A Veteran Game Designer And His Old-School First-Person RPG

Guido Henkel has been in the gaming industry for over thirty years, where he worked on classic titles such as Planescape Torment and Fallout 2. Now, he wants to make a comeback with a new old-school RPG, titled Deathfire: Ruins of Nevermore Deathfire promises to be a turn- and party-based fantasy first-person RPG that takes…

Miranda Kerr, Meet Your Korean Clone

We all have heroes. Some of us look up to movie stars, athletes, or even family members. South Korea’s Yuh Reum Hong adores Miranda Kerr. A lot Hong styles herself after Kerr, wearing blue contact lenses and mimicking the former Victoria Secret model’s hairstyle and make-up. As tipster Sang points out, Hong also said she…

Classic Call of Duty Makes Quite An Emotional Fan Film

If you need some gloom to start (or end) your day, look no further. Director Jared Pelletier returns with Call of Duty: Finest Hour, a fan short which takes place during World War II and gives us a taste of the drama that might have went on on a battlefield. Not child-screaming-obscenities-at-you-over-VoIP drama, mind you,…

GTA V Needs More Rickshaw Stealing and Dick Punching

SNL Korea is back with another Grand Theft Auto V parody. This time, the game is set in Korea’s colonial period, complete with katana-wielding Japanese guards, rickshaws you can steal, and vegetables you can use in fist-fights. GTA 경성 (GTA Seoul) Korean Parody w/ subtitles [KukminTV@YouTube Thanks, 유재욱 and Sang!] To contact the author of…

Buying Marijuana in North Korea Sure Sounds Easy

For all the freedoms that North Korea lacks, it has one that most Western countries don’t: Apparently, you can legally buy and smoke marijuana. As Vice reported earlier this year, marijuana, or “ip tambae” (“leaf tobacco”) is supposedly grown openly on the roadsides and smoked on the streets of Pyongyang. In North Korea, marijuana, it…

Uniqlo Folds T-Shirts Better Than You Do

Leave it to some employees at Japanese retail chain Uniqlo to show off the best way to fold t-shirts. Instead of simply folding the shirts, each one is creased in a slightly different place. When stacked, you can see the entire design on the side of the shirt bundle. Very clever! Not all Uniqlo stores…

I always mention it whenever it comes up, but Call of Duty has been toppled from its death-and-taxes sure-thing spot atop the Xbox 360’s list of most-played games. The new champ should be no surprise: Grand Theft Auto V

Xbox One’s Top Marketer Brags to Advertisers About Kinect’s Abilities [Update]

Microsoft’s top marketer tossed a juicy hunk of red meat to his kind of people yesterday. While Xbox One isn’t selling the stuff Kinect collects from your living room to marketers right out of the box, the capacity is there, and it could be the kind of game-changer that makes ad buyers swoon. Let’s remember…

‘Redbox Robber’ Looted Kiosks for Two Years Before Being Caught

Crime is a constant feature of video games writing. Somewhere, someone is doing something illicit with them—sometimes comically stupid, sometimes tragic. Kotaku‘s Police Blotter is here to round up the latest in games crime. All suspects are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. He’s in the Empire Business PHOENIX—It took a combined…

Borderlands 2 is giving away $100,000—$50K of which is prizes, $50K of which is a single cash grand prize. U.S. only because laws. Claptrap has the details in this trailer, there’s more on this page. Contest begins on Friday.

The Week in Games: Two Souls, Two Pokémons

This week’s big news is Beyond: Two Souls, the PS3 exclusive from Quantic Dream, on Tuesday, and Pokémon X and Pokémon Yon Saturday. Not interested in those? Some collections and GOTY editions—including Farming Simulator 2013 Titanium Edition!—round out the releases. Monday • Sparkling Amber (PC) Tuesday • Borderlands 2: Game of the Year Edition (360,…

The devil’s in even more details from Grand Theft Auto V: Last week, YouTube’s GermanScientistTV provided his first look at little things like rumble strips and flip flops in GTA V. But have you also noticed details like your mobile phone screen saying “Connected” once the call is answered?

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Meat Puppets

Government shutdown? Too political. Pokémon tombstone? Too sad, and even I am not that tasteless. Time to go to the Dayshot archive for this week’s exploitable. In this case, a big Mega Man made of tasty ground beef. That’s the work of Epic Grinds, whom we featured on Friday morning, along with a bunch of…

PlayStation 4 Controller is PC-Compatible ‘for Basic Functions’

The PlayStation 4’s DualShock 4 controller will be compatible with PCs for “basic functions” without a driver, PlayStation’s president of worldwide studios said over Twitter. While “basic functions” weren’t further defined, that’s still better than the DualShock 3, which needs a whole lot of work to perform any functions. Shuhei Yoshida tweeted the news yesterday…

Sunday Comics: Extreme Makeover

Welcome to Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The comics enlarge by clicking on the icon in the upper-left corner. Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira. Published Oct. 2. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published Sept. 30. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins…

20-Minute Titanfall Presentation Shows Off Xbox One’s Sleekest Game

There might not be any new footage in this recent presentation of Respawn’s Titanfall, but it’s a fun video nonetheless—20 minutes of concept art, gameplay, and discussion about the upcoming shooter, presented by Respawn community manager Abbie Heppe at the EB Games Expo in Australia this weekend. Titanfall, slated for release on Xbox One, Xbox…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: No-Stick: The Winners

Everything was fine with our ‘Shop Contest until the power grid was shut off by stickless here. Valve’s oddball controller flooded us with so many great ‘Shops that I waived the 20-finalist cap and just threw in everything that looked hilarious—along with overall No. 1 Snake56! One note, you may be wondering what’s so funny…

Rocksmith 2014 Edition will have a color-blind mode. If it adds a Talent-Blind mode, I’ll be able to play guitar.

Why Grand Theft Auto V Had Me Begging for Unforgiveness

Like many of the millions of Americans who got Grand Theft Auto V on or soon after its Sept. 17 release, I spent much of that first weekend in Los Santos, the game’s fictional mega-metropolis. Having bought, binged on, and beaten the game, I can mouth my own oohs and ahs. It’s bigger and better-looking…

Looks like that Half-Life 3 trademark filing that got everyone’s dander up earlier this week was bogus.It’s been removed from the Web site for the European Union’s trademarks office.