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This Is The Sound Of Kanye West Getting A Streetpass

Music mash ups are amazing. I love them. I love them especially when they just work so goddamn perfectly. This mash up is one of the best examples in recent history. It’s Kanye West mixed with the Streetpass music. It’s one of those mash-ups that, when you hear it, you just burst out laughing because…

Alien Isolation’s Awesome 1979 Mode Will Be Available For Everyone

Isn’t it great there’ll be a way to play Alien Isolation using the film’s original cast? Wasn’t it stupid that this mode was announced as a preorder bonus? Well, “good” news: the content is going to be available to everyone, not just those preordering the game. Sega has released a short statement today that reads:…

A Chat With GTA Online’s Notorious Motorcycle Club

Earlier this week, we wrote about the Reaper Lords—afascinatingcrew with hundreds of members that roam the streets of GTA Online. We told you all about their love of motorcycles, their intense rules, their dress code, and their curious social media presence. Today, you get to hear from an actual Reaper Lord. I got a chance…

Good news, fighting game fans: Skullgirls Encore will be coming to PS4 and Vita later this year.

The Best Way To Break Bad News Is With GIFs

Creating a video game and releasing it to the world is an incredibly complicated process. But why should I even try to explain the nuances of modern software development with last-gen mechanisms like “words” when we have these amazing things called GIFs now? As you can see in the glorious image above, Australian indie developer…

Your Guide To Evo 2014, The Year’s Biggest Fighting Game Tournament

We’re coming up on Evo, the biggest fighting game tournament in America. It will run Friday to Sunday from Las Vegas and be streamed online for the world to see. It’ll be the biggest Evo yet. But maybe you aren’t prepared—there are eight completely different games at this one event, after all, and what makes…

Contraption Maker, a spiritual successor to Incredible Machine created by some of the people behind the original game, came out on Steam this week. You can check it out here

Counter-Strike Could Really Use More Legos

This is an image from Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. Something looks a little different than what you’d normally expect to see in the latest installment in Valve’s online game about counter-terrorists shooting at counter-terrorists, though. No, I’m not talking about the heads-up display. Ted McIlwain, a level designer at Digital Extremes, has been tinkering with a…

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Yup, The Pokémon Remakes Will Totally Have More Megas

Primal Reversion won’t be the only type of evolution featured in Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire—we’ll also be seeing some new mega Pokémon. Obviously, if you don’t want to be spoiled on what these megas are, you should probably stop reading now! According to Anime News Network, the newest issue of Japanese magazine CoroCoro…

There Are Way Too Many Indie RPGs

Today a reader sent me an e-mail about this new contest for RPG Maker games, and I wish I had time to play them all. I mean, sure, RPG Maker games aren’t always… polished, but there are some good ones out there, like Exit Fate and Barkley’s Shut Up And Jam: Gaiden. They’re almost always…

The Story Behind Unturned, One Of Steam’s Newest Top Games

If you take a look at Steam’s most-popular games right now, you’ll see some familiar faces: Dota 2, Counter-Strike, Team Fortress. You might also notice an anomaly amid those giants: a game called Unturned. What’s the deal? Well, Unturned is a free-to-play zombie survival game made by a 16-year-old Canadian, Nelson Sexton. The game has…

Deals: Xbox One for $360, Preorders for Alien, Halo 5, Destiny, More

We’ve got a slew of notable preorders and preorder discounts for you today. Let’s start with Alien: Isolation which, in one of the more egregious, anti-consumer uses of the pre-order we’ve seen in a long time, has locked Sigourney Weaver behind the pre-order wall. [Alien: Isolation] Oh sorry, you wanted good news? Ok, use code…

Emergency Eye Wash And Other Strange Things At Valve’s Offices

For many people, touring a video game studio is like taking a trip to nerd heaven. Valve let the winners of its 2013 Saxxy Awards film contest peek behind the curtain in this way. The resulting photo gallery that was recently posted online makes the place look about as whacky as you’d expect the company…

Alien Isolation‘s VR Demo Gave Me a New Body and It Was Weird

It’s incredibly easy to trick the brain about your body. Which is why, for me, the most memorable thing about playing Alien Isolation’s VR Demo was suddenly finding myself in the body of a tiny woman. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK. It’s due to an effect called Neuroplasticity which is usually associated with…

How To Scare Off Your Hearthstone Opponent In One Turn

The best thing about Hearthstone, Blizzard’s digital collectible card game, is that just about anything can happen. The worst thing about Hearthstone is that just about anything can happen. Witness the video above, captured by YouTuber CptnFabulous, who drew two Innervates and a Coin—all cards that give you extra mana crystals for a turn—and used…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Killer Instinct: The TAY Review • When Is A Collector’s Edition Too Much? • Adventures In Blind Gaming 3: In Minecraft Eyes TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

Mario’s Alternate Smash Bros. Costume Is… Patriotic

Super Mario: plumber… doctor… patriot. This is the mustachioed hero’s alternate costume for the new Super Smash Bros.—as revealed this morning on the official Smash Twitter account—and it’s totally amazing. As Kotaku reader Vitas points out, it’s inspired by the costume in NES Open Tournament Golf The real question is, why didn’t they release this…

An In-Depth Look At Metal Gear Solid V‘s Mother Base

We’ve already seen some footage from Metal Gear Solid V, including a tour of one of the most famous oil platforms in gaming, the Mother Base, that will serve as the main hub of the game. YouTuber YongYea is here with a detailed analysis of the Mother Base, along with the inevitable theories—it’s a new…

Dishonored Is Stunning At 4K Resolution

Dishonored came out two years ago. So, you’d be forgiven for forgetting how splendid Arkane’s Victorian stealth game looked. But, thanks to the glory of screenshots done up in 4K, you can marvel at the design of Dishonored all over again. The thing about bumping up the resolution of a game like Dishonored is that…