Bowser and Doctor Eggman posters by Chad Woodward

A Much Better Version Of Reaper Of Souls‘ Opening Cinematic

In honor of tonight’s launch of Diablo III: Reaper of Souls, the fine folks at Carbot Animation have delivered their own interpretation of the expansion’s dark, doom-filled opening cinematic. It’s so good. Okay, maybe the tone is a bit off. Let’s compare. Nope, pretty much the same.

Lady Gaga Loves Minecraft

Lady Gaga has a wide range of interests—like being vomited on, for example. She’s also a Minecraft fan, judging from her latest music video for G.U.Y—a single off her latest album, Artpop. The GIF above is a sliver of a scene where Gaga uses Minecraft to, uh, revive Michael Jackson, Jesus, and Gandhi. Because video…

​The Xbox One’s Media Remote Is Surprisingly Great

The Xbox One wasn’t supposed to need a remote control. That was the whole point, right? With its high-tech Kinect camera, we could just talk to it and tell it what to do. Remote controls were a thing of the past, a finally bygone relic of the 20th century! Except, well, not really. A few…

Tiny Super Mario 64 Secrets You May Not Have Noticed

Super Mario 64 didn’t skimp out on small details—take, for example, the penguins in Cool Cool Mountain. They do more than just provide you with stars, you know. GameXplain breaks down some of the neat things you might’ve missed about ’em, like how the baby penguin cutely mimics Mario. Aww. Maybe I wouldn’t have cruelly…

How To Move Like A Pro In Titanfall

Movement is everything in Titanfall. A good player knows how to get around the map with ease, sometimes without ever touching the ground. If you’ve been having trouble with movement, there’s good news: you can learn how to expertly use your jumps, wall-running and jetpacks in Titanfall with some help. YouTube user arCtiCvBi, a former…

The Next McDonald’s Happy Meal Toys Are Going To Kill Me

Today Activision announced a second round of eight Skylanders Happy Meal Toys will be launching March 27, but they will not be alone. The Skylanders: Swap Force characters will be the “boys” toy, and the “girls” option? It’s My Little Pony, dammit. “I think you’ve been triangulated,” said Kotaku boss Stephen Totilo when I showed…

SimCity Redemption Day, SteelSeries Mousepad, Castlevania [Deals]

It goes without saying that SimCity had its issues at launch, but a year later, the game’s all grown up and even sports an offline mode. If you think it’s time to give the game a chance, you can get it today from Amazon for just $20. If you already own the game, the futuristic…

Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes – PS4 vs. Xbox One vs. PS3 vs. 360

With every new cross-gen video game comes a new opportunity to compare technical performances across most of today’s big gaming consoles, and Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes is no exception. The super-technical folks at Digital Foundry have put together a great breakdown of the technical specs in the latest MGS game, complete with video…

Competitive Gamers Need A Better Way To Measure Their Skills

We really don’t know what makes someone good at video games. We can speculate, but we don’t know. What we need, frankly, are better stats. In StarCraft we bear witness to the immaculate precision of a perfectly-timed Zerg ambush, but we don’t know how that compares to the average Zerg ambush. In a Call of…

Here’s the painted version of NECA’s Booker DeWitt figure. Should be available for preorder at your favorite webstore today.

Your PS3s and PS4s are about to get 37% more radical. OlliOlli—the hit side-scrolling skateboarding game that came out for PlayStation Vita earlier this year—will be coming to Sony’s home consoles this summer. There’s also an update on the way that will fix a crash bug and include other stuff, too.

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Why Post-Game Content Sucks• 10 Reasons Awesomenauts Is The Best MOBA • A Tale Of Dark Souls II Cooperation TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

If Disney Characters Were In The Middle of a Zombie Apocalypse

They would survive and adapt easily, or at least that’s what deviantART artist Kasami-Sensei‘s artwork suggests. He put several Disney characters into the Walking Dead universe, making all the appropriate changes. It’s weird to see Anna from Frozen with an M4 carbine, but you can’t survive otherwise. Here are some highlights. My favorite is definitely…