A Skyrim Kissing Mod That Doesn’t Totally Suck

We highlighted a mod that let you kiss everyone in Skyrim a while back, but it was kinda embarrassing. Your character latched onto people like some kind of alien everything-sucker and made this cartoon smooching noise. This one, however, is a bit more like the real deal. Kinda? The somewhat awkwardly titled ” Kissing—Immersive Lovers…

Track: Brussels | Album: New World Sundown | Artist: Hotel of the Laughing Tree Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

Persona Dance Trailer Is 0% Gameplay, 100% Good Times

Well, this is new. A game trailer that doesn’t have gameplay or live-action nonsense or cinematic puff. It’s just…well, it’s the perfect trailer for a Persona game that’s about dancing your ass off.

Pac-Man Ghosts Are Smarter Than You Think

Pac-Man might not seem like much next to today’s hyper-realistic gun, dungeon, and gungeon-packed blockbusters, but the tiny puck that aspired to manhood inhabited a surprisingly complex world. His nemeses, the ghosts, are still pretty clever, even by modern video game standards. PBS’ ever-interesting Game/Show took an in-depth look at Pac-Man‘s ghosts and the way…

Guy Beat Dying Light With No Weapons

It was only a matter of time before some brave soul tried to make it through the terrifying zombie survival game Dying Light using only protagonist Kyle Crane’s hands and feet. Hats off to YouTuber BOYvsVIDEOGAME for providing extensive documentation showing just how it’s done. In the “No weapons, fists & kicks only playthrough” that…

How People Use Twitch, Visualized

At any given time, there are tens of thousands watching and playing games on Twitch. Some people are obsessed with one game, other people watch lots of games. The service recently enlisted its “science” team to visualize what communities of Twitch look like, and it’s beautiful. Wait, they have a science team? Yep. It’s a…

Smash Bros. Glitch Turns Everything Into A Tomato

Smash Bros. has dozens of items, all of which work in different ways. For whatever reason, one person’s copy of the game turns every possible item into a tomato, while still retaining the original item’s function. It’s the most hilarious thing I’ve seen all day. The issue, which is being encountered by Leron Tolmachev, is…

Dying Light’s latest patch removed a popular weapon-duplicating exploit, but don’t worry: there’s already a workaround. It only took players like Reddit’s BillSavage a few hours to find a new way to break the game’s loot system wide open. Learn how to do so in the video tutorial above. Text-instructions included below. Here’s how another…

Nintendo’s YouTube Plan Is Already Having Problems

Last week, Nintendo started a controversial program lets YouTubers make money off of any Nintendo-related videos submitted for approval. The process was supposed to take two to three days, but today Nintendo announced that they’re having trouble keeping up with the demand. As spotted by Venture Beat, here’s what the Nintendo website says about the…

Kingston HyperX Cloud II Gaming Headset: The Kotaku Review 

Last year the folks at memory and storage company Kingston Technologies showed the world theyknew a thing or two about putting together a good gaming headset. Now they’re back with the HyperX Cloud II, adding virtual 7.1 surround sound to an already successful piece of hardware. What It Is The HyperX Cloud II gaming headset…

The Most Popular Pokémon Used By Top Players, In One Image

Not all Pokémon are made equal. Some Pokémon are used more than others, and even elite Pokémon players have their favorites. Posted by Reddit user on r/Pokemon, here’s a look at the most popular Pokemon used by top players on Pokémon Showdown. For those that don’t know, Showdown is an online battle simulator used by…

What Telltale Could Learn From Life is Strange

There was a time when “Telltale” was just a game studio. But over the last few years, fueled by the success of 2012 Game of the Year contender The Walking Dead, it’s become shorthand for a whole genre. That genre is in desperate need of a viable competitor to spur Telltale to fix some annoying,…

Dark Souls II Patch Reveals New Secrets For An Old Game

There was a major patch for Dark Souls II today, which includes a screen-filling new character known as The Scholar, updated lore, and more. The Souls series is all about hiding things in weird places, so we’re only scratching the surface. Here’s a taste of what’s been found so far. The patch is free for…

Superman’s New Power Makes Him a Little Less Super, a Lot More Human

It’s been a problem that creators who’ve worked on Superman projects have been dealing with for decades: How do you make the near-omnipotent Man of Steel feel more relatable? Ironically, the newest solution comes from giving Kal-El yet another superpower. Warning: Spoilers and images for today’s Superman #38 follow. The latest issue of the ongoing…

Have A Nice TRIP

See, it’s just like pulling a prank on a friend in real life, only instead of helping him up afterwards you split his skull open with a pickaxe. I cannot get enough of this game.

LEGO Doctor Who Is Officially A Real Thing

Back in November I told you we were dangerously close to getting an official LEGO set based on the adventures of everyone’s favorite Time Lord. Today LEGO Ideas made it official—we’re getting an official Doctor Who set, courtesy of Andy Clark of Firaxis Games. LEGO’s Ideas program is a place for builders to submit their…

The Sims 4’s First Expansion Pack Sounds Cool, Super Expensive

The Sims 4 is getting its first full-blown expansion pack in April, developer EA announced today. Known as “Get To Work,” the pack adds new jobs with full-blown workplace locations you can actually visit and play around in. That’s pretty darn exciting. Less thrilling is the $40 price tag. The Sims has long been known…