Miss Universe Contest Interrupted By Transformers Cosplay (Huh?)

We’ve brought you hard-hitting coverageof the Miss Universe pageant’s weird cosplay-esque section before, but this year featured something worth drawing further attention to: Miss USA dressed up as a Transformer. It was part of the “national dress” section of the pageant, where contestants wear crazy outfits that are usually inspired by their country’s history, traditions…

We Come To It At Last. The Great Artwork Of Our Time.

Roger Kupelian is a veteran of the movie and comics business, where he’s done background paintings on projects like the Lord of the Rings trilogy, X-Men, Pirates of the Caribbean and Space Jam. One of his latest gigs, though, was a Call of Duty commercial, and he also did matte paintings for the Final Fantasy…

Minecraft’s Creator Was Just On Late Night TV

You know your video game has made it when you get to appear on late night television and it’s not at the behest of a marketing team pushing an upcoming blockbuster. Minecraft creator Markus “Notch” Persson was on Craig Ferguson’s show earlier tonight, just talkin’ bout video games and eatin’ chocolate. Here’s the complete segment.

An Army Of PS4 Consoles, Massed At The Gates

This is the floor of an Amazon warehouse earlier today. Amazon[Twitter]

Melodic Duty: check out this awesome ‘gun sync‘ by Ash100HD performed in Call of Duty: Ghosts. It took nine hours to make, but the gun sound effects almost feel like they’re a part of the original song, right?

Ain’t No Wedding Like An Incredible World Of Warcraft Cosplay Wedding

Reader Craig was married in Taiwan the other day. His wedding, as you can probably guess from the headline and images, was not your normal, everyday nuptials. Craig and his wife Zoe went all-out to make their special day a World of Warcraft extravaganza, both forgoing the standard suits-and-white-dress garb to instead tie the knot…

Microsoft Trumps Sony’s PS4 Apartment With An Xbox One Hotel

Sure, you could stay at a normal hotel while you’re in France. Or…you could stay at the Xbox One hotel—because that’s a thing now. Open in Paris for the month of November, the Xbox One hotel is a response of sorts to the “Apartment 4” launched by Sony last month to showcase the PlayStation 4…

X Rebirth is coming soon. November 15, in fact. Here’s the latest trailer, which shows off some of the ways you’ll be able to explore the game’s vast, open space.

The Vita Gets A Brand New JRPG On November 26

Oh hey there, Mr. Vita. It’s been a while. I was worried about you. Good to see you’re getting some JRPGs of your own. The action-role-playing game Ys: Memories of Celceta comes out November 26, publisher XSEED announced today—just in time for Thanksgiving. Because nothing says America like turkey, stuffing, and a good old-fashioned JRPG.

​PS3 System Updates, You Were The Worst

You made me angry with my PlayStation 3, if only for a few minutes at a time. Why’d you have to do that? One of you managed to actually render PS3s inoperable. Most of you were just nuisances. All of you should’ve been downloaded automatically without wasting our time. PS3 system updates, you were the…

​Diablo III Expansion’s BlizzCon Trailer Leaks

A nifty new trailer for the first major Diablo III expansion, Reaper of Souls, has popped up in a number of places on YouTube. The trailer, which Blizzard was likely planning to debut during this weekend’s BlizzCon festival, shows off a number of new features for the expansion, including, for a few moments, some sweet…

Halo 4 Blooper Reel Is Worth Watching Just For Creepy Cortana

The people behind Halo 4 just released this blooper reel. It’s creepy, kinda funny, and worth watching just for Creepy Cortana, which is apparently based off a 343 designer’s face Watch right here:

Goodbye, Massive Xbox 360 Power Brick

For this Last-Gen Zero, we recognize the original Xbox 360 power brick. Last-Gen Heroes is Kotaku‘s look back at the seventh generation of console gaming. In the weeks leading up to the launch of the PlayStation 4 and the Xbox One, we’ll be celebrating the Heroes—and the Zeroes—of the last eight years of console video…

Using Pokémon To Teach Safe Sex Is Super Effective

Colleges that provide easily-accessible free safe sex supplies are already rad, but it certainly doesn’t to do something a little more playful than ‘here are a bunch of baskets with condoms, dental dams and other fun stuff,’ too. Case in point: the mysterious college that Redditor ParadeOfTigers attends, which uses Pokémon references to promote safe…

Episode VII of Star Wars will be out on December 18, 2015, LucasFilm just announced. Just 771 days left.

Lightning Returns‘ Clothing Options Make Me All Giddy

Oh god. I didn’t realize I could do this. I am going to get stuck playing dress-up in Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII for days. Seriously, these are exactly the sort of completely unnecessary features that distract me completely from whatever saving-the-world nonsense I am supposed to be focusing on. They might as well just…