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The Park Is Two Hours Of Jump Scares And Sadness

The Park opens with a boat ride. The player travels a set path and is told a story they’ve probably heard before, interrupted by the odd jump scare. It’s excellent foreshadowing. I whimper quite a lot during my first 15 minutes or so with Funcom’s bite-sized horror adventure, but that’s because I am scared of…

In a crazy quick turnaround for Telltale Games, the second episode of Minecraft: Story Mode is available today. It’s usually several months in-between episodes! Game of Thrones, for example, had its last episode released in July, and the finale won’t arrive until next month. Contact the author at [email protected]

Star Wars: The Old Republic Now Feels More Like A Classic BioWare RPG

Star Wars: The Old Republic’s new 4.0 update changes everything, as does a fresh expansion to one of the most controversial massively multiplayer games in recent memory. Last year I asked developers working on the game about their plans for the future. What they told me then is a phrase that reps for the game’s…

Mario Maker Is Getting A Big New Update

Nintendo’s sending a big new patch down Mario Maker alley next week, adding checkpoints and more complicated power-ups among other features. On November 4, when the patch goes live for Nintendo’s wonderful new level creator, you’ll be able to add checkpoint flags to your level (by shaking the arrow sign in the editor). You’ll also…

2,500 World of Warcraft Gnomes Raid The Orc Capital

The end of October is a time when everyone in WoW is busy doing all the Halloween events, but it’s also a time when thousands of level 1 Gnomes meet up in Booty Bay every year and they all run to the other faction’s capital to have some fun. Around 2,500 people showed up for…

Every Big Video Game Coming Out This Fall

The meteorological Fall kicked off on September 1 with the release of a new Metal Gear Solid and an open-world Mad Max game from the Just Cause people. And that’s just the beginning of three months stuffed to the brim with games. Here’s a list of what came, and what’s coming. There’s over fifty items…

That’s A Big LEGO Star Destroyer

Star Wars’ giant, 3730 feet long Venator-class Star Destroyer, a ship mostly used during the Clone Wars, compressed into a similarly huge 6 feet long LEGO version by builder Alec_D Gotta love all the tiny turbolaser turrets and the engine units, very nicely designed. To contact the author of this post, write to: [email protected]

GTA 5 Hulk Mod is Better Than Actual Hulk Games

You can keep your Batmans and your Deadpools: I want another Hulk game. He doesn’t need the dark, emotional veneer that’s been painted over Batman, just a big city to leap over and smash into rubble. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK We’ve been starved of good Hulk games since Ultimate Destruction from 2005,…

A Touch of Assassin’s Creed The London Museum of Steam and Water, UK. By Daniel New. JPGs is a photo peek into wherever gamers might find interesting. If you’re a photographer and have images you want to share, drop us a line!

Microsoft just announcedthat both the “New Xbox One Experience” (ie, a new dashboard) and limited Xbox 360 backwards compatibility will start rolling out to all Xbox One consoles on November 12.

The Witcher 3 Mission That Just…Went To Hell

Heart of Stone, the new expansion for The Witcher 3, basically consists of three long, experimental and amazing new quests. Kirk spoke the other day about the first one, but I now want to talk about the second. USE YOUR WITCHER SENSES TO AVOID THE SPOILERS BELOW. The second major quest—Open Sesame—begins in the auction…

Want to ask two Kotaku editors anything you’d like? We’re taking reader questions for this week’s episode of Kotaku Splitscreen, so if you want to ask us anything about life, video games, and what it’s like to work at this ridiculous website, e-mail [email protected]. You can subscribe to the podcast on iTunes here or on…

SXSW Cancels Online Harassment, GamerGate Panels Due To Unspecified Threats

Two gaming-related panels for the upcoming South By Southwest festival in Austin, Texas have been unexpectedly cancelled because of “numerous threats of on-site violence.” In the week since both panels were confirmed for SXSW, they’ve been widely discussed in the context of GamerGate, as one was publicly supportive of it. Word began to circulate on…

Destiny Snuck Into The Simpsons’ Halloween Episode

You’d have missed it if you split before the end of the episode, but tucked away in the credits of Treehouse of Horror XXVI was a little shout-out to the most horrific game of all: Destiny As is tradition with the show, the cast and crew get their names shown with a dumb Halloween nickname…

Atlus Keeps Hitting Tiny YouTube Channels With Copyright Strikes, Then Reversing Them

A player by the name of Linsneakers runs a YouTube channel with a humble 23 subscribers. A few days ago, they announced the channel was going on hiatus because of a copyright strike for a Persona 4: Dancing All Night video They aren’t alone. In the past week, Persona publisher Atlus has been on a…

In Sex Criminals, There’s No Such Thing as Being a Pervert

When it started two years ago, Sex Criminals seemed like it was going to be a crime caper comic with a lot of semen-centric humor and a soupcon of bittersweet romance. It’s done those things really well, but has also morphed into something really special: an exploration of how we think about sex. Note: This…

Destiny‘s Halloween Celebration Is Incredible

Just when people were starting to get burned out on Destiny, a video game about the endless hunt for a decent ghost shell, along comes a set of Halloween festivities that made me giggle way too hard. Today in the world of Bungie’s space opera, you can go collect candy, buy masks, and use real…

Payday 2’s Microtransaction Nightmare Just Got Worse

Payday 2 developer Overkill Software has been eerily silent about the game’s controversial microtransactions, a move that’s had the community upset for more than a week. Over the weekend, Overkill finally spoke out. They apologized for bungling communication, but the microtransactions are here to stay. If you haven’t been following this story, here’s the quick…

My Five Favorite Kotaku Stories From Last Week

Short and sweet this time, topped by one of the best investigative pieces we’ve ever run. The Messy, True Story Behind The Making Of Destiny Players Are Bending And Breaking Mario Maker, And The Results Are Amazing (Sort of related: Why The Latest Number One Mario MakerCourse Is Such Garbage) How A Game Studio Totally…

Nintendo Wanted GoldenEye To End With You Shaking Everyone’s Hands

It’s been nearly 20 years since the release of GoldenEye 007 for the Nintendo 64, but we’re still learning new tidbits about the game’s fascinating creation. Game director Martin Hollis spoke about the game at the GameCity event in Nottingham, England over the weekend, and The Guardian took notes. Hollis revealed some of the early…