Valve doesn’t seem too pleased that devs have made a group to upvote each others’ games on Steam Greenlight. A rep said, “Clearly this is not the feedback we are seeking from Greenlight. We do track these sorts of things and folks ‘going this route’ will likely not find the results they may have hoped…

Team Fortress 2‘s New Map Is Totally Bonkers

It has kart racing. Kart racing! With adorable chubby faced characters. Valve has finally lost it—in a good way, mostly. The new map, Carnival of Carnage, is the biggest addition in Scream Fortress VI, this year’s Halloween event. Here’s an overview from Valve News Network of its relentless spookitude: I wasn’t kidding about the bumper…

​4 Tips for Your Last-Minute Halloween Costume

I haven’t really dressed up for Halloween since I was a kid. Last year, I just grabbed my judo gi and pretended to be some kind of zombified martial artist. The year before, I wore a headcrab hat one of my roommates got me a few years back… and pretended to a headcrab zombie. You…

Glitched Out Pokémon Is The Best Kind of Nightmare

Pokémon Emerald looks a bit different when you corrupt the file you play on. That’s not a bad thing, though. Grass may turn to water. Pokémon might turn into giant question marks. And sometimes, your character can’t decide whether or not he wants his head actually on his shoulders. It’s goofy glitches like this that…

I Bet Brock Lesnar Could Beat Up Goku

I doubt the greatest fighters in modern martial arts will square off against Street Fighter or Dragon Ball Z characters any time soon, largely because of rights issues. Also some of the fighters in this equation are, you know, fictional. But oh what a fight card it would be. I recently stumbled across the artwork…

Supergiant’s wonderful action RPG Transistor is now available for Mac and Linux, developer Greg Kasavin announced today. Huzzah! If you need to refresh your memory about how great the game is, check out our original review

​You’ll Be Getting a Very Different Kind of War Game in Two Weeks

Embodying a soldier has been a staple of video games for a while now. But, on November 14th, players will control the kind of ordinary citizen who the machines of war usually roll right over. Here’s what This War of Mine will look like when you play. This trailer for 11-bit’s upcoming wartime survival PC…

“If games don’t offer us complex heroines, then we apparently stop looking for them.” That’s critic Maddy Myers discussing kink, sex positivity, and female empowerment in Bayonetta in an excellent essay for Paste. Give the whole thing a read, and remember to check out our review of Bayonetta 2

​Assassin’s Creed Unity Will Be Going to World War II

It looked like the new-gen-only Assassin’s Creed game would be sticking only to the time period of the French Revolution. Nope. Somehow, lead character Arno will wind up smack dab in the middle of World War II, with machine guns and everything. A new trailer for Assassin’s Creed Unity shows some kind of spacetime disturbance…

Valkyria Chronicles on PC, Bioshock Infinite Season Pass, More Deals

One of the best, and best-looking JRPGs of the last decade is coming to Steam. You can get it for just $14 with code SPOOKY-TREATS-GMG20X. [Valkyria Chronicles] Seeing as how Bioshock Infinite is one of the most popular games we’ve ever listed deals on, a few of you will probably want to grab the season…

“Until we can ensure that everyone can enjoy the full social connected online experience, we will be postponing the release of [Driveclub’s] PS Plus Edition until further notice.” – Shuhei Yoshida posts on Driveclub’s Facebook pageabout the racing game’s ongoing issues

Someone’s Finally Making A Gaming Laptop With A Mechanical Keyboard

There are a few key things that keep PC gamers tethered to their desks, one of them being the awesomeness of having the “click clack” of a quality mechanical keyboard punctuate their gameplay. Impressive as they may be, laptops haven’t been able to replicate that experience…yet. MSI to the rescue! Today the hardware developer unveiled…

Destiny‘s Atheon Is Still A Big Dumb Idiot

Bungie may have patched out that one technique that let you push Atheon off the back of the stage, but intrepid Destiny players are still finding ways to cheese their way through the final boss of the Vault of Glass raid. This one’s particularly hilarious. I won’t spoil anything, but skip to 1:30 for the…

Marvel Comics is finally giving legendary comics creator Jack Kirby credit for helping create characters like the Fantastic Four, the Hulk and the X-Men. This week’s new comics include a line mentioning Kirby, which comes after a recent legal settlement ended years of estrangement between Marvel and the artist’s heirs.

Anita Sarkeesian Was Just On The Colbert Report

Critic Anita Sarkeesian just made an appearance on The Colbert Report, in an interview which followed a section of the show devoted entirely to gamergate You can check out the interview in the clip below. The first clip is the set-up; the second is the interview. The full episode will be up on Colbert’s site…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Happy 27th Birthday, PC Engine! • Game of The Week—Choice and Consequences [Radiant Historia] • The Future Diary: The Ani-TAY Review TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here. Top photo courtesy of Evan-Amos, Wikipedia