Car Shuffleboard Is The Goofiest New Way To Play Rocket League

In the unlikely event that Rocket League becomes boring, these players have come up with a new way to play the game. “If you’re tired of the peasantry that is Rocket League,” said car soccer aficionado onezealot in a reddit thread, “the crude back-and-forth, the passive aggressive ‘What a save!’’s, and the unrefined tactics, I…

Donald Trump Would Be the Worst Batman

Gotham City would be screwed if Donald Trump wore the Dark Knight’s cape and cowl. Bruce Wayne has a lot of money and a helicopter. Donald Trump has a lot of money and a helicopter. Over the weekend, this facile similarity emboldened the billionaire enough to permanently traumatize a 6-year-old child and America’s Favorite Racist…

Super Mario Maker’s Title Screen Is Full Of Easter Eggs

This game cannot come soon enough. Early copies of Super Mario Maker are beginning to land in the hands of press outlets (look for more from Kotaku very soon!), which means we’re about to learn way more about the game. I personally don’t have a copy of the game yet, so I’ve found myself watching…

Arkham Knight PC Mod Lets You Play as the Joker in His Prime

Move over, Batman. Gotham belongs to the Joker now. WARNING: Spoilers follow for Batman: Arkham Knight’s story. If you own the hobbled PC version of the newest Batman game, a mod created by modder Tchi6 will you play as Batman’s archenemy, as he appears in a flashback sequence early in the game. As well-read Bat-fans…

Four Days In, ‘Twitch Plays Dark Souls‘ Is A Beautiful Disaster

If getting stuck in a pool for hours because you can’t climb a ladder is a mark of progress, then Twitch Plays Dark Souls is killing it. If you’re not familiar with the “Twitch Plays” phenomenon of the last year or so, it started in February 2014 with Pokemon Red. By typing in commands into…

RPG Lets You Fight Heroes As A Random Monster

Over the past few years, comedy role-playing games have gone in all sorts of creative directions, letting players take on a range of jobs from shopkeeperto basketball player. Here’s one that lets you live the ultimate fantasy: playing as a level-one random encounter. Mediocre Monster, a pitch for a game that’ll be on Kickstarter in…

Volume: The Kotaku Review

Thomas Was Alone, Mike Bithell’s charming 2010 platformer about the inner lives of hopping geometric shapes, was an experiment in the power of storytelling to triumph over abstraction. Volume, Bithell’s new game, is also a successful experiment in abstraction, although the narrative is realistic, or realistic science fiction. This time, it’s the interactions that are…

Here’s No Man’s Sky’s Ship Made Out of LEGO

No Man’s Sky looks glorious. It’s a space exploration game that gives you a galaxy teeming with planets waiting to be visited. While the surface of each planet will be different, your means of getting there stays the same: a trusty single-seater spaceship. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK It’s that spaceship which Matt…

The Correct Way To Cut Attack on Titan Cake

The Attack on Titan live-action movie isn’t very good. That doesn’t mean it’s not making lots of money. Funny, that. Widely panned in Japan, the Attack on Titan movie has been racking up a decent enough box office—enough, at least, for a press conference to show gratitude for the movie’s “smash hit” status (as well…

Gundam Designer Creates a Mecha Inspired Car

Kunio Okawara is one of Japan’s most famous mecha designers. For years, he’s created iconic machines for Gundam anime. Now, he’s turning his talents to designing an electric car. The two-seater, named Ex Machina, was shown earlier this year at a retrospective of Okawara’s 40-year career. According to Okawara (via AmiAmi), the vehicle “should be…

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