Let’s Talk About the Twists and Turns in Bioshock Infinite

Bioshock Infinite is one of those rare games that you absolutely need to talk about the second you finish it. Whether you liked the way the game ended or loathed it, you’re going to have a distinct opinion about it once you’ve finished with it and you’re going to need to talk to someone about…

NCAA Football 14 Promises It Won’t Give You the Same Old Line This Year

You can load all the physics, all the momentum, all the jukes and trucks and fakes you want into running the football in a video game, but it all unravels when the right guard just watches as a free linebacker strolls into the backfield and cleans your transmission. No matter how good the rest of…

A Little Evolution Goes a Long Way in Alien Hive

A cursory glance at Appxplore’s latest mobile game gives the impression that it’s nothing more than a standard match-three puzzle game. Alien Hive is a match-three game, but it’s also an alien-breeding strategy game — I guess that last bit is hard to convey in a single screenshot. Let’s try words instead. A match-three puzzler…

Tip: To Avoid Seeming Sketchy, Put ‘Retro’ In The Name of the Game That Inspired Yours.

I can’t vouch for the quality of the Android game Duck Retro Hunt, but I can vouch for the brazenness of the game’s name. Why, next thing you know, someone will add cutting edge technology to that beloved Pac-Man game and try to sell us Pac-Retro-Man. I’m holding out for Call of Retro Duty, myself.…

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NCAA Football 14 Will Add an Ultimate Team Mode, but How It Will Work is a Mystery [Update]

According to the game’s listing at GameStop, NCAA Football 14 is getting an Ultimate Team mode. This is a highly unusual development, given the card-trading game’s reliance on real players in titles like FIFA and Madden, and the fact using real college players’ names not only is forbidden by the NCAA, but also EA Sports’…

Five Years And Nothing To Show: How Doom 4 Got Off Track

Doom 4 is in trouble, and has been for quite some time now, according to multiple sources. Though publisher Bethesda tells Kotaku they still plan to release the highly-anticipated first-person shooter, Doom 4 has gone through at least one major reboot over the past few years, and sources say even today, five years after development…

Defiance is Off to a Rocky Start, But You Won’t See Players Complaining

It wasn’t until my third hour in the game portion of SyFy and Trion Worlds’ crossmedia project that it struck me — Defiance is the quietest MMO launch ever. I’d run into a couple bugged quests, marveled over the purposeful stupidity of enemies in the tutorial zone, and giggled at the ridiculous vehicle physics, but…

Junk Vader Finds Your Lack of Horns Disturbing

Gabriel Dishaw calls himself an up-cycler or “junk artist.” Basically, what he does is he takes small components from various old, dismantled mechanical devices, and creates something wonderful out of them. Up top is his newest work, something he calls the Red Stag Vader. In fact, he’s done several Vaders: This one’s the aptly named…

It Didn’t Take Long To Have Bioshock Infinite‘s Columbia Recreated In Minecraft

Bioshock Infinite’s floating city is a stunning setting, carefully crafted to capture the imagination, so it was only a matter of time before an enterprising Minecraft artist built Columbia in cubes. Craftsman Ilikecutepeople does an amazing job here, capturing the essence of the city right down to the distinctive color palette. The video was assembled…

Creepy Woody, Angry Link and Friends Make Plastic Benches Fun

Japanese toy line Tomy Tec is releasing a series of train station benches. Boring, you say! Well, just look at all the possible figure hilarity these plastic seats make possible. Below is a series of photos from the Hobby Search Blog. They are wonderful. 駅ベンチ(オレンジ色タイプ/緑色タイプ)で遊ぼう！ [Hobby Search Blog] Kotaku East is your slice of Asian…

Chinese search engine Baidu is working on its own version of Google Glass. According to our pals at Gizmodo, it’s called Baidu Eye.

The Most Awesome Japanese Video Games Where You Can Ride A Horse

One would think, that horseback riding as a feature in video games would appear most of the time in wild west-themed titles, with lots of riding and gunning. But browsing through Japanese games, it quickly becomes clear that it’s not the case. A wide variety of genres have horse companions. Most of the time they…

OXM reports that, in response to a redditor’s complaint to the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority about the visible differences between the playable and trailer-demonstrated versions of Aliens: Colonial Marines, Sega Europe has agreed to put disclaimers stating that the game shown is the demo version next to their videos. Update: Some, but not all, of…

Report: 1.2 Million Chinese Died in 2010 Due to Air Pollution

You’ve seen China’s pollution. While it might look like something out ofscience fiction or a video game, the horrible air quality is very real. And according to a new report, it’s deadly. Chinese newspaper 21st Century Business Herald (via 47News) is reporting that in 2010, 1.23 million Chinese died due to air pollution in 2010.…

Planet Explorers Promises an Otherworldly Adventure of Base Defense, Aliens, Swords and Guns

Pathea Games’ Planet Explorers tries to do a lot of things at once. The developers of this adventuring-base building-RPG hybrid are looking to gather $100,000 from the Kickstarter community to finish up and polish their game—a funding goal that, honestly, seems quite humble for a project this size. The game, on one side, will have…

Relinquish Your Form to this Awesome Mass Effect Lego Reaper

This fantastic piece was created by Imagine Designs for the 2013 MOCathlon, a yearly online Lego tournament organized by MOCpages. The Reaper statue is fully poseable, with movable faceplates that reveal its laser. You know, for added realism. And terror. Mass Effect Reaper: I am the Vanguard of your Destruction! [MOCpages] For reference, here’s the…

Dragon Ball Photo Meme Has New Competition: Darth Vader

It started with a Japanese schoolgirl trend: Kids doing anime style attacks and uploading their pics to Twitter. The trend went global, with people all around the world doing their version of Dragon Ball moves. Now, that meme has some new competition: The Dark Side of the Force. Say hello to “Vadering”. The trend began…

BioShock Takes Cosplay to Infinity and Beyond

Those BioShock titles sure have given us some fancy outfits! And the newly released BioShock Infinite is no exception. That’s probably one reason why people, especially cosplayers, love the BioShock games. Here is some, but not all, of the best BioShock cosplay this side of the internet. Have a look below as you try to…

Blizzard just announced the StarCraft II World Championship Series. More on Battle.net. [Official Site Thanks, Sang!]