Jupiter Ascending, What Are You Doing

I haven’t seen Jupiter Ascending. I’ve only seen its concept art. I’m guessing it’s a movie about “holy shit what is happening there are space things and what”. We’ve seen some art from the movie before, but today we’re looking at the contributions of Adam Kuczek, an artist who has also worked on stuff like…

Cities: Skyline’s Mods Are Already Going Crazy With Road Porn

Cities: Skylines hasn’t even been out for a week and already the game’s selection of mods is becoming overwhelming. Some of these mods are great, and genuinely add worthwhile new content to the base experience! Most, however, seem to cater towards one thing: road porn. By ⊁ĴōｿﾞŚťĪ⊄Ӄ⊀ Oh, don’t roll your eyes. We’re not talking…

A Horror Game That Haunts Your Phone When You’re Not Playing

Because why only be creeped out some of the time when you can be horrified all the time? 1214 is a PC horror game that might, at first glance, look pretty familiar. You roam forlorn hallways positively dripping with dread, acutely aware that something terrible is gonna happen at some point. You just don’t know…

The Goat From Goat Simulator Would Make An Excellent Dota 2 Courier

The “courier” is a specific type of ally minion in Dota 2: one that carries stuff to you when you’re too busy fighting in lane to make that tiresome trek back to your base. So imagine playing Dota 2, one of the hardest games ever created. You’re in the heat of battle, wondering if you…

The Biggest Counter-Strike Event Yet

Over the weekend, all eyes were on Counter-Strike. Well, maybe not all eyes, but more than a million pairs of them—at once, no less. This year’s Counter-Strike: Global Offensive ESL One Katowice event managed to smash previous CS eSports records, topping out at more than a million concurrent viewers—700,000 on Twitch and heaps more in-game.…

Track: Crew Love | Artist: Drake, The Weeknd | Album: Take Care Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

One Crucial Tip For Surviving GTA Online‘s Heists

Last week, GTA Online added 4-player cooperative heists. If you’ve been waiting until now to hop in and start playing, I’ve got a tip that’ll make it much easier to survive your first big score: Pack lots of snacks. In some ways, GTA Online works just like the regular, offline GTA V. The map is…

Ronin: The Basics

What is it? Ronin, a turn-based action/platformer hybrid where you play as a teenage ninja girl who needs to plan her moves very carefully. Who is making it? One-man dev studio Tomasz Waclawek Here’s a trailer… Did we play it? Nope, but we took in a live demo at PAX East in Boston two weeks…

​Welp, I’ve Spent More Than $250 On League Of Legends

Hello. My name is Yannick, and I have a problem. It’s called spending money in League of Legends. It started out innocently enough a few weeks back. I wanted to purchase Shyvana, a tanky fighter I’d grown accustomed to using when she was on League’s free champion rotation the week prior. Unlocking her as a…

Five Nights at Freddy’s, Built In Halo

This isn’t your typical Five Nights at Freddy’s clone game. Built entirely in Halo 2, this take on Five Nights at Freddy’s makes the horror game a hell of a lot more combat-oriented. As this video by RecklessRiley shows, the mini-game starts out with a phone call, just like the actual FNAF games do. And…

GTA Players Beat All of The Heists Without Ever Dying

GTA Online’s “Heists” update has a special challenge that most players will find impossible to pull off. Called the “Mastermind Challenge,” the task requires players to complete every heist in order, with the same team members, on hard, with no deaths. At all. No pressure! This weekend, the challenge was completed for the first time…