I Can’t Get Over How Pretty This Zombie Game Looks

These five new screenshots for Dying Light, Dead Island developer Techland’s upcoming free-running zombie survival game, were released by Warner Bros. accompanying an announcement about the game’s competitive “Be The Zombie” mode. This multi-player game mode, which will only be available to pre-order customers at release, will feature Night Hunters—extremely strong and agile zombies who…

Producer Avi Arad On Mass Effect, Uncharted, Metal Gear Solid Movies

Avi Arad, the man who helped put many comic book heroes on the big screen, including Spider-Man, Blade, and Iron Man, is at it again. This time, he’s set his sights on turning video game adaptations into Hollywood blockbusters, just the way comic book movies have become. During a recent interview in Beijing, Arad spoke…

I Am in Love With This Bewitching Game Soundtrack

The Witch and The Hundred Knight presents a world filled with monsters, knights, ghosts, animal people, and, of course, witches. What’s amazing is that you’d probably be able to guess that just by listening to a few bars of the soundtrack. This is because several of the songs in this soundtrack are reminiscent of Danny…

A Somber, but Beautiful Trailer About Tanks, Planes, Gunships and War

Gaijin’s military combat MMO War Thunder is here to talk to us about the horrors of war—though the all-caps “Ready for Next Gen?” message at the end kinda breaks the mood a bit. Still, whether you care for the game or not, this is a damn great trailer and it deserves at least one look.…

In Japan, There Are Fake Noses for You To Pick

Remember, you can pick your friends. You can pick your nose. But you can’t pick your friend’s nose. So pick this phoney nose! From the folks at Bandai, here’s a line of synthetic rubber noses called “Hojirerun desu” (ほじれるんです), which means they are “pickable.” These are capsule toys and starting next month, they’ll be sold…

Someone Wants $10 Million for This Yu-Gi-Oh Card

This isn’t just any Yu-Gi-Oh card. It is apparently a one of a kind Yu-Gi-Oh card. And it’s one that has an astronomical price tag: a cool ten million bucks! Printed on stainless steel, this unique Black Luster Soldier card was given to the winner of the first nationwide Yu-Gi-Oh tournament in Japan in 1999.…

No More New PlayStation Home Content for Japan

Today, Sony announced that PlayStation Home will no longer be updated with new content in Japan. In an official release, Sony stated that starting this September, new PlayStation Home content will end in Japan. It will end in other Asian regions in March 2014. New PlayStation Home content will continue to be released in North…

Grumpy Cat, Meet Disappointed Cat

Aw, how adorable! But what’s troubling you, Disappointed Cat? Is it us? We are sorry! This is Foo-chan, a 3 year-old Chinchilla Golden with his own Twitter account and Tumblr. The feline’s owner uploads regular pics of Foo-chan to share the cute pet with the internet. But Foo-chan’s heavy brow makes him look… worried. Like,…

PSP Games Are Helping Unborn Children Grow Up Happy

Bright colours, cute characters, a nature theme, Sony’s LocoRoco has made the perfect baby room for reader Scott and his in-development, soon-to-be-released next project. If you think those are just vinyl decals, nope. They got some specialists in to hand-paint the whole thing, which has turned out just great

Your Favourite Movie & TV Stars Have Come To Life

Artist and toy wizard Scott Petterson makes custom action figures. Big ones, with real clothes, and faces that look just like some of your favourite TV and movie stars, from stuff like Bladerunner, The Walking Dead and Dirty Harry. Oh, and Johnny Cash There are two things that make Petterson’s work stand out. The first…

A Man Who Makes Video Games Move

No disrespect to concept artists, but it’s always great when I get to run a Fine Art on something other than traditional 2D work, if only because that’s what we end up running most of the time. Today’s a great day, then, because we’re looking at one of the animators who has brought series like…

A 38-Hit Combo. Using A Horse

Need further proof of just how crazy the JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure fighting game is? Watch this. Yup. That’s a horse. Amazing. Jojo’s All Star Battle Gyro Combos [YouTube, via @Richmond_Lee]

The Internet Reacts Like Idiots To The “Official” GTAV Trailer

Another Grand Theft Auto V trailer, another round of people commenting on YouTube, saying the worst/best things you could possibly say about the trailer to a video game. It’s almost as if some super-smart guys were in there making these up, but there’s a perfect mixture of ignorance and brutality that I think might just…

Accused Kickstarter Scammers: “We Are Not Scamming Anybody”

Earlier in the week, the developers of upcoming Ouya exclusive Gridiron Thunder faced allegations that their Kickstarter was a scam, something they tell Kotaku is simply not true. Looking to discuss accusations that their game was little more than a ruse geared towards securing funding from Ouya under a new exclusivity funding scheme, I spoke…

Xbox One Voice Commands Won’t Work At Launch For Everyone

One of the key draws of making the new Kinect mandatory for the Xbox One is that it allows you to do stuff like turn the console on just by talking to it. For Americans, you’ll be able to do that at launch, but if you’re from Australia or Austria, you won’t. Some very, very…

Abandoned House Is Straight Out Of A Horror Flick

There are few things as eerie as an abandoned house, even if there aren’t any ghosts inside. And there may well be a ghost or two in this abandoned German home, particularly the way it’s been photographed by Dan Marbaix. Marbaix is a photographer fascinated by urban decay; he’s even got a book on the…

Nicki Minaj’s Face + Tyrion Lannister’s Face = Wow

The thing about face mash-ups like this one—for me at least—isn’t that they look strange or weird. It’s the opposite! What gets me is that they work so well together despite the perceived randomness of the mash-up. It’s like FaceMashups fused an entirely new person from an unlikely pairing. And man, that smile at the…

Name That GTA V Trailer Track: If you said “Sleepwalking” by The Chain Gang of 1974, you’re right! Now kick back in your deck chair, turn up the volume, and enjoy

Sadly, GameCube-exclusive Link will not be included in Soul Calibur II HD Online this fall, but PS2-exclusive Heihachi and Xbox-exclusive Spawn will be available in both the Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network versions. Combined, they are nearly as good as the Hero of Hyrule. Almost.

Attack on Titan’s Awesome Intro, Redone As A Rad Metal Song

Now, the opening to Attack on Titan is already fantastic—but that doesn’t mean I can’t get behind 331Erock shredding out a metal version of the song. Starts off a little slow, but once he gets into the groove, it’s fantastic. And if you want to compare to the original… Actually, now that we’re here, you’ve…