A New Way: This is a friendly PSA to let you know that Wet Hot American Summer will be removed from Netflix streaming tomorrow, October 1. If you haven’t seen the comedy masterpiece (or just want to do a rewatch), fire it up tonight and see firsthand why it’s one of my very favorite movies.

How Assassin’s Creed IV Uses The PS4 Touchpad

By now, Assassin’s Creed fans know more or less what to expect from the game’s controls. Running, jumping, climbing, stabbing… they’re pretty established at this point. But what of the PS4’s touchpad? In this video, Revision3‘s Max Scoville shows us one way ACIV will use the touchpad. As it turns out, it’ll be keyed to…

Yup, Your Dog Will Totally Play Fetch With A Grenade In GTA V

Here’s round two of DefendTheHouse‘s GTA Mythbusting series, where they test out stuff like, will your dog fetch grenades? Will you piss people off by stalking them? The answer to both of these is hilarious—and they’re not the only myths tested out here, either. The attention to detail in these games, man! Here’s thefirst round…

Every Reason Wonder Woman Should Be in a Blockbuster Movie

DC Comics has a Holy Trinity, a trio of decades-old world-renown characters that are the publisher’s bedrock. In the last 35 years, Superman has had six big-budget movies come out from major studios. Batman’s gotten eight. But Wonder Woman hasn’t had any. This video shows why the complete lack of onscreen Diana is a goddamn…

The Next Final Fantasy Comes With Cults, Cleavage, And Alcoholism

Cult murders. Revealing outfits. High-end booze. THIS IS FINAL FANTASY Thanks to the recently-released ESRB description for the upcoming Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII, we’ve got some info on what may or may not be in Square Enix’s next RPG, which comes out in February for 360 and PS3. Light spoilers here, so stay away…

Some Weeks It Seems Like All The Good Apps Are On iOS

Barring special occasions, I never go out of my way to exclude any mobile platform from the Week in Gaming Apps. Sometimes it just happens. Here’s a little insight into how the Week in Gaming Apps works. I download a bunch of new games on my iPad, because it’s easy to tell which games on…

The High King of Skyrim Takes Nobody’s Crap

There are plebs, and then there’s you, the High King of Skyrim. And as the High King of Skyrim, you’d best believe you can do damn well nearly anything you please, no matter how silly or ridiculous. If you’re thinking that this must involve mods somehow, you’d be right—this one in particular, which was brought…

Deals: Mighty No. 9, Breaking Bad, Xbox 360 E, PS+, DualShock 4

We’re doing some experimentation today in both format and post time. Don’t worry, nothing is set in stone. Expect the segment to continue to evolve and the deals to remain awesome. How ’bout that Breaking Bad finale? Leaderboard Breaking Bad: The Complete Series [Blu-ray/Ultraviolet] | $210 The last time we saw our intrepid heroes, Jesse…

Just One PS4 Launch Game Could Be A Whopping 50 Gigabytes

Maybe in ten years this won’t seem like such a big deal, but today it’s almost hard to believe—PS4 shooter Killzone: Shadow Fall will be close to a 50 GB download, according to a Sony exec. Speaking with Eurogamer about the benefits of the next PlayStation’s “play while you download!” feature, Sony UK’s Fergal Gara…

Hey, Assassin’s Creed IV has something in common with Grand Theft Auto V. No, it’s not sharks. The newest trailer for the Caribbean-set open-world action game shows an all-star cast of history’s most infamous pirates teaming up to pull off a massive heist. Heists! They’re so hot right now.

Leaked Dark Souls II Videos Show Co-Op, Armor and Enemies

Dark Souls 2 isn’t out until March of next year. But the network beta’s been running in Japan and other places for a little while now. You know what that means: leaked footage showing what the hotly-anticipated sequel looks and plays like. There’s about an hour’s worth of footage total here so get a snack.…

This $2 Dig Dug Skin For Pac-Man CE DX+ Is Pricey, But Still Fun

Kotaku Editor-In-Chief Stephen Totilo feels very strongly about Pac-Man, or at least the fact that I haven’t played Championship Edition. So, while enlightening me to the wonders of PMCEDX+, we decided to see if the new All You Can Eat add-on pack was worth eight dollars. Check out the video and see for yourself! Watch…

This Week’s South Park Is All About Minecraft

This Wednesday’s South Park is Minecraft-themed, and if you can’t wait to see Trey Parker’s twisted take on the blocky indie sensation, you’re not alone. South Park has taken on video games before—most notably with a Blizzard-supported World of Warcraft episode called “Make Love, Not Warcraft”—and the results are always spectacular. Their own video game,…

Luke Cage Is Even Cooler In Marvel Heroes, If That’s Possible

Not only is Luke “Power Man” Cage super strong with unbreakable skin, he’s got the ability to summon his Heroes for Hire allies to his side in Marvel Heroes update 1.3, giving folks a whole new way to play. Gazillion could have easily made Cage just another super-strong bruiser, but that’s not what the character…

Permadeath Visits Batman with ‘I am the Night’ Mode

When it was revealed a little while ago in a list of achievements for Batman: Arkham Origins, folks didn’t know what this “I am the Night” mode is, only that it must be big if it’s offering 70 Gamerscore on Xbox 360. In fact it’s a permadeath run through the game—one life. “I am the…

The Year of Luigi is almost over, but that won’t stop Nintendo from launching yet another Nintendo Direct, tomorrow (Oct 1) at 10am ET “focused on Wii U and Nintendo 3DS games launching later this year.” We’ll have all the news for you right on Kotaku as it happens.

Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: Pika? Stormborn finally gets to the most iconic Pokemon in his daily series of pocket monster drawings. Spacegar connects indie classic Cave Story to the oeuvre of rock ‘n’ roll god David Bowie in an interesting way. writes about the joys that come with playing…

More Hands-On Impressions of Valve’s Odd New Game Controller

We’ve updated our story from last week regarding game creators’ hands-on impressions of Valve’s new game controller with new input from Fred Wester, chief of Paradox Interactive. He liked it, but he also has some questions about how mouse-and-keyboard games will work with it…

Want to pick up Destiny when Bungie’s ambitious shooter comes out next year? Here’s what the PlayStation all console versions of the game’s box art will look like. Updated with Xbox versions of Destiny‘s box art.

Attack On Titan In Minecraft Even Has A Colossal Titan

I admit I didn’t see it coming, although after the terrific stuff people did with King’s Landing, this one’s also an obvious choice: One of the towns from the popular anime Attack on Titan got a stunning Minecraft recreation by etheralcat and his friends, with a memorable moment included. The colossal titan is about to…