When Dark Souls II Hacking Becomes Art

Hacking in a game is often used for banal, selfish reasons. But when someone uses it for something wonderful, it deserves a little bit of credit. MrAlbinoLama hacked Dark Souls II to turn his magic projectiles into hypnotic, cascading shapes that are very soothing to watch. I am not saying you should do this —…

Until Dawn Is a Horror Game Where Everyone Can Die

It may have been a room full of overworked, stressed and irritable journalists, but Until Dawn did something special when I went to see it at Gamescom: it made people jump, it made one woman scream and it made everyone laugh nervously and chatter about what they’d just seen happen. This post originally appeared on…

Gamescom Looks Like An Absolute Mess

This week in Germany, video game fans from all across the world have congregated at the altar of Gamescom, Europe’s biggest trade show. And it looks like… hell. I mean, check out this photo, snapped by IGN’s Brian Albert: That just seems so unpleasant. North America’s big gaming shows—E3 and PAX—are always crowded, but they’re…

The wonderful fifth entry in the Ace Attorney series is now out on iOS. You can download the first episode of Phoenix Wright: Dual Destinies for free and buy the whole thing for $15 (or, individually, at $5 per episode).

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Visually Appealing: A Few Favorite Gaming Art Styles • Tomb Raider — Timed Exclusive Cherry-Picking • Game of The Week — You Got Movie In My Game: Indigo Prophecy TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

Super Mario 64‘s Iconic First Stage In LEGO Form

Here’s Bob-omb Battlefield, the first course in Super Mario 64 with its mountains, low poly objects and its constant war, rebuilt with LEGO blocks. Veteran builder Pepa Quin even included secret locations and a really funny-looking Mario in his diorama. And this makes me wonder how awesome official LEGO Nintendo sets would be… Bob-omb Battlefield…

Crytek Says Ryse On PC Is A Proper Port

My first honest reaction to Crytek’s announcement that Ryse was coming to PC was that it must be a quick way to generate some revenue after all its recent troubles. That’s not the case, according to senior producer Brian Chambers. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK During a hands-on demo I asked Chambers about…

Japanese Women Don’t Want To See Man Nipples

Of course, men in Japan have nipples. And seeing those nipples, it seems, is unsettling to some of the country’s women. Good thing there are several products for men to hide those nipples. In a report published on Huffington Post Japan, a recent poll asked 750 adult women, ranging from their 20s to 60s, if…

If you like shoot’em up games, good news. Hiroshi Iuchi (Radiant Silvergun, Ikaruga, Gradius V) recently revealed he is working on a new shooting game. Called Ubusuna, it’s a download title for the PS4.

How Digital Game Sharing on the PS4 Will Work [UPDATE]

So, Sony’s upcoming update feature is going to let me borrow and play my friends’ games without actually owning them? Holy crap, I’m on board. But how does it work? And what game limitations (if any) are there? “How it works is, for example, say, a friend has a game that I don’t. I ask…

Dead Space: Missing, But Not Dead

“Is Dead Space dead?”, I asked Steve Papoutsis at the end of an interview about Battlefield: Hardline – the game Visceral is now making in lieu of a Dead Space 4. Here’s what Hardline’s executive producer said back to me, in what some people call ‘an answer’: This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK “Is…

“Originally we were thinking a game that would make you pee your pants,” Hideo Kojima said about Silent Hills on Konami’s Twitch (via IGN). However, now “we are aiming for a game that will make you shit your pants.”

Report: The Last Guardian Won’t Be at the Tokyo Game Show

Are you surprised? So, the bad news is that The Last Guardian will miss TGS. Again. The good news is that the team is apparently “making great progress.” When Eurogamer asked Sony exec Shuhei Yoshida if The Last Guardian will be at this year’s Tokyo Game Show, he replied, “I don’t think so. “Sorry.” The…