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Custom CryEngine 3 Environments Are The Best

CryEngine’s various iterations are great for 3D art, as we’ve seen time and time again. And by god, this one’s just beautiful. The map was created by environment artist Joakim Stigsson, who’s worked on Crysis 3 and the upcoming Homefront game. It contains a mountain lodge and its surroundings, rendered, of course, in stunning detail.…

Look At This Yoshi Figure

Just look at it. That is the cheeriest strut I have ever seen in an action figure. And that’s not even the best part. No, the best part is that this is a Figuarts toy, the same line that released those amazingMario and Luigi figures earlier in the year, so both the brothers aren’t just…

Uncorking A Champagne Bottle With A Huge Sniper Rifle

Hold [shift] to steady breathing. This video shows Richard Ryan lining up some bottles of champagne and trying to shoot the corks off. Using an enormous .50 cal sniper rifle. It’s not the fact that he nails it that’s most interesting; its the slow-mo footage of what happens to the bullet and cork once they…

The final Saturday Morning Stream of 2014 is now live — on Sunday night. I promised one last hurrah and here it is — watch me play Omikron: The Nomad Soul, the 1999 classic from Quantic Dream, back when their games had real controls. Instead of making a big deal about it, just hit up…

Wii U Art Dump Takes Care Of Your Desktop Wallpaper Needs

I’ve often enjoyed them as a nice little pre-game touch, so it’s awesome to see NeoGAF user Oni Link 666 rip out some Wii U game loading screens and dump them for use as wallpapers. There are 48 screens in all (some from cutscenes, most from loading screens), each at 1920×1080, and while some were…

Still Having Trouble Connecting To PSN? Try This.

While Sony says the PlayStation Network is up and running following the Christmas attack, some users are still having trouble connecting to services on their PS4. Here’s a network setting that’s gotten several of our readers up and running again. What they did was go into the “Network” option under “Settings” in the PS4 menu.…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: The 2014 Year-End All-Star Extravaganza

It’s that time of year again, when we pick a selection of our most popular ‘Shop Contest subjects of the year and has our creative readers mash them up into a fine paste, all in the name of memories. What can we make with these five things? Before you answer that, some ground rules for…

Assassin’s Creed Would Have Been One Odd Prince Of Persia Game

Taking us down a dark and secluded memory lane, the folks at Did You Know Gaming explore the secrets of the Assassin’s Creed series, which started life as the next installment of the Prince of Persia. I’d forgotten all about that. It’s a fact that’s easy to forget, really, now that we’ve had something like…

Perhaps Sonic The Hedgehog Should Just Stick To Cartoons

When I posted my favorable first impressions of Cartoon Network’s Sonic Boom animated series last month, one reader jokingly commented “The Sonic Cycle is finally broken. All you had to do was strip out the gameplay entirely.” He might be on to something. The games launched alongside the Sonic Boom animated series were not received…

An Amiibo Christmas Story, Or How The Redditor Saved Christmas

Jesse Salazar’s son wanted a Villager Amiibo figure from Nintendo for Christmas, but Jesse waited too long, and all the Villager Amiibo were gone. Then along came a helpful Redditor to save Christmas. As it happens, Jesse and his son are the co-stars of a “Let’s Play” series on YouTube called Familycom, so instead of…

PSN Seems To Be Coming Back Online

After days of problems connecting to the PlayStation Network and corresponding services on the PlayStation 4, two of Kotaku‘s systems have booted up and connected immediately. Are things looking up? Update: Sony says service has been restored. Up until a few minutes ago my PlayStation 4 would not connect to PSN. I could not access…

Bungie Extends Destiny‘s Weekend Vendor In The Face Of Network Issues

Destiny players worried the ongoing PlayStation Network problems would rob them of a chance to visit the game’s weekend-only Strange Coin vendor should worry no more — Bungie’s gooing to let him keep his shop open until Monday. Xûr,as previously documented, shows up in Destiny‘s Tower Friday through Saturday to give players a chance to…

The Xbox Live Status page currently indicates some users having issues logging into Xbox Live on the Xbox One. A problem involving being unable to launch certain games has recently been resolved. No word on whether these current issues are related to the ones whichbrought the servers down on Christmas Day. Everything seems to be…

We Interrupt This Program For The Best News Bloopers Of 2014

Remember late last year when Spider-Mandropped that Good Morning America correspondent on her head? How about the time the news anchor wondered who this 4chan guy was? Here’s 15 minutes of the year’s best news bloopers to help ease us laughing into the new year. Each month the folks at NewsBeFunny compile the best tongue-slips,…

PSN Still Having Big Problems Two Days After Christmas Outage [Update]

Two days following the Christmas day outage that laid low both Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network, users are still having trouble connecting to PlayStation Network services on PS4 and PS3. Update: Sony points to disruptive traffic as the cause of its network issue. While a tweet posted early this morning gave PlayStation Network users…

Massive Smash Bros. Fan Album Adds 27 New “Final Smash” Tracks

Earlier this year I told you about Harmony of Heroes, a massive free fan musical celebration of the Smash Bros. franchise spanning some 101 original tracks. Apparently that wasn’t enough music, so the team has released a 27-track expansion pack, Final Smash. Originally planned as a 12 song add-on tribute featuring songs inspired by Super…

Man Buys PlayStation 4 From Walmart, Says He Got Two Bags Of Rocks

A Denver man who purchased a PlayStation 4 bundle from a Stapleton, Colorado Walmart was reportedly surprised to discover two taped sacks of rocks instead of the game console. We run across one of these almost every holiday season it seems, but sacks of rocks in PlayStation 4 boxes are normally the purview of Craigstlist,…

12/22/2014: No N64 Christmas Gift For You

Uh maybe you should have thought about leaving milk and cookies out if you wanted Santa to leave your gifts out. Pain Train Comic knows what’s up. I bet you Pain Train Comic got their N64 this year. If you’re just waking up from holiday laziness, feel free to peruse our stuff from this week…

Hackers Explain Why They Supposedly Took Down PSN and Xbox Live

On Christmas day, many gamers around the world found that they couldn’t play many of their favorite games anymore. The reason? The online services powering these games, such as PSN and Xbox Live, were down—and a group of alleged hackers claimed responsibility for it. Today, Xbox Live seems to mostly be up and running. PSN…

Five Nights at Freddy’s Parody Turns The Game Into A JRPG About Sex

It’s hard to describe Five Nights at Fuckyboy’s 2. It’s not what you would call “good,” in the same way that 420BLAZEIT isn’t exactly “good.” But they are both hilarious and weird. The game takes the characters from Five Nights at Freddys, and puts them in a JRPG game where you battle party favors and…