 3 With Their Feet

People beat the Dark Souls games in all sorts of ridiculous ways. This one might be the weirdest. People have beat Dark Souls with Donkey Konga’s bongo drums. Another person did it with the game flipped upside-down. The Souls games are hard enough on their own, but fans love one-upping each other. Celesterian Games has…

Paragon‘s Essentials Edition Is Paid Early Access In A Box

Having to purchase a special founder’s pack to gain exclusive beta access and special content for a free-to-play game like Paragon is quickly becoming the norm. Releasing a $60 physical copy of a free-to-play downloadable game that scores players the same sort of benefits is a bit odd. The Unreal Engine 4 (because what else…