Xbox One Is Getting a $50 ‘Holiday’ Price Drop, Will Cost $349

Starting on November 2, the no-Kinect Xbox One and two of its related bundles will be sold at a discounted price of $349. The price cut applies to the Kinect-less XBO Assassin’s Creed Unity bundle and the also Kinect-less XBO Special Edition Sunset Overdrive bundle, the contents of which are detailed in the announcement (and…

Naruto Fans Recreate Ninja Exams

The long-running Japanese manga, Naruto, is coming to an end later this year. To celebrate its extensive run, a few college students in China’s Guangdong province have recreated one of series’ best story school-related story arcs! Tencent’s QQ Games news reports that at least 30 students got together to take part in the cosplay recreation.…

Beat Takeshi Hates Anime and That’s Okay

Famed comedian, actor, director and television personality Beat Takeshi does not like anime. In particular, he mentioned the anime of Studio Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki. But don’t think for a second he doesn’t recognize anime’s importance. He does. During the Tokyo International Film Festival, Takeshi was asked about the sort of things that are important…

The Best Cosplay From London Film and Comic Con Winter 2014

Worth a watch, if only for the fact a pair went as Russell and Mr. Frederickson from Up.

VR Project Makes You Watch As A Man Is Beaten To Death

Based on actual footage recorded on mobile phones, Use of Force drops you into a crowd witnessing the last moments of Mexican migrant Anastasio Hernandez Rojas, who in 2010 was tasered and beaten to death by US border patrol agents. You can’t intervene, you can’t influence events, you’re just sent into virtual reality to watch…

New Civ Game Could Do With Some Old (And New!) Religions

The latest Civ title, Beyond Earth,is pretty good, even if parts of the game are a little more pedestrian than others. Maybe there’s a reason for that. Maybe all the game needed was a little more faith. MetagamingAtLasthas been poking through the game’s files, and found a few mentions of a religion mechanic. Religion and…

Track: Oh My Darling Don’t Cry | Artist: Run The Jewels | Album: Run The Jewels 2 Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

The Week In Games: All Fall Down

I’m looking forward to figuring out what the hell Lords of the Fallen is this week. How about you? It’s a big week for fans of wrestling, basketball and overdrives. I look at this bulging list of games and I think man, it’s nearly November, which means soon it will be December and I can…

The HD Version Of San Andreas For 360 Is Now On Sale… For $3.74

We knew a 720p graphically improved version ofGrand Theft Auto: San Andreas was hitting the Xbox 360 this weekend to celebrate the game’s 10th anniversary. We didn’t know it would cost under $4. When I first came across the listing for the game on Xbox.com I was confused by the price — was this just…

LeVar Burton Reading Go The F**k To Sleep

A beautiful thing happened duringRooster Teeth‘s 24 hour Extra Life stream: more than $240,00 was raised for Children’s Miracle Network hospitals. Also, Reading Rainbow‘s LeVar Burton read a book and cursed a lot. It’s pretty beautiful. The book Geordi is reading in this clip (via Tastefully Offensive) is Adam Mansbach’s instant classic, Go the Fuck…