Crew Member Reportedly Killed On Set Of New Resident Evil Movie

There is, unfortunately, more grim news from the set of Resident Evil: The Final Chapter, where a crew member was reportedly crushed to death earlier this month. A stuntwoman who’d been injured also recently said that her injuries will cost her an arm. South African website IOL reports that a resident of Cape Town, South…

An Avengers Video Game Worth Posing As An Australian To Play

The first Marvel: Avengers Alliance is one of my favourite comic book based mobile games of all-time, so when I heard the 3D sequel to the 2D turn-based RPG was soft-launched down under, I got real Australian, real fast. With more than 70 million players worldwide, plain old 2D Avenger’s Alliance is the most successful…

Xenoblade Chronicles X Voice Actor Reveals Localization Secrets, Comments On Game’s ‘Censorship’

Cassandra Lee Morris voiced Lin Xenoblade Chronicles X, one of the game’s main characters—and a source of controversy. In the US and Europe, the character couldn’t wear certain bikini costumes. On YouTube, she released a video about the process of making the game and weighed in on the “censorship” discussion. Morris broached the topic by…

There Might Be More To The Winter Steam Sale Than Meets The Eye

The big winter Steam sale sure appears to be Just Another Steam Sale, doesn’t it? A handful of Steam users, however, think it’s all a ruse. They believe they’ve found evidence of a secret Valve alternate reality game. It begins with the theme of the Steam sale comic: it’s about a detective named Gingerbread Jake.…

Arkham Knight’s New DLC Superbly Spotlights Batman’s Saddest Enemy

Driven to break the law to extend the frozen life of his fatally ill wife, Mr. Freeze arguably has the most poignant backstory of all Batman’s archfoes. This week, the video game version of the frozen-hearted felon gets some ice-cold closure. Spoilers follow. Victor Fries returns to the Bat-game franchise as one of the featured…

Which Video Game Console Should You Buy?

Last week, I got an e-mail from a reader with a simple yet challenging question: Which video game console should they buy? It’s a question we often discuss but have never quite answered definitively here on Kotaku. As we enter 2016, there are six main gaming machines—four stationary, two portable—that compete for our time and…

Finding Good Levels In Super Mario Maker Is Way Easier Now

Super Mario Maker is a wonderful game filled with a nearly endless supply of inventive Mario levels to play. The problem, unfortunately, is finding them. Nintendo launched a website yesterday to try and fix that. Here’s how it works. The website’s called Super Mario Maker Bookmark, and while it doesn’t completely solve the game’s issues,…

People Are Worried About Hackers Taking Down Xbox Live And PSN Again

As many of us get excited to find brand new games under our trees this weekend, it’s worth looking back at what happened last year, when some jerks tried to ruin Christmas for everyone. Many of you might recall the mess that transpired around Christmas 2014, when online services hosting Xbox Live and the PlayStation…

The Controversy Over A Video Game’s Suggestion Of A Crime

Games are usually straightforward. What you think happened is what actually happened. The Beginner’s Guide is different, cloaked in ambiguity. It’s led some people, albeit a small group, to theorize it literally represents a criminal act: stolen property. It’s a grave accusation, one that lives on because its designer remains silent. Over the weekend, parts…

The Most Popular Fallout 4 Mod Right Now Is For…Extreme Weather

For some, weather might just seem like a small detail within Fallout 4. But for PC gamers, this environmental element is pretty damn important. Over at the Nexus Fallout 4 mod portal, “True Storms” by fadingsignal has been the most popular mod for Fallout 4 over the last two weeks. The cool thing about True…

Uncharted 4 Delayed Another Month

Two days before Christmas, Naughty Dog’s dropping a bit of coal in our stockings: they’re delaying Uncharted 4 to April 26, 2016. “This is our largest Uncharted game to date, and the team has been working incredibly hard to meet the challenge of closing out the game’s development in a timely manner,” directors Neil Druckmann…

On The Case With Aviary Attorney

When you’re an innocent anthropomorphic animal accused of murder in 1840s France it doesn’t matter if your defense attorney has an insatiable hunger for worms, as long as he also has a thirst . . . for justice. Developer Sketchy Logic’s successful Aviary Attorney Kickstarter proved that what adventure game fans craved was something like…

Fan Builds Huge 3-Foot Tall Star Wars Ewok Village

Quite a surprising choice for a Star Wars-themed LEGO build. But KW Vauban’s Ewok village is so amazing it almost makes the little furry bastards of Endor lovable. Here are some close-ups (more pics over here), showing memorable moments from Return of the Jedi and some familiar faces hiding under the trees. To contact the…

Dota 2‘s Robust Hero Gets The One-Punch Man Treatment

If there’s one Dota hero that could wear Saitama’s super hero suit, it’s Tusk, the icy warrior with a giant fist and a “Walrus PUNCH” ultimate. So MrPounder’s One-Punch Man intro is spot on. He brilliantly replaced everything with Dota scenes and Tusk as Saitama. To contact the author of this post, write to: [email protected]

The Ten Best Game Expansions

Whether it’s a good old-fashioned expansion pack or modern DLC, spinning additional content for already-released games has been a standard practice in the industry for decades. But the best expansions do more than simply add a few extra hours of the same game for you to play. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK, on…

Just Cause 3 Gun Mod Fires Air, Destruction

Batshit disaster factory masquerading as a (sometimes disappointing) video game Just Cause 3 is starting to get player-made mods. No one is safe. Case in point: here is a gun that fires air. Air that kills Tristan Miller’s Typhoon Air Gun mod adds a weapon to Just Cause 3 that blows away all the others.…

Not content with Valve’s own timetable for rolling out special events, a bunch of Team Fortress 2 fans have joined forces to make their own, called Workshop Wonderland. It’s pretty neat, but the highlight for me is this glorious Heavy x Gabe Newell pic.