The Game That Amazed Us The Most At PAX East: Quadrilateral Cowboy

Kotaku video editor Chris Person and I are not thieves, but if there was one game we’d like to have absconded with last weekend at the PAX East show in Boston, it was Quadrilateral Cowboy. Watch the video, and you too might be considering a brief flirtation with crime. Quadrilateral Cowboy creator Brendon Chung describes…

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This Might Be the Most High-Tech Tabletop RPG Ever

I was running out of PAX East last Saturday. I had to catch a bus. But I wanted to check one last cranny of the show floor to make sure I wasn’t missing anything. I’m so glad I did, because I nearly missed Eon Altar. What, you’ve never heard of it? Eon Altar is a…

Nimble Quest Would Make One Hell of a Final Fantasy Game

Back in January, Square Enix released Final Fantasy: All the Bravest, a game about getting as many Final Fantasy character sprites on the screen at one time while finding creative new ways for players to pay for things It wasn’t a very good game. What Square Enix should have done was make Nimble Quest, the…

Minecraft Creator: “We Did Not Pay Anyone To Party”

Last night, Mojang, the studio that created Minecraft, hosted a big shindig at the Game Developers Conference, dubbed “.party()”. There were flashing lights, a Skrillex set, and according to rumors, paid companions in the V.I.P. room. Rumors that Minecraft’s creator Markus Persson says just aren’t true. As noted by Misguided@NeoGAF, people—game industry people—are saying that…

Crazy Guy Builds Awesome Instrument To Rethink Super Mario

Meet Chris Novello, alias Paper Kettle, who shows in the video above how he can manipulate Super Mario on the NES with his glitch instruments. The smaller one is a USB device with arcade buttons called Illucia made by the man himself, and the other, multitouch thingy is a Soundplane The technical details on the…

Years Later, Mother 3 Still Lives Up to All the Hype

Over the years, there have been many games released in Japan only. Of these, a small number have gone on to become cult classics abroad—lost gems of gaming that the English-speaking world missed out on. Even now, with virtual consoles and re-releases, some of these games have never gotten an official international release (though many…

CollegeHumor’s fantastic rendition of “Under the Sea” from The Little Mermaid, featuring none other than Andrew Ryan, shows us there’s still plenty of fun to be had in Rapture. Welp, time to reinstall BioShock. Again.

Rumor: Ex-Square Enix Developer Writes Defense of Recently Axed Boss

Yoichi Wada, Square Enix’s president, is stepping down. The news came as a surprise. Wada has been Square Enix’s only president since Square and Enix joined forces. Some are happy about this. Others are not. Online in Japan, an individual claiming to have worked, until recently, at Square Enix as a programmer wrote a post…

Maoyu Brings Real World Concepts into a Fantasy World Setting

At first glance, anime Maoyu is hardly what you would call original. There are two worlds, a human world and a demon world, at war in a fantasy setting. And as these stories go, after many adventures, the Hero sets off to have his climatic one-on-one battle with the evil Demon King. But that’s where…

Hideo Kojima once again says Metal Gear Solid V will be his last Metal Gear. Haven’t heard that one before! More on GTTV

Check Out This Awesome Earthbound MiiVerse Fan Art

This past week saw the release in Japan of Earthbound(Mother 2) on the Wii U’s virtual console. To celebrate, Nintendo released a special episode of Retro Game Master (GameCenter CX) and even did a three-and-a-half hour playthrough of the game with Itoi, the game’s writer and director. The one other big thing they did was…

South Korean Pro Gamer Arrested in a Drug Bust

In many Western countries, smoking marijuana is not a big deal. In South Korea, it is. Especially if you get caught. Sports Chosun and Sports Seoul (via Kotaku reader Sang Kwon) report that South Korean police arrested a professional gamer with the last name “Cha” for marijuana. The drug is illegal in South Korea. The…

Eidos-Montréal’s new teaser is telling us something Thi4f Thief-related is coming next Tuesday. Also, that’s in-game footage. Best. Candle physics. Ever.

A Brief History of North Korean Photoshops

Almost as much as North Korea loves missiles and marching, the rogue nation apparently loves photo manipulation software. But hey, who doesn’t? Maybe North Korea uses Photoshop. Maybe the country even paid for its copy! Or maybe the military has its own magical software to use with a super computer. It’s probably a state secret…

Han Couldn’t Have Shot First With A LEGO Blaster

LEGO builder CaptainInfinity is the man behind this beautiful Star Wars blaster, which has such intricate detail on the finer points you’d think it was a very expensive, official set. If you were wondering, yes, it’s to scale, so if you had a 1:1 scale LEGO Greedo in the house, you could get some bricky…

A Visual History Of Video Game…Toilets

Because it’s late, and because this is very important, here: a blog devoted entirely to cataloguing video game toilets. It is…surprisingly comprehensive.

Video Games vs Children’s Books Is About As Inappropriately Adorable As You’d Expect

Joey Spiotto, a former video game concept artist who worked on series like Dead Space, now works on things a little less brutal. Like these terrific images crossing some of the best video games of the last decade with that staple of childhood literature, Little Golden Books. In some ways it’s a shame these are…

Shark vs Mermaid Death Squad Is A Free Game With A Rad Name

Unlike their fellow activists at PETA, whose efforts at employing video games for their cause usually just cause palms to smack against foreheads, Greenpeace’s new game gets it. It’s smart. And pretty good to boot. With an awesome name – Shark vs Mermaid Death Squad – it’s basically a Pac-Man clone where you play as…

Building Pretty, Tough And Terrifying Things In 3D

We’re looking today at the portfolio of Jon Troy Nickel, an Australian artist who has worked on titles like Section 8, the cancelled Wet 2 and the Rift games. He’s also provided designs for Kingdom Death, a “boutique horror” tabletop game. Having worked for Australian and American game studios, Nickel is now a freelance character…