Someone Put A Spaceship On This Beautiful Video Game World, Right Now

Outerra, an engine that has the potential to change the way we play certain genres of video games, just keeps looking better every time we see it. This new video highlights the massive engine’s ability to generate and distribute vegetation as it flies over Mexico. Not a tiny, artificial caricature of Mexico. A 1:1 recreation…

This Is How You Make A Video Game Trailer

This is the latest trailer for Capy’s Super TIME Force, and while their lastone was awesome, this might be even better. Forget expensive cinematics or insomnia-curing developer diaries; this is how you sell a video game. You entertain and inform. Seamlessly. If you thought your Xbox 360 was done for, think again, because this hits…

Reports: Nintendo Publishes A Game Dropping F-Bombs

Wii Karaoke U is a service that’s been available in Japan for a while, a built-in app for Nintendo’s console that lets users play a basic singing game using their Miis. The game – developed by Joysound – went and hit Europe last month, converted to a downloadable title, and the song selection is…interesting. According…

Hyper Light Drifter Still Looks Like The Coolest Game In Town

Hyper Light Drifter was oncea tiny little Kickstarter. It was asking for $27,000. It ended up making $645,000 Now that the dust has settled and the cash has been counted, here’s three minutes of gameplay from a “pre-alpha basic demonstration”. Normally that disclaimer is attached because an in-progress game is looking like crap, but this,…

Battlefield 4 Has Some Problems (But They’re Being Worked On)

Like most online games, Battlefield 4 on PC is having some teething problems. While they’re not as severe as certainother gameshave experienced this year, they’re still a pain in the butt for those affected. Things like server crashes, long queues, loss of player progression and in-game bugs are making some people’s experience with the big…

Another Good Look At The Xbox One’s Dashboard

Videos of the Xbox One’s dashboard and user interface in action have been getting progressively better, the latest being this handy clip put together by The Verge Shot with a half-decent camera/phone, and by a man who can keep his hand steady while filming, this video also benefits from uploader Tom Warren narrating the action…

There’s Keyboard and Mouse, There’s Dual Analogs—and Then There’s This

Freddie Wong is one of our generation’s finest war satirists, showing the idiocy of human conflict if everyone fought the way they did in video games. So when mobile gamepad maker MOGA wanted to commission a film showing how shit-tacular touch-screen controls are, there was really only one guy to go to. “Mobile Squad” is…

Warhammer Online, due for a shutdown in mid-December, has gone free-to-play as a “parting gift” to those who had an account in good standing as of Thursday. “We will be adding new NPCs to the game in order to power up your characters,” Mythic promises.

It Took One Year to Make This Criminally Insane LEGO Arkham Asylum

Not only did Thorsten Bonsch spend a year of his spare time constructing a gloriously macabre LEGO rendering of Arkham Asylum, he also released an 82-page, step-by-step making-of book that you can download for yourself. Let’s be clear though, these are detailed instructions along with a description of the architectural inspirations for the facility—a 115.5…

The Week in Games: A Duty to Perform

Call of Duty: Ghosts is a longstanding first-Tuesday-in-November tradition, scaring off nearly every other big release that has a bunch of marketing behind it. But there are a few others of note, including a Castlevania collection and State of Decay on PC. Here’s the week in video games. Tuesday, Nov. 5 Call of Duty: Ghosts…

A Live-Action Look Back at Dead Island‘s Original Trailer

Remember that haunting first trailer that Dead Island released two years ago? The reverse-time, slow-motion reveal of a zombie child thrown to her death by her father, and the tragedy preceding it all? That thing won an award at Cannes.* Now someone’s gone and shot it in live action. Directed by BJ McConnell, with visual…

Call of Duty‘s original working title was “Medal of Honor Killer,” reports GameSpot. Mission accomplished, I’d say.

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: One Big-Ass Xbox

Oh man, look at this Xbox One! Man, I don’t think my entertainment center’s gonna hold that sucker when it comes out next month. That is huuuuuuge! Let’s ‘Shop it up. What, you need more instruction from me? Hell, a bunch of people already got started when Jason Schreier spied this image last week. We’ll…

Warcraft Artist Dominates Halloween Contest With Game of Thrones Getup

Everyone, meet René Koiter. Halloween may have been three days ago, but we just caught a glimpse of his virtuoso rendering of Khal Drogo from Game of Thrones, which totally blew the curve for Blizzard’s Halloween costume contest. It’s not just the body paint, the leather bracers or the twin sickle blades. Half of the…

Sunday Comics: Look But Don’t Touch

Welcome to Kotaku‘s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Double XP by M.S. Corley and Josh Crandall. Published Oct. 28. Read more of Double XP Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published Oct. 28. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by…

Next-Gen Games Will Fill Our New Consoles’ Hard Drives In No Time

The PlayStation 4’s internal hard drive is 500GB, and if you buy and start playing just two of its launch day first-person shooters this month, you may already be using more than a 10th of the drive. Welcome to a somewhat different era of console gaming. Above you’ll the see part of the back of…

News Station Thinks “The Cake Is A Lie” Joke Is Proof of the Paranormal

For anyone that’s played Portal, ‘the cake is a lie’ very well may be an old, tired joke. But that doesn’t mean everyone knows where the joke comes from, judging from some this footage of a recent Oklahoma newscast. The clip above is of KJRH’s coverage of Sooner Paranormal of Oklahoma, a group dedicated to…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Rosemary’s Babies: The Winners

With a face only a mother could love—or a psychopath—My Little Baby 3D adorably spit up on the 3DS last week. We gave you several blood-curdling screenshots and asked you to do your worst. Happily, you kept the really gruesome stuff to a bare minimum. There are 17 finalists inside, including overall No. 1 Docherty!…