The Best Portal Cosplay Ever? Quite Possibly.

Warning: The video above is more than a year old. But I only saw it for the first time last week when Valve’s Yasser Malaika and Leslie Reed used it in a presentation about Steam for Schools I don’t think Kotaku has ever posted this incredible interpretative Portal dance number. What makes me grin at…

Kickstarter Doesn’t Really Care If You Get Scammed Out Of $25

Worried about Kickstarter not caring if one of its projects steals your money? Well… you probably should be. According to Sunny Bates, advisor-slash-board member for the crowdfunding website, if you give your money to a project, that project gets funded, and you then get ripped off, you’ll be left to fend for yourself. “Here’s the…

Nintendo’s 3DS XL Is Even More XL Than You Think

Check out this video, released by Nintendo today to show off just how big the 3DS XL’s XL screen actually is. If you’ll let me get scientific for a minute: this thing is really friggin’ big.

You Will Be Excited About PlanetSide 2, Even if it Takes an Entire Seven Minute Explainer Video

Why do I want more PC gamers to get excited upcoming massively-multiplayer first-person shooter PlanetSide 2? Am I a masochist? Am I in the pocket of Sony Online Entertainment, bribed by all of that cash they made on The Agency? No, the answer is much simpler than that: I want to kill you all. After…

This Iron Man Case is Not Made by Tony Stark, But is Still Cooler Than You

You know who’s cool? Tony Stark is cool. He’s so cool he doesn’t have to give a damn about things like “civility” or “gravity” or “playing nicely with the big green monster scientist.” Iron Man is also cool. Mostly because he’s Tony Stark in a suit of badassery. This PC may not be able to…

Opening Origin Always Makes Me Feel a Little Bit Sad, These Days

I didn’t always feel sad when I started up Origin. Vaguely annoyed, perhaps, with the way it always defaults to “Store” instead of “My Games.” Somewhat grumpy, when confronted with bugs. But lately, I feel a little pang of woe. And it’s not really from Origin at all. No, what makes me sad is seeing…

The Complicated Alternate Reality of The Secret World and its Secret Seals

The Secret World officially launches next week, on July 3. It’s a somewhat unconventional approach to the MMORPG genre, set in the sinister, secret underbelly of the real world, the 21st century Earth we all inhabit. And while developers Funcom have been running the standard closed beta and public beta weekends, something more sinister has…

Got a Computer? Settle in for PC Gaming Lives.

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, wait, it’s a gaming PC. Which looks nothing at all like a plane. It’s time for PC Gaming Lives!

No Dude, Kingdom Hearts Isn’t Based on Heart of Darkness

Lately, it seems like lots of video games are based on Joseph Connrad’s novel Heart of Darkness. Games like Far Cry 2 and Spec Ops: The Line made the inspiration explicit, while many other recent games simply borrow Conrad’s basic gist. But despite the fact that both things have the word “Heart” in the title,…

Valve Is Releasing Its Own Free Movie-Making Tool

This is the Source Filmmaker. It lets you use your PC to create animated short films. And it’s entirely free. This is the tool that Valve used to create all nine of its “Meet the Team” short films. Will yours be as hilarious? Only time will tell. “The goal of the SFM was to develop…

It’s Finally Time to Meet the Pyro

The Pyro. A man (or possibly woman) shrouded in mystery since Team Fortress 2 launched in 2007. We’ve gotten to know his compatriots. We’ve gotten to know lunch. Now it’s time to Meet the Pyro, and it’s an incredibly disturbing meeting indeed. In some twisted corner in the back of my mind, this is exactly…

Rayman Legends Is More Collaborative Than Origins, But Just As Fun

At a Nintendo event in New York yesterday, I got to play two quick rounds of Rayman Legends. If you’ve played a Rayman game, particularly the recently-released Rayman Origins, the game will be instantly familiar to you. Side-scrolling adventures with up to five players make Rayman Legends the perfect party game platformer, with guaranteed giggles…

Iron Man PC Case Gallery

Signs of a PlayStation 4 Shooter We May Never Play and a Vita One Made Too Quickly

Editor’s Note: The mysterious figure known as Superannuation is back with more fistfuls of gaming gossip about the people who made SOCOM, a mystery Crytek project and…more Dead Rising?. What has Superannuation dug from the Internet this time to share with you wonderful Kotaku readers? Read on. Some secrets are no longer secret. A handful…

SpyParty Isn’t Done. But This Guy Has Reviewed It.

We’ve been optimistic about SpyParty, the long-in-the-making competitive multiplayer game that pits one player as suave spy in a party and the other as a sniper who has one bullet and perfect aim. We think the game’s shaping up well, but we won’t review it until it’s done some time later this century. Jacob Tierney,…

The Best Skyrim: Dawnguard Videos I’ve Found So Far

Skyrim‘s first piece of DLC came out yesterday, and with it came a deluge of cool new videos to show off all of the cool new content. I’m still powering my way through Dawnguard, which Bethesda is calling an expansion pack. My review will be up Friday morning, so until then, check out some of…

A Gateway Drug To Bring You Back to Magic: The Gathering

I, like many a reformed* geek, have many fond memories of playing Magic: The Gathering in my youth. My time with the game took place entirely during middle school, when after school each day we would ride public transportation (this was a big deal!) and go sit with the high school kids in our town’s…

I Really Didn’t Need Those New Mass Effect 3 Endings

I loved the Mass Effect 3 ending the way it was two weeks ago. It’s a shame that many Mass Effect 3 fans didn’t feel the same way. Editor’s Note: What follows are thoughts on the ending of Mass Effect 3, both before and after the newly-released Extended Cut DLC. Needless to say, there will…

Great, Official Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon Artwork Justifies New Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon Preview

I played Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon yesterday. I think the game will be good, but then I thought that a year ago and yet today scientists are still trying to determine the difference between the game’s E3 2011 demo and the game’s E3 2012 demo 2011. 2012. What a difference a year doesn’t make! Or…

New Mass Effect 3 DLC Could Revolve Around Rogue Reaper

Mass Effect 3 could get a new piece of downloadable content revolving around a Reaper named Leviathan, according to files extracted by a BioWare forum poster yesterday. (Potential spoilers for potential Mass Effect 3 DLC follow.) According to the files, which were extracted from yesterday’s “Extended Cut” DLC and dumped on Pastebin, you’ll have to…