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Looks Like Earthbound, But It’s More of a Horror Game

Dont let the visuals of Why Am I Dead At Sea fool you. There’s something sinister going oh here—you just have to find out what it is. Why Am I Dead At Sea is an upcoming PC game that puts you on a boat. Your goal? T figure out why you’re dead. To do this,…

A Comic Where Batman Meets His Dead Father Should Not Be This Bad

A Bruce Wayne Batman meets an alternate-reality Batman who’s really his father Thomas Wayne. So much ripe potential in having these different Dark Knights meet up, right? Too bad the comic it happens in, Convergence #2, is terrible. DC Comics’ Convergence crossover event continues this week with another crop of comics engineered to revisit past…

Worth Reading: Game Downloads Are Getting Out Of Control

It’s Friday, buddy! Relax, and enjoy a slice of insightful gaming writing from the week that was. Hey, You Should Read These “The Problem With Growing Download Sizes” by Daniel Sims I couldn’t stop laughing when fellow Kotaku writer Patricia Hernandez tweeted her estimated download time for Grand Theft Auto V on PC: more than…

The Attack on Titan Movie Looks Terrifying

Here’s a new trailer for the upcoming live-action Attack on Titan movie—this one gives us a closer look at the titans, and I think it’s safe to say the movie nails the horrifying giants. The movie seems pretty faithful to the dark, gritty tone of the anime/manga as well. I’m pretty ready to watch it…

Star Wars Battlefront Looks Cool, But I’m Not Ready To Get Excited

Star Wars fans are easy marks. It’s one of our kind’s more endearing qualities, even while it tends to leave us vulnerable to being exploited. And we have been exploited, even by, perhaps accidentally, the man who created this universe and brand. When you’re sitting in a big room full of hardcore fans at Star…

GamerGate Booth Kicked Out Of Canadian Comic Expo [UPDATED]

The Honey Badger Brigade, a group of men and women sympathetic to men’s rights activism and calling itself a collective in favor of artistic expression, had its booth removed from the ongoing Calgary Expo today for reportedly disrupting panels and associating with GamerGate. Update (7:18 P.M.): Calgary Expo has released an official statement, and Xenospora…

What To Make Of A Study About Gaming And Sexism

A recent multi-year study of German gamers might cast doubt on the idea that sexist content in video games can affect sexist attitudes in gamers. But the researchers behind the study caution that their findings shouldn’t be oversimplified. “There are often discrepancies between what a study actually found and how people interpret it,” the two…

The Mysterious Bloodborne Item Nobody Can Figure Out

Hidden deep within Bloodborne is an item that looks pretty damn important. The only problem? Nobody knows what itdoes. In order to understand why this mysterious item seems so crucial, you have to know a couple of key things about Bloodborne’s lore. I’m sorry, things are about to get nerdy as heck in here. Please…

Long Ignored Dark Souls 2 Glitch Is Finally Getting Fixed

From Software has been ignoring a durability bug in Dark Souls II for the past year, but it’s getting addressed in an upcoming patch. Here’s the gist: when you swing weapons, they begin to degrade. That’s natural, and it’s easy to fix them at a local blacksmith. However, anyone running the game at 60 frames-per-second…

Watch The First Trailer For Star Wars Battlefront

After a decade of cancellations, false starts, and one tragic studio demise, this is the year we’ll finally see a third Star Wars Battlefront game. Here’s our first look. Today as part of the Star Wars Celebration, publisher EA released a trailer for their upcoming take on Battlefront, which is developed by DICE (best known…

Someone’s Made A Good Friday The 13th-Style Video Game

Given that I recently spent weeks rewatching every Friday the 13th movie so I could rank them, it’s hardly a surprise Lakeview Cabin Collection is right up my alley. Lakeview Cabin Collection is an episodic horror game in which players try to defeat a series of seemingly unstoppable monsters who want nothing more than to…

The Coolest Cosplay from Star Wars Celebration 2015

“It’s time to put on makeup/It’s time to dress up right/It’s time to raise the curtain on the Empire Show tonight!” Unless you’ve been trapped in a Death Star garbage compactor all week, you probably know that Star Wars Celebration is happening right now. And, of course, the fanfest for folks who love the Force…

“The coolest man in the galaxy” is getting his own comic book when Marvel launches a Lando Calrissian series. The first issue by Charles Soule and Alex Maleev hits in July, joining the three other excellent Star Wars series being published by the House of Ideas. Contact the author at [email protected]

First Star Wars Battlefront Details Emerge

The third Star Wars Battlefront—just called Star Wars Battlefront—will be out on November 17 for PC, Xbox One, and PS4. It’ll take place during the original film trilogy and let people play as iconic characters like Boba Fett and Darth Vader, according to an AP report. It’ll also let you go to a planet from…

Kotaku Asks: An Anonymous PR Person For A Major Video Game Publisher [Q&A Over]

Today on Kotaku Asks we’ve got a very special treat: a professional public relations person is here to answer your questions about what it’s really like behind the scenes at a major video game publisher. Our PR professional has to remain anonymous so he or she can stay a PR professional, but what we can…

The Beauty Of Street Fighter‘s Parry

Hadouken, Shoryuken, Sonic Boom… Street Fighter’s moves are as iconic as the characters that wield them, but one move in particular has had a greater impact on both the Street Fighter series and its competitive gaming history than any of those—the parry. Parrying was introduced in Street Fighter III, which was released way back in…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku’s reader-run community: Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? Is Intriguing • Backlog Update: Universal Soldier is Not Very Good! Next Game? • Spacemon: A Pokémon Tabletop Story, Vol 2.: Chapter 26 • Pre-Cult: Road Not Taken TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY…

Custom LEGO Star Wars Sandcrawler Gets The Size Right

If the official 3,296-piece version of the Jawa’s desert vehicle wasn’t big enough, here’s a colossal one built by Peter Brookdale As you can see in the video shared by The Brick Show, it’s not just a big chunk of brown bricks. but a rather detailed version with working tracks and a ramp. To contact…

How Tanaan Jungle, World of Warcraft‘s New Outdoor Zone, Looks

Tanaan Jungle, the closed max level zone of Draenor, opens up in patch 6.2. While it’s far from being completed, YouTuber Khamúl made an awesome clip showing how it currently looks. Even though it’s a relatively early version, you can already see it’ll be savage, something like a mixture of Un’Goro Crater and Shadowmoon Valley…

A VR Gaming Chair To Make You Barf

This is the MMOne. It’s a “3-axis virtual-reality gaming chair.” And it might make you barf. I know it would make me. Just watching this clip is making me woozy. According to its official site, the chair is compatible with gamepads, joysticks, and the Oculus Rift. There are also roller coaster and space sims for…