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Sid Meier’s Starships Is Not Great

For all I know, Sid Meier’s Starships is a fantastic iPad game (and yes, it’s also available on iPad). But I don’t know, because I’ve been playing it on PC, where it kinda sucks. It’s funny how playing the same game on two systems can completely change your experience. On iPad, a game like this…

Cities: Skyline’s Mods Are Already Going Crazy With Road Porn

Cities: Skylines hasn’t even been out for a week and already the game’s selection of mods is becoming overwhelming. Some of these mods are great, and genuinely add worthwhile new content to the base experience! Most, however, seem to cater towards one thing: road porn. By ⊁ĴōｿﾞŚťĪ⊄Ӄ⊀ Oh, don’t roll your eyes. We’re not talking…

A Horror Game That Haunts Your Phone When You’re Not Playing

Because why only be creeped out some of the time when you can be horrified all the time? 1214 is a PC horror game that might, at first glance, look pretty familiar. You roam forlorn hallways positively dripping with dread, acutely aware that something terrible is gonna happen at some point. You just don’t know…

The Goat From Goat Simulator Would Make An Excellent Dota 2 Courier

The “courier” is a specific type of ally minion in Dota 2: one that carries stuff to you when you’re too busy fighting in lane to make that tiresome trek back to your base. So imagine playing Dota 2, one of the hardest games ever created. You’re in the heat of battle, wondering if you…

The Demon’s Souls Troll That Made Me Rage Quit

It’s been a long time since I’ve done this, but I have my limits! While playing Demon’s Souls over the weekend, a player forced me to turn off my PlayStation 3. Screw off, Potato Marshal! “Screw off” is the polite way of putting it. “Fuck you” is what I actually want to say. In preparation…

Ronin: The Basics

What is it? Ronin, a turn-based action/platformer hybrid where you play as a teenage ninja girl who needs to plan her moves very carefully. Who is making it? One-man dev studio Tomasz Waclawek Here’s a trailer… Did we play it? Nope, but we took in a live demo at PAX East in Boston two weeks…

​Welp, I’ve Spent More Than $250 On League Of Legends

Hello. My name is Yannick, and I have a problem. It’s called spending money in League of Legends. It started out innocently enough a few weeks back. I wanted to purchase Shyvana, a tanky fighter I’d grown accustomed to using when she was on League’s free champion rotation the week prior. Unlocking her as a…

We Were Wrong To Make Borderlands 2‘s Heroes So Quiet

I liked the first Borderlands because its protagonists didn’t really have much to say. I used to think that silent protagonists made for better video game stories. Then I wrote my own Borderlands game, listened to a lot of player feedback, and changed my mind. The characters in the first Borderlands had some fun battle…

Five Nights at Freddy’s, Built In Halo

This isn’t your typical Five Nights at Freddy’s clone game. Built entirely in Halo 2, this take on Five Nights at Freddy’s makes the horror game a hell of a lot more combat-oriented. As this video by RecklessRiley shows, the mini-game starts out with a phone call, just like the actual FNAF games do. And…

GTA Players Beat All of The Heists Without Ever Dying

GTA Online’s “Heists” update has a special challenge that most players will find impossible to pull off. Called the “Mastermind Challenge,” the task requires players to complete every heist in order, with the same team members, on hard, with no deaths. At all. No pressure! This weekend, the challenge was completed for the first time…

In Portland, Cosplayers Fit Right In

It makes sense that the guy who played a Real Nerd Guyon Portlandia is into cosplay. But he isn’t the only one. Apparently, people love dressing up as nerd icons out there. The newest episode of Cosplay Boom focuses producer Todd Kenreck’s home city, which appears to be a very convenient place for a dude…

John Oliver Tears Into The NCAA With Fake Sports Game

John Oliver spent 20 minutes viciously ripping apart the NCAA on his show this weekend, which included a sad and hilarious parody of EA’s NCAA games called March Sadness 2015. In March Sadness—rated E for exploitation, of course—players have to avoid doing things like: Eating a sandwich you didn’t pay for! Potentially ruining everything you’ve…

Even if you don’t care for Five Nights at Freddy‘s, everyone can get behind creator Scott Cawthon donating nearly $250,000 to St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital over the weekend. You can reach the author of this post at [email protected] or on Twitter at @patrickklepek

The First Five Psychologically Horrifying Minutes Of Hektor 

After years of torture and confinement in an underground covert research facility, five minutes in a mind-shattering underground maze should be a breeze, right? Released last week on Steam, Hektor is a game that’s all about screwing with the player’s perceptions. Between the procedurally generated corridor maze and the player character’s own psychosis, your mind…

My Five Favorite Kotaku Stories From Last Week

One week ends, another begins and here I return with another five (or so) Kotaku stories to praise. If You Die In This Game, You Can Never Play Again. Ever. | This story by reporter Nathan Grayson was an unexpectedly huge hit with our readers and with people on Facebook. There’s no great digging here.…

Giant Robot Roommate Refuses to Pay Rent, So It’s Time to Kick His Ass

Lots of RPGs put players in the shoes of a plucky young person out to embrace their special destiny and save the world. Not this one. In YIIK, you’re just trying to chase down a cat who stole your grocery list. Ok, fine: you need to navigate a room that contains all of time and…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Indie HYPE: Apotheon • Nisekoi Vol. 1 – Quick Review • How My Mom Became A Gamer at 52 Years Old TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

Millennium Falcon Papercraft Is A Work Of Art

The attention to small details is just incredible in Polish enthusiast Bernard Szukiel‘s paper replica of the Millennium Falcon. The model is 38″ long and 99% made of paper and, according to the creator, it took 4 years to build using photos found on the web. It’s only 99% paper and not 100% because the…

Lego Jurassic World: The Basics

What is it? Lego Jurassic World, another of those Lego games we’re always getting, this time covering the four Jurassic Park movies (including this summer’s Jurassic World). Who is making it? TT Fusion, who previously made the superb Lego Movie Videogame. Here’s a trailer… Did we play it? Yes, briefly during a demo session at…

Yhrite’s latest Source Filmmaker creation crosses Team Fortress 2 and Hotline Miami—timely, considering Hotline Miami 2 came out last week. You can find lots more SFM art over at Yhrite’s DeviantArt gallery Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest, funniest game-related screenshots and art we can find. Send…