“Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory gave me brain damage.” This short blog post by veteran game designer Clint Hocking about the stress and anxiety of game development is worth a read

In-Game Kickstarter Rewards Can Be… Distracting

Anyone who enjoyed isometric PC role-playing games like Baldur’s Gate will undoubtedly love Pillars of Eternity, which has taken over my life for the past few days. It’s really, really excellent. It’s also got some hilariously anomalous player-created names and messages, like the one you can see above. “I will either die by the wife…

Halo 5‘s Online Mystery Game Suggests Master Chief’s A Traitor

We’ve always thought of Master Chief as the savior of humanity in the Halo series, but the ARG kicking off for Halo 5: Guardians posits something much sinister: he’s a traitor. What’s an ARG? It stands for alternate reality game, and usually means it sends fans chasing from one end of the Internet to the…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number: The TAY Review • Your Lie in April: The Ani-TAY Review • On Trying (And Succeeding) to get Excited About Rock Band 4 • Why Doesn’t This Game Exist: Drudgeons and Diplomacy TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

Batman: Arkham Knight just got yet another delay—the upcoming superhero action game will now come out on June 23, the developers say. More time to polish that batsuit.

LEGO Matrix Lobby Shootout Improves On The Original

Not only has YouTube LEGO animator Snooperking painstakingly recreated the lobby shootout from The Matrix, he tweaked the ending to solve the movie trilogy’s main problem. Despite the fact that Neo and Trinty are technically slaughtering countless innocent comatose machine batteries on their way to rescue Morpheus from Agent Smith (it’s the smell, if there…

Playing Half-Life Upside Down Is One Confusing Trip

Half-Life veteran quadrazid decided to give the classic FPS a whole new perspective and turned everything upside down. Headcrabs are a bit easier to spot this way, but besides that, things just get more difficult and confusing. Quadrazid’s playthrough is still fast and smooth, though. But it’s not just hard when the ceiling becomes the…

About half of the studio behind Driveclub are getting laid off, according to Eurogamer. Created by veteran developers Evolution Studios, the PS4 exclusive racing game suffered an extremely rocky launch last year, but a series of updates improved Driveclub significantly. Contact the author at [email protected]

Some Sneakers Age Like Shit

One pair to rock, and one pair to stock, right? Sneakerheads might amass a large collection of shoes, with some pairs not aging like fine wine, but rather, falling apart. Above, you can see a pair of twenty-year-old Air Max 95s. Recently, Twitter user Nagomo Ojitried them on for the first time in twenty years,…

What To Expect From Nintendo’s New Hardware? A Surprise, Probably. 

We really don’t know much about Nintendo’s new hardware. It’s codenamed NX. It’s from Nintendo. And…well…That’s about it, really. However, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata recently offered what could be vague hints. Or not. In an interview with Nikkei, Iwata briefly mentioned the hardware, saying he wouldn’t go into particulars about the NX. “However, if you…

Brutal Half-Life Mod Soaks Gordon Freeman In Blood

If you’ve never heard of it, Brutal Doom is a mod that turns an already-violent shooter into something hilariously bloody and full of gibs. Well, Brutal Half-Life is that, only for Half-Life A first playable mod was made available for the project last week, and you can see a trailer for it below. To focus…