The First 15 Minutes Of WildStar Make A Compelling Case For More

Signing up for a new subscription-based MMORPG is a big decision, especially when it’s an untested brand like Carbine’s colorful WildStar. MMORPG.com helpfully recorded the first 15 minutes of beta play, which just might help your decision along. I’m glad they did, not because I am too lazy to record the first fifteen minutes of…

Attack on Titan on the 3DS Makes Me Feel Like a Titan-Killing Badass

A few months back, we looked at all the games coming out based on this year’s hit anime Attack on Titan. Last week, the most anticipated of these, Attack on Titan: The Last Wings of Mankind for the 3DS, hit store shelves in Japan. The Last Wings of Mankind has two game modes. The first…

Do You Love The PS4 Enough To Eat It?

No, stop eating your PS4. I said stop it. Stop! Instead, have a look at these lovely PS4 cupcakes. They’re the creation of Stephen Rushbrook of UK developer Stainless Games, where it is office tradition to bring in treats on one’s birthday. Back when the PS4 was announced, there was lots of speculation surrounding its…

Rumored Alien: Isolation Screens Leak Online

This fall, a Kotaku source revealed that the next Aliens game was Alien: Isolation. And last night, screenshots rumored to be of the game appeared online. Four images popped up on Twitter account @Lifelower (via Eurogamer). You can see the other three below: As Kotaku previously reported, the source said the star of Alien Isolation…

NouCome Is This Past Season’s Funniest Anime

When this fall anime season hit its midway point last month, I knew My Mental Choices are Completely Interfering with my School Romantic Comedy deserved a place on the list of five anime you should be watching. This is because it is easily the funniest anime I watched this past season. Good – Great Comedic…

The Attack on Titan Mobile Game Is So Boring It Gave Me a Headache

With the release of 3DS title Attack on Titan: The Last Wings of Mankind this past week, now seemed like the perfect time to try out the Attack on Titan mobile game Attack on Titan: The Wings of Counterattack. Oh how wrong I was. Attack on Titan: The Wings of Counterattack is a mobile game…

Watch What Happens When Internet Addicts Go Offline

You like the internet? I do! I’m online a lot (for work, work, I say), and perhaps you are, too. Think you could go off the grid for a week? Creative agency Mother London had five net natives go offline for a week and documented what happened next. No Internet Week [Vimeo via Digg via…

Pro Gamer Retires So He Can Finish High School

Last night, professional StarCraft II player Kim “duckdeok” Kyeong Deok suddenly announced he was leaving eSports. He’s trading his keyboard and mouse for school books. “I have decided to retire S2,”tweeted Kim—news that surprised many. This past summer, Kim came in first at the 2013 WCS Season 2 Europe, winning US$20,000. “I was thinking about…

Report: Pirate Bay Founder Being Kept In Solitary Confinement

The mother of imprisoned Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm says that since her son was extradited from Sweden to Denmark, he has been placed in solitary confinement as though he were a “dangerous, violent and aggressive criminal”. Svartholm is in custody – he’s still awaiting a verdict – for allegedly hacking the mainframe systems of…

Well, Here’s One Way To Get Around YouTube’s Copyright Robots

Angry about YouTube’s copyright policy? Want to get around its content ID filtering? Good news. Here’s one way. Watch as YouTube user SpookyFries69 shows you how it’s done in the A**a**ins Cr**d * B***k F**g video below. Enjoy! Lets Play A**a**ins Cr**d * B***k F**g [SpookyFries69@YouTube] To contact the author of this post, write to…

Turn Your iPad Into The Neverending Story

Paper books? So 20th century. Today’s Neverending Story is a suede cover for your tablet that turns it into the iconic centrepiece of the 1984 children’s classic. Available for around USD$65, they’re hand-made to replicate the “real” thing as closely as possible. And if you don’t have an iPad, that’s cool, because they’re made by…

Track: Unspoken | Album: Ultraviolet | Artist: Kylesa Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

In The 90s, Sega Made This Boy’s Christmas Very Special

The 1990s were Sega’s golden age, but they were also a golden age for those who loved Sega, because every year on December 25 you could bet there’d be millions of kids around the world waking up to find new consoles and hardware under the tree. Kids like Tyler Esposito. Tyler put this video together…