A Minecraft Tribute to Monument Valley

Monument Valley is a pretty great iOS game. It’s so great, in fact, that it inspired a pretty great Minecraft map to go with it, and it does invoke the game’s visuals quite well (that is, until you go first-person, like you tend to do in Minecraft.) According to its creator, dennisbuilds from PlanetMinecraft, the…

Bringing Final Fantasy Back from the Edge of Crisis 

Last week, Square Enix showed it wasthrowing all it had behind Final Fantasy XV. This is a big game and has the anime and live-action CGI spin-off to prove it. While Square Enix might seem like it’s back on sure Final Fantasy footing, it was only a few years ago things seemed anything but. In…

You Can Now Rent Goats in Japan

Goat Simulator, this ain’t. It’s the real deal. A few years ago, Amazon Japan began employing goats to take care of its grounds. Now, there’s a new “Yagi Rental” (“yagi” means “goat” in Japanese) service, with each goat costing 15,000 yen per month and more than ready to eat grass and vegetation. The service points…

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Forever A Classic Wonder Woman Look

Chabe Escalante is a freelance artist from Mexico. You can see more of Chabe’s work at her Instagramand ArtStation pages To see the larger pics in all their glory (or, if they’re big enough, so you can save them as wallpaper), click on the “expand” button in the top-left corner. Fine Art is a celebration…

April Fools Joke Messes Up Counter-Strike‘s Marketplace

We’ve made it past another April Fools day, and civilization is thankfully, mercifully still intact. Sometimes, though, April Fools jokes have lasting consequences, and I’m not just talking about people losing their jobs after they Google mic-dropped their bosses. The Counter-Strike economy—which involves highly sought-after cosmetic items and deals in real money—is still a bit…

Blizzard Shuts Down Fans Running Old Vanilla WoW Server

Blizzard’s lawyers in both the US and France have shut down a group of fans running a server for classic, “vanilla” World of WarCraft, a version of the game that regular players hadn’t seen in a decade. Nostalrius, a group started up last year by a band of around 30 fans, had over 800,000 registered…

New Overwatch Update Adds Ranked Play, Seasons

The latest Overwatch update didn’t just give Tracer a different, slightly more in-character butt pose; it also gave players a reason to fight until they can’t fight anymore (that isn’t butts). I speak, of course, about competitive play. Now, if you so choose, you can play Overwatch’s beta to rank up throughout monthly seasons and…

All of Street Fighter V‘s Costumes So Far, In Every Color

Street Fighter V’s online shop just opened last week, a month after the game’s launch. Here’s all the clothes you can get for your favorite World Warrior. As first spotted on Reddit, one intrepid PC user has thrown up images of every color and clothing option for the current roster of Street Fighter V. Looking…

VR Game At A Glance: Shootin’ Robots In Space Pirate Trainer

Look, I just want a VR game to make me feel like Neo from The Matrix. Does Space Pirate Trainer do that? It does! Sign me up. Here’s a video of me playing some of the game on HTC Vive: What it is: Space Pirate Trainer is an early access shooting gallery game that basically…

Spoiler Space: More from Ta-Nehisi Coates on Black Panther

I had a long, entertaining chat with Ta-Nehisi Coates two weeks before the first issue of the new Black Panther series came out. It was so fun that I’m putting the majority of our talk here. Warning: it’s long and has spoilers Kotaku: Tell me about the maps and why you’re pissed off about the…

A Quick Test Of PS4’s New Remote Play Capabilities

Starting today, it’s now possible to stream your PlayStation 4 to a PC or Mac. That sounds pretty awesome in theory, but how’s it actually work? I’ve spent the morning playing around with Remote Play to find out. Remote Play is a technology that allows a PS4 to become a hub device that spits a…

Destiny PVP Is Getting A Bunch Of Balance Tweaks

Today Bungie announced a bunch of small balance tweaks for Destiny, a video game about warping through the solar system trying (yet again) to remember the last time you played Destiny Next week’s big update will bring raise the light-level cap and bring some big changes to Destiny’s PvE Prison of Elders, and will add…

Steam’s Hot New Cam Girl Game Is Kinda Boring

HunieCam Studio is a game all about ‘cam girls,’ that is, women who entertain viewers on the internet. In this case, the shows put on by these women are all sexual. It sounds more interesting than it actually is. (NSFW warning!) That’s because HunieCam Studio is a clicker game. 99% of what you do in…

VR Game At A Glance: Windlands Lets You Swing Around Like Spider-Man

If the new VR game Windlands is any indication, I’d be really good with a grappling hook. It’s probably not a good indication, but it’s fun, so I’m okay with that. This week I’ll be playing a bunch more VR games to give people a sense of how they work and whether or not they’re…

Hyper Light Drifter: The Kotaku Review

My favorite thing about Hyper Light Drifter is all the new swear words I invented while playing it. To be fair, swearing is one of my favorite things in general. Hyper Light Drifter generated those oaths of fury and joyful frustration that are unique to hard games. It’s an action RPG where enemies move quickly,…