A Bingo Game For Ridiculous Female Armor

Problematic female armor—the kind of gear that battle-oriented characters wear that exists more for the viewer’s titillation than for protection—is kind of cliche. Really, was only a matter of time before someone came along and made up a bingo card as a means of critiquing this kind of armor. Check it out—this bingo card is…

​Costume Quest—the Cutest Halloween Game Ever—Gets a Sequel

Kotaku called it “the best game that Double Fine has ever made.” Lots of people loved it, too. And now Double Fine is making a sequel. Indie publishing Midnight City just announced that they’ll be partnering with Double Fine to release Costume Quest 2 for PC and consoles next year. From the press release: In…

Titanfall, Watch Dogs, Joss Whedon, Frozen, Logitech, CAH [Deals]

Titanfall drops tomorrow, take advantage of your last chance at these pre-order discounts. We’ve also got Watch Dogs, the Joss Whedon catalog, and Frozen on offer for you. Titanfall [PC] | $10 off with code XXYB8X-LHFV73-66QFG8 | or $12 off on Gamefly with code MAR20OFF Titanfall [One] | with $10 gift card Titanfall [360] |…

Indie Hit Gone Home Comes To Consoles This Year

Indie adventure Gone Home, which made waves last year on PC, is coming to consoles later this year, the developers at Fullbright Games announced today. The game will be published by independent publisher Midnight City—run by former IGN boss Casey Lynch—and they haven’t yet specified which consoles, though it’ll be a digital release.

Spoiler Alert Is A Game You Play In Reverse

“The big bad boss is defeated, the coins are collected and the princess has been rescued.” Well, the only thing left for you is to undo everything that led up to that. Hopefully Spoiler Alert doesn’t end up just being a normal platformer that you play from right to left instead of left to right.…

Don’t Panic! Play The Hitchhiker’s Guide 30th Anniversary Edition.

30 years ago I received my first proper Apple-compatible computer, and a single game to play on it — Infocom’s text-based The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. The BBC has prettied up the game for its 30th anniversary, and it’s still just as wonderful as it was way back when. One of Infocom’s best, The…

Unnecessary Censorship Makes The Last of Us Much Grosser

“Sorry for ****ing your horse.” This semi-spoilery censored take on The Last of Us, put together by YouTuber NormalDifficulty, is both funny and disgusting. Enjoy.

Awesome Dad Animates His Son Into Dragon Ball For His Birthday

Robson Menezes dos Santos is definitely a “Father of the Year” candidate. He spent 6 months to create a Dragon Ball animation for his son’s birthday, replacing Vegeta, Trunks and Gohan with himself and his 9-year-old son. It’s really high quality for a fan-animation, highlighted below: In the full clip—which is in Brazilian—he was also…

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…