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Evolve On PC vs PS4 vs Xbox One

It’s time for another graphical throw-down, this time featuring thelatest big monster hunting game,Evolve. GameSpot brings us a graphics comparison video, where you can note the differences between all the versions of Evolve. Overall, there don’t seem to be huge differences between the versions—they all look great—but, if you’d like to view the fearsome monster…

Alien: Isolation had a really cool save-game system. In a new postmortem over at Gamasutra, Creative Assembly’s Gary Napper talks about how that system came to be

New Superman Story Tries to Re-Write Man of Steel Movie’s Big Mistake

Superman: Earth One – Volume 3 is not a good comic-book story. But it’s one that stands in direct opposition to the sorta-okay Superman movie that came out in 2013. It pushes back at that thing that happened in the movie. You know, the thing that pissed off a lot of Superman fans. (That was…

Big Layoffs At EverQuest Studio Today [UPDATE]

Daybreak, the game studio behind EverQuest and H1Z1, is laying off a number of staff including David Georgeson, the man who has served as the face of EverQuest for many years, Kotaku has learned. We don’t know just how many people Daybreak is letting go, as staff are being informed right now whether or not…

Razer Blade Clearance, $10 Amiibo, Night at the Movies, and More Deals

I had the pleasure of demoing a Razer Blade about a year ago, and I couldn’t believe how close it came to the slim profile and solid build quality of a MacBook Pro. Plus, you know, graphics. A new model just came out, which means the old ones (which still have very impressive specs) are…

The Next Hitman Movie Doesn’t Try to Make Agent 47 A Hero

You know what? When you have an assassin as the central character of your movie, he doesn’t necessarily need to be a good guy. He can be one hell of a villain. If you were fearing the worst for Agent 47, then you might be pleasantly surprised by the trailer for the upcoming Hitman adaptation.…

Smite Season Two Gives Players A Lovely New Place To Kill Each Other

Free-to-play third-person MOBA Smite isentertaining enough to watch, but when all the competition is focused around a single map, the scenery can get old pretty quick. With today’s launch of the Season Two update, players have a much prettier place to die. While the Season Two update introduces some new items to the game and…

Miiverse Is Full Of Great Majora’s Mask Fan Art

The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask for 3DS is almost here, which means the hype train is in overdrive, and Nintendo’s doing everything it can to get people interested in Link’s revamped adventure. The company’s throwing an art competition on the Miiverse, kicked off by series producer Eiji Aonuma himself, and it’s resulted in some…

GTA V’s Car Crashes Are Almost Too Realistic

I’ve always gone looking for trouble in GTA games. When Grand Theft Auto III first came out, my friends and I would get together and take turns going on rampages—competing to see who could survive the longest against the cops. With the new version of GTA V out, I’ve found another way to test myself:…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Kingdom Hearts Re:Chain of Memories: The TAY Review & A Complete Gameplay Breakdown • The Information Cube: Do We Live Our Fiction? • Final Fantasy 3. Not 6, 3 – Part 3 • Pokémon One a Day Series Two: Togepi, Togetic, Natu, Xatu TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s…

A Lucky Way To Start Diablo III

This is what a painfully lucky encounter with Diablo III’s random number generator looks like. Player duslol not only got a rare Conduit Pylon with its zapping instant-kill buffs right at the entrance of an end-game dungeon, but an even rarer pack of Treasure Goblins next to it, all standing in a narrow hallway, ending…

The All-Star Blizzard Toy Line We’ve Always Wanted

Across its handful of properties Blizzard has some of the most iconic characters in gaming. It’s free-to-play MOBA Heroes of the Storm brings them all together, and now NECA’s Heroes of the Storm action figure line is making toy collectors’ dreams come true. While outfits like Sideshow Toys keep Blizzard in the high-end collectibles, we’ve…

When Zelda meets The IT Crowd. This fun crossover wallpaper/shirt design, titled “The Legend of Jen,” was posted to r/zelda by the artist himself, Ryan Astle. You can find more of his artwork over at his Tumblr, and at clothing sites like RIPT Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of…

Not Every “Fantasy” World Has To Be European

Remember, not every “fantasy” world has to have knights and castles. Aurion, legacy of the Kori-Odan is a new game from a developer based in Cameroon that explores “a wonderful African Fantasy world”. That’s the kind of setting I’ll admit I haven’t played much of; the last I can remember off the top of my…

Meet the Hacker Who’s Spent Six Years Inside Shadow Of The Colossus

Shadow of the Colossus first came out in 2005. Since then, millions of people have played the beloved PS2 game, driven by its lonesome charm, moved by its mysterious ending. But one man never stopped playing, as a result, he’s found stuff that the game’s creators never intended anyone to see. [Note: Lambert got in…

One City-Building Game Still Looks Cool…

SimCity was a disaster. Cities XXL is a scam. But there is still hope, fans of building cities on your personal computer: there is still Cities: Skylines. Due next month on PC (and Mac, and Linux), this trailer is showing features and little touches (overpasses!) that are making my urban planning glands pulse with excitement.…

Jon Stewart Is Leaving The Daily Show

According to reports on social media (via The AV Club) from people in the audience at the taping of his latest episode, Jon Stewart has announced he’ll be leaving The Daily Show. UPDATE: Comedy Central has since confirmed the news. He’ll be stepping down “later this year”. Stewart has been hosting the show since 1999,…

Wild Theory Explains Pokémon’s Biggest Mysteries

The twist at the end of Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire doesn’t just make the Pokémon timeline bonkers. It might explain some of the stuff that Pokémon fans have been wondering about for years. For those of you that don’t know, in the extra chapter included in Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, players are…

Steam’s Latest Survival Game Comes From An Unexpected Place

In the near future, Atari will be launching one hell of a reinvention of the arcade classic Asteroids. The company just announced Asteroids: Outpost will be a multiplayer-focused survival game for PC that’s launched through Steam’s Early Access program. That’s a surprise. Here’s how Atari describes Asteroids: Outpost in its press release: “Set in the…