​Choose Your Own NSFW Adventures with Batman, Spider-Man and Stan Lee

The Dark Knight’s greatest enemy may not be the central antagonist of the next Batman video game but that doesn’t mean you can’t hear Mark Hamill do his rendition of the Joker anymore. This Clown Prince of Crime? He literally poops on Batman. Thanks, Robot Chicken! The return of Hamill as the Joker is only…

Nobuo Uematsu loves indies—the famed composer best known for his work on the Final Fantasy series is going to work on the upcoming strategy game Defender’s Quest 2. Cool!

Is that you, Tex Murphy? It remains amazing to me that in this, the year of our lord 2014 AD, we are getting a new Tex Murphy game. But we are, thanks largely to the magic of Kickstarter. Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure launches on April 22 on Steam and GoG, and I will…

Why I Haven’t Been Playing Last-Gen Games Much Anymore

Now that the PS4, Xbox One and Wii U are all out, you’d think it’s the perfect time to dive into games on the PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii. Games on those systems are typically cheaper and there are a ton of worthwhile titles released for them already, many of which are already in our…

Watch A Robot Destroying Threes, Live

Matthew Wegner is working on a cool-looking game, but in his free time, he built an actual physical robot that plays Threes, the puzzle game that we’re obsessed with. You can watch it playing live on Twitch right here. According to the text on the stream, he just created the robot, and it seems the…

Gaming Journalism’s Most Exciting Project

Cara Ellison’s excellent “Embed With” (geddit?) series chronicles her experiences temporarily living with various gaming luminaries. The latest entry focuses on occasional Kotaku writer and Videoball/Ziggurat mastermind Tim Rogers. It’s brilliant stuff. Required reading, if you ask me.

Tekken Tag Tournament 2 Gets Added to EVO 2014 Line-Up

Whether you love or hate Namco’s long-running Tekken series, you have to admit that it sure was weird not seeing its latest installment as part of the EVO 2014 line-up. But, Heihachi Mishima fans can rest easy now: Tekken Tag Tournament 2 has just been announced as one of the titles that the world’s best…

Free Month of Xbox LIVE, New Humble, Indiana Jones, GTAV [Deals]

Signing up for Bing Rewards (which you should do anyway), gets you a free month of Xbox LIVE. No-brainer. You do have to use the service a bit to get the reward, but it’s nothing major. [Bing] New Humble Weekly hosted by Destructoid | Critter Crunch is awesome. This has been a bit of an…

Finally, A Video Game That Lets You Worship Gabe Newell

The wonderful folks at Giant Bomb got their hands on a copy of Crawl, which lets you explore a dungeon where your friends are the monsters. It looks like the game’s sense of humor is already living up to its excellent trailer. You can check out the gameplay in the video below. It’s an early…

Every Death In Game of Thrones So Far [SPOILERS]

In case you needed a reminder that nobody will ever, ever be happy on Game of Thrones, here’s a three-minute catch-up on every death we’ve seen on-screen so far, courtesy of Digg. Thanks, George RR Martin. Game of Thrones season 4 starts on Sunday. Expect lots of sex, blood, and sweet house insignias.

What’s Inside the Amazon Fire TV

They’ve done it for the PS4, the Xbox One and damn near ever high-profile piece of consumer electronic tech that’s come down the pike in recent years. Now, iFixit’s popping open the Amazon Fire TVand documenting the innards of the online giant’s streaming mini-console. All of the Fire TV’s hardware gets pried open in iFixit’s…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Silver Spoon: The Ani-TAY Review • Power Fantasies are Great, and Here’s Why • Memories of Launch Day: Xbox 360 • Zooming in (and out) on Games • Sometimes the Best Stories in Games Don’t Come from a Quest Log TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY…

Here’s A Sweet Short Film For The Elder Scrolls Online

This five-minute short, released by Bethesda today, tells you absolutely nothing about The Elder Scrolls Online, which is officially out today for PC and Mac. But hey, it’s a pretty snazzy film and a solid way to start your Friday morning. Very Return of the Kingish. Enjoy.

Phase 2 of Final Fantasy XIV’s PlayStation 4 beta test begins today. If you’re new to the game, you can download the client through the PlayStation Store for free. The test runs until Monday, April 7, 1AM Pacific, and characters made during this phase will be playable after the game’s April 14 launch.