Victorian Era LEGO London Is Massive

Doing LEGO builds for themes that never had official sets must be the hardest. But a UK-based group called Bricks to the Past‘s large-scale LEGO display of 19th century London is amazing without acknowledging that. Here’s the full build with the London Docklands and its warehouses on the east side and some cozy stores and…

Dreamfall Chapters: Book One Builds A World and Little Else

I am a huge fan of The Longest Journey franchise, so you can bet the moment the Kickstarter for Dreamfall Chapters went online I threw my money at it. And now that the first chapter is out, let me say that it’s not the most exciting opening, but it does do some serious world building.…

Tokyo Ghoul Builds an Emotional World of Horror and Violence

This past summer’s anime Tokyo Ghoul may ostensibly be a dark and twisted horror story about superpowered monsters who feed upon humanity; but beneath its surface, it’s so much more. Good – Ghoul Society Tokyo Ghoul takes place in a world quite similar to our own but with one major difference: Humanity is not at…

The U.S. Military Is Developing a High-Tech Sandbox

Dubbed the ARES Sandtable, this U.S. Military prototype uses a Kinect, a projector, software, and sand to recreate real-world environments like never before. Below, via Military.com, you can see what traditional military sandtables look like: Traditional sandtables can take up hours to set up, while the AREAS table might make it possible to do the…

Richarizard Nixon And Other U.S. Presidents As Pokémon

Now that’s an unexpected combination. And if the drawings weren’t enough, artist Brandon Dayton added new pun names too for these Pokémon Presidents. Makes me wonder who the others, the ones not included here, might be as Poképrez. There’s more on the artist’s Etsy site and you can also get all of them as prints.…

Why These Chinese Sanitation Workers Dress Like Spider-Man

You might think this is just some gimmick. But it’s more than that. Much more. The Spider-Man outfits are a reminder these two men are risking their lives. Website Zhangjiakou Online and ShanghaiIst are reporting that sanitation workers Liu Jiancheng and Zhang Chengqing have recently changed uniforms from this: To this: Not just because Spider-Man…

Let’s Rank Fatal Frame, Best to Worst

The Fatal Frame series is one of the creepiest survival-horror game series out there and certainly my personal favorite of the genre. But as with all series, some games are better than others. So let’s rank them, shall we? A few notes before we start. These are not Kotaku‘s picks for the pecking order of…

Five Fallacies You Should Learn If You’ve Ever Used the Internet

PBS Idea Channel is easily among the greatest YouTube channels around. And given how much drama’s been hitting the internet recently, they’ve produced a short series of six videos that discuss some of the most common mistakes people make when arguing online. They cover the Ad Hominem, the Black and White Thinking fallacy, the “No…

DigiPen is a school famous for feeding fresh meat into the grinder that is the games industry. In this terrific story on Motherboard, Jagger Gravning takes a look at what the school’s massive gender gap (it’s 80% dudes) means for the student’s social lives.

Hack, Love, Relax, Drink Coffee, Whatever

Else Heartbreak is an upcoming adventure game for the PC Else Heartbreak is an adventure game set in the peculiar city of Dorisburg, a place where bits have replaced atoms. Follow the daily lives of its citizens, fall madly in love, and learn how to modify reality through programming. Those delicious visuals? Programming? Adventure gaming?…

And YOU Thought It Was Hard To Get To Blizzcon

Getting tickets to Blizzard’s annual fan convention is hard enough when you’re an American who lives relatively nearby. So spare a thought for Andrey “Trolden” Nolden, one of the biggest Hearthstone personalities on YouTube, who can’t even get into the country, let alone the show. Nolden, who is Russian and applied for a visa to…

You Can Play Dark Souls II In First-Person, If You Want

Someone did it for the first Dark Souls on PC, so of course it was going to happen for Dark Souls II. What you’re seeing here is a hack that “tells the game’s camera to permanently stay zoomed in, giving you a first person perspective”. Technically, aside from a few little glitches, it works just…

Here’s To You, Shadow of Mordor Orc With A Silly Name

By now, the internet’s (somewhat immature) love of any Shadow of Mordor orc named “Dush” is well-known. But few people actually go through the trouble of making a full-on emotional tribute to Dush orcs, like hoodwinkedfool does. I even got a little sad at the end of this video, too. Aww, Dush. You had an…