This amazing, detailed artwork made by illustrator Chester Ocampo keeps reminding me how hyped I’d be for a game with a similar art style. Something with a bit of that early 90s Ghost in the Shell touch, with a protagonist similar to Major Kusanagi or even Konoko from Bungie’s 2001 Oni Also, are those heels…

Check out this awesome fan-made Fallout figure: it’s Yes Man, the Securitron that can help you take over New Vegas. It was made by Reddit user Webberley using card, wood, plastic, epoxy and a Doc Ock figure. You can look at more shots here.

Lawsuit Against Bethesda Over Oblivion Bugs Went Nowhere

In 2012, Colorado resident Landis Edwards sued the folks behind The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion over a bug that erased one of his game files. The bug, Edwards said, violated the marketing copy on the back of Oblivion‘s box, which promised “open-ended” gameplay with “unlimited possibilities.” Edwards filed the suit as a class-action with a…

How Fast Can You And Your Friends Defuse A Bomb?

Pop Quiz, hot shot. Can you talk your friend through defusing a bomb that you can’t see? Keep Talking And Nobody Explodes is a Spaceteam-like game where one person gets to be Keanu Reeves and their friends get to be Jeff Daniels. Right now, the game only works with the Oculus Rift and Razer Hydra,…

First News on MLB 14 The Show Comes From Taiwan, Not Sony

Assuming MLB 14 The Show releases on the first Tuesday of March, as the series has since 2008, then we’re five weeks from its anticipated launch and we have to go to freaking Taiwan for our first look at gameplay video. The game hasn’t even gotten an official release date. Sony, you owe baseball fans…

13 Facts About Pixar That You May Not Know

You can probably guess a few of these facts—like the ones referencing how successful the company is—but there ought to be a few you didn’t know. I certainly didn’t know that the studio has a cottage for their employees to work out of that’s modeled after a pink unicorn theme, but, hey! Thanks to Buzzfeed,…

Good Thing Attack on Titan Villains Aren’t Precious Babies

Aberrant titans can come in all sorts of forms, but thankfully that usually means we see kind of weird titans—not something resembling a toddler. That’s good. Babies are cute, you see. And a cute baby titan could totally cloud the judgement of Eren and co, like in this silly video by Animation Domination High-Def. And…

Take A Look At Some Games From Global Game Jam 2014

Global Game Jam 2014 was this past weekend, and over 4,000 games were made at events around the world. Most of them are available to play online at the jam’s site right now, so we took a look at a few of the ways people interpreted this year’s theme. If you aren’t familiar with game…

Gigantic Space Battle Breaks Out in EVE Online, Thanks to Unpaid Bill

One week after this monstrous galactic throwdown in EVE Online, the sci-fi MMO is the scene of another humongous space battle—and it’s all because of a missed bill payment. Because this is EVE, the intrigue leading up to one of these rumbles is often more entertaining than the fight itself—especially when it gets so large…

Forget The Candy Crush Clones, This Match Game Is Like No Other

With a glut of Candy Crush Saga clones flooding iTunes, it was beginning to look like there was no more room in the match puzzle genre for innovation. Then came ZEZ, rocket-punching that idea in the head. Every 60 second round of ZEZ begins with a cat punching a robot with a rocket glove. In…

Cliff Bleszinski, the creator of Gears of War, has some things to say about the sale of the series to Microsoft. No, he’s not coming back to work on it. Will it ever go to PlayStation, though? “Safe to say that’s not likely to happen.”

Even Angry Birds Can Spy On You, According To NSA Leak

Your phone, your e-mail, your Skype calls… just about everything you use is leaking information these days. Including Angry Birds, according to a new report by ProPublica andThe New York Times This info comes from a close look at the much-discussed Edward Snowden documents, which reportedly reveal that spy agencies are snagging all sorts of…

Xbox LIVE and Xbox One Discounts, Liberation, Revengeance [Deals]

If you’re going to pick up a One anytime soon, you may as well save 20 bucks. Newegg’s eBay storefront has the new console for $480- one of the first deals available on Microsoft’s latest. You can also pick up the One bundled with 12 months of Gold at Best Buy for $520, or pick…

About anonymous sources and Kotaku… Two stories on Kotaku last week triggered some reader questions about how we use anonymous sources, how reliable they are, what it means when you see an anonymously-sourced story on Kotaku and, frankly, whether we’re practicing what we’re preaching. I’d like to address that here. As both editor-in-chief of Kotaku…

I Can’t Dance. But These Video Games Make Me Feel Like I Can.

OlliOlli joins the rare rank of video games that make me feel like I have any kind of rhythm at all. Dancing is in my genes. My twin brother used to sneak out to clubs in the 1990s to get his dance on. My sister does capoeira—the Brazilian martial art based on dance moves— nowadays…

Broncos Win The Super Bowl, According To Madden

Degenerate gamblers, Madden NFL 25 says you should get your money down on the Broncos. The game predicts two Super Bowl firsts: snow, and overtime—and a 31-28 victory for Denver. Snow at Super Bowl XLVIII, played on Sunday in New Jersey, seems to be forced by the game’s career modes. In Madden NFL 25 I…

League of Legends Has 27 Million Daily Players, Riot Says

Today in the department of Holy Shit That’s A Lot Of People, Riot Games brings us news that League of Legends now has 27 million daily players. 27 million. Twenty-seven million. Every single day. If League of Legends were a country, it would be the 45th-biggest in the world (out of 244). League of Legends…