It’s Okay To Torrent These Games. Really.

One hundred games, all in a bundle you can only get on the world’s most infamous piracy website. It’s called The Pirate Bay Bundle, and you can watch the trailer for it above. If it wasn’t obvious based on that footage, the bundle is a collection small, sometimes weird and unusual games—some are made by…

Planet Los Santos. via reddit user Kuffmine. More here

Four Beautiful Courses From Mario Kart 8

Mario Kart 8 is sleek as heck. Here’s some new footage from the upcoming Wii U game, which is out on May 30. Also you can listen to us talk (always a blast). Here’s the game running at 60 frames per second:

Here’s The Next-Gen Gaming Toothbrush

I’m guessing that you’ve played a lot of video games using your hands. Well, how many have you played with your mouth? Probably fewer. Maybe none? Well, that’s all about to change if one startup has its way. Grush (short for “gaming toothbrush”) is the latest in a still relatively short line of so-called “smart…

EA Snags Uncharted Writer Amy Hennig For Star Wars Game

A post on EA’s corporate site says that the woman who helped give Naughty Dog’s Uncharted series its distinctive feel will be working on Star Wars for the Battlefield publisher. Hennig’s move to EA comes after a parting of ways with Naughty Dog that took many surprise, so much so that the studio issued a…

Harry Potter Complete, Tomb Raider Definitive, FFXIV Limited [Deals]

Update 2: Back up to the $163 deal price. The Harry Potter Hogwarts Collection is a massive 31-disc set of everything Wizarding World. Blu-rays of all the films are of course included, along with some extended versions, some 3D versions, digital copies, 45 hours of special features, all in beautiful packaging. Use code RETAILME20HE to…

Help The Creator Of Spaceteam Make More Free Games, Please

Spaceteam is a really fun game that was successful partially because it was free. So Captain Spaceteam is trying to fund more free games with the “Spaceteam Admiral’s Club” Henry Smith didn’t get rich by creating Spaceteam, and isn’t looking to get rich with his next two games, Blabyrinth and Shipshape. He wants to keep…

It’d Take 32 Hours To Read Every Book In The Elder Scrolls Online

Bethesda just threw up this fun infographic for The Elder Scrolls Online, which officially launches tomorrow for PC and Mac. (It’ll be out on PS4/Xbox One in June.) My favorite stat: since May 2011, the development team has had 162,784 cups of coffee. How did they measure that? Did Zenimax Online force every staff member…

You Can Fly In The Transformers MOBA

The Transformers have seen some changes over the years. You might even say transformations (sorry). The once classic cartoon in which Decepticons battled Autobots on both earth and Cyberton has now become the most eardrum-bursting film franchise currently in existence. It’s also spawned several video games over the years, which have acted as both fan-driven…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Why Skyward Sword is The Best Zelda • Ignorance is Bliss: The Immersion Factor in Video Games • TPS versus FPS: The Battle of The Islands • Why is Innovation Not Selling Games? TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

One Year Ago Today, Disney Shut Down LucasArts

On April 3, 2013, the executives of Lucasfilm gathered the staff of LucasArts in a big room and dropped a bomb: Disney had decided to shut down the iconic video game studio The news came six months after Disney purchased Lucasfilm and enacted a hiring freeze at LucasArts, leading to a strange period of stasis…

Diablo III: Reaper of Souls, the first expansion to Blizzard’s action-RPG, has sold 2.7 million copies on PC since its last week launch. According to Blizzard, the expansion’s final boss has been slain 1.5 million times so far—a small number, considering you get to kill him over and over in Adventure Mode

Final Fantasy XIV’s Director Had a Terrible Experience With MMOs

This week in his semi-weekly column in Weekly Famitsu, Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn producer and director Naoki Yoshida recounted his earliest experiences with massively multiplayer online gaming. Shortly after entering the game business, Yoshida began to hear rumblings about a new online experience called Ultima Online. Together with a colleague, Yoshida managed to…