It’s A Skylanders Stop-Motion Christmas Spectacular (With Ponies)

The Irate Gamerspent nearly 60 hours creating this stop-motion action figure Christmas spectacular, when he could have just filmed my office for an hour on any given Saturday. The old Skylanders go on a magical journey to welcome the new Skylanders: Swap Force figures into their home. It’s a bit slipshod, but certainly better than…

Transformers: The Movie: The Cover Band

Dare to be stupid! The best-looking Transformers theme band, Cybertronic Spree, playing the best/worst song on the Transformers: The Movie soundtrack. Plus, they got themselves a fake Weird Al. The performance was recorded at the Toronto-based Bit Bazaar by event coordinator and friend of the site Matt Hawkins. Want more? To contact the author of…

How To Prepare For The Walking Dead Season Two

One of my favorite games of last year is returning for its second season this week. With the adorable-yet-tough Clementine from the last season returning as the protagonist, it’s sure to out-depress the fantastic (and very depressing) last season that featured father-figure Lee. If you’re preparing for Season Two as it rolls out on its…

The Most Brilliant iPad Game I’ve Played All Year

This is Blek. It’s a simple name for a simple game, one in which all you have to do to win is draw a single line. Which single line? That’s the complicated bit. Whatever sort of line you draw in Blek takes on a life of its own, repeating until it either reaches the top…

DayZ Alpha Released

The long-in-development standalone version of zombie sim DayZ is now out in the open. Creator Dean Hall just released an early version of the game on Steam’s Early Access program, and it’s availableon his website, too, although right now that’s getting hammered. This is the first official release of DayZ in non-mod form. Originally designed…

‘Reading Books Could Lead To Life-Threatening Blood Clots’

Some days, as I’m combing through the Internet and catching up on news, something interesting gets my attention. An article about video games. A catchy headline. “PLAYING VIDEO GAMES COULD LEAD TO LIFE-THREATENING BLOOD CLOTS.” Holy shit. Is this real? I open up the New York Daily News link to check. Nope—it’s just one of…

Audio-Technica ATH-M50S, Razer BlackWidow, G500s, 3DS XL [Deals]

It’s been a long time since the lead deal on Kotaku was a pair of headphones, but we can’t overstate our love for them, as evidenced by how many people in our office, including myself, are wearing them right now. We also can’t overstate what a great dealthey are for 97 bucks. [Amazon] Target has…

Golden Xbox One Will Cost You Just $9778.80

Have you ever thought to yourself, “Boy, I love video game consoles—I just wish they were more expensive, ostentatious, and tacky”? Today is the day for you, lucky shopper. British dream factory Harrods is selling this 24-carat-gold-plated Xbox One for just £6,000, or $9778.80, or the price of approximately 19 normal (peasant) Xbox Ones, but…

Assassin’s Creed IV’s DLC Offers a Very Different Kind of Rebellion

All those islands in the Caribbean that are plush vacation spots now? They used to be colonies, outposts for imperial powers that were replete with inhumane slave labor. Some of these places exploded—sometimes into self-rule—with violent uprisings and rebellions. The new add-on—out tomorrow—for Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag puts you in the middle of one…

“Kill trading” in Battlefield 4’s PC version is among the glitches fixed in the latest patch DICE rolled out earlier today. A sound-loop bug that had been bothering a lot of people also should be cleared up, too. Many more details are here.

Just Cause 2‘s PC Multiplayer Mod Launches All Kinds of Mayhem Today

If you thought those mass BASE jumps in Battlefield 4 were cool, hum a few bars of the Just Cause 2 multiplayer mod for PC, which just came out of beta and goes live on Steam today. Group parachuting joins boat races, jet combat and demolition derbies among the activities awaiting you in the tropical…

The Steam Machine: Unboxed and Taken Apart

Valve recently sent 300 lucky gamers some prototype Steam Machines, and people are already getting to uploading pictures and video unboxings of the things online. And we’re not just talking taking it out of the wooden framing it came in. We’re talking unscrewing things and unplugging things inside the hybrid PC/console’s insides. If you missed…

Here’s what’s going on Talk Amongst Yourselves, our reader-written blog: GiantBoyDetective needs help assembling the lists of each platform’s exclusives for TAY’s Speaky Awards. NotGoodForYou compares Starbound and Terraria, because you kind of have to. And, because he wants to see the Pokémon in the next Smash Bros, Stormborn draws Mewtwo in typically great fashion.…

Here’s our first look at the colorful plastic world of LEGO The Hobbit. Announced officially late last month, the 2014 TT Games developed adventure will span the first two movie in the trilogy, paving the way for the inevitable complete version once the third film is out, followed by a bundle of both it and…

Minecraft Comes To The PlayStation 3 Tomorrow

According to a post on the PlayStation Blog, Mojang’s block-building sensation will be available for PlayStation 3 starting tomorrow, December 17. Minecraft: PlayStation Edition will include all the features present in other console editions of the game, barring platform-exclusive content packs. Mojang’s Owen Hill said downloadable texture packs and skins will be available soon after…