Get Salty Mario Kart 8 Figures In Your Next Happy Meal

Great news, people who like buying their food in creepy boxes. Once McDonald’s gets over this How To Train Your Dragon 2 business, the next Happy Meal toys are Ty’s Teenie Beenie Boos. Or I guess you could go with the Mario Kart 8 figures. What we’ll be having is a fine selection of racers,…

This Week In The Business: Mistakes Were Made

QUOTE | “Inclusivity always seems to end up on the cutting board.” – A female engineer at a top studio (who prefers to remain anonymous for fear of reprisal), discussing the “horribly familiar” arguments Ubisoft offered as to why a female character option was left out of Assassin’s Creed Unity Elsewhere in the business of…

Track: Hold On, We’re Going Home Artist: Drake ft. Majid Jordan Album: Nothing Was The Same Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

Already, Far Cry 4 Has A Fan Film

Well, that didn’t take long. Literally days after being announced, folks are already making short films about Far Cry 4. Damn. In this short, RocketJump shows us what a real-life co-op attack on an outpost might be like. One of the dudes totally looks like Hurk from the game, too: …now lets just hope nobody…

Ten Things You Might’ve Missed About The New Zelda Reveal

Time for some trailer analysis! While we didn’t get to see too much of the new Zelda, the short footage we saw was still jam-packed with small stuff that was easy to miss. I mean, let’s be real, most of us were busy thinking about how amazing the grass looks now and such. Thankfully, GameXplain…

Games Are Harder When Your Self From Two Seconds Ago Is Chasing You

N++, like the other N games before it (Ncestors? Ntecedents?) is hard. In fact, this time, there are “evil ninjas” chasing you in some levels. These ninjas are, in fact, you from two seconds ago and you from four seconds ago, etc. They’re not in all of the upcoming PS4 game’s 1,000 levels, but there…

The Swedish Military’s Recruiting Game Is Really Fun

Games as recruiting tools aren’t anything new, but this little free browser game was more entertaining to me than America’s Army ever was. The point of the game is to emphasize how important teamwork is (and how you can learn it in the military), so it matches you up with 3 other players and gives…

What Does Battlefield Hardline Have That Battlefield 4 Doesn’t?

Battlefield Hardline is still a long way off, but we can get a look at what’s different from Battlefield 4 in this video from Levelcapgaming. Ziplines! Grappling hooks! Tasers! Some of the highlights I liked: Instead of a default knife, you’ll have a nightstick or a baseball bat, which you can use to choke out…

One Of The Show-Stoppers At E3 Was An Awesome Kinect Game. Not Kidding.

We’ve covered Fru before, and we’ll cover Fru again, because Fru isn’t just the best game I’ve ever seen on Kinect (sorry, Dance Central, though you’re pretty good, too)…it’s a game I really want to play. I shot a short video of it in action at E3 with developer Mattia Traverso at my side. Fru…

The New Zelda Might Not Have The Puzzles You Expect

Are you hoping for something different from the new Zelda, which blew everyone away when it was announced earlier this week during Nintendo’s E3 show? Series producer Eiji Aonuma has promised that this one will shake things up, with an open-world focus that calls back to the days of Zelda on the NES. He’s also…

New Star Fox Game Will Support Co-Op. You Pilot. I Shoot.

An optional co-op mode in the upcoming Wii U Star Fox game is going to let two players command one Arwing with one flying the ship and the other shooting from it. Nintendo’s lead game designer Shigeru Miyamoto described the mode to me this week in L.A., as he elaborated on the value of designing…