Suddenly Pokémon Red’s Trainer Doesn’t Look So Tough

Red might be one of the best trainers to ever live in the Pokémon universe, but when he’s chibified into a toy like this? It’s kind of hard to take him seriously, amazing champion or not. It’s a nendoroid figure, only available in Japan for about $44. It comes with three facial expressions, four different…

Without Players Terrorizing It, Skyrim Seems Pleasant

Ah, Whiterun. You look so nice from a distance like this, with all your citizens buzzing around, miniaturized like ants. Check out this great timelapse of Skyrim by Ozin370, which utilizes a shallow depth of field—giving it a similar effect to tilt shift. You might remember tilt shift as one of the main effects used…

Astro Duel Turns Asteroids Into A 4-Player Deathmatch

Take Asteroids, throw in a little Combat, and some Mario Kart-style powerups, then shove it all in an iPad for a nice portable experience that you can play with 4 friends wherever you are. I visited Austin recently and developer Rusty Moyher (of Retro Game Crunch) was nice enough to have me over his house…

The Elder Scrolls Online Players Are Pissed About Bots

Players who have waded into the newly-minted Elder Scrolls MMO are up in arms about the game’s bots. According to a number of player reports, ZeniMax Online Studios and Bethesda Softworks have been struggling to fend off a proliferation of bots in the latest installment in its acclaimed series of Elder Scrolls games, the first…

Someone Fixed The Far Cry 4 Box Art

This is just so much better. Thanks, Brian Altano

These Are The 10 Studios Making Assassin’s Creed Unity

Some people roll their eyes (or grunt or sigh) when they’re reminded of how many studios Ubisoft uses to make their massive Assassin’s Creed games, but as someone who likes each year’s installment, I just find it interesting. Ubisoft Montreal normally leads development, though they clearly juggle teams, giving each major AC Montreal team at…

PSA: Mario Kart 8 is the 10th 11th Mario Kart Just in case you were counting. In related news, Mario Kart 64 was not actually the 64th Mario Kart. Also: the new Mario Kart is pretty good UPDATE: A third arcade Mario Kart game has been released, making this month’s 8 actually the 11th game.…

The Funniest Voice In Gaming Comes To Dota 2

Even if you don’t play Dota 2, you’ll probably enjoy this video of The Stanley Parable‘s droll British narrator doing his best to play eSports announcer. These clips all come from a new Dota 2 announcer pack—released today for $10—that lets you play with commentary from the critically-acclaimed indie game. Watch and enjoy.

$20 to Spend on Android Apps For $7, Cosmos, Watch Dogs, Titanfall

Today in the no-brainer category, Android owners can get $20 worth of Android apps, in the form of Amazon coins, for $7. What you’re actually doing is buying the Android version of GTA: San Andreas, which costs 7 bucks and comes with 2000 free coins ($20). If you have a Kindle Fire and want the…

Ubisoft has confirmed the rumored delay for the attractive co-op shooter Tom Clancy’s The Division. The game will now come out some time in 2015, Ubi CEO Yves Guillemot told investors in a conference call today.

What Do You Think Of This New Game Trailer?

Last night, the publisher Interceptor Entertainment announced a video game called Bombshell. They put up a website and teaser trailer, which you can watch above. Interceptor Entertainment is the video game publisher that was trying to make a new Duke Nukem game (with original Duke Nukem creator 3D Realms) before getting entangled in lawsuits with…

Hearthstone Cards Make Beautiful Music

YouTuber JimAndNathDoTheGames realized that mousing over a card in Hearthstone sounds similar to a hi hat, and from there, the next step was obvious. Build an arena deck and make a song from the sound effects. Apparently the deck they drafted did pretty well too, watch it in action: Raise Your Nature via /r/hearthstone

Try a Game That’s Basically The Barrel Parts of Donkey Kong Country

No running. No jumping. No minecarts. Some developers in Uruguay have been making a game called Bullet Boy that seems to be exclusively based on the barrel levels of Donkey Kong Country (perhaps the most fun parts of those games?). Don’t settle for a trailer. You can play a short demo in your web browser.…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Review:Mobile Suit Gundam AGE •Did I Just Get Killed By A Phone Booth in Awesomenauts? • On Charities and Video Games • Word of the Day: Obfuscate TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

There’s a pretty cool glitchy trick in GTA V that makes planes on the ground take off and chase you around the map. The only thing you need is one of the super cars and a little preparation. It is explained in detail how to pull this off below in this short tutorial, made by…

What Pokémon In a Darker Future Would Look Like

Pokémon would look a lot darker in an alternate future, where not just Pokémon evolved but also bio- and nanotechnology. DeviantART artist Abel Vera imagined Mewtwo and Blastoise in a universe like that. Here’s a Mega Mewtwo X, a Mega Mewtwo Y, an armored, cyborg Mewtwo and a realistic Mega Blastoise: Dayshot is an image-based…