Space 2.0: The initially promising-looking but unfortunately flawed space sim X Rebirth gets a sizable update this week that developer Egosoft claims will address a lot of the game’s issues. This video touts a few of those improvements, and you can download a PDF of all the changes here

People Used To Think Chess Would Ruin Everything

You know how it goes: something new comes along, and catches everyone’s attention. Immediately, people think the new thing will corrupt society and make everything worse: this has been true for everything from books to video games. And yes, it also holds true for chess. Chess! A thing we largely consider to be an intellectual…

1980’s Newscasters Struggled To Explain How Pac-Man Works

Pac-Man turns 34 today. It’s exciting to see that the little yellow guy has survived into middle age. But before the Pac became the dot-eating legend we know him as today, he had to do the same thing every celebrity does: make a name for himself. To commemorate Pac-Man’s birthday, popular video game personality Patrick…

​Jennifer Aniston’s Greatest Gaming Moment

Remember the 1990s? It was a wonderful time, a time when Microsoft would pay Jennifer Aniston to beat a child actor at video games, all in the service of helping explain how to use Windows 95. We’ve actually written about this video before, in which Jennifer Aniston and Matthew Perry, high on Friends fame, signed…

Wolfenstein Has A Cool Little Fallout Easter Egg

While there isn’t any official news about Fallout 4 just yet, Bethesda-published Wolfenstein: The New Order does give a quick nod to everyone’s favorite vault-dwelling franchise. Obviously, if you’d rather not have the location of the easter egg spoiled, you probably shouldn’t watch this video by xReignMan40x! Vault 101 is, as some of you might…

Everything Is Wrong With Snow White & The Huntsman

There are a lot of things wrong with Snow White & The Huntsman — like how Kristen Stewart is imprisoned for years and then suddenly armors up and leads a battle — but the greatest sin is probably wasting an appearance by Nick Frost. Everything Wrong With Snow White & The Huntsman [CinemaSins]

Maybe It’s Not That Easy To Make A Flappy Bird Clone

Epic Games just released a new tech demo of sorts for Unreal Engine 4. There’s something different about this compared to the usualvisual splendor of most of Epic’s Unreal showcases, however. Something much more…flappy. That’s right: Epic Games, the studio behind juggernaut titles like Gears of War and Unreal made a Flappy Bird clone. It’s…

New Rap Video Is Full Of Old Video Game References

There’s Donkey Kong in this video. Zaxxon. Kuribo’s shoe. And is that a Castlevania reference? Check out bay area rapper Vocab Slick’s new video, “Somethin’ Slick'” and see how many nods to classic video games you can recognize. This is the explicit version of the song, mind you, so put on headphones in case anyone…

$10 In Free Android Credit, Huge Amazon Digital Sale, Double Humble

Amazon is continuing its assault on your Android device with $10 in free Coins for downloading five free apps. Whether you keep the apps or not is irrelevant; the $10 is yours to use as you see fit on the Amazon App Store. If you haven’t yet downloaded GTA: San Andreas from Amazon, they’re still…

​The Most Diverse Video Game Cast Is Getting Even More Varied

Not just one old person. A few of them. Not just one shade of brown person but lighter and darker tones. Not just able-bodied people. People in wheelchairs, too. A whole new crop of character models are coming to SpyParty and, when it eventually comes out, the cat-and-mouse game might wind up looking more like…

The fourth episode of The Wolf Among Us comes out on May 27th, developer Telltale Games just announced. It’s called “In Sheep’s Clothing,” and it’s the penultimate episode. The season started to get really good in the last episode, so let’s hope that it stays that way!

A Drone Ballet Straight Out Of The Cyberpunk Future

Drones have a lot of potential applications — blowing stuff up, fictional delivery services, flying cameramen. But Cyberpunk ballet dancer? That’s a new one to me. Watch as the Japanese dance troupe elevenplay coordinate their movements with three aerial drones. The end result is a kind of hypnotic, futurist, Butoh dance; one where the humans…

Cookie Clicker Has Another Tiny Game Hidden Inside

It’s the game that just keeps on giving. Cookie Clicker released a beta version of its newest feature, which adds randomly generated dungeons and a tiny hero to venture through them in search of more cookies. I tried out the beta, but there are still bugs to be worked out. One of the heroines, Chip,…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: An Amazing New Super Mario 64 World Record! • Happy Birthday, Pac-Man! • The Power of “Show, Don’t Tell” • Watch Dogs and the Conundrum of the Gaming “Hype Train” Follow them here.

Minecraft Comes To Xbox One, PS4 and Vita This August

And if you already have a last-gen version of the hit construction adventure game, the new-gen upgrade will cost only $5. For those who don’t own the preceding console ports, the full cost of PS4 and Xbox One Minecraft will be $20. The new-gen versions will support bigger worlds and save transfers but there are…

The Metro Games Are Coming To PS4 And Xbox One

4A Games’ grim post-apocalyptic shooters are finally getting the next-gen treatment they deserve with Metro Redux, series publisher Deep Silver announced today. Redux features re-mastered and updated versions of Metro 2033 and Metro: Last Light and is coming out for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One consoles. They’ll also come to PC for any gamers…