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Hyrule, Recreated In…Far Cry 4

Who said Skyrim gets all the cool mods? Using the game’s built-in map editor, Romain Dannevoye has built his own version of Ocarina of Time’s Hyrule inside Far Cry 4. It’s not a total conversion or anything—as you’ll see, there are still lightbulbs and Himalayan farmers and ammo boxes—but given the confines of the map…

Nissan’s Twitter Thought Video Game Screenshots Were Real Cars

For all its problems, the developers behind Driveclub on the PS4 can at least be proud of how good the game’s screenshots look. This Twitter exchange took place last week, and to be fair to the Nissan rep, at the small resolutions available on Twitter it must be hard to tell the difference, especially when…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Everybody’s Robin: The Winners!

Last week’s ‘Shop Contesttasked our readers with assembling a task force of Batman sidekicks to rival that of the recently-launched We Are Robin comic book. Turns out only one additional character was needed. This week’s accolades go to reader OPT1CS, who found a character worthy of the red, yellow and “R” rather quickly. Pretty perfect,…

Unboxing videos are normally dumb, but there are exceptions. This video, showing what it takes to put a Star Wars Battlepod together, is one of them.

The Werewolf-Fighting Executive Is So Crazy It Works

My latest iPad purchase seemed pretty dubious—$2.99 based on a couple of strange screenshots and an app icon featuring a business shirt covered in bloody pawprints. As it turns out, my investment in The Executive was smart money. The tale of a business executive who must defend his business and eventually entire city from a…

Every Physics Demo Should Star Mario

If you’re going to put together a tech demo for Nvidia’s Flex physics simulation in Unreal Engine 4 you might as well make it fun, and what’s more fun than Mario? YouTuber CryZENx (via Taltigolt) has injected Nintendo’s number one plumber into a quick and dirty physics demo that sees Mario wading through and pelted…

Mighty No. 9 Makers Set Their Kickstarter Sights On Mega Man Legends

With theirspiritual successor to the original Mega Man slated for release in September, Keiji Inafune’s Comcept has launched a pair of Kickstarters for Red Ash, a video game and anime project that’s pretty much the spiritual successor to Mega Man Legends. One half of the Red Ash project, announced this weekend at Anime Expo 2015,…

The Digimon Game Fans Have Been Waiting For Is Coming To America

A couple years of jealous drooling and suffering through the release of Digimon All-Star Rumble have finally paid off—Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth is coming to North and South American PlayStation 4 and Vita in 2016. I’ve made my desire for an English port of this Japanese game plain on several occasions, so the news that…

Square Enix Suspends Final Fantasy XIV Mac Sales, Offers Refunds

Citing thewidespread disappointment with performance and poor communication of system requirements, Square Enix has temporarily halted sales of the Final Fantasy XIV Mac client. Good call. Having spent the better part of two years using alternative methods such as Boot Camp to run Final Fantasy XIV on their systems, Mac had been clamoring for a…

Sunday Comics: Jerk Bastards Must Die

Welcome to Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira. Published July 3. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published June 29. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…

Fan Creates The Perfect Mashup of One Piece and Mad Max

Mad Max: Fury Road opened in Japan a few days ago and it means one thing: Japanese fans are now ready to create crazy fan-art. One of the bests so far —made by noted manga artist Takumi—is heavily influenced by One Piece and creator Eiichiro Oda’s style. Here’s the full pic below with almost all…

Now That’s a Detailed LEGO Metroid Boss Battle

Ridley’s waiting for Samus atop the the Chozo Artifact Temple. Canadian LEGO builder Jared Rosenblitt remade Metroid Prime’s semi-final battle with LEGO bricks and man those cracks on the floor sure are detailed. Multiple Samus figures and a Meta Ridley! Check out the photos in higher resolution in the creator’s Flickr gallery, or watch a…

The Opening of Fresh Prince In GTA V

All classic TV show intros deserve a GTA V version. And The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air is the perfect candidate: We all watched the series back then (it’s still funny!) and it’s set in the same city as Grand Theft Auto V Will Smith is replaced by Franklin and we are in Rockford Hills in…

Minecraft: Story Mode Looks Charming

Here’s the very first trailer for the Minecraft adventure game Minecraft: Story Mode by Telltale Games. It looks like a proper Telltale adventure with lovely characters (with a main character called Jesse). According to the Telltale Blog the game will also have a pretty cool cast: You’ll control protagonist Jesse throughout the season, as portrayed…

PSN is alive once again. A short outage that probably won’t go in the annals of PSN history. You may resume internet gaming.

The Next SWTOR Expansion Looks Like The Same Old Thing

At E3, Bioware announced a new expansion for Star Wars: The Old Republic, dubbed Knights of the Fallen Empire. At its start, players will be frozen in carbonite for five years and when they’re thawed out will find that something called the Eternal Empire came out of nowhere to smash both the Republic and Sith…

Finally: Zero Escape Volume 3 Is Officially Official

Zero Escape Volume 3 was announced today at the Aksys Games Panel at Anime Expo in LA. They’re aiming for a summer 2016 release on 3DS and Vita, and Western localizations are being produced simultaneously with the Japanese version. This, by the way, is something I’m excited about. Like, sincerely. No joke! The announcement was…

Shenmue III‘s Placeholder Box Art Is Hilarious

I don’t particularly care about the Shenmue III Kickstarter because I don’t fund other people’s creative endeavors and I can’t bring myself to have feelings about anything happening in 2017 right now. But if I did donate to kickstarters or had meaningful early-stage interest in a Shenmue threequel, the placeholder box are for the newly…

The PlayStation Network is down. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before, but it’s a holiday in the US and most online-related PlayStation functions are, well, not functioning. The PSN status page details the mess. It only mentions PS3 and PS4 not working but my Vita also can’t get online.

Some Games Should Have Fewer Features

While reading Nathan Grayson’s assertion that Batman: Arkham Knight should have borrowed Shadow of Mordor’s “nemesis” system to use with the various street toughs Batman fights throughout that game, I had a horrifying vision, one I don’t believe he intended to elicit. I imagined this gameplay system being piled on top of everything already present…