Great Shot GTA V Truck, That Was One In A Million

Blacksmoke Billy, the world’s foremost expert in GTA truck madness, returns with a series of C4+trailer stunts that just boggle the mind. Doing this once, OK, you can call it a fluke and thank console makers for including gameplay capture. But doing it a bunch of times? I shudder to think at the amount of…

You Got A Good Heart, Kid

The Syrian refugee crisis has become a political flashpoint throughout Europe. Some people are being assholes about it. Then you’ve got this kid, spotted at the “Solidarity with Refugees” march in London

Super-Rare Sonic The Hedgehog Game, Once Lost, Now Playable

One of the rarest Sonic games of all time is Waku Waku Sonic Patrol Car, an arcade game for kids that was released in 1991. If you weren’t in Japan that year (so…pretty much all of us), you’ve probably never played it, as it has never been released again, ever, in any format. Until now!…

The Skylanders Superchargers Toys Are Mostly Great

The new Skylanders video game is pretty great, but what about the toys? Toy Time takes a quick look at the good and not-so-good with the new Superchargers toys, starting with Donkey Kong’s shirt. Seriously, what’s with that shirt? As those of you who’ve been following along with the Skylanders Superchargers saga, care about Amiibo…

Gameloft’s free-to-play MMO Order & Chaos II: Redemption launched on iOS, Android and Windows last week, but don’t bother playing—I obviously already got all the best loot.

Ocarina Of Time‘s Kakariko Village Is Breathtaking In Unreal Engine 4

This is pretty much what The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time’s Kakariko Village looked like in my head the first time I played Unreal Engine 4 being freely available has done wonderful things for older video game scenery. We’ve seen gorgeous builds from World of Warcraft, Sonic the Hedgehog, Resident Evil and Super Mario…

The Heroes of the Storm Americas Championship concludes today as six teams—Tempo Storm, COGnitive Gaming, Cloud 9 compLexity, Relics and Murloc Geniuses battle for two spots to the World Championships at BlizzCon 2015. Watch it live here

Skylanders Superchargers: The Kotaku Review

The latest entry in Activision’s annual toys-to-life video game franchise has that new car smell. Over the past four years the Skylanders franchise has delivered a consistently solid action platforming experience bolstered by the joy of placing colorful plastic characters onto a “magical” portal and seeing them come to life on the screen, but the…

Sunday Comics: Horn Dog

Welcome to Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your pretty much weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira. Published September 16. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published September 14. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry…

The Mightiest Marvel Comics Rip-Off Of Them All

The Maroon Witch. Thor with an ‘N’ at the end. Miss Marvelous. Rabid Raccoon and…Grout. I don’t know whether to laugh or cry at AMZGame’s Tiny Mighty Heroes Unite, so I do a little of both. The creator of the sort of games you see advertised in those tiny Facebook ad boxes (League of Angels,…

A Skylanders Superchargers Buyers Guide For Confused Parents

The fifth installment of the series that started the toys-and-games craze goes on sale tomorrow, which means stores packed with baffled parents trying to make sense of it all. We’re here to help. Now that your children have finished collecting all the toys from Skylanders: Spryo’s Adventure, Skylanders Giants, Skylanders Swap Force and Skylanders Trap…

Watch The Heroes Of The Storm Americas Championship Live, Right Here

The top eight Heroes of the Storm team in the Americas are in Las Vegas today, competing for a $100,000 prize pool and two spots in the world championship battle at BlizzCon 2015. Who will win, other than Murky? Kicking off at 1 PM Eastern and running until one team has $40,000 and a trip…

Fire Emblem And Xenoblade Heroes Join Project X Zone 2‘s Crazy 

Namco Bandai’s tactics RPG cavalcade of cross-company characters is exclusive to a Nintendo handheld, so how about some Nintendo-owned heroes? Fire Emblem: Awakening’s Chrom and Lucina are a great start, and they’ve picked a perfect partner for Xenosaga’s KOS-MOS. Namco Bandai promised new character announcements for Project X Zone 2 when Richard Eisenbeis played the…

This Week In The Business: No Designers, No Dancing Unicorns, No Problem

QUOTE | “I think one of the things that we won’t be looking to do very soon is World of Dancing Unicorns.” – Wargaming’s head of EU marketing Keith Anderson, talking about what new games Wargaming will and will not be working on Elsewhere in the business of gaming this week… QUOTE | “Halfbrick remains…

Come For the Game Show. Stick Around For the Cosplay

Tokyo Game Show this year was packed with games and fans. And cosplay. Lots of cosplay. It’s the first public day of Tokyo Game Show, and the cosplay area was packed with people dressed up as their favorite characters and the people photographing them. Here’s a sample of some of the fun and cool cosplay…