The Most Striking Piece Of Halo Art I’ve Seen In Ages

I was going to call “Master Chief and Arbiter (Gods Among)” by Sita Navas fan art, but the “fan” label feels cheap when applied to this Maya-style masterpiece. This is just art. Posted over on Reddit by her husband to tremendous response, the piece portrays Bungie’s two Halo heroes in the distinctive style of the…

This Week In The Business: End Of The Line

QUOTE | “I think linear story games are really going to suffer in the modern marketplace.” – Far Cry 4 creative director Alex Hutchinson, talking about why he thinks open-world and emergent games will be the most popular games going forward Elsewhere in the business of video games this past week … QUOTE | “It’s…

Felicia Day And Gamergate: This Is What Happens Now

Earlier this week, Felicia Day wrotea blog post. In it, the well-known actor eloquently expressed something that a great number of people in the video game scene have been feeling lately: She said she was afraid. Shortly after publishing, some people posting in her comments section, one under the name “Gaimerg8,” doxxed her, sharing what…

How You’ll Share Your PS4 Games With Friends Who Don’t Own Them

Starting on October 28th, you’ll be able to share your games with friends—even if they don’t own them. We’d heard about a feature called ‘Share Play’ before, but now you get a chance to see it in action. What’s so cool about Share Play is that it lets your friends watch you as you play,…

Track: Paradise Circus | Artist: Massive Attack | Album: Heligoland Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

A Game Collection That Looks Like A Museum

High-level game collectors are an interesting bunch of people. Their drives, motivations and preferences when it comes to curation say so much about what they value in gaming. Austrian collector Andranik Ghalustians is no different. Above is GAMEBOY, a short documentary about Andranik’s impressive collection. Though he doesn’t have a firm count, he estimates that…

Dying In Sunset Overdrive Is Pretty Goofy

Dying a horrible death in a video game is usually, well, horrible. If only there was some way to add a little style and grace to the whole process. What’s that you say, Sunset Overdrive? You think you can make being eaten by a horde of unsightly mutants downright charming? Well, we’ll have to see…

The Orcs Of Mordor Are Having A Bad Day

Even since the game got its snazzy new photo editor, Shadow of Mordor fans have been doing their best to capture the game’s ultraviolence in all its gruesome glory. But what about all those quiet, sentimental moments that unfold in the midst of all the orc-killing? Sauron’s forces have feelings too, you know. YouTuber Bart…

There’s a good chunk of new Quantum Break gameplay in this video featuring the Xbox One exclusive. Narrated by Remedy Entertainment creative director Sam Lake, the clip shows already-seen action up until about the 8:30 mark. From there, it’s a chunk of time-manipulation platforming.

Eight Words I Never Expected Hear From the Head of Xbox

“I don’t need another military space marine game.” Whoa. Okay. In an interview with IGN, big boss of Xbox, said that while the company was committed to its core first party franchises Microsoft is also working on something new. “I think new stories, new characters give us a new canvas to try new things… I…

​Seven Minutes Of Excellent Cosplay From This Year’s New York Comic-Con

There are a lot of people in costumes having fun in this montage from New York Comic-Con 2014. Let’s join them, shall we? Beatdownboogie brings us a video filled with the impressive costumes and posing hi-jinx that happened on the west side of Manhattan this year. I’m partial to the Cesar Romero version of The…

Your Best Deal on the Master Chief Collection, and 75 Years of Marvel

Preorder The Master Chief Collection from Dell to get a $25 Dell gift card. That’s not as universally useful as say, an Amazon or Target credit, but since Dell sells games you can find a use for it, and there won’t be a better offer. [Master Chief Collection] Don’t want the Dell gift card? Preorder…

The Most Popular Doctor Who Game Finally Gets The Most Popular Doctor

How has Doctor Who Legacy lasted a year without this fellow in its roster? Launched last year with a mere two Doctors’ worth of content — Matt Smith and David Tennant — the pleasantly free-to-play mobile puzzler Doctor Who Legacy has slowly been adding various incarnations of the Time Lord on a regular basis. And…

The Witcher 3‘s Intro Is All about Geralt’s Fearsome Ex-Girlfriend

Here’s the opening cinematic for The Witcher 3. That lady wielding all the bad juju? She and Geralt were a thing once. The last part of CD Projekt Red’s action/RPG trilogy has been a long time coming but the developers have been promising a bigger scale and more intense story than in previous entries. This…