What Nintendo’s Top Game Creators Think Of Minecraft

I’ve been beating this drum for a while: it makes no sense to me that Minecraft is on every game-playing platform you can think of other than Nintendo’s 3DS and Wii U. Finally, I was able to ask Nintendo’s top game designers about this. In Los Angeles last week, I was sitting across from Shigeru…

Steam Summer Sale Day Two, $350 Playstation 4, and More

Steam Summer Sale Day Two is upon us, bringing with it discounts on The Walking Dead: Season 2, Prison Architect, and more. We’ll be updating with our impressions, and we really want to hear yours. Get in there Our picks: Walking Dead Season Two, Prison Architect, Game Dev Tycoon, A Machine For Pigs, Pixel Piracy……

Gamers Are Speedrunning For Charity Next Week

Don’t miss Summer Games Done Quick, the speedrunning marathon for charity that starts this Sunday and runs throughout the week. We’ll be hosting the stream and monitoring for cool moments throughout the week, so stay tuned. The full schedule is really exciting, and part of me really wants to stay up all night watching them…

​Wait. There’s A Female Assassin In Sunset Overdrive?

The makers of Sunset Overdive are proud that you’ll be able to make playable characters of different genders and ethnicities. So, of course, they decided to have some fun at the expense of Assassin’s Creed Now, you won’t hear the word Assassin or any mention of Ubisoft’s hit period-piece action series in the latest promo…

Try Titanfall For Free On PC

Are you one of the PC gamers who prefers Origin to Steam? Ok, ok! Sorry I asked. But hey, at least we can all agree that Titanfall is pretty awesome. And as Kotaku’s Kirk Hamilton has said many times now, EA’s hit multiplayer shooter plays like a dream on the PC. So if you’re one…

Track: The Real Slim Shady | Album: The Marshall Mathers LP | Artist: Eminem Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

​Ok, Let’s Try and Figure Out What This Fourth Person Game Is

You might’ve seen a look at Pavilion—the PlayStation exclusive calling itself a fourth-person game—a few times before. It’s tough to parse exactly what’s going on in the indie puzzle creation, even with a new trailer. The best new clue comes from a really weird, really obscure Pac-Man game, where the iconic character goes a little…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: The Sinner’s Sandwich: The TAY Review • Daisy Deserves Better • State of Video Games 2014 • Back in the TAY Review: Ch-Ch-Ch-Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers • What Game Can You Always Depend On? • No Man’s Sky Just Broke My Heart TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s…

12 Great Techniques For Dark Souls II‘s Multiplayer

Beating bosses in Dark Souls II can be frustrating if you’re a beginner, and playing against others is no different. Juutas on YouTube has a surprisingly well-edited clip, mostly for beginners, showing and explaining 12 techniques that are often used during PvP invasions. Here’s the full clip. Don’t let the Xbox 360 controller confuse you,…

If Hollywood Remade Nickelodeon Cartoons

The talented folks at Dorkly played with the idea of turning classic Nicktoons, such as Hey, Arnold! or Rugrats into modern day Hollywood movies, and damn they would look depressing as hell. Rocko’s (who totally looks like Courage the Cowardly Dog in this pic) Modern Life, turned into an indie drama. Tommy Pickles from Rugrats…

Makeup Turns Young Women into Old Dudes

You’ve probably seen photos of how makeup can change people’s appearance. Usually, makeup makes them look younger. It doesn’t turn them into old dudes. Well, makeup can do that, too. In Japan, “ossan” (おっさん）means an “old dude.” For little kids, it’s pretty much all adult males and for young people, it’s probably guys in their…

Persona Q Reminds Me of Playing My First Online Game… in 1991

New Persona series spin-off Persona Q has a fair number of elements that are a direct throwback to the first video game RPGs. But instead of reminding me directly of those, the first thing it brought to my mind was the first online game I ever played way back in the mythical year of 1991.…

Phantasy Star Online 2 is currently unavailable to play in Japan due to an ongoing DDoS attack, according to an official statement released by Sega (translated by PSUBlog here). Sega plans to compensate players for the downtime, and promises to release a follow-up report on Monday.