Resident Evil: Revelations 2 Lets You Kill People With Dance

Gestures are usually a silly way to communicate with other players or celebrate, but in Resident Evil: Revelations 2, dancing can have killer consequences. Literally! Dancing can kill people. What’s up with the health bars? This is Raid Mode, an RPG-influenced part of Revelations 2 where you fight waves of enemies, pick up loot, and…

Humble Japanese Bundle, BOGO Ubisoft Games, and More Deals

We’ve got ourselves another Humble Weekly Bundle. This time around, you can pay what you want for a collection of games from Japanese developers. [Humble Made in Japan Bundle] Ubisoft has taken its share of lumps recently, which might explain why Target is doing a rare BOGO sale on select titles. Still, if you see…

House Of Cards Season 3 Trades Killzone For Indie Games

Season three of the wonderfully addictive House of Cards launched on Netflix today, and in it, the devious Frank Underwood reveals his true colors… as an indie gamer. No big spoilers for the new season here—unless you really don’t want to know what games Frank’s into these days—but it turns out President Underwood has put…

Hyrule Warriors Will Let You Wreak Havoc As A Giant Chicken

The final piece of DLC for Hyrule Warriors won’t be available for most people until March 12, but Japan’s already playing the game’s Boss Pack. If you accomplish a specific and special task, the game rewards you with the chance to play as one of Zelda‘s most fiendish villains: the cucoo. YouTuber moccos-tan Isedelica discovered…

Sony Accidentally Loses List Of PS4 Contest Winners 

Late last year in Japan, Sony held a pretty neat contest—people who bought a PS3, a PS4, a Vita, or a Vita TV between December 4 and January 15 could get a calendar with a special code that gave them a chance to snag one of those limited-edition 20th-anniversary PS4s, the ones that have been…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Pre-Cult: Saints Row: Gat out of Hell • Confessions of an Aging Gamer • Bulk up or Stretch it out: Spacing Serialized Stories • Indie HYPE: Infinifactory TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

Fan-Built TARDIS Makes The Doctor Who LEGO Set Complete

Although LEGO has an official Doctor Who set in the works with the TARDIS and minifigs, it won’t include the huge interior of the otherwise tiny telephone box time machine. So Thorsten “Xenomurphy” Bonsch built one to make the set complete. It is the 11th Doctor’s (Matt Smith, who was the Doctor from early 2010…

Notice anything different about Mortal Kombat X‘s Scorpion? As first shown in the tie-in comic, the demonic teleporting ninja sure looks a lot more human in the newest teaser for Netherrealm’s upcoming fighting game.

How To Get All The World of Warcraft Garrison Jukebox Music Rolls

With patch 6.1 World of Warcraft got a Jukebox that plays custom music while we’re hanging out in our Garrison. The gadget itself is easy to assemble, but finding all the tunes for it will take some time. Bellular has a nice video showing all the locations for all 40 tracks for both factions. Some…

This is One Violent Game of Pool

When I think of violent sports, pool is not one that immediately comes to mind. Of course, when the stakes are life and death like in the anime short Death Billiards, a bit of violence is understandable. Death Billiards is a 2013 anime one-off episode that served as the prototype for Death Parade—one of this…

The New Tales Game Plays Differently Than You’d Expect 

Since Tales of Symphonia, combat in the console Tales games has been largely the same (though with a few admittedly unique features in each one). But the newest game, Tales of Zestiria, has several changes that, while small, alter how the battles work on a fundamental level The most major change is the abandonment of…

Retro Consoles Brought To Life in LEGO

Chris “Powerpig” McVeigh is a LEGO builder of no small repute, specialising in micro-builds of familiar things. This is “My Old Basement (Pixel Edition)” which you can pre-order for $89.50 (£60). This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK Here’s a better look at the full model: He’s also built some lovely little consoles in the…

These Swords Will Mess You Up

The martial art Kalaripayattu is elegant and beautiful. Those flexible swords the two men are wielding? Goodness, they’re scary. In the below video, via Boing Boing, you can see whiplike swords called urumi in action. The weapons, apparently, are difficult to master as they can accidentally cause serious injury. I can’t imagine how difficult—or dangerous—it…

Listen to Japanese Voice Actors Talk to Themselves

The complaint often arises with anime that the voices all sound the same. So how does it sound when you have one voice actress having a conversation with themselves? The anime Kantai Collection, based on the game of the same name, features anthropomorphized battleships. Each of the characters that appears in the series is based…

The Queen Of Skulls Will See You Now

Sandra Duchiewicz is an artist currently working at Creative Assembly, the developers of the Total War series. Her work is featured in the book I wroteabout yesterday, but you can also see more of her stuff on her DeviantArtpage and personalsites To see the larger pics in all their glory (or, if they’re big enough,…