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Hooray For Motion Sickness! The Saturday Stream Plays ScreamRide (Done)

The spiritual successor to RollerCoaster Tycoon arrives on Xboxes this Tuesday, giving players the ability to design, test-drive and destroy insane amusement park rides. I just want to see if the game’s blazing speed will make Twitch pee itself. From Frontier Developments, the studio that ported the first RollerCoaster Tycoon to the original Xbox, ScreamRide…

Fifteen Great World of Warcraft Selfies

Not all World of Warcraft players are on board with the idea of selfies—that most modern of photography, um, “techniques”—infiltrating their fantasyland home away from home, but the ones who are really dig them. Here are some of the best. First, complete chaos from talesoflumin: Here’s bluhawke with a selfie mid-raid: A stealthie deep in…

If GLaDOS Narrated Pokémon’s Pokedex 

I would watch an entire show in this “Pokedex” style. The voice behind the Pokedex is just so soothing. Check out Versiris‘ “Animated Pokedex” project—this first video kicks it off with Cubone, one of the more tragic Pokémon around. Even if you’ve heard all about how much Cubone misses its mom, it’s nice to see…

Capcom Takes Co-op Out Of Resident Evil, Clever Modders Put It Back In

When Capcom revealed Resident Evil: Revelations 2 wouldn’t have local co-op on the PC, the intrepid modding community immediately went to work. The result? Local co-op on the PC. In case you haven’t been following this bizarre story from earlier this week, when Capcom put Revelations 2 on Steam, the product page promised the game…

Old Folks Aren’t Scared of Five Nights at Freddy’s

Five Nights at Freddy’s has made a name for itself by scaring the bejesus out of younger folk on YouTube. But older folks? They’re not phased by its silly animatronic teddie bears. Pfft. Watch their nerves of steel in this reaction video by TheFineBros: At worst, the jump scares make these people laugh. At the…

Worth Reading: How Real-Life Choices Influence What We Do in Games

How much thought do you give to your moral choices in video games? Do you wish you could take one back? The Western press spills a lot of ink about Japan’s views on sexuality, but ever wondered what Japan thinks about our views on violence? All this and more, so come on in… Every week…

The Sad Story Behind A Dead PC Game That Can’t Come Back

The latest attempt to re-release the beloved PC series No One Lives Forever is dead in the water. The saddest part? It could have been rescued, if not for the apathy of big corporations. For years, it’s been impossible to buy No One Lives Forever or its sequel through popular online services like Steam, Humble,…

The Problem with a Nazi Superman

Back in 1941, Captain America punched Hitler on the cover of a comic book. Last week, Superman was working for the Fuhrer in one. Could that possibly end well? Spoilers follow for The Multiversity: Mastermen #1 Written by Grant Morrison and pencilled by Jim Lee, The Multiversity: Mastermen #1 is the latest chapter of a…

The Game That Let Me Mourn My Lost Faith

I spent most of my life religious—Christian, to be specific. Semi-recently, however, that small part of me died. Or maybe I killed it myself. I know one thing for sure, though: video games had a hand in it. I recently started playing Cults and Daggers, a large-scale turn-based strategy game in the mold of games…

Resident Evil: Revelations 2 Lets You Kill People With Dance

Gestures are usually a silly way to communicate with other players or celebrate, but in Resident Evil: Revelations 2, dancing can have killer consequences. Literally! Dancing can kill people. What’s up with the health bars? This is Raid Mode, an RPG-influenced part of Revelations 2 where you fight waves of enemies, pick up loot, and…

Humble Japanese Bundle, BOGO Ubisoft Games, and More Deals

We’ve got ourselves another Humble Weekly Bundle. This time around, you can pay what you want for a collection of games from Japanese developers. [Humble Made in Japan Bundle] Ubisoft has taken its share of lumps recently, which might explain why Target is doing a rare BOGO sale on select titles. Still, if you see…

House Of Cards Season 3 Trades Killzone For Indie Games

Season three of the wonderfully addictive House of Cards launched on Netflix today, and in it, the devious Frank Underwood reveals his true colors… as an indie gamer. No big spoilers for the new season here—unless you really don’t want to know what games Frank’s into these days—but it turns out President Underwood has put…

Hyrule Warriors Will Let You Wreak Havoc As A Giant Chicken

The final piece of DLC for Hyrule Warriors won’t be available for most people until March 12, but Japan’s already playing the game’s Boss Pack. If you accomplish a specific and special task, the game rewards you with the chance to play as one of Zelda‘s most fiendish villains: the cucoo. YouTuber moccos-tan Isedelica discovered…

Leonard Nimoy Dies At 83

Leonard Nimoy, the actor best known for playing Mr. Spock in the ubiquitous sci-fi series Star Trek, passed away today at the age of 83. The New York Times has afull obituary for Nimoy, who was taken to the hospital earlier this week after suffering chest pains, and died this morning from end-stage chronic obstructive…

My First Few Weeks With League Of Legends Were Nothing Like I Expected

“I’m very new to this,” I typed, “just to warn y’all.” A second later, someone responded: “You’re a smurf, aren’t you?” “What’s a smurf?” I asked. “Yep,” another wrote, “definitely a smurf.” This was a few weeks ago, right before the fifth, maybe sixth game of League of Legends I had ever played. League of…

Sony Accidentally Loses List Of PS4 Contest Winners 

Late last year in Japan, Sony held a pretty neat contest—people who bought a PS3, a PS4, a Vita, or a Vita TV between December 4 and January 15 could get a calendar with a special code that gave them a chance to snag one of those limited-edition 20th-anniversary PS4s, the ones that have been…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Pre-Cult: Saints Row: Gat out of Hell • Confessions of an Aging Gamer • Bulk up or Stretch it out: Spacing Serialized Stories • Indie HYPE: Infinifactory TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

Fan-Built TARDIS Makes The Doctor Who LEGO Set Complete

Although LEGO has an official Doctor Who set in the works with the TARDIS and minifigs, it won’t include the huge interior of the otherwise tiny telephone box time machine. So Thorsten “Xenomurphy” Bonsch built one to make the set complete. It is the 11th Doctor’s (Matt Smith, who was the Doctor from early 2010…

Notice anything different about Mortal Kombat X‘s Scorpion? As first shown in the tie-in comic, the demonic teleporting ninja sure looks a lot more human in the newest teaser for Netherrealm’s upcoming fighting game.

How To Get All The World of Warcraft Garrison Jukebox Music Rolls

With patch 6.1 World of Warcraft got a Jukebox that plays custom music while we’re hanging out in our Garrison. The gadget itself is easy to assemble, but finding all the tunes for it will take some time. Bellular has a nice video showing all the locations for all 40 tracks for both factions. Some…