The Best Pokémon 3DS Drawings Aren’t the Most Accurate

Nintendo 3DS game Pokémon Art Academy aims to teach players how to draw Pocket Monsters the right way. But what if you don’t want to learn to draw the right way? What if you just want to screw around? You can do that, too. As Kotaku previously covered, the game gives player tips on how…

Rock Simulator 2014 Will Bring EA, Activision To Their Knees

“For a long time, there has been one game missing from the market”, reads the introduction to my new favourite Steam Greenlight project. “A genuine rock simulator.” This simulator is a rock enthusiasts dream. You can watch beautiful rocks in any location in the world. From grass plains to salt flats, there are dozens of…

World Of Warcraft’s Humans Now Actually Look Like Humans

Blizzard is continuing the process of sprucing up the visuals of the ageing World of Warcraft, and the next race to have their facelift shown off are the humans. Who now look like Homo sapiens, rather than Homo neanderthalensis. As you’ll see, the basic shape and characteristics are almost the same. The new human is…

​Internet Video Tests Your Endurance For Internet Videos

This three-minute video from College Humor dares you to sit still and watch it. All of it. Can you make it to the end? I made it, but it wasn’t easy. I have things to do, I kept thinking. There’s stuff happening. I should probably be looking someplace else right now. This is taking forever…

Corgi Time: check out the latest game by hilarious game designer (and occasional Kotaku columnist), Tim Rogers—it’s called Tuffy the Corgi and the Tower of Bones. You kind of need to watch this absurd trailer.

Tears for Yuna: I’ve always loved reading and talking with critic Leigh Alexander about Final Fantasy games, and her terrific new article about replaying Final Fantasy X is no exception.

What Nintendo’s E3 Would Have Been Like In Tomodachi Life

Last week in my review, I described Tomodachi Life as “a bizarre, alternate universe where everybody had giant heads and spoke in ghostly robotic warbles.” If that’s not weird enough as it is (and it’s already pretty weird), imagine a veritable chorus of Nintendo developers chirping and prancing about in Mii form to hawk their…

Steam Sales Are Great For Counter-Strike Hackers

Everyone loves Steam sales. But wanna know who really loves Steam sales? Counter-Strike cheaters. Here’s why. PC Gamer reports that whenever Counter-Strike: Global Offensive goes on sale, cheaters take the opportunity to re-buy the game on new Steam accounts. Hackers do this so they can cheat on the new accounts, while keeping their “real” accounts—the…

Katmari Damacy + Mario = Katamario

Katamario by 8Bit-Artist via it8bit

July’s Playstation Plus Line-up Brings The Fireworks

Sony recently announced changes to Playstation Plus, and on July 1st we’ll see those in effect for the first time. However you feel about the more defined game availability window, you’ll probably be pretty happy with July’s list of free games for members, which includes Towerfall: Ascension and Muramasa: Rebirth. [Playstation Blog] PS4 Towerfall: Ascension…

Highlight Reel: June 25, 2014

Today’s gaming highlights: A Saving Private Ryan-style helicopter kill, a League of Legends pentakill, a tragic shot to the toe, and more! Battlefield 4 First up, TheMooclear was trying to take down a helicopter with his last stinger missile. When that didn’t work, he turned to his pistol: Next in “how to take down vehicles…

Heads Up, Bikers: A Master Chief Motorcycle Helmet Is On Its Way

Before he let himself go, Marlon Brando was pretty much the pinnacle of American masculinity. Too bad that Halo didn’t come out until a few months after the actor already finished his final role in the 2001 thriller The Score, then. Because you know what he could’ve used 48 years earlier on the set for…

Reminder: charity speedrun marathon Summer Games Done Quick is full of people doing and showing amazing video game things. Right now, they’re playing 1993 Data East oddity Ninja Baseball Bat Man, a game where heroes have to “recover various artifacts stolen from the Baseball Hall of Fame, a task prescribed to them by the Commissioner…