Slot Machines Might Soon Require Some Skill

It’s possible your next trip to Las Vegas could benefit from your many years of video game playing, Kotaku readers. The Las Vegas Sun reports the Nevada senate committee is currently mulling a bill that would would pave the way for regulators to allow games that reward skill. Here’s how the publication puts it: “That…

Makeup Wizard Turns Himself Into Dragon Ball Z’s Frieza

Cosplay doesn’t always need costumes, or props. Sometimes, all you need is makeup.* Watch as Pinkstylist transforms himself into Dragon Ball Z’s greatest villain, using make-up to make himself look like he came right out of the anime. It’s fantastic, if not a little weird—Frieza looks so life-like, but those aren’t his mannerisms, nor is…

Evolve On PC vs PS4 vs Xbox One

It’s time for another graphical throw-down, this time featuring thelatest big monster hunting game,Evolve. GameSpot brings us a graphics comparison video, where you can note the differences between all the versions of Evolve. Overall, there don’t seem to be huge differences between the versions—they all look great—but, if you’d like to view the fearsome monster…

The White House Is Trying To Sell Obamacare To Gamers

The deadline for getting health insurance through Obamacare is February 15, and the White House has enlisted heavy hitters from the eSports community to encourage players to sign up. The White House explained how this came about in a blog post today, too: “Don’t know what eSports is? You should. Electronic sports — or eSports…

Alien: Isolation had a really cool save-game system. In a new postmortem over at Gamasutra, Creative Assembly’s Gary Napper talks about how that system came to be

How To Make Darkest Dungeon Easier (Or Harder)

Darkest Dungeon is remarkably polished for a Steam Early Access game, but it’s also remarkably difficult. Some would even say that, in its current (evil) larval phase, it’s too difficult—to the point of being unfair or un-fun. Thank goodness for mods. A modder who goes by the handle Maester Silvio has taken apart Steam’s out-of-nowhere…

New Superman Story Tries to Re-Write Man of Steel Movie’s Big Mistake

Superman: Earth One – Volume 3 is not a good comic-book story. But it’s one that stands in direct opposition to the sorta-okay Superman movie that came out in 2013. It pushes back at that thing that happened in the movie. You know, the thing that pissed off a lot of Superman fans. (That was…

Big Layoffs At EverQuest Studio Today [UPDATE]

Daybreak, the game studio behind EverQuest and H1Z1, is laying off a number of staff including David Georgeson, the man who has served as the face of EverQuest for many years, Kotaku has learned. We don’t know just how many people Daybreak is letting go, as staff are being informed right now whether or not…

Razer Blade Clearance, $10 Amiibo, Night at the Movies, and More Deals

I had the pleasure of demoing a Razer Blade about a year ago, and I couldn’t believe how close it came to the slim profile and solid build quality of a MacBook Pro. Plus, you know, graphics. A new model just came out, which means the old ones (which still have very impressive specs) are…

The Next Hitman Movie Doesn’t Try to Make Agent 47 A Hero

You know what? When you have an assassin as the central character of your movie, he doesn’t necessarily need to be a good guy. He can be one hell of a villain. If you were fearing the worst for Agent 47, then you might be pleasantly surprised by the trailer for the upcoming Hitman adaptation.…

Smite Season Two Gives Players A Lovely New Place To Kill Each Other

Free-to-play third-person MOBA Smite isentertaining enough to watch, but when all the competition is focused around a single map, the scenery can get old pretty quick. With today’s launch of the Season Two update, players have a much prettier place to die. While the Season Two update introduces some new items to the game and…

Miiverse Is Full Of Great Majora’s Mask Fan Art

The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask for 3DS is almost here, which means the hype train is in overdrive, and Nintendo’s doing everything it can to get people interested in Link’s revamped adventure. The company’s throwing an art competition on the Miiverse, kicked off by series producer Eiji Aonuma himself, and it’s resulted in some…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Kingdom Hearts Re:Chain of Memories: The TAY Review & A Complete Gameplay Breakdown • The Information Cube: Do We Live Our Fiction? • Final Fantasy 3. Not 6, 3 – Part 3 • Pokémon One a Day Series Two: Togepi, Togetic, Natu, Xatu TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s…

A Lucky Way To Start Diablo III

This is what a painfully lucky encounter with Diablo III’s random number generator looks like. Player duslol not only got a rare Conduit Pylon with its zapping instant-kill buffs right at the entrance of an end-game dungeon, but an even rarer pack of Treasure Goblins next to it, all standing in a narrow hallway, ending…