First Star Wars Battlefront Details Emerge

The third Star Wars Battlefront—just called Star Wars Battlefront—will be out on November 17 for PC, Xbox One, and PS4. It’ll take place during the original film trilogy and let people play as iconic characters like Boba Fett and Darth Vader, according to an AP report. It’ll also let you go to a planet from…

Kotaku Asks: An Anonymous PR Person For A Major Video Game Publisher [Q&A Over]

Today on Kotaku Asks we’ve got a very special treat: a professional public relations person is here to answer your questions about what it’s really like behind the scenes at a major video game publisher. Our PR professional has to remain anonymous so he or she can stay a PR professional, but what we can…

The Beauty Of Street Fighter‘s Parry

Hadouken, Shoryuken, Sonic Boom… Street Fighter’s moves are as iconic as the characters that wield them, but one move in particular has had a greater impact on both the Street Fighter series and its competitive gaming history than any of those—the parry. Parrying was introduced in Street Fighter III, which was released way back in…

Custom LEGO Star Wars Sandcrawler Gets The Size Right

If the official 3,296-piece version of the Jawa’s desert vehicle wasn’t big enough, here’s a colossal one built by Peter Brookdale As you can see in the video shared by The Brick Show, it’s not just a big chunk of brown bricks. but a rather detailed version with working tracks and a ramp. To contact…

How Tanaan Jungle, World of Warcraft‘s New Outdoor Zone, Looks

Tanaan Jungle, the closed max level zone of Draenor, opens up in patch 6.2. While it’s far from being completed, YouTuber Khamúl made an awesome clip showing how it currently looks. Even though it’s a relatively early version, you can already see it’ll be savage, something like a mixture of Un’Goro Crater and Shadowmoon Valley…

That Movie With Naruto’s Kid Gets a Trailer

Boruto: Naruto the Movie, which stars Naruto’s son, ahem, Boruto, gets its first trailer. Here, have a look. It also features Sasuke’s daughter, Sarada. Here is the trailer without subtitles: And, via YouTube user HystericalGameZ, with: Whaddaya think? Boruto: Naruto the Movie opens in Japan this August. To contact the author of this post, write…

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Drawing Spaceships The Old-Fashioned Way

Jeff Zugale is a concept artist who has been working in and around the video game business for over a decade. Currently at Blind Squirrel Games, he’s also done ad work on series like Call of Duty and Super Mario. He’s currently giving me vivid high school flashbacks with a project where he’s drawing one…

The Best Steam Theme

Sometimes, The Bests covers the big stuff. Other times, like today, it’s the small stuff. Confession: I ask a lot of my platforms and services. I don’t just like them to work well, I like them to look good while doing it. So Steam has forever been in my bad books: it works just fine,…

Giant Pokemon Roams The Deep, Murdering All The Fish

Artist RJ Palmer has been doing the whole “realistic Pokemon” thing for a while now, but it’s usually been a case of “oh wow that’s neat”, not “ahhhhh God I’m never going in the ocean again”. His latest work is the legendary Pokemon Kyogre, who is normally a pretty sleek, futuristic-looking fish, but who is…

David Hasselhoff’s New Music Video, In GIFs

Have you watched the video for True Survivor, from the Kung Fury soundtrack? You should. It’s kind of amazing. David Hasselhoff taps into the 80s for this video (music by Mitch Murder), which is also full of fun video game references. If you liked Hotline Miami or Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon, you’ll definitely want…

OK, so almost everyone in Final Fantasy dresses terribly, but Nick Wanserski at AV Club makes a pretty strong case for Tidus being the absolute worst. Why? The wallet chain is not helping.