Obsidian’s Tyranny Is An RPG Where The Bad Guys Already Won

Let’s get this out of the way upfront: Tyranny is not Pillars of Eternity 2. It’s a different animal, a decidedly more sinister one. But the gulf between them is more than skin-deep. After dozens of hours, I still haven’t finished Obsidian’s classic PC RPG revival, Pillars of Eternity. Don’t get me wrong: it’s great.…

A Close Look at Uncharted 4’s Ridiculous Attention to Detail

The stubble. The wrinkles. The sweat. The hair. Nathan Drake’s model has gotten pretty incredible in Uncharted 4 and Naughty Dog took the time today to shed some light on how they nailed it. In a word, the PS4. In Naughty Dog’s latest dev diary, they talk about what the PS4’s power allows them to…

Tom Clancy’s The Division: The Kotaku Review

Tom Clancy’s The Division is exciting enough that I don’t mind how dull it can sometimes be. It’s fun enough that I can usually live with spending most of my time shooting virtual poor people. It’s well enough made that I don’t mind how clumsy and unbalanced it often is. The Division is a shared-world,…

Fallout 4 Players Are Turning Codsworth Into A Monster In The New DLC

Here’s Codsworth, like you’ve never seen him before. As you might already know, Fallout 4’s Automatron DLC is all about robots. You can build them, you can customize them, you can pit them against each other. It’s not just random bots, though. You can also outfit your loyal Codsworth, and the options are pretty ridiculous,…

The Skywalker Ranch Has A Treasure Trove Of Old LucasArts Games

In Northern California, Star Wars creator George Lucas has a sprawling complex called the Skywalker Ranch. If you found your way inside, you might stumble upon a big room full of concept art, design documents, and files for all sorts of old games. When working on Day of the Tentacle Remastered, Double Fine boss Tim…

Snacktaku Presents Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Breakfast

While the ultimate showdown between DC Comics’ iconic heroes doesn’t hit theaters until Friday, the battle begins now, in your mouth. Originally published 1/30/16, brought back to prepare you for what’s to come. Or in my mouth, unless you want to run out to your local purveyor of fine breakfast grains and pick up a…

How The First Resident Evil‘s Been Censored And Changed Since 1996

Plenty of games have been touched up and altered as the years went on, but few games have seen as many changes as the original Resident Evil. This piece originally appeared 1/19/15. Ports of old games are common, but what’s interesting about Resident Evil is how often Capcom has actually censored, changed, modified, and added…

Day of the Tentacle Remastered: The Kotaku Review

For nearly 23 years, Day of the Tentacle has been resoundingly praised as one of the greatest adventure games of all time, a shining example of point-and-click glory. Two decades later, how does it hold up? Pretty damn well, it turns out. Even without the graphical overhaul offered in Day of the Tentacle Remastered, which…

IO announced today that they’ve delayed the release of Hitman’s Elusive Targets until April. The unfortunate news is that we’re pushing out the Elusive Targets until closer to the planned release of the next episode, Sapienza in April, but you’ll get two Escalation Contracts coming each week until the release of Sapienza and between these…

UK Artist Makes Enormous Pikachu Mosaic Out of 12,987 Pokémon Cards

In possibly the most ostentatious celebration yet of Pokémon’s 20th anniversary, UK artist Quentin Devine has created a Pikachu mosaic out of nearly 13,000 different Pokémon cards. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK The thing is about 10 meters tall and 7 meters wide, and was unveiled in Paris yesterday. Photos via The Pokémon…

Lara Croft’s going to fight zombies in Rise of the Tomb Raider’s next DLC. The Cold Darkness Awakened add-on hits next week, bringing with it a mini-campaign that has the heroine facing off against infected, rabid enemies.

One Does Not Simply Prepare for World of Warcraft: Legion

Anduin, the Prince of Stormwind is not just a Hearthstone priest hero everyone hates. As Dark Legacy Comics shows, the heir to the throne of Stormwind has his issues in World of Warcraft as well. To contact the author of this post, write to: [email protected]

Laputa LEGO Castle Is Also a Tiny Music Box

As the tiny LEGO version of the castle in the sky rotates, a music box beneath is playing the theme tune of the Studio Ghibli classic. It’s an awesome, compact build (via Brothers Brick) by Bangoo H and Yeom-E, small enough to fit inside a glass bottle. To contact the author of this post, write…