Dying Light’s April Fool’s Joke: Flying Zombies

Ah, April 1st. The silliest day in gaming. Dying Light is choosing to celebrate the occasion by treating its legions of zombies like the ragdoll-ish punching bags they truly are. Dying Light developer Techland teased out an “important public service announcement” this morning that gives you an idea of what tomorrow will look like if…

Let’s Kill More Call Of Duty Exo Zombies [All Are Dead]

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare’s Ascendance DLC hits Xboxes today, bringing with it another round of the Malkovich-powered Exo Zombies co-op survival mode. Or maybe it’s Paxton-powered. It’s hard to say. Either way, let’s play. When last we left our intrepid heroes, they were being overwhelmed by high tech zombies at the headquarters of the…

Now There’s A Mighty Marvel Mobile Multiplayer Brawler

Available today on iOS and Android, Marvel Mighty Heroes is a pint-sized online brawler in which players team up to batter villains with big-headed collectible comic book characters. Gameplay-wise it’s almost a sort of casual pocket Diablo. Players tap to move about game levels, tap to target enemies with automatic attacks, and swipe or tap…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Saekano – How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend: The Ani-TAY Review • A Finished Game – Stories from Argentina • Koufuku Graffiti: The Ani-TAY Review • Observing Symbols of Death in Final Fantasy XV • SUPER! BitCon 2015 Wrap-up & Pics TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To…

A Woman Might Join Final Fantasy XV‘s Party (Temporarily)

Up until now, all we have heard or seen about Final Fantasy XV’s party was that it was filled with dudes. That, however, might change, Square Enix says. It’s possible a female character could join the game’s four-character, all-male party as a guest. In a recent interview with Weekly Famitsu, Final Fantasy XV director Hajime…

Tomorrow, April 1, there’ll be a Nintendo Direct at 6 pm Eastern time, containing updates about the company’s upcoming Wii U and 3DS titles, followed by a short Nintendo Treehouse special on one of its spring 2015 releases. Ignore the date, Nintendo says this one’s no joke!

Tokyo’s Giant Cat Billboard Is Big Enough to Pet

A new billboard went up in Tokyo’s Shibuya Station. It’s of a giant black cat. It seems you can pet the giant cat. That, or stick your fingers in its nose. All your fingers. The billboard is for Kuroneko Yamato (Black Cat Yamato), a Japanese shipping service. This is certainly an arresting billboard! [Photo: da_rinsan]…

Deadline reports screenwriter Jay Basu is now writing the years-in-development Metal Gear Solid movie.

The First Five Vaguely Familiar Minutes Of Axiom Verge

We’ve never been here before, but it sure feels like we have. It’s hard to watch the first five minutes of Axiom Verge and not feel just a little bit Metroid-y. Generally the First Five is about rushing in blind to a game I’ve never played (or hadn’t played in a long while), but in…

Classic Mod Is Basically Team Fortress 1.5

It’s easy to forget now, but Team Fortress 2 was once as big a punchline among Valve fans as Half-Life 3 is today. The game was announced in 1998, and wasn’t released until 2007. That was a long time to wait for fans of the original Half-Life multiplayer mod, so to help pass the time…

Jeremy Clarkson’s Top Gear Lives On (Inside Just Cause 2)

Jeremy Clarkson did his insufferable twat thing, punched a Top Gear producerand now the show is finished, right? Wrong. Here’s what we’re going to do. We’re just going to remake every episode of Top Gear using Just Cause 2. The perfect solution. This video is near-perfect with how it synchs the actual voice-overs/dialogue with the…

Half-Life 2, Now With More Scares (And Big Jumps)

Half-Life 2‘s been around since Kotaku was a bouncing baby blogglette—freshly hatched from its internet egg—but people are still making some brilliant-looking mods for it. Today, one with gut-wrenching atmosphere… and the ability to leap over buildings. After two years in the making, Transmissions: Element 120 is out. It’s a spooky, atmospheric single-player story set…