My Five Favorite Kotaku Stories From Last Week

Who knew that one of the most interesting stories we’d find last week would involve proper implementation of a power grid in a zombie game? Or that there were so many terrific lower-profile games coming out to compensate for the awfulness of the new Tony Hawk? Dying Light Creators Respond Amazingly To Fan’s Drunken Rant…

Rock Band 4 Is Pretty Great So Far. My Singing, Not So Much.

Warning: Rock Band 4 may cause a person to sing Scandal’s “The Warrior” with an external mic active, upload the resulting video to the internet and post it on Kotaku along with their initial impressions of the game. I’m so sorry. With a couple more features left I’d like to test out, my Rock Band…

Persona 4 Dancing All Night: The Kotaku Review

If it weren’t a severe breach of protocol I’d just put the giant YES up at the top of the review. But it is. So I won’t. Atlus has Persona 4’d the rhythm game. That completely real, don’t argue with me verb first cropped up with the release of Persona 4 Arena back in 2012.…

There’s A Reason Why Everybody Hates Hunters In World of Warcraft

Even after a bunch of nerfs, the Hunter class in WoW is pretty strong right now. They dominated everything since Warlords of Draenor’s release. So it’s not a surprise that they’ve became an easy scapegoat lately. Shooting arrows from max range while everyone’s running around during a raid encounter might not be that stressful indeed.…

LEGO Fan Pays Tribute To The Elder Scrolls Online Battles

LEGO runes never looked this good. Xenomurphy did quite an amazing job recreating an intense battle from The Elder Scrolls Online It’s one of the portals, called Dolmens, that connects Tamriel with the realm of the Daedric Prince Molag Bal. This one’s a 11,000-piece MOC that took six months to complete, and everything, especially the…

The GameCube’s shape is perfect for a unique dual paint job like this. It’s Hyrule and its parallel universe from The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess by artist Zoki 64 Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest, funniest game-related screenshots and art we can find. Send us suggestions…

Minecraft Player Live Streams House Fire

Japanese streamer Daasuke took a break from playing Minecraft to show off his new oil-match lighter. That’s when things got bad. Real bad. Daasuke admitted that he wasn’t sure how to use the lighter. He filled it up with lighter fluid and ended up accidentally setting his room on fire. In the YouTube video below,…

One Piece‘s Creator Has an Amazing Toilet 

It’s not everyday that you get a peek into where one of Japan’s biggest manga is created, let alone its creator’s truly spectacular restroom. Trust me on this one. On Japanese sites like Itaishinja and web forums like Oro Jackson, images of Eiichiro Oda’s studio have been circulating. The stills are from a recent issue…

A-Mei’s Teahouse. Jiufen, Taiwan. By Ruby. JPGs is a photo peek into wherever gamers might find interesting. If you’re a photographer and have images you want to share, drop us a line!

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: A Coat For Max

My boss wasdissatisfied with the (nearly) top-tier jacket upgrade Max Max receives in his eponymous game outing. We’ve got this, Totilo. Now let’s see what the problem is here. Jesus Christmas that’s horrible. He looks like generic bad guy number 13. He should look like a rock star, or a male model, or a mailman.…

I’d Say I’m Ready For Halloween

My wife let me buy this mask for $15 at Target. She made a horrible mistake. “The first time you scare me awake wearing that I’m burning it,” she told me as I wandered silently through the retail outlet, turning my head slowly to track the people we passed. “Oh don’t worry,” I whispered in…

Shooty Skies Is A Game About Shooting In The Sky, And It Is Great

Shooty Skies takes the addictive formula that made road-crossing mobile game Crossy Road a smash hit and applies it to the scrolling shooter. In honor of this I’ve taken the same headline from our first Crossy Road articleand applied it to this one. Crossy Road creators Matt Hall and Andy Sum have teamed with entertainment…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: The Ugliest PlayStation 4: Winners!

Yep, that’s about the ugliest PlayStation 4 console I can imagine. For those of you just joining us, last week I tasked our lovely community with coming up with a PlayStation 4 that was uglier than the upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops III limited edition system. Evan Narcisse called it “ugly as sin.” We…

Sunday Comics: It’s The Final Countdown

Welcome to Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your pretty much weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira. Published October 3. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published September 28. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry…

Stephen Colbert Suitably Awed By No Man’s Sky

As demonstrated by his Pewdiepie interview earlier this week, Stephen Colbert’s new stint as the host of The Late Show gives him a chance to touch on topics his old gig couldn’t, like video games we wish we could just play already, dammit. Hello Games’ Sean Murray took to the couch on Friday night to…