A pretty good idea in Battlefield Hardline’s new beta: A mode in which your team captures cars instead of checkpoints—and has to drive above certain speed to earn points. Explained and shown over atKotaku UK

There was no Minecon event in 2014, but the convention returns in 2015. Minecon 2015 takes place July 4-5 in London at the ExCeL Exhibition and Conference Centre. Tickets go on sale next month.

Clever Editor Turns P.T. Into Terrifying Found Footage Film

I’m a sucker for found footage films. Ever since The Blair Witch Project wrecked an entire summer for me, the genre has been my go-to source for quick’n easy jump scares. Now, an editor has taken a playthrough of P.T. and transformed it into a horror flick I’d “happily” watch. The first half is better…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Pokémon One a Day Series 2: Ariados, Crobat, Chinchou, Lanturn • Final Fantasy Road Trip: FFIV • Pre-Cult: Assassin’s Creed 4 • The first game I beat this year • An Introduction to Weiβ Schwarz • The Worst/Best Extremes in Japanese Fiction I’ve Seen TAY Classic—TAY Open…

Old School RuneScape Rebuilt In Minecraft

This must be one of the flattest Minecraft worlds out there, but that’s how you remake a classic browser game. As Chajben’s one-man project shows, the 2007 version of RuneScape—the free MMO we probably all encountered before one way or another—and is relatively small, making it possible to rebuild it block by block and make…

New Bayonetta Browser Game Is Balls-Hard

It’s pretty well-documented that at least one lead developer at Platinum is deeply in love with old-school games. So it’s not all that surprising that they made an retro-styled shooter starring the studio’s biggest action star. Also not surprising: it’s really freakin’ tough. Announced today via a tweet from Platinum’s JP Kellams, the bite-sized Bayonetta…

Unfortunately, Kojima & co. confirmed in a tweet that they were not teasing a new game at the Taipei Game Show—so no Metal Gear Rising 2, at least not yet.

It Looks Like Katy Perry Wore A Wiimote Strap To The Super Bowl

Behold: singer Katy Perry, the only person on earth who actually listens to Nintendo when they tell you to wear the Wiimote strap. In case you’re not watching the 49th Super Bowl—Seahawks vs. Patriots—you just missed Perry flying in the air on a shooting star after dancing with a bunch of singing sharks. Uh. You…

The Week In Games: GameBob ThronePants

What I am trying to say here is I really wanted to use a screenshot from the second episode of Telltale’s Game of Thrones series here, but all I could find was SpongeBob HeroPants. We do what we can. We’ve got a relatively quiet seven days ahead of us, Game of Thrones aside, with a…

I’m Already Sick Of This Street Fighter V Stage

Top-tier Street Fighter rivals Daigo and GamerBee face-off in a Street Fighter V exhibition match during the Taipei Game Show, and I couldn’t be more bored. New background, please. We saw it during the teaser. We saw it in the reveal trailer. We saw it in thefirst exhibition match during the Capcom Cup finals last…

Delve Into The Hidden Horrors Of The Universe… With Kittens

“Because there exists no method known to man, more terribly suited to expose the cosmic meaningless of existence than pairing the words of H.P. Lovecraft with seemingly delightful and charming pictures of adorable kittens” — H.P. Lovecat. Until this weekend I had never been known to have a favorite Tumblr — indeed I had only…