It’s Like Temple Run, But with Naked Chinese People and a Sex Doll

Apparently, these photos were recently taken in Beijing. However, it isn’t known who this couple is or what the hell is going on. Well, save for the part about running naked in public with an inflatable friend. We got that part. Warning: This article has content some readers might find objectionable. According to The South…

A LEGO City That Took, Well, Forever To Build

600 hours. Over 200,000 bricks. That’s what it cost Mike Doyle to build this enormous LEGO city, called Odan. It was totally worth it. A lot of thought has gone into both the design and construction of Odan, which you should read about in this lengthy interview over on Brothers Brick Mike Doyle builds massive…

Artist Kyle Hilton did a series of amazing Game of Thrones illustrations for Vulture, turning the fantasy epic into more light-hearted TV fare (via Laughing Squid).

Another Hollywood Director Wants To Make A Half-Life Movie

Fede Alvarez, the 35 year-old Uruguayan (and director of Panic Attack) who has been given the keys to the Evil Dead remake, has bigger ambitions than just reworking somebody else’s old movie. Speaking with Yahoo!, Alvarez says his dream project would be to make a Half-Life movie. “I really want to make a ‘Half-Life’ movie…

BioShock Infinite Ported To Wooden Tables

What the upcoming BioShock Infinite: The Siege of Columbia lacks in surround sound and frantic action, it makes up for with things the video game version is lacking in: a tangible world and, more importantly, little plastic men (and women). Instead of playing as Booker, the game is more strategic in nature, giving you command…

You Won’t Believe One Man Is Making This Game

If you were impressed that one person managed to make last year’s Dust: An Elysian Tail, get ready to be impressed all over again by Ghost of a Tale. Admittedly it’s a smaller project in scope than Dust, but it’s the visuals here that get your attention. Rough as they may be in this very…

Gender-Bending Mega Man, Street Fighting Ladies And A Batman In Serious Trouble

Artist DCWJ works at Imaginary Friends, a concept studio in Singapore which specialises in design and illustration in creative fields like video games and animation. The studio has worked on properties like Batman, Halo, Superman, D&D, Soul Calibur, Call of Duty, Street Fighter, Spider-Man, World of Warcraft, Everquest, League of Legends and Star Wars. You…

Reporter Pretends To Be 13 Year-Old Girl On PlayStation Home. You Can Bet How This Ends.

As part of a story on the ways sexual predators from the United States are using technology like online game consoles to “lure” Canadian kids, CBC’s Gosia Sawicka decided to do a little first-hand reporting and signed up to Sony’s PlayStation Home service. Posing as a 13 year-old girl. What she found was as sad…

Jumping Off The End Of BioShock Infinite’s World Is A Beautiful Thing

In this video, reader awdofgum throws caution to the wind and takes a running jump off the edge of Columbia, BioShock Infinite’s floating city. It’s a long way down, but it’s one hell of a trip.

In Puppeteer, All The World’s A Stage

Last week during the Game Developers Conference, I swung by Sony’s event space near the Moscone center to check out Puppeteer, an upcoming platforming game from Sony’s Japan Studio. I had a chance to play through a few levels of the game, and really enjoyed myself—the whole thing has a very LittleBigPlanet—like charm, but it…

Of Course Somebody Had To Find A Star Wars LEGO Set “Culturally Insensitive”

The new Jabba’s Palace LEGO set is one of the best in recent years from the Danish company, condensing nearly all of the main elements of an enormous location into a neat, compact playset. You’d think that would grant it universal acclaim, but no. Somebody, somewhere had to take political issue with it. That someone…

At Least League of Legends Is Doing Something About Silly Female Armor

So often in fantasy games, male characters get to wear massive, fearsome plate armor while female characters ride into battle with whole swaths of skin exposed. When it comes down to it, female fantasy armor is simply inadequate. We’ve even talked to a guy who makes armor professionally and had him explain the craft-related reasons…

I Hope These People Don’t Think BioShock’s Indian Massacre Reference Is A Skyrim Joke

Bioshock Infinite released on March 26th, 2013. If you look at the Google Search Trends from that point onward, you might notice something curious: people are looking up the search terms “Wounded Knee Massacre” a hell of a lot more than they did before Infinite’s launch. What does Bioshock Infinite have to do with the…

Mystery Solved: Why No One In Fire Emblem: Awakening Has Feet

Here at Kotaku, we like Fire Emblem: Awakening. But a while back, we had to ask: Why on earth doesn’t anyone in this game have any feet? Everything else about the characters’ design is perfectly normal. But they don’t have any feet. In a new developer interview posted by Nintendo, the localizers at 8-4 (who…

Hooray, The First Free DLC For SimCity Is…An Advertisement

Developers have found clever ways to advertise brands in the games we play. Last year, we discovered that Sim City Social featured a Dunkin Donuts building that was much, much better than the normal bakeries in the game. So much better that a smart, savvy player will likely exhibit brand loyalty to Dunkin Donuts because…

The Guy Who Made The New XCOM Meets The Guy Who Made The First X-COM

This is pretty cool: Last week during the Game Developers Conference, Jake Solomon, designer of last year’s XCOM: Enemy Unknown sat down with host Adam Sessler to chat with Julian Gollop, designer of 1994’s X-COM: UFO Defense. So, the designer of Kotaku’s 2012 game of the year talks with the man who made the original.…

The People Who Make Rock Band Celebrate The Day The Music Died

Today marks the release of the final downloadable song for Rock Band. Harmonix has chosen Don McLean’s “American Pie” for the honor, which, as I’ve already said, is an absolutely perfect choice Today, Harmonix shared this video, in which their staff members take turns plastic-instrumenting their way through McLean’s opus while various members of the…

Even The People Behind Fire Emblem Hit Reset When Something Goes Wrong

When your characters die in Fire Emblem, that’s it. They’re dead, forever (unless you’re playing on the new casual mode). The idea is that permanent death forces players to be mindful of their actions, the idea is that permadeath adds gravity to the situation. Idea is the key word there. Instead, permadeath adds tedium: why…

Activision Lays Off High Moon Studios’ Deadpool Team

Most of the folks on the Deadpool team at Activision-owned High Moon Studios were let go today, having completed their developmental task. Activision tells Kotaku that around 40 employees have been impacted globally. “Activision Publishing consistently works to align its costs with its revenues – this is an ongoing process. With the completion of development…

This Stop-Motion Post-It Note Tribute to Ms. Pac-Man and Donkey Kong Took 96 Days to Make

Do you hate spending weekends in the office? Talk to Michael Birken. He spent nearly a year’s worth of weekends and holidays at his, filming this ridiculous post-it note stop-motion homage to arcade classics Ms. Pac-Man and Donkey Kong The project took a total of 96 days spread out over 11 months, Birken says, using…