Check out this hypnotic video tracking the circuitous journey of a single car in SimCity

This Fallout And Hotline Miami Mash Up Needs To Happen

Here’s a scene from Fallout: New Vegas re-done Hotline Miami style. I wonder how a game like this would work? How would VATS come into the picture, if at all? Well, as long as I get to kill Super Mutants I guess! Props to the artist, Reddit user Sliferjam Click the image up top for…

There’s Skylanders: Swap Force Gameplay Footage Here, and It’s Lovely

Activision doesn’t have to sell me on buying Skylanders toys at this point—I literally have a bucket full of them sitting not three feet from me as I type—but the games, entertaining as they are, could use a little work. The kind of work they’ve done with the new engine for Skylanders: Swap Force This…

Ever Wonder What Nintendo’s President Looks Like As A Walking Google Camera?

Wonder no more. Part of an Iwata Asks section over on Nintendo’s website, celebrating the launch of Google’s Wii Street U on the Wii U.

Seriously, Why Doesn’t Anyone In Fire Emblem: Awakening Have Feet?

“There’s an elephant in the room.” It’s a phrase people use when there’s some super-obvious thing that everyone’s consciously avoiding talking about, like, you’re at a party where the host just died of a heart attack and was carted off by the coroner, but you’re eating teeny-weenies and talking about the weather, and the elephant…

Meet the models behind all the big characters in Archer. Trust me, it’s hilarious.

The Biggest Challenge In This Game Is Preventing Your Character From Committing Suicide

Actual Sunlight is not a happy game. In fact, I’d caution folks sensitive about suicide and depression against playing it. It’ll trigger you, it’ll punch you in the gut. The game is an interactive story about a man called Evan Winters. He works at some corporation, doing who knows what, really—it’s one of those nebulous…

The Craziest Mad Scientists In Video Games

Mad scientists and evil masterminds are classic villain archetypes, and defeating them is always nerve-wracking. Instead of facing you, they’d rather hide in the shadows and rely on their minions. And when it does come to combat, they usually love to show off their deadliest creations. We gathered some well-known crazies; a mustache or a…

The guy who made that one nifty Jay Z + Chrono Trigger mash-up has made another one

Ouya Will Be Getting Tim Schafer’s Big Kickstarter Game. Other Consoles Won’t, Ouya Boss Says [UPDATE]

Tim Schafer throwback Kickstarter-funded game, Double Fine Adventure, is coming to multiple platforms, but only to one console, the CEO of the upcoming Android mini-console said today during a talk at DICE. It’s coming to hers, the Ouya. Schafer’s game is one of 450 games planned for the system, Ouya boss Julie Uhrman said. She…

Midweek Moneysaver: In Omerta, No One Can Hear You Scream

This Wednesday edition of Kotaku’s The Moneysaver catches all the offers, promotions and bargains that can’t wait until the weekend. The Midweek Moneysaver is brought to you by Dealzon. Software—PC games GameFly • Yesterday’s release Dead Space 3 is $47.99 (list $60) • Far Cry 3 is $39.99 (next best $50) • Mar. 31 release…

I (Kirk) wrote a whole thing about the challenges of living in San Francisco and my ambivalence about how it’s changed.

Forget Powerpoint. They’ve Got Rayman.

At the DICE convention in Las Vegas, Ubisoft’s Xavier Poix illustrates his talk about Ubisoft’s creation of launch games for new platforms using the Rayman Origins UbiArt game engine to essentially make an interactive slide-show. It’s a side-scroller as Powerpoint, steered with an Xbox 360 controller. And, yes, Media Molecule did this through LittleBigPlanet at…

Beat Dead Space 3 And It Will Give You The Finger

…Literally! This video from Prima Games shows how to get the “Devil Horns” weapon, which… well, it’s actually just a foam finger. Like, from sporting events? Yeah. They say it’s the most powerful weapon in the game. Makes sense. To get it, you’ll have to beat the game in classic mode. This is not the…

This Game Wants You to Take Your People to Meet a God

What if going to church was an epic quest, filled with hazards and gut-wrenching decisions that affected the people you loved? You’d think pretty seriously about your choices, wouldn’t you? That kind of weighty aspiration is exactly what Unwritten: That Which Happened is aiming for. The in-development PC game being made by Roxlou Games‘ Joe…

You Can Never Really Have Enough Zelda-Like Indie Games

This is Anodyne, a top-down 16-bit Zelda-like game created by two guys: Sean Hogan and Jonathan Kittaka. On one hand, we’ve seen a lot of action-adventure indies that try to clone that addictive, delightful, swipe-solve formula that makes the Zelda games so good. On the other hand, can you really have enough Zelda clones? I…

Yep, Bungie’s Still Answering Halo Fan Mail

Though Bungie no longer is the steward of the Halo franchise, after five games and a dozen years, it’s hard for some to let go. Or, well, if your Halo gaming career begins with ODST, perhaps you’re not that plugged-in to begin with. But the guy did draw an awesome picture, and Bungie does promise…

These Fans Want $75,000 To Make A Half-Life Short Film Series

You might remember “Enter The Freeman,” a very cool short Half-Life film we featured a few months ago The fan-film’s creators are crowd-funding $75,000 to turn it into a whole series, which may or may not be welcome news to Valve, considering that CEO Gabe Newell just announced he’d like to make movies with director…

Return to the Airbender Universe with Two New Comics Projects

You could make a pretty good case for Avatar: The Last Airbender being one of the best new pop culture mythologies to debut in the last decade or so. Creators Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko made a world where young people embodied hope, even as they were thrust into a war that tore their…

It’s Stupid How Excited I Am About the Tamagotchi App

The toy that taught an entire generation to care for something that didn’t exist is returning soon, and I’ve never been so excited about the prospect of cleaning up poop. Bandai Co. and Sync Beatz Entertainment are breathing new life and love into the Tamagotchi on Android and iOS. Mobile phones are the perfect place…