Smash Bros. Makes Mario Kart’s Most Notorious Items A Lot More Fun

As fanfiction, Super Smash Bros. takes bits and pieces from many different Nintendo games and weaves them together into a uniquely chaotic patchwork. It remains faithful to its source material, but only to a point. Some of the most interesting stuff the newest Smash repurposed came from Mario Kart, of all places. Mario Kart’s presence…

Kotaku Editor-In-Chief Here. Any Questions? [Q&A’s Done!]

It’s been a long time since I did one of these on-site Q&As, but let’s get one of these in for 2015, shall we? I’ll be answering questions here for the next 90 minutes or so. Fire away.

Microsoft’s Hologram Plans Apparently Leaked Back In 2012

Today, Microsoft announced Hololens, an ambitious new piece of hardware designed to make it so you can finally hang out IRL with Hatsune Miku. If that sounds familiar, that’s because it totally is: turns out we’ve kinda known about this for three years now. Way back in 2012, when everyone thought “Xbox One” meant the…

How The Subscription-Free Elder Scrolls Online Will Work

On March 17 the PC version of The Elder Scrolls Onlineditches subscription fees and gains the subtitle “Tamriel Unlimited.” What are we getting for free, and what does the change mean for existing players? In a live session streamed via Twitch earlier today, Pete Hines of Bethesda, game director Matt Firor and creative director Paul…

It Took 27 Minutes To Beat Destiny‘s Crota’s End On Hard Mode

The newest update to Destiny— that introduces a hard mode to the Crota’s End raid—has only been out for about two hours at the time of this writing, but a team of players has already beaten it. It doesn’t look like Invigorate—the team that was the first to complete the Vault of Glass raid on…

The Sex Games That Steam Censors

If you’ve paid any attention to the “Popular New Releases” tab on Steam, you might have noticed that lately, there’s been a big influx of anime games on the distribution platform. Featuring 2D babes, these games often let you romance and seduce scantily-clad characters. Warning: this post contains graphic sexual images that are not safe…

If you love horror games but can’t muster the courage to play them, I’m here to help. Over on my YouTube channel, I’ll be playing all sorts of horror games in the future. I’m kicking things off by trying to survive Five Nights at Wario’s. What could go wrong?!

Fable Legends Will Let Xbox One And PC Gamers Play Together

At today’s Windows 10 event, Microsoft and Lionhead Studios showed off the ability for Xbox One and PC users to play with (or against) one another across platforms in Fable Legends. The company didn’t mention whether this feature would be coming for any other games. It seems likely, though. As part of a news release,…

You’ll Be Able to Stream Your Xbox One Games to Any Windows 10 Device

The games that have been locked to Microsoft’s latest home console will now be able to live on other devices running the company’s upcoming operating system, Microsoft said today. During Microsoft’s Windows event today, Xbox lead executive Phil Spencer showed a live demo of new functionality that will let users stream Xbox One games to…

Game at Night Without Hurting Your Eyes, and More Deals

We’ve all heard that watching TV in the dark can be pretty tough on the eyes, but an ambient bias lighting setup can make the experience much more palatable. This basic USB-powered kit from Antec is only $16 today, and takes just a few seconds to install. Update: Amazon is showing this as temporarily out…

Hey PC gamers: Microsoft is holding a Windows 10 event in Seattle this morning that they say will have some interesting gaming news. You can watch the stream here or stay tuned to Kotaku for all the big news as it happens.

The Four Horsies Of The ‘Pocalpyse: The End Is Neigh

Hot on the hooves of last year’s successful Little Maddie Cthulhu Pony campaign, Bigshot Toyworks prepare to unleash the most adorable instruments of destruction ever. Meet the Four Horsies of the ‘Pocalypse. The adorably squid-headed Little Maddie (as seen on io9) was just the opening act to Bigshot Toys’ tongue-in-cheek My Little Pony parody, the…

How I Ran My Virtual Game Development Studio Into The Ground

I thought naming my company HyperLeoCorp would save it from any wrongdoing. Video game development simulator Mad Games Tycoon proved otherwise. As an early access game on Steam, Mad Games Tycoon isn’t finished. But even at this stage there’s plenty to get wrong. I mean, I still managed to put my own company into ruin,…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Saints Row IV: Gat Out of Hell: The TAY Review • Worst Anime Jobs: Mecha Pilot • Rockmandash Reviews: Anime Backlog Review Gauntlet #1 • Fabulous Fyst’s Trainime Winter Season Impressions Part 3 • A Whole New World: Stand-out Game Settings TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To…

The Elder Scrolls Online Is Ditching Subscriptions

The Elder Scrolls Online will get a little cheaper this year, with Bethesda removing the subscription fee in preparation for the console release on PS4 and Xbox One this June. This move has been expected for a long time now, as the online Elder Scrolls game failed to make much of a splash when it…

The games headlining Evo 2015 were announced last night, with two Smash Bros. games making it into the line-up. Noteworthy additions to this year’s installment of the world’s biggest fighting games tournament include Mortal Kombat X, Persona 4 Arena Ultimax, and Tekken 7