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Battlefield 4 For PC Is Free Until August 14
Starting today, PC gamers will be able to play Battlefield 4 for a week free of charge—provided you have an internet connection and an Origin account. EA just announced a new trial period for its popular online multiplayer-friendly shooter as the latest installment in its newly-minted Origin Game Time program. EA said that the offer…
By Yannick LeJacq Published August 7, 2014 -
UncategorizedThe Super Mario 64 Coin That Took 18 Years To Collect
In 2002, someone on GameFaqs discovered something curious: there was a coin in Super Mario 64 on a course called Tiny-Huge Island. Not just any coin, though. This coin was different from all the other 191 coins on the level, because unlike the other coins, you couldn’t actually collect it. The coin on Tiny-Huge island…
By Patricia Hernandez Published August 7, 2014 - Uncategorized
When You Should Consider Preordering Games
There’s a time and place for everything, including taking the divisive, frequently anti-consumer culture of gaming preorders and making it work in your favor. Back in 2013, Kirk Hamilton wrote a great post about Bioshock Infinite’s manipulative preorder scheme . A few weeks later I came on board and rebooted Kotaku Deals (then called Moneysaver),…
By Shane Roberts Published August 7, 2014 -
UncategorizedA Brief History Of The Ninja Turtles
With the release of the Michael Bay-produced Ninja Turtles movie (which appears to be getting a critical stomping), now is as good a time as any to take a trip down memory lane to see where this all began. The people at Vulture put together a brief video refresher of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles…
By Chris Person Published August 7, 2014 -
UncategorizedZombie Shooter Epidemic Spreads To Counter-Strike
The series may be an apocalypse or two late to the party, but massively popular multiplayer shooter Counter-Strike is getting a zombie-centric spin-off. Huh. Well, I guess it worked for Call of Duty OK, so something to note here: series creator Valve—aka godking emperor sun lord incarnate of PC gaming—isn’t the main developer on this…
By Nathan Grayson Published August 7, 2014 - Uncategorized
Deals: Sleeping Dogs Definitive, Fox Searchlight Collection, 2DS
Sleeping Dogs, a great example of what open world games can and should be, is getting the definitive treatment. This upgrade packs in all the DLC (and to be clear, there was a ton of content in the base game already), and a preorder nets you a free upgrade to limited edition artbook packaging. [Sleeping…
By Shane Roberts Published August 7, 2014 - Uncategorized
Fallout, Destiny, Half-Life, And More In Lego
The Fallout vertibird and a squad of power armored-troops made out of Lego by Justin Stebbins. He has also made convincing Lego minifigs based on Watch Dogs, Destiny, Metal Gear, Baldur’s Gate, and more: Via TBB You are now looking atScreenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.
By John Struan Published August 7, 2014 - Uncategorized
A Real Fish Appears To Be Playing Pokémon Right Now
When millions of people typed commands into the internet to play old Pokémon games one at a time, it exploded a whole new way of socializing around games into being and became the weirdest, most popular interactive drama of early 2014. Now a fish is playing Pokémon. And he’s doing pretty well! Y’know, for a…
By Evan Narcisse Published August 7, 2014 - Uncategorized
Great, Ryu, NOW look at what you’ve done
Always breaking things… via Reddit
By Yannick LeJacq Published August 7, 2014 - Uncategorized
This Developer’s App Icons Will Haunt Your Dreams
At iTunes, there’s a selection of nearly one hundred apps in the Kids Fun Club by TabTale collection. The icons are nightmarish: You can see more at the Kids Fun Club page at iTunes. Via Mark Brown You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs…
By John Struan Published August 7, 2014 - Uncategorized
Another Microsoft-Published Xbox One Launch Game Is Coming To PC
Xbox One launch game Ryse is coming to PC this fall, according to the folks behind the game, though not via the game’s original publisher Microsoft. There’s a little bit of a curious pattern developing here with Xbox One launch titles. A third-person action game set in ancient Rome, Ryse was developed by Crytek and…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 7, 2014 - Uncategorized
Streak about to be broken? Nintendo has released a new handheld—or iteration of an existing handheld—in North America in each of the past five years. Nothing announced for this fall, which means 2014 might break the streak. Unless… anyone want a 2DS XL to be announced by December? A 3D XL Lite? Game Boy 2?…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 7, 2014 -
UncategorizedLara Croft’s Manor, Remade As A Counter-Strike Map
It’s a pretty big map to play CS:GO on, but definitely a fun one. The level takes the maze, the pool, the training area, and all the colorful locations from Lara Croft’s various manors from the Tomb Raider games, and mixes together in the form of a Counter-Strike map. There’s no butler though, so we…
By Gergo Vas Published August 7, 2014 - Uncategorized
Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: School Trips to Game Worlds: A Space Station for All Subjects • Koda’s Top 10 Summer 2014 Anime Openings • Game of The Week — Island Paradise (And Some Monsters. And Yo-Yos): StarTropics • Video Games As More Than Gameplay TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY…
By András Neltz Published August 7, 2014 -
UncategorizedNintendo Finally Brings 1986 Video Game To America
It’s taken more than 25 years but a NES game made by Nintendo itself will finally be coming out in North America. You may have seen or heard homages to The Mysterious Murasame Castle in Nintendo games but the real deal comes to the 3DS this week. Get ready, but this sucker looks hard. Originally…
By Evan Narcisse Published August 7, 2014
