Kid Shot Dead By Cops, Witnesses Say He Was Holding Wii Remote

Police say that 17 year-old Christopher Roupe was shot and killed because he answered the door pointing a gun. Everyone except the Police say he opened the door holding a Wii Remote. Roupe was shot and killed last Friday night when Police arrived to serve his father a probation violation warrant. He opened the door…

Everybody Games: GaymerX, a con that celebrates diversity and inclusivity, launched a Kickstarter for its upcoming conference in July. The con will host a wedding for a Portal proposal we featured last year, along with a variety of panels and speakers/guest appearances from folks like Bioware’s David Gaider and WWE star Darren Young. Full disclosure:…

‘Twitch Plays Pokémon’ Is Breaking Parts Of Twitch

Twitch Plays Pokémon,’ the stream where thousands of players try to control a single trainer in Pokemon Red, is pretty popular—so popular, in fact, that whenever we posted about it, we’d get a number of reports from unhappy streamers who claimed the chat function in other completely unrelated streams were being affected by Twitch Plays…

Track: Coffee | Album: Coffee/Dress | Artist: Sylvan Esso Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to—and gaming to—at the moment.

World Of Warcraft‘s New Orc Female: Now 100 Percent Less Stupid

Of all the race/sex combinations getting a graphical overhaul in World of Warcraft’s upcoming Warlords of Draenor expansion, none needed it as much as the female Orc. How I hated her stupid old face. The body was fine — a powerful frame with well-defined muscles. Sure, she had no fingers, but who did back in…

​A Comic That Perfectly Captures The Evil Genius Of Eve Online Players

One giant, horrifically expensive space ship destroying another, while its crew erupts in gleeful laughter. Yep, that sure looks like EVE Online. Starting today, you can get the first issue of a new comic-book series based on the infamous sci-fi corporate warfare MMO for free. Created by Daniel Way and Tomm Coker, EVE: True Stories…

All The New Features In Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD

HD visuals, new dress-spheres, a crazy new tower dungeon in which every action is turn-based… these are the new features in the upcoming remakes of Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy X-2, which are out on March 18 for PS3 and Vita. Really, the only thing not to be excited about here is that you…

What’s In The Box?! Oh, It’s A Playable Flappy Bird.

The original Flappy Bird may be gone, but it continues to live on in all sorts of tributes—and not all of these tributes are digital. Take this awesome cardboard box contraption, for example—it’s a machine that lets you play Flappy Bird ‘in real life.’ It’s also just as tough as the original Flappy Bird. Excellent!…

Gearing up for the release of Reaper of Souls, Blizzard is showing off the new Clans and Communities features coming to Diablo III in patch 2.0.1. Clans are guild-like invite-only affairs, while communities are more casual groups sorted by interests, geographic location and the like. You can find out all bout bothon the Diablo III…

Someone Made It So All The Cars In GTA V Try To Kill You

The only thing better than Grand Theft Auto V is Grand Theft Auto V with cars that go crazy and try to murder everyone on the streets. The GTA V Carmageddon mod has been around for a while, and this new video by taltigolt does an awesome job of showing it off. Watch and enjoy:…

I Didn’t Even Know I Wanted A Spelunky Metroid Mod Until Now

I don’t know how this game went this long without this mod, but that doesn’t really matter: Here it is, at last, Spelunky done Metroid-style. The title screen and music alone should fire you right the hell up. Wait! What? Where do I get it? Unfortunately, the mod maker, joey4track, has not made it publicly…

RoboCop Caused $8 Million Worth Of Damage By Today’s Standards

How much property damage could one cybernetic cop possibly do? Quite a lot, it turns out. The keen-eyed CinemaSins folks break out their fancy calculators once more, this time calculating the property damage wracked up in 1987’s original RoboCop. The actual figure they come up with might not be all that impressive, really, but remember…

Valve’s Movie Comes Out In March

Free To Play, the ominously-titled documentary about professional Dota 2 players, will be out on March 19, Valve just announced. It’ll be Free To Watch on Steam. The movie follows three professional Dota players—one in Asia, one in North America, and one in Europe—and documents their challenges, sacrifices, etc. Free To Playwas totally produced and…