Achievements Actually Matter On This Minecraft Map

Introducing “Captive Minecraft,” a Survival gametype that uses achievements and the world border to great effect. You start on a 1×1 box, and every achievement you get widens the world border by half a block in all directions. “As your captive world slowly expands, you gain access to more and more resources,” a post on…

12 Things You Might Not Know About Team Fortress 2

The Team Fortress 2 that we know and love underwent a ton of changes during development—enough that it’s fascinating to look back on the rich history of the game, if not the franchise itself. DYKGaming/Normal Boot’s informative video series is back, this time touching on awesome Team Fortress trivia such as: Which class is based…

Metal Gear: Ground Zeroes, 2DS, Logitech G930, Tales of Xillia 2 CE

Get $5 off your Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes version of choice today. Get a $5 Amazon Digital Games credit for any of the following pre-orders: Watch Dogs Deluxe Edition [Download] ($70) | Amazon Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth [Online Game Code] ($50) | Amazon Watch Dogs [Online Game Code] ($60) | Amazon Evolve…

Gravity Changes When You Go Underground

Daniel Linssen took the theme of the latest Ludum Dare game jam — “Beneath the Surface” — quite literally. In this game, you hit a key to go through the walls and floor, where gravity reverses and launches you back out. The game is playable on the Ludum Dare site here, along with hundreds of…

Bound By Flame hits PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PC and PlayStation 4 on Friday. Focus Home Interactive’s hack-and-slash action role-playing game is flying low under the radar — I had to look it up when I posted The Week in Games on Sunday. Strange, as it seems like the kind of game I’d really dig.…

The Norwegian Military Is Testing The Oculus Rift To Drive Tanks

Virtual reality and gaming technologies have been used by militaries across the world for training and therapeutic purposes. But the Norwegian military has taken VR-assisted combat to the next level with this Oculus Rift-supported rig used to pilot tanks through dangerous combat situations. According to a report from the Norwegian TV station TuTV, the country’s…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection Closure: What You Need To Know • Why I Love Visual Novels So Much, And How I Got Into This Insane Genre • Gameplay, Story, And You: The Whole Is Greater Than The Sum Of Its Parts • Seven Quick Reviews TAY Classic—TAY Open…

The Oculus vs. Zenimax Battle Is Heating Up

Oculus and Zenimax are still going at it—this morning, the company behind Oculus Rift released a statement in response to Zenimax’s claims last week that Doom co-creator John Carmack had stolen “technology and know-how” when he left Zenimax for Oculus last year. Though the battle hasn’t gone to court yet, neither side seems willing to…

It’s Not Often You See A Group So Large In DayZ

Looks like it is possible for 30 people to gather without getting killed in DayZ after all. It was one of those rare occasions, organized by the DayZ Flashmob group on Steam, and they were lucky indeed that no one brought an M4 or grenades to the party. And you might wonder what they did…

Learn How To Kiss With Spider-Man And Gwen Stacy

During this weekend’s episode of Saturday Night Live, real-life couple Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone took the stage to demonstrate how real kissing gets done, unless I am completely missing the point. In other news, my wife is never going to trust my kisses again after I get finished emulating this skit all over her…

Two Gamers Are Going To Jail For Stealing $6,405 In Virtual Items

Stealing is bad. Stealing items in online games is also bad, and usually there’s not much that can be done to combat it—so it’s super good news that two Chinese internet thieves have been sentenced to prison terms. According to a report released today, in early April, two men, surnamed Wang and Cai, were each…