A One Of A Kind Toy Tribute To No Man’s Sky

Hello Games’ ambitious space shooterhas inspired many with its gorgeous visual and promise of endless procedurally-generated planets. Accomplished thing-makerToykyo Joechanneled that inspiration into one heck of a custom No Man’s Sky ship. Fitted with LED light effects and lovingly painted to resemble a ship that’s seen some serious shit in its days wandering the universe,…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Sword Art Online II Mother’s Rosario/Excaliber: the Ani-TAY Review • PHC’s Top 5 Gaming Complaints of 2014 • Your 3DS Year in Review: 2014 Edition • Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works S1 Ani-TAY Review/Discussion • Your Top __ Anime of 2014 Lists TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide…

Dota Heroes Illustrated In Disney Style

Artist Igor Artyomenko reimagined Crystal Maiden, Traxex the Drow Ranger, Windrunner and Lina the Slayer from Dota 2 and they now actually look like characters with personality. Especially love Windrunner and that piece’s color palette. Here they are. I love that these characters, compared to others in similar pieces, have more than 2 or 3…

Ten Years of WoW In Ten Comic Panels

A decade of not standing in fires. Dark Legacy Comics, who have been around for almost the same amount of time as WoW, and their latest comic strip are a summary of all the guild and community drama we’ve all witnessed over the years. And if you check below, the comic might suggest that early…

PlayStation Now Is Finally Getting Subscriptions

PlayStation Now, the exorbitantly expensive service that allows people to rent and play PS3 games on their PlayStation 4s, is finally taking steps to be… well, actually usable. Today Sony announced a new subscription plan for PlayStation Now that will cost far, far less than renting PS3 games piecemeal. The plan will launch on January…

Gaben Makes for a Glorious Dota 2 Shopkeeper

Dota 2’s New Bloom Festival will soon be underway, and the Dota team has invited players to participate by submitting items with a Chinese New Year theme to the Dota 2 workshop. That theme requirement obviously didn’t stop Down Limit, the man behind the Gaben shopkeeper skin, from putting his creation forward. There’s a video,…

In Space, No One Can Hear Your Gnarly Missile Jumps

We last featuredNick Carver’s work in 2012, when he was still involved in what would become Blizzard’s Overwatch. He’s since moved onto something with more robots in it. While still at Blizzard, in his spare time he’s now working on a project called Bounty Hacker, which will hopefully one day be a video game but…

Fake Nintendo ‘App’ Trailer Is A Nightmare From The Future

Imagine a future Nintendo. One that finally relents to shareholder pressure and starts releasing its games on mobile phones. This fake trailer tries to sell that future, and if you’re a Nintendo shareholder, it’s enough to get you weak at the knees. If you’re anyone else, though, reactions may be less pleasant. MarioLinkSamus made this…

Long-Lost Sega Commercial Is Almost TOO 90s

This 28-minute Sega CD commercial, masquerading as the pilot episode of a teen TV series, hasn’t been seen in decades. Almost as though it’s been waiting, beneath the dirt, for the world to finally be ready and able to process just how 90s it was. Dug up and uploaded by Chris Bieniek, every second of…

No Kotaku ‘Shop Contest this week. I’ll be out of town this coming weekend, so we’re going to give your collecting Photoshop skills a little rest to ease us into the new year.

The Week In Games: Happy New Year?

Unless you own a PlayStation 3 or Vita, you can skip the next few weeks. Truth be told, there are plenty of lovely indie games coming out on Steam over the next couple of weeks, but if I tried to keep track of every upcoming Steam release I would go insane. And so I stick…