Nvidia’s New Shield Console Is Nothing To Get Excited About

Last night at the 2015 Game Developers Conference, Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang said he was announcing three things—a revolutionary television, a game console and a supercomputer. He actually revealed an Android console, the third Nvidia device in two years to carry the Shield name. Yay? Having teased the announcement for the better part of a…

A New World Record For Beating Super Mario 64 With No Stars

Did you know it’s possible to beat Super Mario 64 without ever getting a single star? Ah, the wonders of speedrunning. As spotted by Digg, here’s run by akira06072525 where they manage to beat Super Mario 64 in 6 minutes 54 seconds with zero stars. This feat is accomplished via glitching, yes, which allows akira…

Valve’s Changed The Steam Controller Again

As Valve continues to tweak its own controller, GDC has another look at the evolving peripheral. Kotaku boss Stephen Totilo snapped this photo while walking around the show today. We should have a closer look at it—and whatever else Valve is showing at GDC—later this week! Remember when the Steam controller looked like this? You…

A Graphic Novel That Shows The Creepy And Awesome Sides Of Nerd Culture

Many comic books are fantasies, filled with feats and adventures that ordinary people wish they could pull off. But some of those fantasies can also invoke sex and violence in ways that make folks feel icky. And if you’re the one turning out those stories, what happens when you’re burnt out doing the thing you…

How Big Is No Man’s Sky?

For years now, scientists, journalists, and other truth-seekers have dedicated their waking hours to answering one single question: Is the video game No Man’s Sky gonna be big? If so, how big will it be? Investigators around the world, including some right here at Kotaku, have spent the last two years trying to solve this…

Microsoft HoloLens Designer Killed In Hit-And-Run

Mike Ey, a 30-year-old software engineer for Microsoft’s HoloLens, was killed in a hit-and-run accident over the weekend, according to the local Seattle station Kiro TV. According to Kiro TV (via NeoGAF), local police said that Ey was rear-ended by another driver who was speeding “over 100 miles an hour” while driving on the highway…

Wasteland 2 was announced for Xbox One yesterday, and it’s been announced for PlayStation 4 today. There’s no release date for the console versions yet.

If you want to use an Xbox One controller on your PC without USB, Microsoft announced at GDC today that it’s shipping a wireless adapter later this year.

How To Get The Good Ending In Five Nights at Freddy’s 3

Unlike previous Five Nights games, Five Nights at Freddy’s 3 has multiple endings. There is a bad ending, where you beat the game and the animatronics continue being haunted. And there is a good ending, where you put the spirits of the dead children to rest. You want to put the children to rest, so…

Elite: Dangerous is coming to Xbox One this summer, Microsoft’s Phil Spencer announced today at GDC. Unexpected!

Unreal Engine 4 Is Awfully Good At Rendering Kites, Emotions

Unreal Engine 4 is now free for anyone to tinker with, so at the Game Developers Conference today, Epic Games debuted an impressive real-time demo to show it off. Hold onto your kites… The company says this is running in real-time at 30 frames-per-second, a way to demonstrate the worlds developers can dream up and…

Screamride Is Great, But Players Are Making It Even Better

Is Frontier Development’s Xbox-exclusive amusement ride builder worth a play? That depends—how strong is your stomach? I played some Screamride live over the weekend, and I was impressed with two out of three of the game’s career tracks. I’m not much of a builder, so finishing up pre-built coasters in the Engineer mode wasn’t my…

Extra 10% Off Consoles, New PlayStation Store Sale, and More Deals

Groupon is taking an extra 20% off local deals, or 10% off getaways and goods today with code TRIPLE. This works sitewide, but here are a few suggestions from the gaming world: Get 20% off any Groupon Local Deal or 10% off any Groupon Good with Code TRIPLE The Last of Us Remastered Digital-Download ($18)…

Dying Light will get its long-awaited “hard mode” on March 10th, Techland said today. Can’t wait! In addition to that free update, a $5 “Survivor Bundle” will also be released, giving players three additional character skins and four new weapons.