There’s Metal Gear Solid Hiding In This Week’s My Little Pony

Apparently Snake’s box hiding box isn’t as fool-proof as we thought. Even Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima managed to spot it. It’s no secret the makers of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic love their video game references, like last year’s BioShock Infinite Easter egg. And this isn’t the first time Metal Gear Solid…

Sunday Comics: Spontaneous Cookie Generation

Welcome to Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira. Published May 13. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published May 11. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…

Puzzle & Dragons Z’s Freedom Bores Me

After years of dealing with the stamina restrictions and constant rotation of powerful paid content in the mobile version of Puzzle & Dragons, the pay once, play forever structure of Puzzle & Dragons Z for the Nintendo 3DS sounded like a dream. Sometimes dreams are stupid. Behind the annoying microtransactions and frustrating, play-limiting stamina bar…

How To Get The Most Out Of Destiny’s Cool New Bounties

If you played Destiny anytime in the last 24 hours, you found a surprise waiting for you in the Tower. The Queen’s Wrath is back! (Okay, it probably wasn’t a total surprise, given that you had to download a big update first. And the game greeted you with a huge announcement pop-up informing you about…

Konami could suck worse. Sure, the future of the Silent Hill franchise is uncertain, its recent high-profile project canned. AsRedditor Imbarkus and friends demonstrate with this nightmarish image, Konami’sincreased focus on mobile could lead to the scariest Silent Hill yet.

The Legen-Dree First Five Minutes Of Not A Hero

Warning: Playing just five minutes of Roll7’s Not A Hero can result in facial detonation euphoria and the random affectation of a horrific British accent. Ask your doctor if Not A Hero is right for you. Because over-the-top violence is just fine when it’s pixels, Not A Hero is a gleeful romp through the innards…

This Week In The Business: $3.7 Million A Day

STAT | $3.7 million – Amount of revenue Mixi’s mobile game Monster Strike made per day last quarter, according to the company’s earnings report; that’s an increase of 829% in revenue over the previous year’s quarter Elsewhere in the business of gaming this week… QUOTE | “Smartwatch is going to be a meaningful sector for…

Steam Game Wants To Be Diablo Meets Skyrim

Umbra, eh? I like the sound of this one. Problem is, it sounds almost too good to be true. Umbra is an action-RPG that aims to fuse the open-world freedom of Skyrim with the top-down hack ‘n’ slash combat and character progression of Diablo. It is also, as you may have noticed, gorgeous. It looks…

Triple Zombie Headshot, Aww Yeah

On today’s Highlight Reel we have heroic shots, Zombie headshots, GTA stunts, traffic jams and more! Watch the video above, then link any of your favorite highlights in the comments, and be sure to check out, like and subscribe the original videos via the links below. Project CARS – Too many cars for Monaco –…

Destiny Clan Takes Dancing To A Whole New Level

Anyone can dance in Destiny—the emote is one simple button press away. But nobody can dance quite like these guys can. That’s because the Husky Raid guys straight up choreograph their dance parties. They even add a lighting show element to it—and it makes for a spectacular view, as you can see in this video…

Darth Vader’s Got A Mystery Enemy In The Latest Star Wars Comic

By the time that Star Wars happens, the Jedi are practically extinct throughout all the galaxy. But in the latest issue of the Darth Vader comic, the Dark Lord of the Sith faces up against people wielding lightsabers. Not his son. Something far more sinister. (Spoilers follow. Hover over the top left of each image…

Guillermo Del Toro Says Dead Video Games Have Left Him ‘Reeling’

The man behind Pan’s Labyrinth and Pacific Rim has had two big-deal video game projects crumble into nothing all around him. He’s kind of doubtful about ever trying to make another one. Can you blame him? Folks everywhere are mourning the sudden stoppage of development for Silent Hills, the title that would’ve followed up on…

Kotaku Asks: Video Game Personality Greg Miller [Q&A Over]

In January, Greg Miller quit his cushy job at IGN to go indie. Although it seemed like a risky move at the time, things have worked out for the longtime video game personality and his friends, who doubled down on video-making and podcasting and now rake in over $45,000 a month via Patreon support for…

‘Sodomize Me Jesus’ And Other Crazy Video Game Stories

Hoo-boy, have you guys done some insane things in the name of gaming! I asked you guys to share some stories of the great lengths you’ve gone through for games, gaming systems, gaming lifestyles…and you certainly did deliver. Here’s a hand-picked selection of some of the, uh, ‘best’ ones, edited for clarity. Never stop being…