Nintendo Took Down No Mario’s Sky Fan Game, So Creators Renamed It DMCA’s Sky

Last week, Kotaku reported on No Mario’s Sky, a procedural game where you could make the plumber leap in a spaceship and explore different worlds. Two days ago, the team received a copyright takedown notice. Undeterred, they rebranded their game and pressed forward. After the team received the takedown notice from Nintendo, the project was…

Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon Will Take Place During Different Times of Day

If you’re debating which Pokémon game to pick up later this year, developers Game Freak just highlighted one of the biggest differences between the games: they don’t take place at the same exact time. As the trailer above shows, Sun and Moon are set 12 hours apart from one another—which means that events will play…

Origin Omni All-In-One Gaming PC Review: Everything In Its Place

I spent my first hour with Origin PC’s Geforce GTX 1080-powered, 34-inch ultra-wide curved screen Omni all-in-one gaming PC just staring at my desk. There’s a lot more of desk now. I didn’t know I had so much desk. Technically I spent the first hour looking for my power screwdriver to extricate the system from…

A Look At Spielberg’s Ready Player One Shoot

Steven Spielberg is bringing Ernest Cline’s book Ready Player One to the big screen. The famed director is currently filming in the U.K., and here’s a peek at the production. As The Birmingham Mail points out, the production has turned the city’s historic Jewellery Quarter into a dystopian American future. Our colleagues at io9 already…

Naruto Spin-Off Might Get a TV Anime

Don’t be surprised if Naruto’s son got his own anime TV series. I won’t be. The homepage for the upcoming Jump Special Anime Festa was updated with listings for 上映アニメ (jyouei anime) or “screening anime” during the festival. Included in that was Boruto: The tagline reads, “Watch next-generation ninja!!” (次代の忍見参!！), with Boruto also saying that…

Looks Like The Unannounced PS4 Slim Already Has A Teardown

If folks are apparently reviewingand unboxing the unannounced PS4 Slim, you can bet they are taking the console apart and looking inside it. YouTuber Links-Tech upload a video that allegedly shows a PS4 Slim teardown. Below is a longer version of the above clip: Via website Segment Next and Rectify Gaming, here are some stills:…

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Alan Becker’s Minecraft recreation of Totoro is just fantastic.

Video Game Screenshots As Art (Or Wallpaper)

Andy Cull, a screenshot artist we’ve featured before on Kotaku, has recently put together a gallery containing some of the best shots he’s taken in games over the past couple of years. If you want/need new desktop wallpaper, this is for you. If you’re wondering how he gets some of these shots and effects, like…

League Of Legends’ Free “Art Book” Is Incredible

It’s usually the case that if you’re a fan of a video game and want to check out its concept art, you either look at some images online or you pay a lot of money for a big fancy book. League of Legends is trying to combine the two, releasing what amounts to a big…

Your Shooter Deserves Better Feedback

So there you are, minding your own business, when the CEO of Giant Game Publisher approaches you with an offer: he wants you to lead the development of a brand new entry in That First Person Shooter that he makes, and he wants you to make sure it’s fun to play. How do you make…