A Brief History of North Korean Photoshops

Almost as much as North Korea loves missiles and marching, the rogue nation apparently loves photo manipulation software. But hey, who doesn’t? Maybe North Korea uses Photoshop. Maybe the country even paid for its copy! Or maybe the military has its own magical software to use with a super computer. It’s probably a state secret…

Han Couldn’t Have Shot First With A LEGO Blaster

LEGO builder CaptainInfinity is the man behind this beautiful Star Wars blaster, which has such intricate detail on the finer points you’d think it was a very expensive, official set. If you were wondering, yes, it’s to scale, so if you had a 1:1 scale LEGO Greedo in the house, you could get some bricky…

A Visual History Of Video Game…Toilets

Because it’s late, and because this is very important, here: a blog devoted entirely to cataloguing video game toilets. It is…surprisingly comprehensive.

Video Games vs Children’s Books Is About As Inappropriately Adorable As You’d Expect

Joey Spiotto, a former video game concept artist who worked on series like Dead Space, now works on things a little less brutal. Like these terrific images crossing some of the best video games of the last decade with that staple of childhood literature, Little Golden Books. In some ways it’s a shame these are…

Shark vs Mermaid Death Squad Is A Free Game With A Rad Name

Unlike their fellow activists at PETA, whose efforts at employing video games for their cause usually just cause palms to smack against foreheads, Greenpeace’s new game gets it. It’s smart. And pretty good to boot. With an awesome name – Shark vs Mermaid Death Squad – it’s basically a Pac-Man clone where you play as…

Building Pretty, Tough And Terrifying Things In 3D

We’re looking today at the portfolio of Jon Troy Nickel, an Australian artist who has worked on titles like Section 8, the cancelled Wet 2 and the Rift games. He’s also provided designs for Kingdom Death, a “boutique horror” tabletop game. Having worked for Australian and American game studios, Nickel is now a freelance character…

I Would Invisibly Kill A Man With Rats To Get My Hands On This Dishonored Control Pad

Reader Devin Smith, aka End Of Line Designs, has just put the finishing touches on this amazing Dishonored Xbox 360 control pad that goes way beyond simply painting a mask on a standard pad. The buttons have all been changed, the 360 light has been changed to fit the game’s look and there’s even some…

There’s A New Total War Game Coming, But It’s Not What You Think

Creative Assembly will later this year release Rome II, a proper Total War Game. They’ll also, presumably, one day take the wraps off a Warhammer title. As of today though there’s another Total War game coming, and it’s a weird one, because it’s not the Warhammer game, and it’s not the next true Total War…

Space Hulk Is Kicking Turn-Based Butt For The Emperor (And His PC, Mac & iPhone)

If you’ve never played Space Hulk – either the original board game orthe 1993 video game adaptation – you may not be as excited about this as I am. You are also someone who is missing out. This 15-minute demonstration video from GDC, courtesy of GameSpot, shows the new game in action. It’s as clunky,…

Darksiders’ Creators Want To Buy The Series Back

David Adams, the CEO of Crytek USA, has tweeted that he (or at least his company) is looking into buying the rights to the Darksiders series when it hits the auction block as part of the last sale of THQ properties This would be a big deal because Crytek USA is made up of refugees…

The Ouya console will go on sale in the US, Canada and UK on June 4. It’ll cost $99.

See Some Of Destiny’s Characters In Action In This New Video

It’s not a trailer, but it’s still pretty neat; to go with the concept art shown during Bungie’s Destiny panel at GDC was this short video, which is all about turning character designs into in-game models.

Here’s A Ton Of New Concept Art For Destiny, Bungie’s Next Big Game

During Bungie’s GDC panel earlier today, which was all about world-building, was this bucketload full of concept art, most of it unseen until today. Update – Here’s some video from the event as well, an animation showing off how characters went from the drawing board to the game The images you’ll see cover all aspects…

A First-Person Video Game Where You Play A Person Playing A Third-Person Video Game

Say that headline ten times fast, I dare ya. This video shows the game Atum, which is a student entry in the Independent Games Festival at GDC. In it, you play as a person in a room with a PC game, and to solve the puzzles in the game, you have to use objects from…

What Will Bungie Say About Their Next Game, Destiny? Watch Live.

Straight from the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, hosted by Twitch TV and GameSpot

At GDC today, YouTube basically said it has seen how many people are watching other people play games on services like Twitch.tv, and is now serious about getting in on that action.

Video Games That Make You Feel Like Indiana Jones

Indiana Jones is not the only one solving annoying ancient puzzles in haunted caves, armed with a whip and dynamites, far from civilization. A setting like this is perfect for video games, so it is no surprise that many were influenced by the character, and the similarities in some cases are amazing. Well, obviously, all…

The X-Men Are in Good Hands. The Massive Might Not Be Deep Enough. Let Panel Discussion Tell You Why.

These might be the most important words in comics: “Hey, have you read that?” The medium’s lifeblood has always been the word-of-mouth that passes from one reader to another. The only query that might surpass the above is “So, what’d you think?” Hence, this recurring feature in Kotaku‘s slice of comics programming, where comics critics,…

Here Are All Of BioShock Infinite’s Secret Musical Covers

If you’ve played any Bioshock Infinite, you may have noticed a few familiar things about the soundtrack — some songs that really seem to ring a bell. Why is that? Well, it’s because the Bioshock Infinite soundtrack has a bunch of of 1912-ear covers of famous pop songs. With that in mind, I decided to…

Gearbox posted some details about that level cap increase update coming to Borderlands 2 next week on April 2 (which also includes a new New Game Plus mode). Details include the usual bug fixes, storage upgrades (including for Eridium), new relics, the return of the Pearlescent tier of weapons, and YES FINALLY another upgrade level…