Even Boring Chores Look Good In This Beautiful MMO

We’ve seen the character creation system, as well as some of the combat featured in Black Desert, a stunning-looking Korean MMO. But the game also features stuff you can do during your downtime—and it looks like the developers are putting care into small details. You can milk a cow. You can fish. You can trade.…

It’s Not Aladdin’s Magic Carpet But It’s Close

Earlier this month, French “transmedia installation designer” Miguel Chevalier (that’s Unnecessarily Pretentious Jargon for “artist”) turned the Moroccan cathedral Sacré Coeur into a shimmering spectacle of lights and responsive surfaces with his latest project, Magic Carpets 2014. At face value, the chunky and brightly colored pixel art looks an awful lot like that giant game…

From Clothespin To Mini Crossbow In Just A Few Steps

Who knew you could make so many different weapons with clothespins? Turns out, if you have three clothespins and some rubber bands lying around, you already have everything you need to make a mini crossbow. You’ll also want some matches for the (potentially flammable) ammo, of course—though, as CrazyRussianHacker says, you’ll have to be careful…

​What Makes A Bad Game Bad?

If there’s one thing I’ve learned about video games, it’s that no two bad games are bad in quite the same way. In this enjoyable episode of PBS’ Game/Show series, host Jamin Warren explores bad games, and tries to get a handle on what makes them that way. It reminds me of the excellent thread…

Iraqi Bootleg Game Covers Are The Best Kind Of Ridiculous

While piracy is the pits, you gotta love bootleg covers: they mash up all sorts of things that either make no sense, or somehow make the source material even funnier. In some cases, they even make you wish the game advertised on the cover officially actually existed, instead of whatever pirated game is actually in…

Gameloft is streaming The Amazing Spider-Man 2 mobile game on Twitch. You can watch the stream here, until they stop. After that, this message is a waste of time. Sorry, future readers.

A Breakdown of The 15 Secrets Hidden In The Newest Smash Bros. Footage

Unannounced characters. New, unexplained items. Possible cameos. Small details you might’ve missed. The Smash Bros. themed direct we watched earlier this week had a ton of stuff jam-packed into it, much of which you can’t catch unless you pick apart some of what we were shown. After analyzing Greninja, GameXplain is back with a video…

Corrupted Half-Life 2 Is Full Of Nightmare Crab People

The limbs. They never end, the limbs. It’s like the characters in this glitched out playthrough of Half-Life 2 are related to Slenderman or something. Heck, even when the characters don’t have elongated limbs, the strange way they react in this Vinesauce video is hilarious. What in the world is Alyx Vance looking at? Where…

Kerrigan has an axe to grind once again in the new trailer for Heroes of the Storm, Blizzard’s upcoming MOBA-style game that it’s not calling a MOBA. But it’s not like she doesn’t have plenty of totally valid reasons to be so pissed off, right? Personally, I’m really interested to see how playing as one…

Megan Fox Would Love To Do A Live Action Sailor Moon Movie

Which Sailor Moon character does Megan Fox seem like a good fit for, you think? Sailor Mars, maybe? Fox kind of looks like her, no? Oh god, what Megan Fox dyed her hair blonde—she could even play Usagi/Serena herself! Woah. That would be weird. Why am I thinking about what Sailor Moon character Megan Fox…

I can’t say enough about the Majula theme from Dark Souls II. There’s so much space; it’s so beautiful, and mournful, and still. The Emerald Herald, standing by a bonfire and overlooking the sea. A lost knight with his head in his hands. And somewhere… a bunch of pigs waiting to kill you

Outer-Space Noir Adventure Game Looks As Cool As It Sounds

If you’re one of the (many) people who’s overjoyed by Kickstarter’s impressive ability to revive underappreciated video game genres, then you should be excited about Last Life. A stylish mashup of science fiction and noir set on a near future Mars, the game looks like it has all the makings of the next great episodic…

Newegg Gaming Blowout, Logitech G930 and G100s, Avatar Graphic Novels

Newegg is running an across the board video game sale, covering everything from The Last of Us to next-gen titles and Wii U fitness games. Dig in, but be warned, everything is selling out quickly. Use code VGMADNESS1 on everything for another 10% off. We of course have it all broken out below for you.…

Finally, an accurate video game trailer. When I started watching this trailer for the upcoming Trials Fusion, I thought it would be the same marketing nonsense as most trailers. Then I started paying attention to what was actually happening on screen, which, yeah, that’s Trials

Have you played Road Rash? You’ll enjoy the next 45 seconds. Above is footage from the alpha of Road Redemption, an open-world motorcycle combat racer and spiritual successor to the Road Rash series, which had its last entry in ’99. The game lands on PC in August, with Wii U and Xbox 360 versions to…

Here’s What PAX East 2014 Looks Like

Kotaku is at PAX East 2014, ready to bring you all news gaming-related throughout the weekend—but before we get started, let’s take a look at the show floor. So many booths to choose from. Don’t forget to click HD so you can take in all the details!