The Dos and Don’ts of Cosplaying While Black

Unless you count the time I dressed up as Left 4 Dead’s Louis for Halloween a few years back, I’ve never really done cosplay. I just don’t have the inclination for it. But if I did, I probably follow the handy guide provided by Break’s Ron Funches about who to dress up as. I don’t…

Here’s a new gameplay trailer for Take on Mars, a nifty-looking game in which you control a Mars rover. The game looks neat, despite a notable lack of aliens and/or Arnold Schwarzenegger. You can see a full E3 demo of the game here. (via RPS)

Capcom Resurrects Long-Dead Strider Series

Today at Comic-Con, Capcom announced a new entry in their long-dormant Strider series. They’ve got more information up at the Capcom blog: The game will just be called Strider and is being developed by Double Helix, the studio behind Silent Hill Homecoming and Battleship. Capcom describes the game’s environments as vast and interconnected, and notes…

It’s Just Like Your Town, Except Monsters Attack Every Friday

Here’s the trailer for Attack of the Friday Monsters, a new game that came out for the 3DS eShop today. It looks kind of amazing—a visual novel set in a sleepy Japanese village where monsters attack once a week. I will certainly be checking this one out.

Bastion Makers Tell Fans To Go Ahead And Stream Their Games

Supergiant Games, makers of Bastion and the upcoming Transistor, would like you to know that they’re totally cool with you streaming “Let’s Play” videos of their games. The concept of the Let’s Play has come under a bit of fire lately, as Nintendo began forcing ads onto popular Let’s Plays of their classic games, though…

I Can’t Stop Playing Cube World

Today is the type of day where I look back on the week and go holy moly, I’ve spent most of my time recently doing one thing. In this case, that one thing has been playing the PC voxel exploration game, Cube World When I’m not writing I’m thinking about what I’ll do next in…

As revealed at today’s Comic-Con panel, Batman’s slither-y adversary Copperhead will be a woman in the upcoming game Batman: Arkham Origins. Here’s a new reveal trailer, in which she shows The Bat what for.

A Brief Look At One Of The PS4’s Most Peaceful Games

Hohokum is strange, and serene, and kind of fascinating. It’ll be out for PS3, PS4, and Vita at some point in 2014. Watch me play it right here.

The Moneysaver: Diablo III, Saints Row IV, Humble Jim Guthrie Bundle

What are the retailers that clutch, what prices grow Out of this poorly reviewed rubbish? Son of man, You cannot say, or guess, for you know only A heap of broken .jpegs, where the banner ad beats, And the dead hyperlink gives no shelter, the reload button no relief, And the dry Steam Sale no…

Watch Us Play… Earthbound. It’s An Essential RPG. Here’s Why.

Today, out of nowhere, Nintendo decided to release Earthbound on the Wii U eShop, so I sat down with Earthbound fan Chris Person to find out why an eighteen year old game is worth your $10.

Guess Which Upcoming Game’s Plot Involves ‘An Elite Group Of Soldiers’

Guess the upcoming game that has the following plot. (Hint: it’s not Sonic: Lost World.) Ready? It’s cheating if you use Google. The world is on the brink of chaos, China is the tinderbox and you and your squad are the inadvertent spark that could ignite a global conflict. This is [GAME NAME REDACTED]. As…

The Everyday Life of a Pokemon Trainer, In Heartwarming Comic Form

One of the things the Pokemon games aren’t particularly good at is showing the small, everyday moments a Pokemon trainer must experience while on their journey to become the very best. Enter The Link Cable Series by Brian Wolf, which is “a small series of small stories about small moments between Pokemon trainers and their…

Ubisoft’s brain trust believes gamers will prefer open-world games that can be always-online, Polygon reports. Also in that article: Assassin’s Creed IV might secretly be a message game about how Captain Ahab would have been more successful if he had more friends.

Why I’ll Never Be A Transformers Toy Designer

Meet Travis. I made him myself. I made him during this morning’s Tranformers Construct-A-Bots breakfast at Comic-Con, a celebration of Hasbro bogarting the LEGO Hero Factory concept and applying it to the Autobots and Decepticons. The breakfast was a clever marketing idea. Attendees could construct their own pancake stacks, omelets and yogurt cups, and then…

There’s A Pirate Ship Firing Cannons At Comic-Con

Ubisoft has brought a pirate ship to Comic-Con. It’s probably a promotional stunt for their upcoming pirate game Assassin’s Creed IV, but who knows? Maybe it’s just because they agree that pirate ships are cool. Also cool? Cannons. As they demonstrated, by firing cannons: Touchdown! Whooyeah! Comic-on! Boom, baby! There are some other cool shots…

Forward Unto Dawn—the live-action episodic Halo 4 webseries that premiered last year—got nominated for an Emmy Award. It’s for Outstanding Main Title Design, yeah, but that statue still looks real nice on your mantle.

Yep, I’m Still Excited For Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII

There’s a little voice inside my head. “Jason!” it sometimes screams at me. “Why are you excited for Lightning Returns? You disliked the first two! Square Enix is exploiting a character that nobody really cares about! You’re just going to be disappointed!” Well, voice, I don’t care what you say. This game looks cool. New…

Moneysaver: Steam Sale Day 8 Breakdown

Dealtanic. 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…

One Girl Adorably Voices Nearly Every League of Legends Champion

There’s something about the way iluWinter mimics League of Legends champions here. It’s not just that she tries for both the male and female voices—which not all of the compilation videos of this sort do—but that you can tell she’s having a lot of fun. Enough fun that you can forgive the voices which don’t…

The Walking Dead: AKA The Angry-Faced Conversation Simulator

Zombies are good and everything but what we really crave is human interaction. Luckily Telltale Games have released this additional DLC which brings us a lot of new faces, choices and of course conversations to worry ourselves about. To find out more about the land of depressed survivors watch the video I’ve created above. The…