One of the Rarest and Most Beautiful Xbox Ones Ever Made

Apparently, there are only two of these consoles in the whole world. They are official, from Microsoft, and given out this month to two lucky winners in South Korea. Earlier this month, Microsoft Korea held a contest for these very limited-edition Xbox Ones. As tipster Sang points out, these traditional Korean style mother of pearl…

RWBY’s Third Season Brings Grimm Fairytale Darkness

Eager to check out crazy, over-the-top fight scenes with imaginative weapons? Well, RWBY Volume 3 certainly has that, as well as a healthy helping of sadness and despair. [Note: This review contains spoilers for this and the previous two seasons of RWBY. For a more non-spoiler look at the series, check out our review of…

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A Whopper with 700 Pickle Slices Doesn’t Look Appetizing 

There’s having it your way and then there’s this. Japanese site RocketNews, the folks who once ordered a Whopper with a thousand pieces of bacon, a burger with a thousand slices of cheese, and one with a hundred slices of grilled onion, have returned to order yet another ridiculous Burger King burger. This: This time,…

Wait, That’s Not How I Remember The Battle Of Hoth…

Stepan Alekseev is an artist working in the video game business who we last saw killing it in the Star Wars: Reimagined contest You can see more of Stepan’s work at his ArtStation page To see the larger pics in all their glory (or, if they’re big enough, so you can save them as wallpaper),…

A Survival Game Based On Actual Survival Techniques

The Flame in the Flood is a survival game that just launched on Steam. It’s not about building, or zombies, or pranking your friends. Just surviving and seeking civilization. That makes sense, given its background. The Flame in the Flood may not strike you as the most realistic-looking game around, but it started from a…

Cerys! You’re Real!

As I’ve made clear, I am very fond of Cerys, the takes-no-shit Queen (in my game) of Skellige. Thus, I am also quite fond of any cosplay paying tribute to this badass. This is Niamash, not only with a perfect costume but an actual horse just to top things off. Photos by Catherine Badulina

Dishonored’s Seedier Side Brought To Life Through Cosplay

We’ve seen some top-shelf Dishonored cosplay on this site before, but it—and most other cosplay like it—tends to focus on the game’s main characters. People with expensive uniforms and high collars. Nobody ever spares a thought for the game’s less upstanding denizens. Ophidia and her friend Rin have, though, putting together this fantastic shoot with…

The Fight Over The Best Way to Translate Fire Emblem Fates

When Fire Emblem Fates was released for 3DS in Japan early last summer, it didn’t have a US release date. Within 24 hours, fans were hacking the game and translating it on their own. What started as an experiment became a race to translate the game before Nintendo of America. Fire Emblem Fates, released as…

Iron Man Just Threw a Little Shade at the X-Men

Damn, Tony. That’s harsh. The villain plaguing Earth’s Mightiest Heroes throws up a force-field in this week’s All-New, All-Different Avengers #6. When Spider-Man notes that it’s a formidable obstacle, the guy in the red-and-gold armor ain’t having it. Definitely the snarkiest way to get a reference to classic X-Men covers in there. Contact the author…

The Brutal Things You Can Expect In Fallout 4’s New Survival Mode

Fallout 4’s revamped survival mode isn’t live yet, but players have already discovered how it’ll all work.Oh, the wonders of datamining. Detailed by Redditor rayQuGR (and confirmed by Bethesda), here are some of the harsh conditions you’ll experience in Fallout 4’s revamped survival mode. Saving Manual and quicksaving are disabled. To save your game, you’ll…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Cheer Up, Baby Batman

Batman’s son, Damian Wayne,has a sad. I’m pretty sure we can fix this. Three days down, three days to go! Why is Damian Wayne, AKA Robin, so sad? Did he not get his Fire Emblem collector’s edition on time? Has his father forgotten he existed? Did he decide to scrub the last ‘Shop Contest entirely…

Popular Driving Game OutDrive Just Isn’t Very Good

OutDrive has spent the past couple days near the top of Steam’s popular new releases section, and it only costs a few dollars. What could possibly go wrong? OutDrive is a neon-drenched—or drowned, really—endless driver. Billed as an “aesthetic experiment” with a focus on experiencing music, it looks very nice and sounds even nicer. Unfortunately,…