You’ve Seen LEGO Movie Games. Now There’s A Game Of The LEGO Movie.

This isn’t just an excuse to post the amazing trailer for The LEGO Movie again, I promise. That’s not saying I’m not going to post it again — of course I am. I’m just posting it within the context of the oddly wonderful occasion of TT Games, the developer responsible for making LEGO video games…

He Woulda Gotten Away With It If It Wasn’t for His Meddling Grandma

Crime is a constant feature of video games writing. Somewhere, someone is doing something illicit with them—sometimes comically stupid, sometimes tragic. Games and consoles are currency, objects of dispute, sometimes even weapons themselves. Kotaku‘s Police Blotter is here to round up the latest in games crime. Snitches Do Cross-Stitches MAYFIELD HEIGHTS, Ohio—Police thwarted the shoplifting…

Unbelievable Skyrim Mod Lets You Use Dishonored‘s Powers

Have you ever, while playing The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, thought, “This is great, but what it really needs is Blink from Dishonored?” If so, you are probably me. Or maybe you are Madrilous, the clever person behind a new Skyrim mod called Gifts of the Outsider Gifts of the Outsider adds six new abilities…

SimCity Devs Form Indie Studio, Announce Primordial Simulation Game

SimCity creative director Ocean Quigley announced today on Twitter that he’s leaving Maxis to found an indie studio called “Jellygrade” alongside two other Maxis designers Their first game will start out on iPad and according to Quigley will be “A simulation about the dawn of life on earth; about lava, water, rock and the emergence…

Princess Rescue—that homebrew Atari 2600 homage to Super Mario Brothers—is now available through AtariAge as a $30 cartridge. An emulator ROM is on its way too.

The Frickin’ Greatest Legend Of Zelda Debate Ever.

“You can’t hate Legend of Zelda!” You make a compelling argument, SammyClassicSonicFan, but HaleyTheHedgehog isn’t buying it. Maybe it’s time to bust out the “pitch-perfect gameplay.” This delightful YouTube debate has me simultaneously excited for and dreading the point at which my own children will be cognizant and coherent enough to argue the finer points…

We Didn’t Always Love Steam

We love Steam almost as much as we love sales. Perhaps your wallet (or, hey, let’s not forget about purses) has combusted due to overuse. Over the years we’ve come to trust Steam, but that wasn’t always the case as my video above shows. Music: Atlantean Twilight Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Have words you want to…

Moneysaver: Steam Sale Day 6 Breakdown [Updated Wednesday 9:45am]

Dealcano. About the Moneysaver The Steam Summer Sale is without a doubt the year’s most well-known series of discounts on games, but at Kotaku we know you want gaming deals every day. Brought to you by the Commerce Team, the Kotaku Moneysaver posts every day at 2:15pm ET*, bringing you the best, most complete, and…

Navigating a Maze of Real Lasers is Harder Than You’d Think

Look — We all love lasers. And we all agree that mazes made out of lasers, a la the movie Entrapment, are awesome. What you may not realize is that navigating a laser maze in real life is harder than you’d think. It was raining, and yet dozens of people came out to try their…

Hey Guys, I Found Our New Review Format

Hot Pepper Game Reviews? Brilliant. Jared Rosen is a fearless pioneer of video game criticism. We should all learn by his example. Mostly I’m glad he’s done this first, so if someone suggest I do this I can point to Jared’s video and shake my head with faux sadness.

Nine Minutes With One Of The PS3’s Most Interesting New Games

This is Puppeteer, out for the PS3 on September 10 (September 11 in Europe). It’s really neat. Watch me play it alongside creative director Gavin Moore.

Possibly-Profound Gaming Lesson: Don’t Shoot, And You’ll Heal

The person who is playing the upcoming video game Luftrausers in the GIF here understands a basic rule of the game: don’t shoot, and your ship will heal. Games are made of simple rules like these. Occasionally, those rules can feel profound. I’m not saying that Luftrausers is a deep message game. It is, more…

Capsized Tries A Little Of Everything, But Only Some Of It Works

Capsized starts out like a metroidvania game, but you soon find yourself swarmed by hordes of enemies, looking for levers while being carried away by a hot air balloon with teeth. You know what, it’s hard to explain, you should just watch the video. Capsized is available now on Xbox Live Arcade for 800 MS…

Slavery Gives Me a Weird Personal Connection to Assassin’s Creed IV

I wouldn’t exist if not for the ugly historical fact of slavery. Somewhere along my family tree, ancestors of mine were traded into bondage, most likely from somewhere in West Africa. And then other forebears wound up on the island of Ayiti—known today as Haiti—where slaves fought for their freedom in the 18th Century. I…

Now that Dota 2 is officially out in the wild, check out our report from last year’s Dota 2 International, where people gathered from around the world to compete over $1.6 million.

A Hoarder of Trees

There’s seriously not an inch of my friend’s town that doesn’t look like this. I’m not sure how I even managed to walk through it.

Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: Ellen Miller digs up her memories about Sega Master System. Sir Trey’s been imagining what would go into a video game Criterion Collection and considers whether the first Deus Ex belongs in there. And PyramidHeadcrab wants to know what the best game you’ve gotten in…

Madden NFL 25 Pimps GMC’s Rides

After the Super Bowl, the MVP is usually presented with some car and if he’s a pitchman for another auto maker, it can be kind of awkwardly funny. But in Madden NFL 25, your quarterback will go up there and graciously accept that GMC truck, dammit. GMC is the official vehicle of the NFL, and…

Look! Yuna came to visit me!

I love love love love Final Fantasy X. Like, seriously love it. So this is pretty much perfect and I need it.

The Epic Dishonored Saga Comes To A Close August 13

It all comes to a head August 13, when the final downloadable content for Dishonored hits the PlayStation 3, PC and Xbox 360. Picking up where The Knife of Dunwall DLC left off, Dishonored: The Brigmore Witches continues the adventure of legendary assassin Daud, as he hunts down a coven of powerful witches and finally…