Check Out A Whole Bunch Of Quirky Indie Games, Live

Indie game festival Fantastic Arcade is in full swing in Austin, Texas, and I’m there! You can be too, sorta. There’s a live stream of every panel and presentation running all weekend, including one about soon-to-be-re-released classic Grim Fandango. Watch now. If you want to follow along, there’s a full event schedule on Fantastic Arcade’s…

The Latest Final Fantasy Music Game Is Totally Rad

Above: some hands-on impressions of Theatrhythm Final Fantasy: Curtain Call, the bizarrely-titled music game that Square Enix released for 3DS this week. If you don’t have the time or energy to watch the video, here’s the gist of it: Curtain Call, a sequel to 2012’s Theatrhythm, adds more songs, characters, and other goodies to an…

Of Hearthstone Players Are in the 10 Lowest Ranks Earlier today, Blizzard posted a few statisticson their Hearthstone blog about the game’s ranking system. Turns out the vast majority of players are on the 10 lowest ranks. That probably shouldn’t be all too surprising, but Blizzard mentioned that they’ve received some complaints from players that…

There Are More Interesting Ways To Kill Your Enemies

In today’s Highlight Reel, we have a whole bunch of alternate ways to deal with enemies, from bow and arrow, to using land mines on a chopper, to just pushing a bosses off ledges instead of shooting them. Watch the video above, then link any of your favorite highlights in the comments, and be sure…

Square Enix’s New ‘Cloud’ Gaming Service Is Called ‘Shinra’

This is pretty much perfect. Last night Square Enix announced a cloud-gaming service called Shinra Technologies. They’re working with Avalanche Studios on the deal. The actual details of Shinra Technologies remain vague for now, though the tech seems pretty promising: Shinra Technologies, Inc. is a cloud gaming company whose business is based on its unique,…

G710+ For $100, White PS4 Bundle, Final Fantasy XIII Preorder [Deals]

The Logitech G710+ was one of your top 5 nominations for Best Gaming Keyboard, and today it’s for just $100, which is near the lowest price we’ve ever seen. We don’t expect it to last long. [Logitech G710+ Gaming Keyboard, $100] Destiny might not have lived up to the hype for everyone, but that white…

Wow, Look At All The Final Fantasy Spinoffs

This week’s biggest Tokyo Game Show news was Final Fantasy XV—hey, it’s alive!—but while we were all gawking at bromantic road trips, Square Enix showed off a bunch of other Final Fantasy spinoffs that are worth at least a little attention. Let’s go through them all. Above: a new look at the Monster Hunter-ish Final…

​Get Up Close and Personal with the Original Doom‘s Pixels

Now you can take the opening area of Doom wherever you go. As long as you have a web browser, that is. A coder/artist that goes by the username P_Malin recreated an interactive embed of the first environment from Id Software’s iconic first-person shooter using Shadertoy. His recreation lets you move around the environment and…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Tokyo Ghoul: The Ani-TAY Review • Which Game Characters would help you Move House? • Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair: The TAY Review • Import Preview: Super Smash Bros. For 3DS • Azure Striker Gunvolt: The TAY Review TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

Watch Us Go to TGS’ Resident Evil Shooting Range

Resident Evil Revelations 2‘s isn’t the only Resident Evil booth on the floor of the Tokyo Game Show 2014. There’s also a Resident Evil-themed airsoft gun shooting range. So join me, fellow Kotaku author Toshi Nakamura, and an airsoft gun replica of the iconic Samurai Edge pistol as we see just how good I am…

The Moment When a Diablo III Player Reaches #1

Alkaizer is one of the best Diablo III players out there, sitting at the number one spot with his Barbarian on the Season 1 leaderboards and now—as this video proves—he has claimed this position with his Crusader as well. Pretty cool for a solo player. In this segment, you can watch him clear a Rank…

Konami and Tri-Ace are teaming up for a smartphone RPG called Chronos Ring. It will be out this fall in Japan, but there is no word yet of a Western release.

EVE Online‘s Hurricane Cruiser, Turned Into a LEGO Beast

It couldn’t be easy collecting all the necessary bricks for this giant LEGO battlecruiser, but it’s totally worth the effort. Dinklebob‘s creation was inspired by EVE Online‘s “Hurricane” ship, and the extra tiny drones are the best part: Here are some WIP pics: And the final version from different angles: Lego Hurricane [imgur, via r/eve]…

The Wasteland 2 Intro Will Never Beat Fallout’s

Wasteland 2 comes out today, and the question on many an OG CRPG gamer’s mind is: “How does it compare to Fallout?” I’ll have a fuller answer to that soon, but there’s an elephant in the room that must be addressed first. Come on, Brian Fargo: where is my Ron Perlman? If you don’t understand…

Scalebound is Platinum Games’ First Stab at Fantasy

Platinum Games’ new Xbox One exclusive game, Scalebound, has dragons and dragon riding. For creator Hideki Kamiya, it’s a bit of a dream come true. “When I was in high school, I really enjoyed sword and sorcery fantasy games like Sorcerian on my computer.” Kamiya recalled in an interview. “For some reason I’ve never had…