Our Favorite Games From May

A lot of great games came out in May, from reboots of classics to new team-based shooters to the end of a dashing adventure series. Take a look at some of our favorite games from the last month. Overwatch In this team-based multiplayer shooter, actually playing the game feels like such a small part of…

Overwatch: The Kotaku Review

Overwatch has technically only been out for a week, but it’s already a phenomenon. Even people who have never played Overwatch are getting sucked into its orbit through fan fiction, cosplay, memes and porn. That’s because Overwatch is not really a game as much as it’s an event. Normally, hype tells you nothing concrete about…

If Rovio Ever Got Hold Of Your Favorite Characters…

Javier Burgos is a lead artist at Rovio, the developers of the Angry Birds series. Not that any of the awesome art in this showcase of his work has much to do with Angry Birds, since it’s more focused on rendering some of his favourite characters in his own cute cartoon style. And just like…

Skylanders Imaginators Lets Players Bring Custom Characters To Life

Fans of Activision’s toys-to-life franchise have been dreaming up their own Skylands champions since the first game arrived back in 2011. This year’s Imaginators finally harnesses that creativity, giving players the ability to piece together the Skylander of their dreams. The first thing Activision’s Lou “Zoo Lou” Studdard showed me during a meeting earlier this…

Nine More Things Revealed about Final Fantasy XV

In one form or another, this game has been in development for ages. Yet, as recently revealed in Square Enix’s Active Time Report(via Dengeki Online), there are still new things we are learning about it. 1. Crash the Flying Car and It’s Game Over. You can crash the car during take off and landing. However,…

Fable Card Game Survives (For Now) The Death Of Lionhead

Yes, Fable has been driven into the ground until only dust and ash remain, but for remaining fans of Lionhead’s fantasy series, there is small hope: the video games might be gone, but a card game is still being worked on. Turns out that before being shut down, Lionhead was quietly working on a digital…

Looks like former WWE wrestler Gregory Helms was a few too many years ahead of his time

When Life Imitates (Mario K)art

The Eastern Canadian Karting Championship is, if I’m not mistaken going by this video, secretly a Mario Kart recreation society. If you’re wondering how this actually happened, seems that the overtaking driver’s front wheel clipped the kart in front’s rear wheel, which whipped them right over the top. Amazingly, they stuck the landing, and I’m…

Overwatch has a ghost window. Why is it there? What does it mean? No one knows. (Somebody on the dev team probably goofed.) Here’s the full video, courtesy of Punished Dartjuk

The Most Popular Fallout 4 Mods On Xbox One

Xbox One owners can now download mods for Fallout 4. There are 885 available already and the servers for the game’s creators at Bethesda seem to be struggling to keep up . The most mod for the game on Xbox One is a cheat menu that lets you add caps, stimpacks and more. That’s currently…

Cosplayer Could Lose An Eye After Contact Lens Mishap

A lot of cosplayers use coloured contact lenses to help them match the appearance of their favourite characters, but that use has a downside: when something goes wrong, it’s going wrong somewhere that’s both sensitive and pretty darn important for the cosplayer. AsHouston Press reports, cosplayer Johnny Hybrid is now painfully aware of this. While…