Man Turns Wedding Proposal Into Actual RPG Quest

I’ve seen a handful of video-game-themed marriage proposals in my day, but this one takes the cake. A website designer by the name of Noah Yamen recently posted about his Borderlands-themed marriage proposal to his girlfriend, Tia. He explained that playing the co-op shooter RPG is one of their favorite things to do together. “Playing…

YouTube’s Approach To Copyright Claims Could Scare Off Streamers

YouTube is making another big push into the world of video games with the launch of YouTube Gaming today, but the complicated world of Content ID and copyright claims may prove an enormous hurdle. My eyebrows raised when I saw this tweet earlier today: (If you’ve fallen victim to this due to abuse or false…

Korean Horror Game Tasks You With Surviving A Haunted School

The Coma looks like its a mix of Lone Survivor and Persona—which is pretty exciting, if you ask me. Here’s the premise, per the developers, Devespresso Games: You were just another normal high school student in Korea. You had just sat down for your final exam, exhausted from an all-night cramming session. The result of…

What I Saw Of Divinity: Original Sin 2

If what I saw during an hour session of Divinity: Original Sin 2 is any indication, the RPG sequel is gonna make you really mad at your friends. Divinity: Original Sin 2, the sequel to Larian’s excellent evolution of classic PC RPGs, hit Kickstarter today. A handful of hours later, it’s already almost completely funded.…

The Most Ridiculous Mario Maker Levels Basically Play Themselves

When I play a Mario game, I expect to make a lot of decisions about when to run and when to jump. Those expectations go out the window while I’m playing Super Mario Maker. Sometimes, I boot up a Mario Maker level only to find that the whoever created the level actually just wants me…

Why Lois Lane Told The World That Clark Kent Is Superman

It’s long been unclear who is the worse reporter: Clark Kent, who lies to his readers daily by not mentioning that he’s the guy he is always writing about, or Lois Lane, whose ability to recognize Kent’s true identity is kryptonited by a pair of glasses. Well, at least they won’t have those problems anymore.…

GTA V Mod Swaps Harmless Blimps For Mass Effect‘s Reapers

Grand Theft Auto V resident berdu captures a Reaper creepily hovering over Los Santos, thanks to a new mod that infuses a little Mass Effect into Rockstar’s game. JJxORACLE created the mod, though it’s currently in beta. It replaces the blimp currently floating around the game. The Reaper doesn’t have any collision detection, though, so…

Devil’s Third: The Kotaku Review

Probably the only thing that most people know about Devil’s Third is that it’s been in development for an unusually long time. Valhalla Game Studios’ debut started life as an Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 game, announced in late 2011 by publisher THQ, which has since folded. Back then, it was still a game that…

Konami Giving Away Mysteriously Autographed Metal Gear Solid V Posters

Remember when Konami took Hideo Kojima’s name off Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain? Oh, and dissolved the production company that bore his last name? What’s going on over at Konami is a bit of a mystery! Ditto for who signed some MGSV: TPP giveaway posters. If you’ve been paying attention for the past,…

Diablo‘s Tristram, Etched In Wood

Graphic designer Alex Griendling teamed up with Neutral Ground and created a unique, laser-etched, 18” wide and 14” tall wood map of Diablo’s most iconic town, Tristram. It looks fantastic and compared to the original, it’s a very accurate map. Everything, even the peg-legged smuggler Wirt is there. Tristram’s map is not only one they’ve…

Fans Build LEGO Battle of Waterloo With 2,134 Minifigs

The Battle of Waterloo, where Napoleon was defeated by an Anglo-allied force and the Prussian army, was fought 200 years ago. To commemorate the anniversary of one of the most famous battles in history, a group of LEGO enthusiasts decided to make a blocky version of the battle, as big and accurate as possible. It’s…

A retro, seventies-style Steven Universe poster, hand-drawn and digitally colored by artist couple Comfort Love and Adam Withers. Not much to say here, too busy staring in awe. For more, you can have a look at the artists’ DeviantArt galleries here and here Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of…

The First Gen Nintendo DS Is Alive and Trending on Japanese Twitter

Bulky. Heavy. Ugly. That was the original Nintendo DS. And just when you think that handheld was dead, it starts trending on Twitter in Japan. As Japanese website Dechisoku points out, this week, a tweet asking if people still had their original DS portables led to many Japanese Twitter users uploading photos of their Nintendo…