Titanfall’s Not The Only Sci-Fi Game With Parkour

To recap: the best thing about Titanfall was not the mechs. It was the wall-running. So the more games doing that sort of stuff, the better. Ascend is an indie title made primarily by Tommy Wong (an artist in the games business), which he’s been working on for years now. Like Titanfall, it has mechs,…

Skyrim NPCs Finally Get A Holiday

Skyrim’s NPCs have been toiling through their clockwork lives like, well, clockwork since 2011. It’s time for a break. This mod programs a series of holidays into the game, occurring on certain days in the Skyrim calendar. There’s lore supporting them, and each holiday is a little different; some involve gathering in a town square…

Watch Dogs Will Be Blamed For Traffic Sign Hacking

The MS-ISAC, a group established to “improve the overall cyber security posture of state, local, tribal and territorial governments”, isn’t even waiting for people to hack traffic signs to blame it on video games. It’s getting out ahead of the trend. A recent report issued by the body, about a notorious “Saudi Arabian actor” who…

Track: The Beginning Artist: RuPaul Album: Glamazon Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

The Week In Games: Yeah, Right.

Enemy Front, How to Train Your Dragon 2, Blood of the Werewolf and AiRace Xeno. These are the games brave or stupid enough to think the week of E3 2014 is a good time to draw attention to themselves. Even the “Coming Soon” area of Steam, normally packed with potential indie gems, has largely avoided…

Minecraft Creator Debuts His Latest Creation, Cliffhorse

Technically his first commercial game since Minecraft took the world by storm, Markus “Notch” Persson’s Cliffhorse puts players in control of a horse near some cliffs. Well, hills mostly, but Hillhorse sounds silly. In fact the whole thing is a bit silly, just a bit of fluff tossed together in the Unity engine and announced…

I Will Buy Any Starship Lance Henriksen Wants To Sell Me

The commercial for Star Citizen’s MISC Freelancer may be fake, but the desire to buy is quite real, thanks to the reassuringly gravelly narration of Aliens actor Lance Henriksen. If I had a spare $125 to $180 to pledge towards a virtual ship, the Freelancer is the one I’d pledge it to. It’s dependable and…

Ahead of an official Playstation 4/Vita bundle rumored to be announced at E3, Best Buy is selling the Playstation 4 together with the Borderlands 2 Limited Edition Vita Bundle for $560– a savings of $40 compared to buying both separately. [Best Buy] This post is brought to you by the Commerce Team, a dedicated group…

Honest Game Trailers Vs. Mortal Kombat. Ready, Fight!

While I’d rather watch a documentary that followed the fabled fighting franchise from birth, through its awkward teenage years into adulthood, Smosh‘s Honest Game Trailer for Mortal Kombat will do in a pinch. With a new Mortal Kombat recently announced for 2015, now’s the perfect time to look back on a series that started strong,…

Sunday Deals: $40 Playstation Plus, Playstation 4, More (Updating)

Don’t let it being Sunday or being the day before E3 stop you from saving some money. Today you could get a Playstation 4, Sony Gold Headset, a year of Plus, and Second Son limited edition for $530 shipped using the deals below. Update: Ahead of an official Playstation 4/Vita bundle rumored to be announced…