16 Minutes Of New Dragon Age: Inquisition Gameplay

Straight outta BioWare, here’s a big chunk of the Dragon Age: Inquisition demo that was shown to attendees at E3. The game’s out October 7 for current- and last-gen consoles (minus Wii U).

With An 8-Inch Screen, This Is The Game Boy Advance XL We Never Got

It wasn’t until Nintendo had two screens to play with that they figured out we wouldn’t mind oversized portable gaming. Had they realized it earlier, they might have come up with modder John “Baccteria” Grayson’s BigBoy Advance. That’s right, the man who brought us the 18-console Project Unity has crafted a very large Game Boy…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Ani-TAY Late To The Party Review: Gosick • Adventures In Blind Gaming 2: Hands Off The Mutants, Please • Game of The Week – Lockpicks And Sandwiches Of The Jill Variety • Back In The TAY: RoboCop Vs. The Terminator TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY…

Pokémon As Colossal Beasts From Attack on Titan Are Unsettling

Attack on Titan eyes make everything a lot creepier. Beth Emery, an artist on DeviantART, drew a few mash-ups, and even the cutest Pokémon like Jigglypuff or Bulbasaur would look, well, unsettling with Titan features. That Colossal Titan and Cubone mashup is really great though! Attack on Titan Pokémon by zsparky [DeviantART, via TinyCartridge] To…

One Of The Coolest Dungeons in World of Warcraft Is About to Change

It’s an established tradition that whenever a new World of Warcraft expansion comes out, some classic dungeons get a redesign. After Scholomance and The Scarlet Monastery it’s time for a new Upper Blackrock Spire (UBRS), an awesome old dungeon that—among other things—became famous for Leeeeeeeroy Jenkins Now that people have access to the beta and…

Kirby? Krang? What The Hell Happened?

Krang’s home, Dimension X from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, is apparently Kirby’s Dream Land, or at least that’s how artist Tohad imagines it. He’s been busy lately with badass mashups of video game characters and different regions of pop culture. Krang X Kirby is just shocking. But here’s Sonic and Donkey Kong with a bit…

This Japanese Television Conspiracy Has Familiar Faces

Do you trust your local television media? In Japan, some folks are suspicious of the country’s television media. Here’s why. Previously, Kotaku reported how some television news segments appeared to be what’s called “yarase” (ヤラセ) or “staged” (here and here), allegedly filled with phoney people pretending to be regular folks called “sakura.” As previously explained,…

The Tracking Board reports that a Thief movie, based on the universe of the original Thief trilogy (ie. not this year’s reboot), is in the works. Vertigo, known for The Lego Movie, and Prime Universe, which produced 2007’s Hitman, are collaborating on the project. (via Kotaku UK)

Driveclub Has Amazing Rain

Remember how water effects always used to be a benchmark for how good a game looked? This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK These two clips appeared on Driveclub’s Facebook showing the dynamic weather system chucking it down in both Scotland and Canada. It might have been delayed and have some ridiculous facts about flamingos…

The Most Violent Game Boy Game Isn’t On The Game Boy

“Adventurer Lenna sets out on a quest to hunt down the Archangel that killed her child-prodigy students.” Well, we’re off to a good start. Apart from child murder, Lenna’s Inception, a PC action-adventure game published by Starbound developer (and publisher) Chucklefish, features a top-down view with Game Boy-inspired graphics, procedurally generated locations, and “occasional gory…