Yep, Gigantic Still Looks Pretty Cool 

If there’s a new trailer for Gigantic, I’m compelled to watch the whole thing from start to finish. Gigantic is a team-based action game coming from James Phinney, the lead designer on StarCraft, in which tiny combatants fight alongside huge monsters. It’s supposed to arrive on both Xbox One and PC sometime later this year,…

Once Again, The Story Behind League of Legends’ Newest Hero Is Nonsense

Riot released an animated short yesterday that gives a backstory for The Bard, League of Legends’ newest incoming champion. Like all things League, the film is very cool. So cool, in fact, that you might find yourself thinking: “Hey, I bet this game has a killer story!” But what is that story? I have no…

Humble Monochromatic Bundle, $8 Gaming Mouse, and More Deals

Humble is back with another weekly bundle. This time around, you get up to seven games with monochromatic art styles, and of course, you pay what you want. [Humble Monochromatic Bundle] Monoprice is currently taking 15% off almost any order of $1,000 or less. Pair that with Monoprice’s already low prices, and you can create…

Hearthstone‘s Next Adventure Is Called Blackrock Mountain

Big news for Hearthstone fans out of PAX East already! The card game’s getting a new adventure in April called Blackrock Mountain, and it’s got five wings, 17 bosses, and 31 cards. Wanna see the new CG trailer? There’s also news on the phone-sized version of Hearthstone, which the company apparently showed off during its…

Anyone Up For Virtual Reality Lightsabers?

Drawing crowds at this year’s Game Developers Conference, this is motion control company Sixense’s forthcoming STEM System for virtual reality motion control. It’s working here with an Oculus Rift. The lightsaber demo is by no means Lucas/Disney-official, but it sure is an an enticing way to show what you could get if you combine VR…

Batman vs. Darth Vader: The Rematch

All you people who cried foul at the end of that brawl where Darth Vader and Batman threw down on the Death Star, this one’s for you. Bat in the Sunwent and made another version of their popular Super Power Beat Down episode that pit Batman vs. Darth Vader few months back. Since it’s an…

Something’s Wrong With Resident Evil’s Season Pass On PS4 [UPDATE]

I’ve received a bunch of comments from readers reporting they can’t play the second episode of Resident Evil: Revelations 2 on PlayStation 4, despite buying the season pass. It looks like they aren’t alone, and Capcom’s admitted there are issues. UPDATE (12:20 pm): Capcom told me it’s aware customers are having issues, and it’s working…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: The Real Impact of Source 2 • Where to Start with Anime: An Overly Specific Guide • What I Finished in February • Spacemon: A Pokémon Tabletop Story, Vol. 2: Chapter 14, Chapter 15 • Pokémon One a Day Series 2: Yanma, Wooper, Quagsire TAY Classic—TAY Open…

The Atari Action Figures We Never Had

Dan Polydoris from The Chicago Toy Collector toyed with classic 80s Kenner Star Wars figures and reforged them as a set of Atari characters, similar to what you can see on the boxes. A line-up of action figures (and maybe a few vehicles) based on these games could have been fun, sitting next to all…

What Obi-Wan’s Ghost Should Have Done

Instead of giving Luke life lessons about The Force, some haunting would have gotten the job done a lot faster. Dorkly’s Star Wars short has the most annoying Obi-Wan ghost who also likes to remind Darth Vader about his Hayden Christensen phase. To contact the author of this post, write to: [email protected]

Now This Is a Smart Anime Gag

There are lots of visual gags in anime. Some are funny! Some are not. But few are this biting about the anime industry itself. Here, you can see frames from a recent episode of Shirobako, an anime about, well, making an anime. Shirobako gives an inside look at how anime is made. The most recent…

Sickness Masks Get Real and Somewhat Freaky

You didn’t ask for this, but here you go: a Japanese sickness mask that looks like a woman’s face. In Japan, people try to combat pollen—as well as sickness—with masks. When you get sick, the proper thing to do is wear a mask so you don’t get others sick. If you are worried about getting…

Dragon Quest Heroes is Part Dynasty Warriors, Part Tower Defense

Coming from a partnership between Square Enix and Koei-Tecmo’s Omega Force, it’s no surprise that Dragon Quest Heroes plays a lot like Dynasty Warriors. What is surprising, however, is how much it resembles tower defense games. From the moment you start playing, Dragon Quest Heroes is clearly cast in the same mold as many a…

Instead Of Skipping A Credits Sequence, Let’s Study One

Felix Mack works at Nightjar, a studio that specialises in motion graphics. You know the animation/footage that plays behind an artist when they’re on stage? Or the menus on a DVD? Or the credits sequence for a video game? Yeah, they do that Felix in particular did the end sequence for Sunset Overdrive, which was…