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Could The Metal Gear Solid Lookalike Doctor Really Sue Konami?

As Kotaku UK reported a few days ago, an Italian doctor called Sergio Canavero is currently at the centre of an insane internet-generated conspiracy involving Metal Gear Solid V, head transplants, and a whole host of other mad ideas. To cut a long story short, because of his strong resemblance to a doctor who appears…

Five Tips For Getting Started In State of Decay

The terrific and often overlooked zombie survival game State of Decay has got a new version out today on PC and Xbox One. If you missed it the first time around, it’s worth checking out. State of Decay is a third-person open-world zombie survival game. (I know, right? What a concept!) There’s been a zombie…

Gears of War Remaster Coming To Xbox One [UPDATE]

Today, a number of people across the country obtained access to a test build for “Gears of War” on the Xbox One, as shown in the screenshot above. Although we suspected it might be part of an as-of-yet-unannounced Gears collection including a number of games in the series, this may in fact just be a…

The Fake Video Game Rumor Someone Spread For… Homework

What drives a person to make up a video game rumor and spread it around the internet? They might do it for the fame or the infamy. Maybe for a laugh. Sometimes, it’s… to get a good grade on a college paper. In early March, a Reddit user going by the name certain_ability posted a…

Meet The Head Transplant Doctor at The Center of a Metal Gear Conspiracy

For almost a week now, some parts of the gaming internet have been going nuts over the visual similarities between the doctor that features in the trailer for Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, and the controversial real-live Dr Sergio Canavero, the neurosurgeon who recently found sudden fame when he claimed that he was…

A Look At What Alan Wake 2 Could’ve Been

Fans of the original Alan Wake have long wondered why their hunger for creeptacular suspense-filled third-person action game goodness hasn’t been fed with a sequel. This week, they got more of a proper answer. And a new hope. Polygon published a meaty article yesterday about the undoing and potential redoing of Alan Wake 2, as…

How A Small Studio’s Chance At The Big Time Died At Microsoft’s Doorstep

One week in early February, three top employees from the independent game studio Darkside Games flew to Redmond, Washington for a secret meeting with Microsoft. Over the course of the meeting, which lasted two days, Darkside’s leadership tried to convince the mega-corporation to give them a few more million dollars, according to two people familiar…

Everyday life in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt looks so cool. The game just got a new gameplay trailer, full of combat, but the best-looking parts are the ones with the NPCs doing their medieval daily routine. Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest, funniest game-related screenshots and…

Quantum Break, the next shooter from the makers of Max Payne and Alan Wake, is now planned to launch in 2016 on the Xbox One, Microsoft announced. The game was previously slated to arrive in 2015.

Big Surprise, Japanese Gamers Like Final Fantasy XV’s Demo

Final Fantasy XV: Episode Duscae came out last month and most people who got it have probably had enough time to process their feelings about it. Japanese gaming mag Weekly Famitsu released the results of their user survey on the Final Fantasy XV demo. What were you looking forward to going into the game? Going…

Timed DLC Exclusivity Is Bullshit

There’s some new Dragon Age: Inquisition DLC out today, as you may have heard. It’s called “Jaws of Hakkon” and you can get it for Xbox One, PC, and… well, that’s it. Did you play Dragon Age on PlayStation 4? Sorry. No DLC for you this week. See, publishers EA and Microsoft have come to…

Leaked Video Shows What Phantom Dust Reboot Could’ve Looked Like

Last month, we broke news that Microsoft had cancelled the Phantom Dust reboot that was in the works at an independent studio called Darkside Games. As a result of this cancellation, Darkside shut down, laying off around 50 staff. The news has raised questions about the fate of Phantom Dust, a beloved cult classic that…

Cop Fired For Making Racist Threats On Xbox Live

What’s dumber than a police officer saying “I get paid to beat up n*****s like you” out loud? Saying it into a microphone where someone else is recording it to put it on the internet. A Deputy from the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office has been fired after he was filmed making threats against an opponent…

Ori And The Blind Forest: The Kotaku Review

Pleasant. If I had to sum up Ori and the Blind Forest in one word, that would be it. The new Xbox One and PC platformer looks like a magnificently drawn kids’ fantasy book sprung to life. It has the lush, magical aesthetic and inoffensive charm that gamers have come to accept—and expect—from indie games.…

Now That’s A Disturbing Fighting Game Character

Do attractive female fighting game characters in skimpy outfits bother you? Then meet Killer Instinct‘s latest combatant, Hisako. You’ll like her. She’ll break your bones from the inside. Making her gameplay debut at PAX East this weekend, Hisako is one of the coolest fighting game character concepts I’ve seen in forever. Based on Japanese horror…

All The Indie Game News Out Of GDC

The Game Developer’s Conference is indie game central this year. There’s so much indie new that it’s difficult to keep track of it all. Here are the major announcements compiled into one great big list for your convenience. Release dates, as always, are vague and subject to change. Super Dungeon Bros. A four-player co-op brawler,…

Microsoft HoloLens Designer Killed In Hit-And-Run

Mike Ey, a 30-year-old software engineer for Microsoft’s HoloLens, was killed in a hit-and-run accident over the weekend, according to the local Seattle station Kiro TV. According to Kiro TV (via NeoGAF), local police said that Ey was rear-ended by another driver who was speeding “over 100 miles an hour” while driving on the highway…

Elite: Dangerous is coming to Xbox One this summer, Microsoft’s Phil Spencer announced today at GDC. Unexpected!

Screamride Is Great, But Players Are Making It Even Better

Is Frontier Development’s Xbox-exclusive amusement ride builder worth a play? That depends—how strong is your stomach? I played some Screamride live over the weekend, and I was impressed with two out of three of the game’s career tracks. I’m not much of a builder, so finishing up pre-built coasters in the Engineer mode wasn’t my…

Pneuma: Breath of Life: The Kotaku Review

The people who made Pneuma: Breath of Life are trying to convince players that their game is talking to them. Not, like, in terms of art direction, puzzle design or anything like that. It’s more in the vein of an actual conversation. Part of it is worth listening to, while the other part feels like…