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April Fools Update Changes Minecraft In Some Big Ways

Included in the update are friendly Creepers who are, arguably, a lot more creepy now. That smile. Mojang just released a brand new development snapshot for the upcoming “1.10 Minecraft update” (they’re skipping 1.9, you see), and it’s absolutely filled to the brim with the kinds of things Minecraft players crave… like hearts, love and…

The Fast And The Furious As a SNES Racing Game

Top Gear 2 would have looked like this with an extended storyline. Furious 7, the seventh installment in the Fast and the Furious film series is opening this week, so CineFix reimagined the whole series as one big action-packed racing game from the 90s. So many oldies mixed into this one. Rad Racer, Top Gear,…

Very Impressive R2-D2 Replica Goes Looking For Love

Artoo In Love is a sweet little short film about the galaxy’s favourite astromech droid, and his search for female companionship. With a mailbox. Before you ask, no, it’s not that kind of movie. The movie itself is OK, I guess, but those droids! R2-D2 was built and operated by Grant McKinney, and while he’s…

A Multiplayer Mod For…Cities: Skylines?

Of all the big PC games people are playing at the moment, the one that needs a mod like this the least is probably Cities: Skylines. But then, that’s also why it needs it the most. Normally, Skylines is a game where you hover above the world like Civicus, the God Of Urban Planning. Fr0sZ’s…

GTA V‘s Trevor Got Beaten Up On Better Call Saul

Last night’s episode of Better Call Saul—the best show on television right now—guest-starred Steven Ogg, the man you may recognize as the voice of everyone’s favorite hillbilly psychopath Trevor Philips. Ogg, who played a slightly less unkempt criminal this time around, had the rare honor of getting beaten up by Mike Ehrmantraut, who then went…

RIP PlayStation Home, 2008-2015

PlayStation Home, one of the most ambitious (and weirdest) things Sony has ever done with video games, closes down today. It will not be missed, but it should at least be remembered. The service…platform…game…thing was first announced at GDC 2007 (well, technically it was first announced here), and seemed as ambitious as hell! Designed to…

The ‘Kojima Productions’ logo is no longer on the Silent Hills website, Gamespot reports. Konami didn’t share details about what this means for the game or Kojima’s involvement with it, unfortunately.

If Five Nights at Freddy’s were real, then it would have to advertise. I’d like to imagine its commercials would be a bit like this. Heh. (Via Iron Horse Cinema Productions.)

Introducing Steamed (Which You May Have Already Noticed)

PC gaming coverage has always been popular on Kotaku, but around the start of the year, we decided to do something new: cover the PC’s top gaming service, Steam, as if it was a platform, the same way we’d cover an Xbox, a PlayStation or a Nintendo whatever. The result: steamed.kotaku.com If you’ve been looking…

Getting Started With Neverwinter On Xbox One

The North American Xbox One got its first MMORPG today, in the form of a two-year-old free-to-play Dungeons & Dragons PC game. Check out character creation and the opening tutorial for Neverwinter. Anyone with an Xbox One Gold subscription is a simple 10gb or so download away from rolling up a half-elf rogue and joining…

This is cool: The Game Developers Conference has made a whole bunch of talks from this year’s GDC available to watch for free online. There’s some great stuff in there, from classic game postmortems to modern developers talking candidly about how they made their games.

The Sims Players Confess Their Most Evil Deeds

The Sims might look like a pleasant game where you just pretend to play house, but don’t let that fool you. Things can be very darkdepending on how you play it. Yesterday, The Sims players on Reddit got together to share their cruelest stories, and boy, are they something else. There are tales of torture,…

Originality In Video Games Is Overrated

“I’m not interested in Dying Light,” a friend recently told me. I arched an inquisitive eyebrow. “Why?” A few seconds later, his response flashed on screen. “Because it doesn’t look that original.” For a few moments, I struggled to compose a response. Finally, I asked him a simple question: “Why should that matter?” Techland’s Dying…

Why A League Of Legends April Fool’s Joke Has Fans Freaking Out

Over the past few days, diehard League of Legends players have been in a bit of tizzy over something called “NURF.” On the game’s hugely popular subreddit, people are wondering when exactly it’s coming out: …and already speculating about what it’ll be like: Or just conveying how frenzied they feel over at the League of…

Assassin’s Creed Chronicles Is Now A Trilogy Set In China, India, Russia

Ok. This looks cool. What was going to be a single side-scrolling Assassin’s Creed game set in 16th century China is now going to span three eras and three countries, starting on April 21. Assassin’s Creed Chronicles: China, a game we formerly thought was just its own thing for owners of the Assassin’s Creed Unity…

Dying Light’s April Fool’s Joke: Flying Zombies

Ah, April 1st. The silliest day in gaming. Dying Light is choosing to celebrate the occasion by treating its legions of zombies like the ragdoll-ish punching bags they truly are. Dying Light developer Techland teased out an “important public service announcement” this morning that gives you an idea of what tomorrow will look like if…

Let’s Kill More Call Of Duty Exo Zombies [All Are Dead]

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare’s Ascendance DLC hits Xboxes today, bringing with it another round of the Malkovich-powered Exo Zombies co-op survival mode. Or maybe it’s Paxton-powered. It’s hard to say. Either way, let’s play. When last we left our intrepid heroes, they were being overwhelmed by high tech zombies at the headquarters of the…

You Can Play Pac-Man On Google Maps Right Now

April Fool’s Day is imminent, which means that we’re about to see A) lots of unfunny people making awful attempts to prank everyone; and B) some people—often including big tech companies like Google and Blizzard—creating some brilliant things. Here’s one example of the latter. Go to Google Maps, find yourself an area with lots of…

Now There’s A Mighty Marvel Mobile Multiplayer Brawler

Available today on iOS and Android, Marvel Mighty Heroes is a pint-sized online brawler in which players team up to batter villains with big-headed collectible comic book characters. Gameplay-wise it’s almost a sort of casual pocket Diablo. Players tap to move about game levels, tap to target enemies with automatic attacks, and swipe or tap…

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