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The Pizza Party Where Everyone Got Fired

Yesterday, the game development studio Daybreak went through massive layoffs, culling a large number of jobs in order to stay “profitable.” That’s just business as usual in the video game industry, where it seems like there’s a new round of layoffs every single week. For months nowwe’ve been covering the way game publishers and development…

Ubisoft CEO: ‘A Few Things Were Not Perfect’ In Assassin’s Creed Unity

During the Q&A portion of Ubisoft’s earnings call today, CEO Yves Guillemot touched on Assassin’s Creed Unity’s disastrous launch by acknowledging it wasn’t “perfect.” That’s one way to put it. His full explanation, in response to an analyst question about how the company thinks Unity’s problems could affect the future of the Assassin’s Creed brand…

Persona Q With Tarot Cards, Game of Thrones Blu-rays, and More Deals

Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth is down to $44 today on Amazon, including 11 tarot cards and a collectible box. Be sure to check out Kotaku’s import review if you’re not familiar with the game. [Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth, $44] The Kentucky Route Zero season pass is 50% off today. If you…

DOOM Mod Lets You Rip Off Enemy Arms, Use Them As A Weapon

Brutal DOOM remains one of the most infamous DOOM modifications around, allowing folks to dial up the game’s violence to new heights. Sure, it all looks a little goofy—DOOM came out in in 1993, after all—but Brutal DOOM still manages to shock. Next up? Bloody, destructible bodies! Even though the violence of DOOM looks slightly…

We’ve Had The New 3DS XL For Weeks, And This Is What We Think

We’ve had a couple of New 3DS XL systems in the U.S. for the last couple of weeks, one in my hands in New York City and one with Patricia out in San Francisco. We like the system, though we’re not blown away by it. We have discussed this for your reading pleasure. Patricia and…

The moment someone utters the term “endless runner,” my eyes begin to glaze over. And yet, as I watched the utterly gorgeous trailer for Alto’s Adventure, a snowy adventure through the mountains, I began to consider an exception. Alto’s Adventure comes out next week on iOS. You can reach the author of this post at…

PSA: Don’t Use Your Evolve Account On Multiple Consoles

Some Evolve players’ progress is being wiped when they attempt to try to access their game’s data from a second console, myself included. It’s not clear why yet, but you should probably avoid playing between consoles if you value your time. It’s happened to me consistently now, as I switch back and forth between my…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Can Online Video Games Help Us Be More Empathic? • The Music Game, an interview with TekForce • Final Fantasy Road Trip: Final Fantasy V • Storyclub – On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning • Wind Waker HD: An Individual Review TAY Classic—TAY…

StarCraft Units With a Post-Apocalyptic Facelift

Unlike champions in various MOBAs, StarCraft units don’t have any skins or any cosmetic features, so we have to compensate with our imagination. Artist Tamás Gyerman, for example, took a few units from the game and redesigned them to fit a post-apocalyptic world. The latest, at the top, is a giant mecha, or even steampunk…

Cloud City From Star Wars as a Giant LEGO Build

New LEGO Star Wars sets are coming out every year, yet there are still iconic buildings, ships or minifigures missing from the otherwise huge catalog. Elgiemd’s fan-build on LEGO Ideas adds one very important set to the list: Bespin’s Cloud City from The Empire Strikes Back He imagined it as part of the “Ultimate Collector’s…

Huge Sci-Fi Battleships Are Made for Exploration

Especially when said huge battleships are Minecraft creations. They are what the builder, Rossky of Planet Minecraft, calls Valkyrie-Class Battleships. There’s two of them, Skadi and Brynhildr, and they took nearly four months to build, which makes sense when you factor in their sheer size. Here’s what they look like in-game. Since they’re based on…

Player Photographs Recreate GTA Vice City in GTA V

The Snapography crew is currently running a Snapmatic photography competition within GTA V, challenging players to recreate the spirit of Vice City within Los Santos, spotted by VG247. The responses have been pretty impressive. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK Main themes include chillin’ on the beach, colourful sports cars, boats, pink, and sunsets:…

Love, According to Video Games

Games have – to put it mildly – a weird-ass approach to love. But love is weird in real-life, too. In time for Valentine’s Day, this is a celebration of video game romance in all its strange, stalkery, even inter-species forms. Enjoy – and maybe don’t try them out in real life. This post originally…

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So That Was Law & Order‘s GamerGate Episode

When Law & Order: SVU takes on video games, the results are usually not pretty. Tonight’s episode—a GamerGate special—was no exception. “They’re playing a game,” Ice-T’s character says at one point, referencing a group of misogynistic terrorists who have kidnapped a female video game developer. “We’ve gotta play too.” If just reading that line made…

A Third-Party Callback To Transformers‘ Scariest Headmaster 

Earlier this week I took my first steps into the world of pricey third-party Transformers with something pink and frilly. Now it’s time for something darker. Meet FansProject’s Function X4, Sigma L, a third party answer to the Decepticon’s scariest Headmaster. That Headmaster is Mindwipe, the spooky bat-bot with the power to warp minds and…

Grim Fandango Has Aged Terribly, But So Have We

First: a list of things that are greatabout Grim Fandango and will always be great about Grim Fandango. Consider this an attempt to appease the angry mob congregating outside the Kotaku Australia office 30 minutes after I hit publish on this article. Grim Fandango has fantastic dialogue. To this day it remains stylish, funny, clever…

Dota 2’s New Puppy Sidekick Is Cute, But Expensive As Hell

Meet Aurora. Aurora is a wolf-pup that comes packaged with an upcoming skin for a Dota 2 character called Crystal Maiden. Aurora costs twenty eight dollars. It’s not as if the package, which is releasing as a part of an event that celebrates the Chinese New Year, only gets you a wolf puppy that can…

Besiege Is More Than Just Dick Jokes

Oh look, people made funnythings in Beseige. Haha, look, there are dicksin Beseige. If you haven’t actually played the game, all you’d think about Besiege — one of the hottest games on Steam right now — based on what people are posting on the internet is that it’s a joke game. It’s actually anything but.…

Slot Machines Might Soon Require Some Skill

It’s possible your next trip to Las Vegas could benefit from your many years of video game playing, Kotaku readers. The Las Vegas Sun reports the Nevada senate committee is currently mulling a bill that would would pave the way for regulators to allow games that reward skill. Here’s how the publication puts it: “That…