I Never Knew Metal Gear Solid Could Be So… Cute

Awwww, Solid Snake is so tiny. And so is Gray Fox. I sure hope nothing bad happens to either of them, ever. This interactive chibi-fied diorama of Metal Gear Solid 1 was put together by Glenatron, and it’s full of nice little touches. It nails the basic style of MGS 1 while also making everyone…

The Story Behind One of The Spookiest Places In Fallout 3

It’s time for some more Fallout lore, and being that it’s Halloween, what better place to focus on than Fallout 3’s Point Lookout? For those that didn’t play Point Lookout, the DLC adds an eerie swampland area where the player gets to see what happens to communities that didn’t actually get blown up by the…

MechWarrior Baby Will Destroy Your Home, Eat Your Candy

Boring baby costumes are a dime a dozen. Oh you’re a bee? A dinosaur? Big whoop, kid. Try a MechWarrior costume on for size. Ryan Bowen made this perfect father-son costume for his pint sized kid and future BattleMech pilot Geraint. The Sunder BattleMech costume is made out of a combination of PVC Pipe skeleton…

​Everything Wrong with The Evil Within in 12 Minutes

Many of the attempts at generating fright in The Evil Within just feel… clunky. Doubtful? Just watch a comprehensive breakdown of the survival horror game’s missteps. Be careful not to step in any blood. The same fellow who’s catalogued the wrongness in DmC and Remember Me comes back to judge Shinji Mikami’s latest creation. Many…

John Carpenter’s Halloween Theme, Played by GTA Car Horns

Some movie music will keep on giving you the chills, long after the credits rolling. The haunting piano riff from John Carpenter’s classic horror movie Halloween makes it one of those tunes. But, when it’s a bunch of video game car horns bleating it out? It’s actually kind of funny. YouTube channel 8-Bit Bastard gathered…

Think Shadow Of Mordor Is Too Easy? Try These Out.

Difficulty is always a thorny issue in video games. One gamer’s crushing slog through a dungeon is another’s mindless loot grind. People are particularly divided about Shadow of Mordor’s difficulty right now: some find it too hard, many others too easy. The latter group has begun some interesting experiments. I am not in the “too…

How Bayonetta Got Dressed Up as Nintendo’s Most Famous Characters

It surprised people when Nintendo revealed alternate costumes for Bayonetta that let her look like some of the company’s family-friendly characters. Now, you can see the design process for getting Platinum Games’ sexy witch-warrior into Princess Peach, Link and Starfox costumes. A new blog post at developer Platinum Games’ site shows the various sketches character…

DayZ Players Turn To Cannibalism To Survive

Desperate times call for desperate measures—and when players are running low on food, there’s no telling what they’ll do in DayZ to survive. In this take by Commandoflauge, starving DayZ players have no choice but to start eating human meat. Dark? Sure. Yet the premise sounds perfect for DayZ, no? Plus, it’s not like they…

Someone Made Mario Kart In Team Fortress 2

This is probably the closest thing we’ll get to a PC version of Mario Kart, er, ever. Well, that was fast. Only a little more than a day after Valve added karts/bumper kart combat toTeam Fortress 2, someone’s already released a Mario Kart mod with three levels. It’s mostly rooted in the Halloween event’s brand…

Let’s Talk About JRPGs

Here at Kotaku, we don’t spend nearly enough time talking about JRPGs. I mean, sure, we have a column every week dedicated to JRPGs, and we’re usually pretty good about covering RPG news from Japan, and I do my best to cover JRPGs as much as humanly possible. But, still. There’s just so much to…

Faulty New PS4 Update Forces Evolve Alpha Delay

The PS4’s new update—version 2.00—is really screwing things up, huh? First there was the whole Rest Mode thing, and now we’ve got news from publisher 2K Games that they’re delaying the PS4 version of the upcoming Evolve alpha. Why? Because the PS4’s new update is something of a disaster, and 2K’s running into problems getting…

10 Hours of Walking Around In Skyrim (While Wearing Skimpy Armor)

How do Skyrim’s townsfolk react to seeing a player walk around in suggestive body mods? They don’t. They just repeat the same lines they’d say normally, but that’s exactly what makes this video funny. Shinji72 decided to “recreate” a video you may have seen floating around recently, where a woman walks around New York for…

Forza Horizon 2, PlayStation Silver Headset, and More Deals

Forza Horizon 2 Is As Close To Living Your Car Fantasy As You’ll Get, and today you cangrab the Day One Edition for $48. [Forza] The Xbox 360 version is down to $38. One of the best, and best-looking JRPGs of the last decade is coming to Steam. You can get it for just $14…

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If You Got The New PS4 Update, Don’t Use Rest Mode [UPDATE]

UPDATE (11/5/14): The new v2.01 update appears to fix the widespread Rest Mode issue, so if you’ve downloaded that, it should be safe to put your system in hibernation again. Original story follows: Earlier this week, Sony released a new patch for the PlayStation 4, and if you’ve downloaded it, here’s my advice: be very,…

How To Step Up Your Screenshot Game In The Sims 4

It’s very easy to capture screenshots in The Sims 4. All you have to do is press “C.” Capturing screenshots that actually look good is a totally different story. More than many other games, The Sims forces you to act like a photographer or filmmaker. Here are some ways to do that. I, for one,…