20 Years Later, There’s An Official Forrest Gump Video Game

If ever there was a movie that lent itself to the endless runner genre, it’s 1994’s Tom Hanks classic, Forrest Gump. And here we are, with Run Forrest Run. Currently available in the fertile app testing grounds of New Zealand:, Run Forrest Run is a free endless runner based on the running bits from the…

Electric Lady: Here’s some spiffy new concept art of Fetch, the star of the PS4’s upcoming Infamous: First Light.

Star Wars: Episode VII’s Cast, Now In Lego Form

We’ve already seen the cast of Star Wars: Episode VII. Here’s the LEGO version. (via LEGO’s Twitter)

Skyrim Will Never Stop Getting Prettier

It’s 2014—almost three years after Skyrim’s original release. Despite its age, the game can still look damn incredible thanks to modders. Mods like RealVision ENB have been around for a while, but this one in particular actually got an update recently—along with this swanky new trailer. You can download the mod here, where you’ll also…

August is going to be unbearably cute when Road Not Taken comes out on the 8th of the month. Click here for more about Spry Fox’s cartoony fable about life’s unexpected paths and saving lost children hits PS4 and PC.

Steam Summer Sale Day 7, PSN Update, GOG Summer Sale, Logitech Bundle

Steam Summer Sale Day 7 has rolled in with a set of fairly standard discounts, though $4 for Final Fantasy 7, while not unprecedented, stands out. The Banner Saga is also definitely worth its 50% discount. [Steam Summer Sale] Elsewhere, we’ll remind you again that GOG is having a Summer Sale of their own, and…

Poseable Street Fighter Plushies Have Some Epic Eyebrows

The lightest contact with Ryu’s eyebrows from Gaming Heads new line of poseable Street Fighter plushies can probably render a normal human unconscious. What hidden powers do Ken and Chun-Li possess? Rather than simply stuff some cloth with fluff, Gaming Heads fitted each of the new $19.99 plushies based on the legendary fighting game series…

Madness Is Watching The First Three Transformers Movies All At Once

Watching any one of Michael Bay’s Transformers films is enough to drive a person insane. In preparation for this weekend’s fourth movie, the brave men of Red Letter Media watched the first three simultaneously. They are probably all dead now. At least their assumed deaths were not in vain — we learn an awful lot…

​Legend of Korra Game Coming from Makers of Bayonetta

The hit animated series will be getting adapted to video games in a title being developed by Platinum Games. The Legend of Korra will be a third-person action game published by Activision for PC, current and last-generation consoles (except the Wii U), according to IGN. There’ll also be a strategy-centric 3DS game developed by Webfoot.…

​The Real Life Version of Pixel Sword-Fighting

A cult fencing game deserves a cute, choreographed fan film, doesn’t it? Yes, it does. This Nidhogg tribute is pretty fun, especially because it’s got a bunch of guys in brightly colored bodysuits stabbing each other Apsis Motion Pictures’ cinematic interpretation of Mark Essen’s indie swordplay title works because it’s essentially a live-action cartoon, with…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Ani-TAY Review: One Week Friends • Return To Alpha Centauri • Trying To Escape The Life Of A Shut-In • School Days HQ: The TAY Review • Nobunaga The Fool: The Ani-TAY Review • Family, Loss, And The Wii U’s Importance TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To…

The beautiful strategy game The Banner Saga is coming out for the iPad and Android tablets this summer, publisher Versus Evil announced this morning. In other words: soon all you Game of Thrones fans who own iPads won’t have any more excuses for not trying this game out yet. via Polygon

Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes Done Perfectly in Under Four Minutes

This is how Snake would handle things in real life. It’s a 3:54.870 run, to be exact, with an S Rank, so that means Mimalmo didn’t really make any mistakes and managed to finish the game perfectly. He says it’s the world record for an S Rank run, and while there are faster runs out…

Kill Bill Would Be Perfect As A 2D Hack’n’Slash Game

Of course the old-school SNES version of Tarantino’s Kill Bill would be a fast-paced hack ‘n’ slash with huge boss fights and little mini-games. CineFix summed up both movies—it wasn’t hard to include every scene though—in a 2-minute video as a game from the 90s. Kill Bill Vol 1 and 2 – 8 Bit Cinema…