The next Carmageddon game, Carmageddon: Reincarnation, leaves Early Access and launches on Steam on April 23, almost 15 years after the series’ last game. There’s a launch trailer above (it’s about as bloody as you’d expect), and you can head here for the announcement, which has a features list for the final release.

They’re Making A Yakuza Stage Play

They already had a live-action movie and a TV show, so I guess a stage adaptation was only a matter of time. Next month, Sega’s popular video game, Ryu ga Gotoku (龍が如く) – or as it’s better known in the west, Yakuza – will be getting a stage adaptation. The stage adaptation, which will be…

Today, Square Enix announced that Final Fantasy XI service for the PS2 and Xbox 360 will end in March 2016. However, it will continue for the PC version.

Cooking Bacon with Machine Guns Is Delicious and Lethal

Let’s say you find yourself hungry with loads of uncooked bacon and an…assault rifle. Add lots and lots of bullets, and you have yourself a tasty bacon meal. A couple YouTubers have shown how to make machine gun bacon. It looks like wrapping the bacon in tinfoil is the most effective (wiring bacon to the…

Final Fantasy XI Gets Smartphone Version and New Spin-Off [Updated]

With the amount of money smartphone games make, this shouldn’t be that surprising. But Square Enix is bringing a version of Final Fantasy XI to smartphones. It’s called Final Fantasy XI Mobile. There’s also a new FFXI spin-off title called Final Fantasy Grandmasters. Update: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that Final Fantasy…

Why Does Link Cry In Majora’s Mask? It’s…Pretty Dark

OK, so every time Link puts on a mask in Majora’s Mask, he makes a kinda screaming sound. If you ever wondered why—maybe he’s just really excited!—well, a Nintendo employee has an answer. Chatting with fans on Miiverse, a Nintendo rep/developer posing as the Happy Mask Shop guy from Majora’s Mask says (via @mnemosynekurai) “It’s…

Screw CGI, This War Movie Used 15,000 Real Soldiers

We may never see a movie like 1970's Waterloo again

Elite: Dangerous Honors Terry Pratchett With Discworld Space Station

Last week, revered author Terry Pratchett, best known for his brilliantly witty, insightful, and incisive Discworld series, passed away after a battle with Alzheimer’s. The makers of Elite: Dangerous have created a whole space station in his honor. The space sim’s latest patch added a location called Pratchett’s Disc starport. If you want to check…

Track: Courtesy | Album: PRhyme | Artist: PRhyme Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

Getting A Bot ‘Turned On’ With Fake Sexts

I just spent the past 15 minutes trying to fool a bot into thinking blurry phone pics of my elbow crease were steamy photos of the world’s greatest butt. That, in a nutshell, is Sext Machine. Offworld came across the amusing oddity, which you play by texting an actual phone number (text “;)” to 669 333-SEXT…