Role-Playing Not As A Warrior, But As A…Guy In A Suit Doing Cocaine

When you think of LARP, or Live-Action Role-Playing, you probably think of people in armour running around a field hitting each other with foam swords. But not everyone LARPS that way. Some people take the basic concept and run very far away with it, to the point where they’re basically LARPing as…Mad Men. This is…

PowerPoint Killed The Video Game (Hype)

In game development realism is dangerous line to traverse, and there is no endgame. A few weeks before its release on current gen consoles (EA calls it ‘gen 3′) we were invited, alongside a group of other journalists, to play FIFA 14. But before being handed controllers, an extensive PowerPoint presentation. At one point I…

Robots Now Have The Balance To Run Us Down (And Dance)

Fire won’t stop them. Bullets won’t stop them. Now not even a road covered in loose rocks will slow down our demise at the hands of our eventual robot destroyers. This is Atlas, a humanoid robot from the nightmare factory that is Boston Dynamics. You’ll not only notice that it has such amazing balance that…

The Simplest Strategy Games Are Often The Best

I have spent hours today playing a strategy game on my PC. Hours. It wasn’t Civ V. It wasn’t Rome II. It wasn’t even Company of Heroes 2. It was a tiny little game called Kingdoms. You don’t do much in Kingdoms. You play as a King, and you ride around a 2D kingdom on…

The PS4 Has Tiny PlayStation Screws Inside

German site Computer Bild have got hold of a devkit PS4 and cracked it open. Their findings aren’t terribly important to the average user – though it looks like swapping HDDs will be a cinch – but they did find one thing of interest. Dat screw. Such needless effort. So adorable. Playstation 4: Exklusiv –…

A hardboiled fortress: check out this cool noir scene featuring TF2 characters, made in Source Filmmaker by MrRiar. Pretty badass, right?

Batman Games Look Best in Black and White

To this day, Batman: Arkham City remains a visually striking game. The grand, gothic feel of the comics was well-captured by art director David Hego and his team at Rocksteady. But I’ve never seen the game look quite like this These shots, captured by video-game screenshot master Duncan Harris at Dead End Thrills, go beyond…

Today’s Cool New PC Game Wants To Screw With Your Head… And It Will

Perhaps you’ve heard of The Stanley Parable? It’s this game, see. It’s a game about stories. It’s… well, it’s complicated. Maybe you’re wondering what it’s really about, why everyone is talking about it? Well. Allow me to elaborate. The Stanley Parable is a first-person storytelling game that functions as a sort of narrative puzzle. What’s…

Track: The Last Song Ever Written | Album: The Five Ghosts | Artist: Stars Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to—and gaming to—at the moment.

From PC Gaming To Zelda, Readers Submit Their Last-Gen Heroes

We’ve been having fun with the first week of our month-long Last-Gen Heroes series, in which Kotaku‘s staff has been looking back at the heroes and zeroes of the past console generation. Over at TAY, readers have been having a grand old time themselves. Here’s some of what they’ve been talking about. Reader Zarnyx offers…

The Internet Reacts To Pokémon X & Y’s Silliest Feature

If the fantasy in Pokemon is that we get to travel the world with our trusty monsters by our side, it only makes sense that we’d get to play and pet them too, right? Now, with Pokemon Amie—a new feature in X & Y—we finally do exactly that…and the good people of the internet have…

The PS4 Sure Makes Basketball Look Good

Okay, yes, this is a marketing video by the folks who make NBA 2K14, which is already out on current-gen consoles and will be released for Xbox One and PS4 later this year. The real game might not look this good. But still… they’re claiming this footage was captured off a PlayStation 4. It’s pretty…

If LucasArts Made A Game About The Shining…

The remote hotel, where Jack Nicholson and his family spent the winter in Stanley Kubrick’s movie adaptation would have been a pretty cool setting for a point and click adventure game. Thanks to the creative minds at CineFix, I’m feeling slightly guilty for feeling all warm and fuzzy inside what with all the adventure game…

The Video Game Studio From Hell: Four Months Later

The people who run Trendy Entertainment want you to know that things are better. Or maybe they want you to think things are better. Maybe they just want you to play their game. Trendy, the Florida-based game developer that we once labeled “A Video Game Studio From Hell,” has gone through quite a few changes…

Fans of Cole McGrath will be able to find out what happened after Infamous 2. Yay! But the only way to get the Cole’s Legacy DLC is to pre-order the Infamous: Second Son limited or collector’s editions. Boo!

Toy Story in Space Brings The Disney Infinity Saga Full Circle

It was Avalanche Software’s innovative Toy Box Mode for the Toy Story 3 video game tie-in that lead to the creation of the toy-driven Disney Infinity. Next week Buzz, Woody and Jessie come home, and it goes a little something like this. Priced at somewhere between $35 and $40 when it hit store shelves next…

Calvin & Hobbes Creator Pretty Much Dashes All Hope of Animated Movie

Bill Watterson is cartooning’s J.D.Salinger: creator of a genius-level touchstone work who’s practically disappeared from the public eye. But, somehow, Mental Floss scored an interview with him. Watterson sounds just dandy overall but crushes the dreams of anybody hoping that Pixar or any other animation house would ever get the chance to adapt Calvin &…

This might be the weirdest —or at least the most surreal—gun in video games. The freak-science invention in Scale lets you shrink and grow just about anything the game’s world. The indie title looked awesome every time we’ve seen it and now dev team CubeHeart has launched a Kickstarter campaign to help get the game…

Blizzard’s Diablo/Starcraft/WoW Crossover Has a New Name

The game once known as Blizzard DOTA changed its name to Blizzard All-Stars after a dispute between heavyweight publishers Valve and Blizzard. Now, the Warcraft company has settled on a new name for the competitive online game. It’s going to be called Heroes of the Storm The trailer above debuts the MOBA game’s new name…