The Story Of A Disgustingly Cute Video Game

An aspiring filmmaker who made a documentary about heartbreak. An artist obsessed with making our lives malleable. A second artist who spent years drawing the human form. A game designer who transformed mathematics into a video game. Together these four individuals created Push Me Pull You. A video game about human beings made by human…

Your Favorite Elder Scrolls Character Probably Died A Horrible Death [UPDATE]

An Imgur user has put together reposted an exhaustive list of recurring characters in Elder Scrolls games—from Arena all the way up through Skyrim and The Elder Scrolls Online. Is your favorite character on it? Probably. Did they suffer some kind of cruel, shocking fate between games? Yeaaaaah… probably again. UPDATE 11/24/14: The English-language Imgur…

Yo This Is An Expensive Breaking Bad Figure, Bitch

Taiwanese builder RC has made a range of custom accessory sets (head, clothes, etc) that will transform any standard 1/6 scale figure/doll into your very own Breaking Bad toy. Warning: it is not cheap. Because everything is being made entirely by hand, you’ll pay $115 just for Jessie’s head. Shoes are $85, and his clothing…

Screw Space Marines, We Need More 70s Cop Games

Hey, it’s LA Cops! When we lastsaw the game – which my brain registers as the Beastie Boys’ Sabotage video vs Syndicate – it was pretty early code. Now things are looking a bit more structured. In this clip, we see how the two-player mechanic works. We see a cop called Kowalski. We also see…

Borderlands Rap Album Is… Not Half-Bad, Actually

Yes, somebody made a rap album entirely about loot-tacular shooter Borderlands. Surprisingly, it’s not the worst thing ever. It’s kinda good, actually. I know, right? The group’s name is RPG-Unit (hah), and they’ve put together a six-song Borderlands-themed EP called Rock, Paper, Genocide. You can listen to it for free on Soundcloud. I think… I…

“Video games and movies are finally starting to steal the right things from each other,” according to the writer of an interesting new essay inDissolve that covers the likes of L.A. Noire, Snowpiercer, The Last of Us and Edge of Tomorrow.

Call Of Duty Bummer: They Opted Not To Have Teleportation Grenades

The new Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, futuristic-looking as it is, will not have teleportation grenades. So it was reported in a VentureBeat profileof CoD:AW studio Sledgehammer Games. Too unrealistic. Here’s VentureBeat talking to Sledgehammer’s Michael Condrey about where they draw the line between CoD-suitable and CoD-nope: Condrey said that the team also had to…

A reader sent this Reddit thread my way on Twitter. Looks like it struck a nerve with some gamers. I’m not sure how well the implicit criticism applies to Kotaku since we disclose this info in the review boxes, but it is something to think about as more non-gaming outlets begin to cover/criticize games. Judging…

Metroid‘s Brightest Samus Suit, Now A Glowing 20-Inch Masterpiece

Acquiring the glowing, bone-colored Light Suit was the coolest moment in Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, and one that deserves to be commemorated by a 20-inch tall, $365 glowing statue from First 4 Figures. Feels like I’ve been waiting forever for more Metroid from First 4 Figures, and Light Suit Samus was definitely worth that wait.…

LittleBigPlanet 3 is coming to the PS3 and PS4 on November 18th, Sony just announced. I am so excited to finally see Sackboy on the PlayStation 4. Check out the game’s predictably adorable pre-order bonuses here if you’re into that sort of thing.

I’d Forgotten How Bad The Animated TMNT Movie Was

With Leonardo off on a character-building mission in another country, the remaining turtles are forced to get day jobs. Meanwhile, April O’Neil has made the jump from journalist to ninja archaeologist for hire. Cinema Sins has its hands full with this one. I purchased 2007’s TMNT on Blu-ray, motivated only by blind nostalgia, and look…

Someone’s Figured Out Where One Million Internet Cats Live

This goes without saying, but people love posting pictures of their cats online. They love it so much, in fact, that they’re often willing to forego little things like “privacy” and “self-respect” in favor of bringing their furry friends to the widest possible audience. A new data-driven project throws the gratuity of all this feline-flaunting…