Your Lame Childhood Toys Are, With A Flourish, Suddenly Badass

Optimus Prime, Raphael, guys like that, they never needed any help looking tough. But if you cast your eyes over all the toys from the 80s and 90s, boy, some of them looked pretty awful. Uninspiring. Cheap. That’s not how you remembered them! You remembered them being full of life, vibrant characters capable of doing…

There’s A Normal Brothers In Arms Game Coming

Brothers In Arms: Furious Four was a weird departure from Gearbox’s venerable WW2 series, so weird that it ended up being spun off into its own thing, leaving the BiA franchise behind altogether. Which you’d think would leave it back where we’ve been for a while—with no proper Brothers in Arms game on the horizon—but…

Drunk Dudes Make Video Game Award Shows A Little Awkward

I was on the other side of the planet from the actual DICE awards show, and didn’t catch all the stream, so I missed this last week. Shame. The best part of any awards show are normally the parts where a drunk guy wanders onto the stage and things get weird. To his credit (anyone…

See Minecraft Running On A Computer That Costs $35

I realise that one reason for Minecraft’s success is that it can run on older/weaker computers, but this is crazy What you’re seeing here is Mojang’s world-builder running on the Raspberry Pi, a tiny hobbyist computer that’s little more than a glorified chipboard, and which costs only $35. The version of the game has been…

We’re Gonna Need A Bigger Boat… Well, A Bigger Luxury Automobile

Tonight's Fine Art looks at the work of Alex Brady

Here’s One Developer Who Doesn’t Fight Piracy. He Embraces It.

Sean Hogan, one of the two guys behind the delightful Anodyne, is not Electronic Arts. He’s not Ubisoft, either. Or Activision. He is instead a man who, like Hotline Miami’s Jonatan Soderstrom, isn’t terribly concerned with people pirating his game. Sure, he doesn’t exactly have billions of dollars riding on his multinational business like big…

You Can Play Assassin’s Creed Of The Future. With Guns. Sort Of.

A DLC pack for the oft-forgotten Ghost Recon Online will for the next few weeks make the online PC shooter (technically still in beta) substantially more interesting. Provided you like Assassin’s Creed, that is. And the prospect of Assassins using assault rifles. The pack adds “Abstergo” weapons and a very fetching near-future rendition of the…

Robot George Washington, Dirty Schwarzeneggers and KHAAAAAAN: Toy Fair 2013, Day 2

Scroll ahead. Look at James Tiberius Kirk whuppin’ on Khan Noonien Singh. God, isn’t that just beautiful? God bless Diamond Distributors for making that thing. Diamond also showed off Tomb Raider minimates, Iron Man and War Machine designs from Iron Man 3. But that Kirk vs. Khan set… it’s one of the best things I…

Let’s Rank Nintendo’s Controllers, Best To Worst

I published an innocent little story yesterday about an N64 controller that provoked an unexpected response. You see, I hate the Nintendo 64 controller. All my friends hate it. Everyone I ever gamed on the console with hated it. I figured it was pretty safe to share that dislike. Others, on the internet, disagreed. Some…

Last Night’s The Walking Dead: Not Bad, Not Great

Last night, AMC’s The Walking Dead came back on the air for the second half of its third season. I thought the first half of Season 3 was pretty strong, all things considered, and even liked some of the ways they moved away from the source material. I haven’t always been the biggest fan of…

Who Does The Harlem Shake Better, Call of Duty Devs Or Battlefield 3 Players? You Decide.

Up above, we’ve got the Harlem Shake as done by 64 people in Battlefield 3, footage brought to us by YouTube user TheHazardCinema. And below, the opponent: Infinity Ward doing the Harlem Shake. Who does it better, though? I’m leaning toward the Battlefield players because it’s so ridiculous to see the characters like that, but…

Fire Emblem: Awakening‘s Amazing Musical Milieu

We’ve talked plenty about how much we like the new 3DS strategy role-playing game Fire Emblem: Awakening here at Kotaku. Among other things, we like the romance, the permanent death and the even more permanent marriage. And all this despite the fact that no one in the game has feet But while I’ve talked a…

Cutting Everything Into Tiny Pieces In Metal Gear Rising Will Feel Amazing After A Long Day

This commercial for Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance really gets it. Many of us want to play the game to enjoy the delights of dicing everything up, and that’ll feel particularly cathartic after an awful day. Not that the feature can’t be a blast even when you’re not having a bad day, but still. Sweet, sweet…

One Thing Dead Space 3 Gets So, So Right

When it comes right down to it, Dead Space 3 is a game about standing in a corner and blasting aliens into bloody bits. I’ve been playing through the opening hours of the game, and despite recognizing the various problems mentioned in some reviews (including Tina’s less-than-glowing review), I have to say that after six…

Watch The Slender: The Arrival Beta In Action… If You Dare

Slender: The Eight Pages was one of the more beguiling successes of last year—a weird, super low-rent thriller that combined the popular Slenderman mythos with simple jump-scare design. Its stripped-down look and basic design were part of the appeal. Its sequel, the upcoming Slender: The Arrival, looks to have upped the ante in just about…

This Crysis 3 Commercial Is Great Because It Doesn’t Take Itself Too Seriously

No dubstep, no angry men blowing up other angry men. Just a dude enjoying himself in the jungle, while shooting a crossbow bow and turning invisible and doing other Crysisy things. The shooter Crysis 3 will be out on February 19 for Xbox 360, PS3, and PC. For more, check out Tina’s impressions

While you wait for Among The Sleep, you should try The Plan, an experimental title by the same devs. You play as a fly.

Filling In the Blanks on Neverwinter‘s Character Sheet

It’s been years since I’ve walked the streets of Neverwinter, rapier swinging with every step, ready for whatever dangers lurked in the alleys of one of Dungeons and Dragons‘ most notable locales. It’s also been awhile since I filled out a good old paper character sheet. Why not combine the two? Due out early this…

DS Homebrewing Still Going Strong with Portal Adaptation

The DS still is home to a robust homebrew scene, as we see here in this Portal port that modder Smealum has been working on for about the past six months. “Still nowhere near playable,” he writes under the latest video, but it’s brought along Portal staples like turrets, cubes, switches and energy balls. “This…

With Four Days To Go, Chris Taylor Cancels Wildman Kickstarter

Designer Chris Taylor has canceled his troubled Kickstarter, just four days before funding was scheduled to end. Wildman, an action-role-playing game that promised to be “evolutionary,” had earned roughly $504,000, more than half a million short of its $1.1 million goal. The Kickstarter was due to end on Friday. This project has been troubled for…