Adam West Never Looked This Tough In His Batman Costume

We’ve known since June that PlayStation 3 owners will get the “exclusive” opportunity to play the next Dark Knight game, Batman: Arkham Origins, with a Batman wearing either his Knightfall-era costume or the old 1960s TV costume. Today, you can see those costumes in the game, in motion. Imagine if Adam West lifted weights! You…

Want to listen to the Grand Theft Auto V soundtrack when you’re not in front of a console? Rockstar’s just announced that three albums collecting tunes from the hit game are up on iTunes now. And you can listen to portions of each station on the web, too.

Here’s a Taste of PS4 Multiplayer Action with Killzone: Shadow Fall

The glimpses shown so far of Killzone: Shadow Fall have been portions of the single-player, along with very in-depth, shiny tech demos. But, if you want to know what it’s going to look like when folks start going online and blasting at each other, then this here is what you really want to see. Along…

The Relentless Improvement of Video Game Graphics

What good are realistic graphics? What good are next year’s even more realistic graphics? Cara Ellison and Elizabeth Simins return for their latest Kotaku comic strip, and they’ve brought an answer that’s five panels long. Follow Ellison’s writing on her blog Hard Consonant. She’s on Twitter, too,@carachan1. You can find more of Simins’ art, much…

Deal: Grand Theft Auto V And A PS3 For $229 [It’s Back]

Update: It’s back, and still a killer deal! Playstation 3 500GB + GTAV + 1 month of Plus | $230 It’s the best PS3 deal ever and it’s not going to last. What you see in the header is what you get, so if you have any need of a first PS3, a replacement PS3,…

It’s Just A Cool-Looking Racing Game Until Things Get…Weird

The graphical insanity in the video above isn’t part of any game that coming out soon. But it’s an example of what accomplished coders can make on hardware that’s similar to what’s inside next-gen consoles. “Apocalypse When” comes from a coder named “Smash”, aka Matt Swoboda, principal engineer at Sony Computer Entertainment Europe. It’s an…

Burger King has unveiled Satisfries, a new potato product aimed at making people feel better about eating them using percentages and downward-pointing arrows. I feel healthier already. Thanks, numbers and arrows! Find out more here, while I prepare for a short road trip to see if they’re the saddest fries.

What Do You Get When You Combine a Speeder Bike and a Pinball Table? You get a rather slick sub-level in Return of the Jedi, (at 1:00 of this gameplay video) due sometime this fall in the next set of three tables for Zen Studios’ Star Wars Pinball.

Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: Voltaire Crescent brings you along on his latest Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn adventures, Joshua Rivera continues to report on being a newbie getting into sports games, and Etchedchamp shares some gaming traditions

Toys For A Game We’ve Not Yet Seen

Our first official look at Angry Birds Go! comes not from a trailer or in-game screenshots, but from Hasbro’s upcoming line of Telepods and Jenga toys based on the kart-based spin-off. Strange. Like Angry Birds Star Wars II, Angry Birds Go! will have the ability to scan in physical toys for use in the game,…

Despite Last Year’s Disaster, Sony Teams Up With Taco Bell Again

Remember last year, when a debacle of a partnership between Taco Bell and Sony left some PlayStation fans feeling cheated and misled? The two companies are partnering again—and the collaboration sure sounds familiar. This time around it’s a contest to win free PlayStation 4s: The “Play the Future First” promotion runs in the U.S. from…

Great Britain In Minecraft Is One Of Gaming’s Largest Worlds

86,000 square miles of blockiness, approximately 215 times the map size of Just Cause 2, or 1000 Azeroths from WoW. That’s not exactly small, yet Joseph Braybrook, using Ordnance Survey terrain data, was able to make a geographically accurate, 1:1 Minecraft map of Great Britain in just two weeks. Here’s how London and different parts…

Let’s Watch The Opening Of Lightning Returns And Make Oooo Noises

Square Enix has lost a substantial amount of mojo over the years, their ability to create spectacular cinematic game openings remains intact. Watch them open the hell out of Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII. It’s not in English, but you don’t really need to know Japanese to get what’s going on here. Lightning has returned,…

Time for a heist Scooby, they won’t suspect a thing! Made by Steam user Tatsuto, this Scooby-Doo-themed reskin of the escape van must be the funniest mod for Payday 2 out there. The next thing he should add is Shaggy, Daphne, Velma and Fred masks to replace the clown ones. Dayshot is an image-based feature…

NBA 2K14: The Kotaku Review

It’s possible that basketball fans have been spoiled by the NBA 2K series, which over the preceding four titles has churned out some of the most conspicuous year-to-year improvements from the brutal treadmill of annual sports video games development. Looking back, the highly polished gameplay and presentation that other series would kill for seems almost…

The Death Star’s Trenches, Through the Eyes of the Oculus Rift

If you think about it, flight simulators, with their fully-realized cockpits and scenic locations, are a perfect fit for the Oculus Rift. So are space sims, for the same reason. Developer Boone Calhoun, realizing this, promptly went to work on an Oculus Rift demo of the Death Star trench run from Star Wars Here’s one…

Seventeen Years of Pokemon in a Single Image

Has it been seventeen years? The time has just flown by. Here’s how the in-game maps have evolved. The above image was uploaded by Japanese Twitter user @Ugusyan and has been retweeted over ten thousand times. ポケモン17年の歴史 [Twitter] To contact the author of this post, write to bashcraftATkotaku.com or find him on Twitter @Brian_Ashcraft Kotaku…

Super Smash Bros. Melee Is Great. But Why Is It Great?

The aptly named Really Freakin’ Clever webseries is back, this time focusing on the second entry in Nintendo’s all-star brawler franchise—Smash Bros. Melee While I agree with the notion that having all these celebrated and massively nostalgic characters in one place is a hell of a selling point, it’s important not to overlook Melee’s rather…

Oh My Goodness, These Trees Look Like Totoro

If you’ve seen the Studio Ghibli anime, you are certainly familiar with Totoro. Did you know there are several trees in Japan that resemble the iconic character? Located in the village of Sakegawa in Yamagata Prefecture, the above tree is nicknamed “The Totoro Tree” (トトロの木 or Totoro no Ki). It’s a cedar tree that is…

Metal Gear Solid V Cosplay Kept Ya Waiting, Huh?

Metal Gear Solid V isn’t out yet. Heck, there wasn’t even a playable demo at this year’s Tokyo Game Show. Until we get our hands on it, all we can do is wait. Good thing there are talented cosplayers to help pass the time. At this year’s Tokyo Game Show, Metal Gear cosplay queen Omi…