That Time Star Wars Became An Awful Fighting Game

With only weeks to go until the release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, everyone has Star Wars fever. Over the years, the universe of Star Wars has spawned countless video games. Some, like Masters of the Teräs Käsi, were pretty bad. Star Wars has been the basis of first-person shooters, third-person shooters, action games,…

It’s A Pretty Great Snoopy Game, Charlie Brown

Snoopy’s imagination adventures may have ruined the Peanuts comic strip, but they’re the perfect fodder for a solid movie tie-in platformer. Thought it shares the movie’s 3D look, The Peanuts Movie: Snoopy’s Grand Adventure doesn’t have much to do with Charlie Brown and friends’ big-screen debut. The kids are playing hide and seek, and Snoopy…

You Finally Got Me Amiibo, But Your Animal Crossing Board Game Is A Bore

Up until last Friday I possessed a grand total of two Amiibo figures. Now I own nine, and I’m eagerly awaiting the release of more. It’s too bad the game they’re attached to is a snooze-festival. How much did I not care about Amiibo figures prior to this past weekend? So much so that I…

Nice Fallout 4 concept art you’ve go- wait a second, that’s not concept art. It’s an amazing minifig-scale LEGO build of a Red Rocket fuel station, by Markus Rollbühler To contact the author of this post, write to: [email protected]

Players Get Some Nice Rewards For World of Warcraft’s 11th Anniversary

Surprise, surprise. Unlike last year’s 10th anniversary, we won’t get nostalgia raids or battlegrounds, but that doesn’t mean World of Warcraft players have to go through this year’s anniversary empty handed. While last year was an exception, anniversary gifts are usually small and only give you an achievement and some fun-looking pet or toy. This…

Explore Peach’s Castle in Minecraft

The castle hub from Mario 64 got a rather faithful recreation in the form of a Minecraft map. There are a couple neat touches to this build. For example, the paintings are all there in-game, regardless of the resource pack you use, because the builders—redditor SlipNSchlong and a “buddy”—imported them as maps (the in-game ones…

Damn, This Is Good Drumming

This is Senri Kawaguchi. She’s 18 and has been called one of the best drummers in Japan, if not the world. Here, she’s showing her support for Japan’s national team by drumming in the new Samurai Blue uniform. If you’re not familiar with Kawaguchi’s drumming (you should be!), check out the clips below—some of which…

The Real Pokémon Gym Is Even Better Than We Thought

A Pokémon Gym is opening this month in Osaka. We’ve already gotten a peek inside, and it looked okay! Now, we’re going to get a better look, and it sure seems terrific. Website Gigazinerecently visited the Pokémon Gym and took a series of great photos. Here’s a selection of them. [Photo: Gigazine] [Photo: Gigazine] [Photo:…

Think Sailor Moon, But with Shirtless Dudes

Well, this is a thing, it seems. As IT Media points out, Italian musician Paolo Tuci has released a new Sailor Moon-themed song called “Sailor Moon e il Cristallo Del Cuore.” You can see the video below. The track is available on iTunes, and it looks like there’s even a physical CD release. Previous Tuci…

Life-Sized X-Wing Is Parked at a Singapore Airport

If you are strolling through Terminal 3, you might notice something. A giant rebel fighter. You can do more than just look at this replica. Toggle and The Strait Times report that regular folks can even climb into the cockpit for photo ops. A limited number of tickets are given out daily. Of course, this…

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Here, Some Very Cool Robots, Ships, Guns & Aliens

WETA’s Christian Pearce is, alongside guys like Ben Mauro, Aaron Beck and Leri Greer, one of the main artists to thank for all the amazing designs you see everywhere you look in movies like District 9 and Elysium Lovers of rad things may remember Christian was also one of the artists behind Ghidoragh You can…

Philip K. Dick: The Video Game

We’ve all seen movies, read books and played games inspired by the works of sci-fi author Philip K. Dick. Californium is different. It’s not a game about his worlds. It’s a game about Dick himself. While unable to actually use his name, Californium is a first-person title that mashes together various aspects of Dick’s life…

Card Games Are Invading Your Video Games

Don’t look now, but your favourite video games are being infiltrated by the humble playing card. Card games may be over 1000 years old, but as a way for people to get together and play (and talk shit) across a table, they should have been replaced in recent decades by video games, because video games…

Black Ops 3’s PC Version Fixes Crippling Slowdown Issue

Black Ops 3 launched on PC with some fairly serious issues, chief among them the fact it ran like stuttering garbage on i5 processors. A week later, is it safe to actually try and play the game if you’d previously been having problems? Probably. I can’t vouch for everyone’s PC, and the millions of possible…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Cloud-Based Gaming

Final Fantasy VII’s Cloud beingannounced for Super Smash Bros. got me thinking—what other games could benefit from the addition of stoic little Clouds? That’s right, this week you’re all the evil anti-Bob Ross. There are plenty of games out there. Surely some of the ones you’ve played don’t have Cloud in them but might benefit…

Cash Money For A Picture Of Spider-Man!

He doesn’t wanna be famous? Then I’ll make him infamous! Photographer Peyton Crim wanted to do a Spider-Man shoot that was a bit more “dynamic” than your average cosplay gallery, and teaming up with Chris Villain (as Spider-Man), they sure succeeded.

The Week In Games: Everyone’s Just Going To Keep Playing Fallout 4 Anyway

Last week saw only a handful of new releases as publishers got out of the way of Fallout 4. They probably could have skipped this week too. While I plan of getting my Star Wars: Battlefront on in some form or fashion, neither it nor Fallout 4 shall be my primary focus this week. Instead…