DayZ Developers Went To The Real Chernarus, Took Pictures

As we’ve shown you before, the towns and farms in the DayZ world of Chernarus aren’t exactly fiction. Much of the map, from the street layout down to individual building design, is lifted from real locations in the Czech Republic. To show this off, some of the development team behind DayZ’s upcoming standalone mode have…

All The Things Jurassic Park Got Wrong

Guess what? Jurassic Park got some stuff wrong. No, not just the pseudoscience InGen used to resurrect dinosaurs. More fundamental stuff, like how to spell “Stegosaurus.” Leave it to the folks at CinemaSins to document all 36 mistakes they spotted. And in less than 3 minutes! Not bad. Side note: Jeff Goldblum’s hair was fairly…

The official Gran Turismo website has a (blank) product page for “Gran Turismo®6”. How interesting

These Video Game Fans Are Gorgeous

No, not as in enthusiasts. Not even mechanical fans, either. We’re talking about video game themed hand fans by deviantART user SarurunKamui—like the Okami one above. Pretty fantastic, right? SarunrunKamui has a bevy of them on deviantART which you should check out, but here are some highlights. Arcanine, from Pokemon Espeon and Umbreon from Pokemon…

New 3DS Colour Option Is Very Metal

Nintendo Japan just unveiled a new colour of 3DS. It’s not red. It’s metallic red. It’ll be released in Japan on June 13.

The Storied Italian Composition Buried Within Metro: Last Light

The surface of the Earth may be a blasted wasteland, its music shops and symphony halls reduced to smoldering ruins. But as long as humans survive, so too will music. It’s in that spirit that I enjoy the music of Metro 2033 and its equally post-apocalyptic sequel, Metro: Last Light. The games have a distinct…

The Sexiest, If Not Silliest, Skyrim Beard Porn

Step one: get a pin-up mod, and the True Vision ENB’s filmic preset for Skyrim. Step two: have a beard (here are some good beard mods). Step three: take a picture. Reddit now has a “Skyrim Beard Porn” subreddit, and despite being somewhat new, people are showing off some ridiculous beard action. Not all of…

Check Out The First Trailer For Joss Whedon’s S.H.I.E.L.D. TV Show

Agent Coulson’s putting a crack team together to “protect the the ordinary from the extraordinary.” And what do you know, they’re making a TV show about it! Give the first trailer for Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. a watch up top. Avengers-director/nerd-hero Joss Whedon is attached as executive producer, with many of his usual cohort working…

A Speed-Drawing Of Batman Showing Superman Who’s Boss

Every time I think I’d like to learn how to draw, I see an artist like 8bit Ego‘s Masood Tahir draw something and I think, “WOW, are you serious, this guy draws faster than I can think!!” Wait, what’s that you say? The video’s sped up? Oh, that explains a lot. This is nifty. While…

The Largest, Most Awesome Video Game Castles

Inspired mostly by Medieval architecture and the Middle Ages, fortified stone castles in video games are always among the most exciting locations. These bastions are the keepers of many secrets, hidden cellars and lost knowledge all awaiting the player to find them. We collected some of the most amazing video game castles, opting for those…

This cool interactive journal for Remember Me pulls you through the life of the guy who invented the game’s memory digitization technology. It reminds me a bit of the Daft Punk cover story on Pitchfork that everyone’s been talking about today. Turns out the game’s fiction all started on Facebook. Sort of.

How A Poster Of A Sexy Dude Helped One Game Developer Make A Point

An employee at Hawken developer Meteor Entertainment had only one real gripe about her job: Their office featured a poster of a scantily-clad lady mechanic, and it bugged her to death. She says her boss, Meteor CEO Mark Long, loved the poster. She did not. So what did she do? As she describes in a…

Six Critics Are Pleasantly Spooked By Metro: Last Light

Metro: Last Light is a survivor. Not only did it suffer multiple delays, but it also managed to get through its publisher’s unfortunate closure unscathed. The result is an excellent, albeit slightly troubled, first-person horror shooter. While some reviews note a few performance- and technical polish-related shortcomings, they agree that Last Light’s universe, story and…

After getting booted from his team Evil Geniuses last week, pro StarCraft player Greg “IdrA” Fields went on Real Talk with host JP McDaniel to discuss his plans for the future. Sounds like he’s moving away from professional playing and getting into commentating. (Via PC Gamer)

Now We Can All Be Kitty Girls And Boys In The Old Republic

In case you just hopped on the MMO bandwagon with the release of Star Wars: The Old Republic, it’s not a massively multiplayer party until the anthropomorphic animals arrive. The original EverQuest had the Vah Shir, World of Warcraft has Worgen and now Pandas, and The Old Republic has the Cathar, a race of intergalactic…

The Most Complicated (Imaginary) Board Game Ever

If you’ve ever held a Board Game Night, you know that every group of board game players has…let’s call it a “limit.” There are games that are just too advanced for some, and the key to having fun is picking a game that’s complicated enough to be satisfying for veterans but simple enough for newcomers…

Police Blotter: Man Avoids Prison, but Is All Out of Bubblegum

Crime is a constant feature of video games writing. Somewhere, someone is doing something illicit with them—sometimes comically stupid, but potentially 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. Put On These Glasses, or Start Eating That…

Ever Wonder Just How Big League of Legends Is? Let This Video Show You

Seventeen League of Legends champions die for every baby that is born, and many other crazy facts put just how big a game this online multiplayer is into perspective. League of Legends certainly has a huge presence online, with a robust and enthusiastic competitive community, too. But I bet you never thought one livestreamed competition…

You Have This Guy to Thank for a Game About Jetpacks and Lancing

Of all the games that I played at New York University’s No Quarter exhibition, the one I most wanted to take home and play with a friend was There Shall Be Lancing. Granted, Killer Queen and Bennet Foddy’s Speed Chess are a little too unwieldy to play in my small New York City apartment, But,…

The Quiet Moments In Metro: Last Light’s Apocalypse

Mood is such an important thing in a nuclear apocalypse; a detail that is so easy to forget. That’s something that’s painfully palpable in the first hour of Metro: Last Light Yes there are telepathic, radioactive creatures. Yes, there is shooting and stabbing. But what really sticks to my ribs more than anything are those…