Driveclub‘s Dynamic Weather Update Completely Changes The Game

Two days ago I was bored with Driveclub. Today each race is exhilarating, often terrifyingly so, and all that’s changed is the weather. Now that most of the connection kinks have been worked out, Evolution Studios dropped its promised post-release dynamic weather update on the PlayStation 4’s once-troubled online racer,and it’s pretty much the best…

As they always say, the sincerest form of flattery is when someone remakes your stuff in Unreal Engine 4. This time, the remakee is Hideo Kojima’s P.T., and the remaker is level artist Jonathan Vallieres, this being his first, 2.5-month UE4 project. Video’s below, and you can find lots of WIP shots here UE4 –…

Minecraft Maps Based on Four Great PlayStation Games

What do Ratchet & Clank, Infamous, Uncharted, and God of War have in common? Apart from the whole being-on-PlayStation thing? Yep, they all have Minecraft levels based on them. Good ones, too! Of course, it’s not the first time the abovementioned series had Minecraft levels made for them—people’ve created thousands upon thousands of Minecraft maps,…

Inside One of Japan’s Oldest Restaurants

You like noodles, right? I sure do. Especially soba noodles. And Kyoto’s Honke Owariya is famous for its soba noodles. That, and being very, very old. Honke Owariya was established in 1465. The restaurant started out making confectionery, but its noodles proved more popular. According to Deep Kyoto, Honke Owariya has been making soba for…

Team Fortress 2 Short Film Finished, Is Utterly Fantastic

Having been in production for years, James McVinnie’s End of the Line short film has now been finished. And it’s as good as the trailershad you believe. McVinnie, who has worked at BioWare and on stuff like Black Mesa, is admittedly a little more “professional” than your average Source Filmmaker user. But whatever. What he’s…

The Beautiful Art Of Far Cry 4

One of the reasons Ubisoft’s big games look so good is because it’s one of the few publishers to maintain its own permanent team of talented artists. And one of their best is Donglu Yu. She’s been helping out on both Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry for a while now, and this week has been…

Captain Harlock cosplay is best cosplay. Harlock is Faeryx13, Yama is ILairi and photo by adelhaid

Crossy Road Is A Game About Crossing Roads, And It Is Great

Video game history is strewn with the corpses of misguided animals attempting to cross roads. Now we shoot, stab and punch things, but back in the day we stood on pavements, psyched ourselves up and did our level best to dodge traffic. That was enough in those days. It’s still enough now. Crossy Road is…

Kotaku’s 2014 Gift Guide: Books

Christmas is a time for giving. And if you’re over the age of 13, that usually means giving (or asking for!) books. That being the case, here are some good books you can buy (or ask for!) for someone who is into video games, or is just a cool person around video games. A note…