Moon Hunters, one of the neater Kickstarter projects I’ve seen in a while, is funded to the tune of $100k. Described as a mixture between Zelda and Starbound, Moon Hunters is one of the first participants in Square Enix’s Indie Collective program

A New Look At The Influence Of Japan’s Early Video Game Music

Video games have been around long enough that countless musicians have grown up and come into their own, creatively speaking, as gamers. A new documentary series, Diggin’ In The Carts, examines the early history of Japanese video game music at it applies to this trend. It’s produced by the Red Bull Music Academy, so I…

Amazing Things I Saw While Playing the Best God Game Ever Made God games haven’t been too popular in recent years. For a while I thought that was because there hadn’t been any good ones made recently, but that really isn’t the case. I’ve just been looking in all the wrong places. Dawn of Worlds…

Why Did Nobody Tell Me There’s A Suikoden Reference In Diablo III?

Kotaku, we need to talk. You all KNOW that Suikoden II is my favorite game of all time, yet in the six months since Diablo III‘s Reaper of Souls expansion came out, not ONE of you has told me about this incredible Luca Blight reference. Until this past weekend, when Kotaku reader/hero Phil Caron told…

Someone’s Putting Soccer Into Dota 2

Thanks to the power of modding, I have few doubts that you’ll soon be able to play every single game inside of Dota. I mean, someone’s already building Pokemon into Dota 2.It was only a matter of time before someone modded an actual sport into Dota. EnterDota Soccer. Here’s how this wild idea, which is…

All the Preorder Deals, Xbox One With Game, SanDisk Storage [Deals]

Prepare your wallet and your backlog, here are a whole bunch of PC pre-order deals. Get a $5 Amazon credit with the following games. Several of the games are cheaper from Green Man Gaming in the second list, but the Amazon deals will be around longer and some people have trouble with GMG, so we’re…

Batman: Arkham Knight Will Be Out On June 2

The new-gen-only Batman game Arkham Knight will be released on June 2, 2105 after having been delayed out of a fall 2014 release, according to a source privy to announcements being made at a GameStop conference today. The game’s publisherjust confirmed on Twitter, too. Batman Arkham Knight is meant to be development studio Rocksteady’s final…

U.S. Military Using Xbox 360 Controller For New Laser Gun

Controlling military hardware with video game input devices isn’t new. Drones, bomb defusal robots and other battlefield equipment have steered by Xbox 360 gamepads for a while now. But the newest weapon using a Microsoft-made controller might be one of the most powerful ones yet. It’s a laser on top of a truck that shoots…

‘I just quit my job while taking a shit. It’s great.’

Some strong praise for The Sims 4’s multitasking features from Reddit user CrazyWood.

How The Sims Has Changed Over The Past 14 Years

A big question many gamers have had since The Sims 4 launched last week is how the latest installment compares to the other three core games in EA’s longstanding series. Now, one Sims fan has attempted an answer in the most literal way possible: by playing all four on one PC at the same time.…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Let’s Talk Walking Dead Finale Spoilers • Wish List: New Old Games for New 3DS • Salt Lake Comic Con Was Good, But Lacked A Human Touch TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

Getting To Know World Of Warcraft‘s Orc Warlords

You probably know that the Warlords of Draenor expansion for World of Warcraft is launching in November, but do you know who the Warlords of Draenor are? Blizzard’s five-part “Lords of War” video series should clear things up. We’re taking the Dark Portal back in time in November, to a Draenor ruled over by some…

One Of The Most Difficult Things In Diablo III

Torment VI is no longer the hardest setting in Diablo III. With Greater Rifts—tiered dungeons—added, everything beyond Rank 25 is harder. So completing a Rank 40 Greater Rift is quite difficult. Yet, some folks can complete them in under 8 minutes. You have 15 minutes to do the run, every mob has billions of HP…