New Cat Game, Same Old “Cats As Jerks” Story

Catlateral Damage has evolved into a fairly accurate simulation of your stereotypical asshole cat. Perdictably, though, it no longer has the “genre” to itself. This is Purrkour, part of the 2014 Indie Game Maker Contest. Still very much in alpha, and with rough edges all over the place as a result, I’ve nevertheless been having…

Map Of 6000 Street Fighter Players Shows Where They Live, Who They Use

Fighting game community site Event Hubs have done something neat: taking the main character preference and location data from over 6000 users currently playing Ultra Street Fighter IV, they’ve put together a map showing where they all live across the globe, and who they play as. Note that in the interests of privacy none of…

This Is The Sound Of Kanye West Getting A Streetpass

Music mash ups are amazing. I love them. I love them especially when they just work so goddamn perfectly. This mash up is one of the best examples in recent history. It’s Kanye West mixed with the Streetpass music. It’s one of those mash-ups that, when you hear it, you just burst out laughing because…

Alien Isolation’s Awesome 1979 Mode Will Be Available For Everyone

Isn’t it great there’ll be a way to play Alien Isolation using the film’s original cast? Wasn’t it stupid that this mode was announced as a preorder bonus? Well, “good” news: the content is going to be available to everyone, not just those preordering the game. Sega has released a short statement today that reads:…

Track: 4th Chamber Artist: GZA, RZA, Ghostface Killah, Killah Priest Album: Liquid Swords Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

Good news, fighting game fans: Skullgirls Encore will be coming to PS4 and Vita later this year.

Contraption Maker, a spiritual successor to Incredible Machine created by some of the people behind the original game, came out on Steam this week. You can check it out here

Counter-Strike Could Really Use More Legos

This is an image from Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. Something looks a little different than what you’d normally expect to see in the latest installment in Valve’s online game about counter-terrorists shooting at counter-terrorists, though. No, I’m not talking about the heads-up display. Ted McIlwain, a level designer at Digital Extremes, has been tinkering with a…

A Well-Loved Game Boy

There Are Way Too Many Indie RPGs

Today a reader sent me an e-mail about this new contest for RPG Maker games, and I wish I had time to play them all. I mean, sure, RPG Maker games aren’t always… polished, but there are some good ones out there, like Exit Fate and Barkley’s Shut Up And Jam: Gaiden. They’re almost always…

Deals: Xbox One for $360, Preorders for Alien, Halo 5, Destiny, More

We’ve got a slew of notable preorders and preorder discounts for you today. Let’s start with Alien: Isolation which, in one of the more egregious, anti-consumer uses of the pre-order we’ve seen in a long time, has locked Sigourney Weaver behind the pre-order wall. [Alien: Isolation] Oh sorry, you wanted good news? Ok, use code…