After unlocking “The Void,” the Mario Kart 8 hackers have started to put stuff inside of it. In their latest video, the fraternal modding duo MrBean35000vr and Chadderz show what happened when they started dropping odds and odds (like giant stacks of goombas) into an empty track they found in the game. Neat! Also just…

One man keeps unearthing hidden, secret parts of Team Ico’s games and one of NomadColossus‘ most recent finds reveals extremely moody beta sections of Ico that didn’t make it into the final version. Well worth a look if you love this PS2 classic game.

Fan-Made Silent Hill Game Is Nearly As Creepy As The Original

In case you forgot, Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima and horror movie maestro Guillermo del Toro are making a new Silent Hill together. If you’re not excited/weeping in terror at the prospect, you might actually be one Silent Hill’s soulless denizens. Sadly, it’s still a long way off. Thank goodness for fan games. Silent…

People Really Want The Smaller New 3DS

Last year in Japan, Nintendo released two new models of the New 3DS. Next month in Europe, Nintendo will release two new models of the New 3DS. And on February 13 in North America, Nintendo will release… one model of the New 3DS. Yep, instead of getting to choose between two different versions of Nintendo’s…

New League of Legends Mode Lets You Be A Jerk, Goes Predictably Awry

Like any popular competitive multiplayer game, League of Legends has its go-to characters and its…less well-loved ones. To shake its champion selection up, the game recently started testing a new gameplay mode that has people choose the opposing team’s lineup, rather than their own. What could possibly go wrong? The new mode, known as “The…

Preorder Savings on GTA V for PC, Dragon Age Inquisition, More Deals

A killer preorder deal in first or third-person. Grand Theft Auto V PC + San Andreas + $1.3M in-game currency for $46 with code SAVE23-PEROFF-MOSANT. [GTAV (PC), $46] Dragon Age: Inquisition is back down to $45 today, time to ignore all other things going on in your life. [Inquisition, $45] The DualShock 4 and Xbox…

Advanced Warfare Cracks Down On Players Killing Themselves On Purpose

In a fireside chat over the weekend, Sledgehammer Games’ studio head Michael Condrey discussed ongoing matchmaking optimization for Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare and cracking down on players who spend entire matches sitting in a corner killing themselves. It may be hard to get into a match with players you can actually kill — Condrey…

The Visual Evolution of Spawn

Todd McFarlane’s demonic anti-hero comic Spawn is reaching its anniversary #250 issue this month and Image is not only celebrating it with a triple-sized release, but with some cool small things like this illustrated chart, that shows all of Spawn’s costumes. With Spawn issue #250 coming up at the end of the month…. I thought…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Simple Fun: How do you Enjoy Playing Games? • The Ani-TAY Interview: Ani-Kei Strikes • Yours and My Romance Counseling – Quick Review • Top Ten Most Popular Ani-TAY “Top” Lists • Don’t Watch Fafner in the Azure: Exodus Unless You Saw The First Show TAY Classic—TAY…

Then And Now: Five Generations Of Radeon Graphics Compared

Last month we compared half a decade’s worth of DirectX 11-capable GeForce cards in the latest and greatest PC games to see where Nvidia has made the biggest performance leaps and which GPUs have aged the best. We had never compared so many GPU generations under the same conditions and the results were fascinating. So…

The Surprising Results of Selective Pokémon Breeding

Is that… a “Chargizard”? Concentrating on recessive genes and breeding Pokémon the Dorkly way might not get you to the end of the game, but it definitely has other advantages. This special method, you can see it below, works well with starter Pokémon, but what about the ones that are a bit weirder. Koffing? Diglett?…

Sid Meier’s Starships Takes You Even Deeper into Space

There’s going to be even more sci-fi-styled Civilization action coming this spring, with a new strategy game coming from legendary game designer Sid Meier picking up where Civilization: Beyond Earth left off. Announced today at Gamespot, Sid Meier’s Starships will have players sending their own fleets of spacecraft out into the cosmos in an effort…

Call of Duty Online is a Big Surprise

Forget everything you saw and experienced in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, forget Jack Mitchell and harken back to the days of Soap, Ghost and Price. Remember those good ol’ days with them boys? Well, you can relive that whole experience again and then some in the China-only Call of Duty: Online That’s right, CoDOL…

Team of Keisuke Honda Clones Plays Pro Evo

You know Keisuke Honda? He plays for Milan in Serie A. And Shunsuke Nakamura? He does stuff like this. Eleven Hondas just faced off against eleven Nakamuras. Honda. Honda. Honda. Honda. Nakamura. Nakamura. Honda. This comes from YouTuber Zyagariko san, who made each team, and then had both sides face off in auto play. The…

The 2014 Hearthstone Championship Trophy Is An Egg

Hearthstone is a game of ups and downs, where anything can happen at the drop of a card. That sentiment is even more true at competition level. This past weekend, China’s Blizzard operator, NetEase, held the quarterfinals to their new Gold League e-sports event, and the HearthStone competition was fierce. Announced and launched last year,…