The Rural American Occult Needs A Shotgun To The Face

“An action RPG set in 1920s Massachusetts. Create and manage a team of investigators in a story-driven supernatural mystery.” If that’s not a game you can’t get behind, then I don’t know what’s up with you. Witchmarsh is a game we first looked at last year, when it was a twinkle in the internet’s eye,…

Someone Noticed We Like Sailing Giant Ships With Cannons

Ask anyone what their favourite parts of Assassin’s Creed IV were and if they don’t tell you they were the parts where you’re on a giant ship then they’re lying and are probably a terrible person. Naval Action is all about tall ships with big guns, letting you sail the seas blowing splinters into the…

The Future Of Gifs Will Destroy Our Bandwidth

Reader ghostlolol dropped a 50fps, 36mb gif (not this one up top) into Kirk’s Xbox One post from earlier today. It’s the Spruce Goose of Titanfall gifs. It is amazing, so amazing we figured we’d put it here for everyone who missed it, but be warned, if you’re on a phone or have bandwidth concerns,…

Track: Lingus | Album: We Like It Here | Artist: Snarky Puppy Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

Cards Against Humanity Gets Real For Lance Armstrong

Well then. This is kind of awkward. This is the inevitable card that came up when disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong played Cards Against Humanity recently:

Watch Us Play Super Time Force

Were you not convinced of the wonders of time travel by our review? Well let Evan Narcisse take you on an adventure through the internet of the future with Jean Rambois and Dolphin Lundgren. Watchlist is where we show off gameplay of new and upcoming games You’ll see some videos that aren’t on the front…

This Location From Call of Duty And STALKER Is Chilling In Real Life

Chernobyl, the infamous Ukrainian site of a horrific nuclear disaster in the ’80s, has appeared in FPSes like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and STALKER to powerful effect, but what happens when a gamer steps into the real life Zone? Things get downright chilling. And irradiated. Nick Rush-Cooper wrote about the experience of being there…

13 Things You Might Not Know About The Game Boy

Ah, the Game Boy. A classic handheld system that’s been around for 25 years—meaning, it has a rich and fascinating history. Let’s take a look back, shall we? DYKGaming/Normal Boots walks us through a ton of cool Game Boy trivia in this video, including: How the Game Boy was the first video game console to…

Say Goodbye To Online Services On Your Wii And DS Games

Hope you’ve already gotten all your Dragon Quest IX treasure maps and downloaded all those daily Professor Layton puzzles. If not, now’s your last chance. At some point in the next 24 hours, Nintendo is turning off online functionality for Wii and DS games including Super Smash Bros., Mario Kart, and Pokémon. You’ll no longer…

The Epic Rap Battle Between Superman And Goku Is Too Close To Call

The Epic Rap Battles generally present me with a simple choice — Mozart Vs. Skrillex, Bob Ross Vs. Pablo Picasso —but when the Man of Steel goes up against Dragon Ball‘s Kakarrot, I just don’t know. Goku’s rapping skills are clearly more advanced than Superman’s, and he does go Super Saiyan all over the underwearing…

Remember The Universim, that gorgeous-looking god game I wrote about late in April? If its early development is any indication, it looks like everything I want out of a good god game. But before my prayers can be answered, it has to finish that whole crowdfunding campaign thing successfully. So if you’re also interested in…

Master Chief Looks So Much Cuter In Minecraft

Further confirming the adage that if something exists, it will eventually be in Minecraft, here’s a newly-announced Halo skin pack. It’ll include a bunch of character skins and music tracks from Microsoft’s sci-fi shooter series. More details to come

Yes, The Blue Team Has An Advantage In League of Legends

Red versus Blue. Shirts versus skins. Zombies versus humans. These are all surface level distinctions, saying nothing meaningful about one team’s likelihood of trouncing the other…right? If only there was some way to quantify the results of many different matches of a particular game and then use this information to come to a conclusion. Big…