10 Reasons Why Link From Zelda is Actually Kind of a Dick

Link, the green-capped hero from The Legend of Zelda series, is one of gaming’s most enduring, best loved, and iconic creations. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK Fans have gladly followed the stoic elven hero throughout the years on his journeys across the land of Hyrule from their humble 8-bit beginnings, to save the…

Compared to the Original, Dragon’s Dogma Online Will Be a Huge Game

Capcom will be releasing a new online open world action RPG this year based on its 2012 release, Dragon’s Dogma Announced in this week’s Weekly Famitsu, Dragon’s Dogma Online is made to essentially be the original Dragon’s Dogma, but fully online. The game was initially developed in parallel to the expansion, Dragon’s Dogma Dark Arisen,…

Starbound’s big Winter Update, titled Upbeat Giraffe, went live on Steam overnight. Head over here for the full list of changes and additions, which is rather long—understandable, considering they worked on this patch for nearly a year.

I am Bread is Coming to iOS… Somehow

No idea how this is going to work but Bossa has announced an iOS version of I am Bread. Also re-announced are the new garage level and a new mode, Cheesehunt, staring a crispbread. They’ll apparently definitely be out this Friday, after missing a release last week. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK There’s…

These Aren’t School Test Doodles. They’re Art. 

Exam papers aren’t only for test taking. In South Korea, they’re for drawing. Previously, Kotaku has covered interesting schoolbook doodles (here, here, here, and, um, here). Some of the tests are finished and scored. Some are blank, save for the added illustrations. In Korean, these are called “test examination scribbles” (시험지낙서). That’s not exactly an…

Get Your Ass To Mars (And Maybe Play This Game)

Hey, it’s Soren Johnson, of Civ III & IV fame! And now he and his team are making a new strategy game, called Offworld Trading Company, which is a very literal title for a game that’s about trading on a world that is not this one. It looks pretty cool! Like an RTS, only instead…

Old Video Game Press Releases Were Cool

These days, press releases are awful things. Full of subject lines like MEDIA ALERT, obnoxious jargon and endless fine print. Back in 1990, things were a lot simpler. This is a photoof a press release for Rubicon, a shooter released for the Atari ST, Amiga and Commodore 64. It’s set in the distant future of…

Nintendo’s Kick-Ass 1966 Board Game

Before they made video games, Nintendo made loads of other sweet stuff. One of the sweetest was this Ultraman board game, which has art that looks as awesome today as it did in 1966. As you can see in the gallery on Before Mario, the game — released using the old “Nintendo Game” logo —…

We Talk About The Witcher 3‘s Sex, Hair, And Open World

I got to play the first few hours of The Witcher 3, and so did Kotaku UK’s own ruthless god-commander, Keza MacDonald. Per UN mandate, this meant we were required to talk about it. Watch the video to hear our thoughts on open-world stuff, combat, the series’ progress in portraying sex, and more. For those…

A Badass Supernatural Steampunk Fight

If you have a couple of minutes to spare, you need to watch this visually stunning fight that breaks out between cowboy skulls and steampunk humans. Trust me. While watching, I didn’t even realize that this was a music video—I just thought it was an awesome short film or something. But no, this is actually…

Meet Magic: The Gathering‘s First Trans Character

Over the years, there have been thousands of Magic: The Gathering cards, many with their own characters and mini-stories. Only one, however, is trans, and this one is pretty darn cool. Though most players don’t dig into the collectible card game god emperor’s mythos, they’re expansive—untapped lands open for exploration. Sometimes it’s generic fantasy, sometimes…

Torchlight 2 is FINALLY coming to Mac. I know at least a few of you have been waiting years for this one. It’ll be out Monday on Steam.