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Tanks + Tokyo + Anime

Can you hear that? Listen closely….it’s the ghost of a very cool 90s arcade game… Via RPS, Tokyo Warfare is an indie shooter for the PC that takes some very heavy cues from Namco’s classic Tokyo Wars, an arcade game from the mid-90’s that I remember spending way too much money on. The similarities are…

Most times, when you stop hearing about a game in development, it’s dead. It’s kinda fitting, then, that a game called Zombie Playground—which we first wrote about in 2012!—hasn’t just reappeared, but is playable on Early Access

Diablo III Update Honors Blizzard Artist Who Died Last Year

In October 2014, Kevin Kanai Griffith, a Blizzard artist who had worked on both World of Warcraft and Diablo, passed away. This month, the company honours him with a big update for Diablo III. Patch 2.3.0 introduces something called Kanai’s Cube, a predecessor of the game’s “iconic” Horadric Cube. Blizzard says it’s “a huge new…

A Man Who Can’t Die Is the Perfect Private Eye for a Dirty Los Angeles

Do you miss Angel? You remember it, right? The Buffy spinoff where the hunky vampire-with-a-soul was a PI who worked cases involving mystical creatures? Well, there’s a new comic book series that’s similar in concept but with a few different twists. Wolf #1 starts with a man who’s been set on fire, walking down the…

A Great Creepypasta About An Arcade’s Secret Terrors

Back in the day, arcades were no stranger to all sort of bullshit myths about cabinets and the games they housed. In this internet tall tale, one of those myths is true—and it’s the stuff of nightmares. Chilling Tales For Dark Nights has uploaded a great creepypasta that you should listen to if you have…

The UFC Needs To Change Its Stoppage Rules, Badly

Joe Lauzon knew his opponent was done. Problem is, the referee didn’t. Over the weekend, UFC on Fox 16 saw TJ Dillashaw demolish Brazilian skull crusher Renan Barao even more decisively than he did the first time around. And while it was a stunning display of hot fist-on-face action, it wasn’t the defining moment of…

Five New Comics You Might Want To Check Out

Evan isn’t the only person reading comics around here. Here are some recent surprise favorites of mine. I didn’t expect to be recommending any of these to you: Crossed + 100 #6 Above art drawn by Gabriel Andrade, colored by Digikore I’ve long avoided most of the Crossed comics, a more vile riff on zombie…

We Talk About The Witcher 3’s Awesome Quests

The Witcher 3. It just won’t leave us alone. It won’t get out of our heads While most of us here at Kotaku have at least dabbled in the game, four of us have been playing it regularly, and just can’t stop talking about it. So we sat down yesterday to discuss just what about…

New PS4 Platformer Is Infuriating And I Can’t Stop Playing

God damnit. There is nothing relaxing or meditative about N++. Most of the time, I’m uttering inappropriate words under my breath, clenching my fists, sweating profusely, and hoping I don’t mess up the next jump. And when I do, there’s a good chance I’m going to scream. If you’re wondering “hey, haven’t I heard of…

Calculating LEGO Brick Combinations Is Ridiculously Complex

In 1958 LEGO estimated that six standard LEGO bricks could be combined together in nearly 103 million ways. Math professor Soren Eilers discovered that they were off by more than 900 million. In this clip from A LEGO Brickumentary, in theaters, iTunes and On Demand this Friday, the good professor explains why LEGO’s initial estimates…

The Newest Life is Strange Episode Starts With A Major Shocker

I can’t believe the places where Life is Strange is going. (Spoilers for Life is Strange episode 4 follow!) A week ago I was adamant that the game’s developer, Dontnod, wouldn’t actually make you play through the timeline you open up by the end of episode 3. In my mind, having Max open up a…

Mod Adds College System To The Sims 4

They’ve already added working hotels and K-12 schools to The Sims 4. But Sims modders still haven’t had enough. Will they ever? Let’s hope not. Prolific Sims 4 modder Simmythesim, who previously worked on the aforementioned hotels mod as well as a custom height-slider that let you adjust the physical make-up of your Sims in…

CD Projekt Red’s Marcin Momot has shed some light on what will (and won’t) carry over to The Witcher 3’s upcoming New Game Plus mode. Gear, XP, money, and recipes will carry over. Quest items, books, trophies, and usable items won’t, nor will Gwent cards. If you’re not level 30, you’ll be bumped up automatically…

New King’s Quest Is Love Child of Dragon’s Lair and The Princess Bride

I took our 5-year-old daughter to see Pixar’s Inside Out a week ago. I wish we had been able to play the new King’s Quest together instead. Like Inside Out, the new King’s Quest is close to a perfect piece of family entertainment. Unlike Inside Out, it would be far less likely to turn a…

Sources: Ouya Won’t Pay Developers The Money They Promised [UPDATED]

In 2013, Ouya set aside $1 million to help fund a bunch of games on Kickstarter, so long as the games showed up on Ouya first. Some games have already come out, but many have not. For those still in development, Ouya has reportedly informed them the funds no longer exist. Update (5:22 pm): Razer…

The First Five Minutes Of Blues and Bullets Ruin Eliot Ness’ Retirement

A blood-soaked dungeon, the whimpers of terrified children, a mysterious horned beast and a man speaking in an incredibly bad accent—this is a job for one of America’s greatest crime-fighters. Blues and Bullets is an episodic crime noir PC adventure starring Eliot Ness, eader of the legendary law enforcement group nicknamed The Untouchables. Years after…

The really cool roguelike/dungeon-crawler/tower-defense PC game Dungeon of the Endless is coming to iPad this summer, according to a press release. It’ll include the game’s two PC expansions. No firm release date yet.

Final Fantasy Type-0 HD will be out for PC on August 18, Square Enix announced this morning. It’s a messy, clunky game thatI loved way more than I should have. The PC version will have graphical improvements as well as “improved in-game battle camera, full Steam achievements and trading cards, scalable motion blur settings and…

StarCraft Mod Inspired By Rocket League

Using themes from WoW, but made with the StarCraft II editor by Bounty, Aqua League looks like fast-paced soccer game with a few funny elements added. It’s something similar to Rocket League but instead of bumper cars it has Nagas and Elementals and it’s for the StarCraft II Arcade. Looks fun, and it’s always great…

Fully Motorized LEGO Tank Has A Cool Mine Flail

This is one compact custom tank built by Tommy Styrvoky, full of motorized goodies inside with a working mini mine-clearing flail outside. It’s a 1/18th replica of the M4 Sherman, a tank used in World War II, fitted with a special flail that helped passing through mine fields safely. The flail’s not just the only…