151 Pokémon Recreated By 151 Awesome Artists. For Charity.

Take the original 151 Pokémon. Get a different artist to do each one in whatever medium they want, all as a part of the same collection. What do you get? A Pokémon gallery called Rare Candy. Currently you can view all 151 of the Pokémon in the gallery here, where you can also bid for…

Let The Folks Behind The Walking Dead Teach You How To Be A Zombie

Did you know that The Walking Dead has a “zombie school”? That’s where extras learn how to become the undead. Don’t think you’d make a good zombie just because you can hiss and throw your arms out, either. While they talk about how there’s no real ‘right’ way of being a zombie—they let the actors…

A Gorgeous-Looking Adventure Game Starring A Trans-Dimensional Rabbit

Point-and-click adventure gurus Daedalic Entertainment have a solid track record when it comes to strange, artistically vibrant games. From Deponia to Harvey’s New Eyes to The Whispered World, the German studio’s games conjure strange lands, mystical beasties, and grim/Grimm fairy tales. The trailer above is for Daedalic’s latest, The Night of the Rabbit. I’m not…

Battlefield 4 Will Have At Least One More Pretty Rainbow Than Expected

I sure wasn’t expecting there to be any pretty, pretty rainbows in Battlefield 4, but from this new screenshot released by EA, it looks like there’ll be at least one. And aw, look at that, it’s got a flower, too! And Michael “Omar” K. Williams’ character, holding a huge machine gun. Use our image-annotation to…

The Super Retro Trio Is Three Classic Consoles In One

With my children rapidly approaching gaming age, I want their introduction to my favorite pastime to begin with the classics — NES, Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis. The Super Retro Trio, coming this summer from Innex and Retro-bit, handles games from all three of those systems for a mere $69.99. That’ll look so lovely in…

EA Says SimCity ‘Has Recovered From a Challenging Launch’

Nevermind the bugs: the folks behind SimCity say it’s doing just fine. In an earnings call today, EA’s Labels president Frank Gibeau had some choice words about the publisher’s disastrous sim management game. He called the launch “challenging”—perhaps the understatement of the year—and vowed it wouldn’t happen again. He also said it had recovered: I’ll…

It’s Like DayZ, But With Dinosaurs

“You are a hunter, and your primary source of food is dinosaur meat.” Sounds simple, right? The Stomping Land is a survival game where you hunt dinosaurs—which, on its own is cool enough, but the kicker is that you get to play this game with friends (if not enemies). Yes, it’s multiplayer. While hunting small…

Electronic Arts will not be publishing any Star Wars video games in the coming fiscal year, the company told investors in a quarterly earnings call today. Yesterday, EA and Disney announced an exclusive partnership to make games.

NBA Live Will Be a Next-Generation Title

In Electronic Arts’ quarterly earnings call today, Frank Gibeau, the president of EA Labels, strongly indicated that EA Sports’ troubled NBA Live series will be a next-generation console title when it launches later this year. Gibeau told investors the company plans “a full reveal at E3 including more next generation titles in development,” for the…

Ambitious Superhero Game Project Awakened On Hold, Backers Get Refunds

Project Awakened, Phosphor Games’ highly ambitious make-your-own-superhero game, fell short of its $500,000 Kickstarter goal in March. After missing the mark on Kickstarter, Phosphor started its own fundraising drive, which also failed to meet expectations. Rather than continue raising money, Phosphor is putting the project on hold and refunding all backers. In an update on…

Female Footballers Still Sidelined in FIFA 14

Women won’t make an appearance in FIFA 14, despite an insistent campaign of petitions to include them and a summit, last year, that left one organizer with the feeling that it was just a matter of time before women would be included in the world’s most popular video game for the world’s most popular sport.…

Soul Sacrifice: The Kotaku Review

Soul Sacrifice feels like a game designed by somebody in a bad mood. This exclusive for Sony’s handheld is all about using your own pain—or the agony of others—for power. Grim? Sure. But, it’s also the best reason I’ve had in months to keep my Vita charged and in my bag. So, the bad mood…

Wolfenstein Game Publisher Bravely Adopts Anti-Nazi Stance

At the bottom of the official press release introducing the gaming world to Machine Games’ Wolfenstein: The New Order, publisher Bethesda Softworks clarified its position on the Nazi regime’s attempted genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. In a business driven by sales, estranging yourself from even the smallest demographic is a tough decision. I…

Guy Almost Breaks Monitor Using The Oculus Rift As Roller Coaster Sim

We’ve been enjoying quite a few Oculus Rift reactions/shenaniganries on Kotaku lately, but this guy jolting and bobbing around while on a virtual roller coaster is quite fun on its own, too. Imagine what it must feel like, standing up in a regular ol’ living room but totally believing like you’re dropping down from a…

Familiar Names Get Paid in MLB 2K13‘s Perfect Game Contest

A contestant accused of cheating in last year’s scandal-plagued MLB 2K Million Dollar Challenge pocketed $25,000 in this year’s contest, staged under a new format—and with the exploits patched out. William Haff, of Owatonna, Minn., is not a finalist for a $250,000 grand prize in this year’s contest, but he still did better than in…

Thought Experiment: A Console Without First-Person Shooters

American gamers love first-person shooters, but imagine a game console that didn’t have any. Imagine one with no Call of Duty and no Battlefield. No Metro Last Light. No Wolfenstein. No big new FPS from Bungie. No big FPS from Respawn. No Killzone. No Halo. No Counter-Strike. No BioShock. No Borderlands This shouldn’t be that…

Pay What You Want For A Buncha Double Fine Games (Broken Age Is Extra)

The folks at Humble Bundle have teamed up with Tim Schafer’s Double Fine Productions to launch a Double Fine-themed bundle, where you can pay what you want and get DRM-free cross-platform copies of Costume Quest, Psychonauts, Stacking, and if you hit the right price, Brütal Legend and a preorder of Broken Age You can pay…

The Moneysaver: Beyond: Two Souls, Free Mass Effect 3, Pizza

Pre-orders, free stuff, and a Pizza Compass. Newegg is the MVR (most valuable retailer) of the day with discounts and pre-orders galore. Grab upcoming Playstation 3 exclusive Beyond: Two Souls for $8 off with code EMCXRXN226, and Shin Megami Tensei IV for the 3DS for the same discount with EMCXRXN225. A couple other Newegg highlights:…

This video shows how Resident Evil: Revelations will work on the Wii U’s two screens. It’s interesting to see it in action, since the game was initially released as a (very good) 3DS game before being up-scaled to set-top consoles. So, you’ll be able to play the Wii U version of the game much the…

Ray Harryhausen, the Artist Who Released the Kraken, is Dead at 92

The man responsible for the fantastical elements and chilling creatures of film classics like Jason and the Argonauts and Clash of the Titans passed away today. The official Facebook page for the Ray & Diana Harryhausen Foundation has a detailed obituary that details highlights from the master artist’s biography and credits. With simple clay and…