The PS4’s Mobile App Sounds Fantastic. No, Really.

Sony has spoken briefly about the new PlayStation app for phones and tablets before, but some new screenshots of the thing in action, and a summary of its abilities from PlayStation’s boss, show why it’s a lot better than the old one. It does simple stuff like let you compare profiles and trophies, like the…

Assassin’s Creed IV Isn’t All Rum & Beaches. There’s…Montreal, Too.

While it’s easy to get carried away and think you’ll be spending your entire Assassin’s Creed IV experience walking planks and punching sharks, remember: there’ll be near-future shenanigans going on as well. And going by this art, looks like it’ll be taking place in Montreal. Which is convenient, since that’s where the main studio making…

Cosplayers vs Stadium Security Is A New And Hilarious Thing

The League of Legends World Championship finals are going down at the Staples Center in Los Angeles tomorrow, and there’ll be a big crowd in attendance. Among them will be plenty of cosplayers. Who are going to have some interesting conversations with security, no doubt. Because of the type of venue, and the fact it’s…

The Apocalypse Comes To France, And It Looks Beautiful

No zombies. No atomic wastelands. No earthquakes. In this wonderful little film by Claire & Maxime shoots the City of Love and just deletes all the people. Same beautiful city, none of the sass.

Want To Play Xbox One Early? Then You Must Suffer.

The Xbox One isn’t out until November, and unless you’re lucky enough to be living near a travelling roadshow or consumer expo, you’re going to have to wait until November to play one. Or…will you… There is one other way. But I warn you. It is fraught with peril. And…American Idol washouts. That way is…

Good Guy BioShock Updates Old PC Game, Makes It Better

BioShock 2 used to run through the loathed Games For Windows Live. Now that Microsoft’s service is done for, though, the game’s Steam version has just been updated. And what an awesome job they’ve done. Canadian studio Digital Extremes (Darkness II, Dark Sector), who originally handled the multiplayer for the PC version of the game,…

Watch This Video About Robots Shooting Each Other, Right Now

This is Keloid. It’s not a movie. It’s not a trailer. It’s not even a short. It’s just a “spec” project, a mock trailer made to let those involved flex their creative muscles and come up with their vision of a future where robots fight wars, and those robots look fantastic If you’re wondering as…

Walter White’s Secret History Of Nerd Acting

OK, so it’s not that secret, but in this, a week where Bryan Cranston’s final performance as Walter White has been the talk of the internet, it’s as good a time as any to look back on a time when he was…doing voice-over work for anime. Before Breaking Bad, before Malcolm in the Middle and…

Scribblenauts Unmasked: The Kotaku Review

I have a lot of action figures. Every once in awhile I like to pull them down from their shelves or out of their boxes. I admire each one. Maybe I’ll pose then and take a few pictures. Then I get bored and put them away again. Playing Scribblenauts Unmasked: A DC Comics Adventure feels…

Treehouse of horrors: check out this Guillermo del Toro-directed couch gag for this Sunday’s Halloween special episode of The Simpsons—it’s pretty freakin’ rad. How many references do you catch? (Via Wired)

Which Graphics Card Do You Use, Nvidia or AMD?

If you play games on PC, there’s a good chance you use a graphics processing unit (GPU) built around technology from one of two companies: Nvidia or AMD. The question is: Which? I’ve used both brands off and on for a while now—both Nvidia’s GTX line and AMD (formerly ATI)’s Radeon cards have their own…

Actually, Breaking Bad’s Jesse Didn’t Say “B**ch” THAT Many Times

Based on popular Breaking Bad memes, you’d think that the entirety of Aaron Paul’s performance as Jesse Pinkman revolved around a script with a single word in it: “bitch.” I mean. You probably even read the word in Pinkman’s voice, didn’t you? The way he says it is practically iconic! Still, it turns out that…

Upcoming 3DS And Wii U Games You Probably Don’t Know About

There are Marios, and there are Zeldas, and then there are the little games for 3DS and Wii U—the indies that might not sell systems, but will help bolster libraries and offer up experiences you can’t get elsewhere. Nintendo today released a list of all the indie games they’ll be showing off at the IndieCade…

Choose Lindsay Weir’s Fate In Freaks and Geeks: The Game

It’s 1980. You’re a student at William McKinley high school in Chippewa, Michigan. You’re wearing your favorite Army jacket, and it’s time to hang out with the Freaks outside, where they’re smoking cigarettes. What do you do next? At first, I thought this video from The Fine Bros was just going to be another retro…

2013’s Best, Worst Store-Bought Halloween Costumes

Our friends at io9 have concluded their annual quest to find the “best, sluttiest and weirdest store-bought Halloween costumes” of the year. Naturally, their discoveries included Chun-Li, Sonic and an oh-so-sexy Pac-Man ghost.

Boy’s Tombstone Shows Him Playing…Pokémon

This is, sadly, the tombstone of a five year-old boy, located in a cemetery in Lund, Sweden. A boy who obviously loved his Pokémon so much it’s become a big part of his memorial. Peek over his shoulder and you’ll see that the artist responsible for the tombstone has depicted him with his Game Boy…

The Marvel Game I’ve Dreamt Of For Six Years, Almost

The Marvel Trading Card Game for PSP was released in February of 2007. Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords dropped in March of that year. I’ve been dreaming of a combination of the two ever since. Now it’s finally here, and it’s everything I wanted, only free-to-play. I wanted Marvel Comics characters facing off against…

Console Gaming Is Dead (In This Simpsons Gag)

Today’s Halloween-themed update to The Simpsons: Tapped Out has a new loading screen filled with some excellent gags, including a special shout-out to console gaming. If you can’t read the screenshot up there, here’s a higher-res version (click expand): Particularly poignant when you consider how many kazillions of dollars Simpsons: Tapped Out is bringing in…

GTA Online Day Three: Still Not Really Working [UPDATE]

Two days have passed since the online version of Los Santos opened up for millions of players all over the world. It’s not been smooth sailing for the debut of Grand Theft Auto Online, as it’s been plagued with technical issues and server problems. But there are signs that some things are getting better. And…

“When I saw the rise of Zynga and tried out some of their games on Facebook, I noticed some of the same design patterns that we use in slot machines.” Kotaku reader SpiffyPirate works with slot machines and talks about the similarities he sees between design ideas in that industry and in Zynga’s games