When Your First Oculus Rift Experience Is Scary As Hell

This morning on one of Japan’s most popular morning shows, co-host Rei Kikukawa experienced VR. It went something like this. Jump scares aren’t exactly the nicest way to introduce people to VR! Later, the show said that Kikukawa, thankfully, did not destroy the headset. Top GIF via 2ch To contact the author of this post,…

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Gundam Cosplay That’s (Sorry) Out Of This World

This is Japanese cosplayer PUNIVAL in the suit and Malaysia’s Mikuen as Sayla Mass (and Feldt Grace). We’ve seen PUNIVAL’s work before, but I thought this shoot was so good (as well as Mikuen’s cosplay!) that I thought, we could always do with more perfect Gundam cosplay.

Behind The Scenes On A Fancy Video Game Trailer

Unit Image made “Yesterday”, the big hype trailer for The Division. With the game now out, they’ve released a great series of videos and images showing how the clip was made. It’s not often we get a good look behind the scenes like this, so seeing all this art and footage is a real treat.…

Overwatch’s New Map Is A Lovely Place To Die Horribly 

Overwatch recently got a big update, with a brand new Greece-inspired map as the centerpiece. It does not disappoint. Now that I’ve played a fair bit of Overwatch, I’ve come to appreciate that the game isn’t fun simply because of colorful characters and a wide range of abilities, but rather the interplay between maps and…

What Even Is This Kickstarter Trailer

“Who literary?” “Like what Terry always quoted?” I do not know what is happening here. I mean, I do. I think. It’s a trailer for Embers, a King of Fighters fan film that was last month asking for Kickstarter money (thanks, LiK @ NeoGAF). (It actually got the money, raising over $10,000 with only (hrm)…

Dystopian Cyberpunk Dungeon Crawler? Yes, Please.

BRB, going into cryo-sleep until Divide is out. Creeping paranoia. Floating holographic displays. Foreboding, labyrinthine research installations. Divide tickles my sci-fi proclivities in all the right places. If we’re lucky, this will offer a mix of Flashback, Shadow Complex and Memento straight to players when it hits PS4. Contact the author at [email protected]

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Giant Man helps Iron Man and Captain America work out their issues with fighting in the recently-released Captain America: Civil War LEGO sets. Tune in this coming weekend for a more in-depth look at them via the latest episode ofToy Time.

How a Four-Dimensional Game Gets Made

Move over, video games with the same ol’ boring three spatial dimensions. Four dimensions are the new hotness that will blow your mind. Here’s how one game is adding a whole other plane of reality to the video game landscape. Miegakure’s been in the works for a while but that’s understandable because, as the video…

One of the best creators of modern point-and-click adventures just released a new game. Wadjet Eye’s Shardlight is about a sick woman taking on government oddjobs to find a cure that will save her life. It’s a more grounded tale than you’ll find in a lot of post-apocalyptic games. You can get it on Steam…

Grab Incredibly Early Assassin’s Creed Movie Tickets And A $1,200 Crossbow

Production company New Regency is so sure about December’s Assassin’s Creed movie thatit’s already talking sequel. Might want to pick up a ticket early, along with . . . I dunno, a $1,200 replica of a 15th century crossbow. That sounds nice. Ubisoft has teamed up with the bundled experience vendors at Kernel to give…

This YouTube Channel Is Definitely The Best Place To Listen To Video Game Music

If you are looking for good, high-quality video game music from all of your favorite video games, hunt no further than GiIvaSunner, who has done us all a great service with these uploads of songs we all know and love. For example, who could forget the iconic Slider song from Super Mario 64 (above)? Or…

Hey, DC Comics, Give Us a Universe Where Batman and Superman Look Like This

Man, those are some very cool redesigns. There’s a lot of history folded into Rafael Grampa’s alternate cover of Detective Comics #50. While that armored Batman is heavily modeled on the one from The Dark Knight Returns, you can also see some small nods to the character’s Silver Age look, like how the utility belt…

NES Emulator Transforms Classic Games Into Awesome 3D Sprites 

Some of the most iconic NES games around have gotten a makeover—and you can experience it first-hand in your browser. If you’re running Firefox, that is. 3DNes Emulator is a curious experiment that transforms NES games into 3D landscapes. A beta was released yesterday, which you can play here, but if you’d like to watch…

The New Doom‘s Multiplayer Looks Just Like Unreal

Arena shooters are back, if the new DOOM is any indication. It looks pretty great, too—today’s new trailer showcases the shotguns, sniper rifles, and demon transformations that’ll take centerstage in DOOM’s multiplayer modes. The road to this new DOOM has been rocky, to put things mildly, so it’ll be fascinating to see how the game…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Pixel Farming The Real World

We’ve gone just a tad Stardew Valley crazy here at Kotaku, but that’s okay—so have plenty of other folks. So much so that the pixels have started bleeding into real life scenes of rural living. Or at least they will have once this week’s ‘Shop Contest is done. Update 3/9/3026: Whoa-oh, we’re halfway there. Some…

Real Life Hitman, Controlled By Remote Players

The folks over at Realm Pictures created quite an interesting interactive experience for Hitman, where players could control a real life Agent 47 in a huge mansion filled with human actors, items and objectives. The rules were the same as in the Hitman games. The main character could steal clothes, move objects and attack people…