Some Things Never Change

Here’s an excerpt from the magazine Computer Gaming World, reporting on E3 1997. Replace “real-time strategy” with “first-person shooters” and bump up the numbers a little bit—50-75MB!—and this could be from 2014. Some trends just don’t go away. (Facebook, via NeoGAF)

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Mass Effect Postmortem: Has the Wound Been Closed? • Why You Should be More Excited for New Mario Golf • Amnesia Fortnight 2014: Part 1 – Steed TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

And now for something a little different…. You may notice that Kotaku looks a little different today and hopefully you’ll be enjoying some performance improvements. We’re switching to a somewhat slicker layout that has been designed to load the page faster and give you a smoother experience while navigating through the site. Along with our…

Twin Peaks Action Figures Have The Best Accessories Possible

I’d probably have panicked if back in the 80s G.I. Joes had watering cans and coffee jars as accessories instead of plasma rifles. But there are no such things in Twin Peaks, and it just makes artist Max Dalton‘s Twin Peaks action figure collection perfect. He recreated most of the characters for a David Lynch-inspired…

Your Favorite Logitech Gaming Accessories Are On Sale Today

Amazon’s Gold Box is back with a vengeance today, featuring ten of the best Logitech gaming mice, keyboards, headsets, and more. The Logitech G series mice were among our five reader-selected nominees for best gaming mice, the G930 headset finished second in our voting for best gaming headset, and the G710+ also rates among the…

Halfbrick’s Latest Pits Bears Against Their Natural Enemy — Art

It’s about time a game developer explored the complex relationship between members of the Ursidae family and pretentious art installations. And with a trailer narrated by The Stanley Parable‘s Kevan Brighting, no less! Available now in Canada and Australia iTunes and coming soon to everywhere else, Bears Vs. Art is a movement-based puzzle game in…

Man Builds Huge Gundam to Delight Grandchild, Kid Isn’t Impressed

In Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, 66 year-old Kenichi Okada began building a 2 meter tall Z Gundam statue for his grandchild. He spent eight months working on the statue, which weighs 40 kilograms. According to Yahoo! Japan, the child didn’t show much interest in the result. Okada built the Gundam out of wood, which made creating…

“If you’re asking me to throw a rock in the PS4 vs. Xbox One resolution war, I won’t. The game is not finished and talking about resolutions [and framerates] is, I think, pointless.” Michał Krzemiński of CD Projekt RED, to gamesTM’s questionabout resolution differences between the console versions of The Witcher 3

The Jackie Chan Licensed Facebook Game You Never Heard Of

Chinese action star Jackie Chan has appeared hawking a number of things in his life. He’s even had a very popular children’s cartoon show named after himself. This cartoon even spawn a video game—but today, we’re here to talk about one of the lesser known Jackie Chan titles, Jackie Chan Martial Arts Legend Chan, who…

Sony Video Game Exec Makes the Leap to Owl Noises

Let’s see. The game is Destiny of Spirits: Asia. That’s voice actress Kana Hanazawa. But she’s voicing Tsukuyomi, the female character on the television screen. Who’s voicing the owl? Why Sony Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida. The owl character’s name is “Kichipii” (吉ピー), with “kichi” (吉) meaning “good fortune.” It’s a word play on Yoshida’s…

A Nintendo Minute video from last month featured cosplayer Li Kovacs, who took the hosts through the process of designing and building one of her amazing Zelda outfits.

Pre-Alpha Games Shouldn’t Look This Good

Yet here is Project CARS, looking as good as it does. And it looks very good. Gorgeous even. This new trailer, courtesy of ExpressionOfNothing, shows off the still heavily in-development racing game (currently situated at pre-alpha build #678) in glorious 1440p. From the Sky Trailer [ExpressionOfNothing@YouTube, thanks Sebastian!] Questions? Comments? Contact the author of this…

Assassin’s Creed meets Jack Sparrow? Savvy. Cosplayer is Ace Pendragon, while Vivien Kwong took the photo.