This week on Kotaku Splitscreen, Jason and I were joined by former NFL punter and all around cool dude Chris Kluwe. We spent a good chunk of time talking about No Man’s Sky—what we like, what we don’t like, and all the things we wish were in the game. Video excerpt above; find the full…

Super Girls

Taraneh Karimi is a concept artist from Iran who works in video games. You can see more of Karimi’s work at her ArtStation page. Oh, and her studio is alsolaunching a Kickstarter soon for Lona: Realm of Colors, an adventure game about exploring a young girl’s memories. It looks cool! To see the images in…

The No Man’s Sky Player Who Still Hasn’t Left His First Planet 

The planets in No Man’s Sky are so vast, that one player has spent 30 hours adventuring on his starter planet. It’s amazing. Meet Kahbaatangs: Discovered by 27-year-old gamer Jorgen Fernandez, Kahbaatangs is a mostly barren desert with a 24 hour rain cycle. “The worst thing about my planet was the lifelessness and lack of…

Nintendo Once Published A Game Featuring Nazis, Baby Jesus And The KKK

In 1991, Nintendo published an adventure game (developed by Pax Softnica) in Japan for the Famicom Disk System called Time Twist. It is not the kind of game Nintendo would publish in 2016. Hardcore Gaming played through it the other day, and say “it seems like they took a look at Nintendo of America’s censorship…

Here Are Some Things You Can Do In Deus Ex: Mankind Divided

The newest Deus Ex game, Mankind Divided, comes out next week. It tells the gripping tale of a man with robot arms and his quest to steal alcohol from every apartment in Prague. I’ve completed Mankind Divided’s story (took me about 26 hours on the middle difficulty), as well as a bunch of the included…

Metroid Prime: Federation Force: The Kotaku Review

Despite abundant expectations that it would be bad, Nintendo’s new Metroid spin-off turns out to be very good. Metroid Prime Federation Force, which runs on the 3DS, is the first game with the M-word in its title since 2010. It is barely a Metroid game, something series fans sniffed out the moment it was first…

No Man’s Sky Proves Games Don’t Have To Be About Winning

What does it take to be a game? Win states? Rules? The questions pop up again and again. And as expectations for games grow, we try to answer these questions with increasing confidence. Are games just code, or are they something more poetic? Titles like No Man’s Sky or Abzu offer richly realized spaces to…

Style Savvy: Fashion Forward Certainly Keeps A Girl Busy

This is me, 43-year-old bearded man Mike Fahey, taking a short break from being a fashion boutique manager, hair stylist, makeup artist, clothing designer and interior decorator in Style Savvy: Fashion Forward. I can’t imagine how I found the time. The third installment of Nintendo’s Style Savvy franchise has arrived, transporting us to a magical…

Oh, If Only Mega Man Still Looked This Good

Poor Mega Man. Forgotten by Capcom, even his spiritual successor is terrible. But people out there still love the little guy, and one of those people is artist Steven Zapata, who has worked for companies like DC, Universal and Google. Attempting a bit of “self therapy after the lukewarm arrival of Mighty No.9″, he decided…

The fate of a kingdom lies in your hands in Reigns, a hilarious game where you will swipe left or right to make decisions (just like Tinder!). Watch me play it in this video, or read more about it here.

What A Gaming Laptop Decked Out With Two Desktop GPUs Can Do

Nvidia recently gifted laptop gamers with fully functional GeForce 10 series GPUs. Our coverage of the launch and details on Nvidia’s new mobile lineup can be found here, but for those who missed the announcement the big news is that Pascal brings GPUs with near exact specifications to laptops as their desktop counterparts. This is…

Hamster Vs. Super Mario Bros. Level 1-1

Oh, this is just a hamster trying to clear the hamster version of the very first stage in Super Mario Bros. That’s all. Yes, this stage is shorter, and yes, you can’t go down the first pipe in the real game. But put those concerns aside, because we have a Hamster trying to put on…