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The Sun Is Gone, So It’s Time To Make Friends

This is Ashen. It’s “an action RPG about a wanderer in search of a place to call home”. It looks awesome. Set in a world with no sun, which I first took to be Scotland (sorry Mark) but which is instead some kind of fictional wasteland, its developers say the main aim of the game…

A Badass Redesign of Gordon Freeman’s Suit

Artist Daryl Mandryk, who we’ve featured on Kotaku before, has given Gordon Freeman’s HEV suit an unofficial redesign. It’s very practical. I like it. A lot.

If Sailor Moon Starred In A Fantasy RPG

Sailor suits might work when it comes to fighting evil by moonlight, but in an RPG? Maybe not so much. Check out these cool GIFs by Sasha Mutch, which reimagine a few sailor scouts as fantasy RPG characters: Sailor Moon, the armored cleric (It’s based on Marek Jarocki’s Sailor Moon design.) Sailor Mercury, the mage…

Hey Space Game Fans, Check This Out

Indie developer Stéphanie Rancourt emailed me the other day with a proposal. She wanted to see if I was interested in the space game she was working on. Little did she know it was about as much my thing as a video game can get. The game, Deep Space Settlement, is something she’s been working…

An Amazing Glitch That Makes Super Mario World Way Easier

Ever heard of the “cloud glitch” in Super Mario World? It’s a technique that allows you to spawn a usable Lakitu cloud in your item box, which you can then use to speed through the game. Heck, the glitch even allows you to skip some of the animations in the final Bowser fight, peculiarly enough.…

​Luigi Death Stare Cosplay Terrorizes Convention

Luigi isn’t just a jerk in Mario Kart 8, he’s also started drive-by shelling cosplayers. How cruel! D Piddy of dancing Deadpool fame took to Anime Expo 2014 and shelled the hell out of half of your favorite animated characters. Sure, the meme is played — but good cosplay is good cosplay, and I won’t…

Learn how to play fighting games by reading a new free eBook for fighting game expert Patrick Miller. More info here. Full book title? From Masher to Master: The Educated Video Game Enthusiast’s Fighting Game Primer (Super Book Edition).

“I want to go out there and prove that there is beauty to be found here.” Published by our friends at Kotaku UK, here’s an account of what it’s like to have your hometown immortalized in RPG Maker as a “grotty drug-infested cesspit.”

And Now Mario Shoots Somebody in the Head

When everything’s on the line, Nintendo’s most famous character won’t hesitate to squeeze off a headshot, all up close and personal. The finale of the Mario Warfare YouTube series debuts today, bringing to a close the violent war being waged by Luigi, Peach and other Mushroom Kingdom rebels against the oppression of King Bowser. You’ll…

One Bad Transformers Movie, Three Bad Transformers Video Games

There’s just something about a summer blockbuster the gets the blood pumping and the brain craving more, even if it’s just more crap. Well, if it’s more Transformers: Age of Extinction crap you’re looking for, Activision and Mobage have you covered. While Activision’s Rise of the Dark Spark doesn’t share a name with the movie,…

Dota 2’s Biggest Tournament, Translated For Newbies

It’s time for The International, Dota 2’s yearly tournament with a ginormous prize pool. New to the game? No worries. You can still watch, thanks to a special stream dedicated to newbies. The game can still seem overwhelming, of course, but it helps to have some concepts and tactics explained. As someone who has just…

Now I Know Why Lemmings Died

Remember Lemmings? Of course you do. It was that cute puzzle game from the nineties about shepherding herds of the titular critters to safety. Many of my earliest memories of being enthralled by a computer screen come from solving these puzzles. Or trying to, at least. Man, I loved that game. The lemmings were all…

Some Bungie Fans Feel Betrayed About Destiny’s PlayStation Perks

Associating Bungie with Halo and Xbox is so last-gen. This generation, Bungie plans to release their newest game, Destiny, on both PlayStation and Xbox platforms—but some fans perceive console favoritism, and they’re not happy about it. If you’ve paid attention to Destiny at all in the past year, then you probably know what sorts of…

‘Postponed’ Minecraft Convention Leaves Some People Calling Scam

The organizers of a New York-based Minecraft convention have unexpectedly announced that it will be postponed to a later date, and many who bought tickets are calling it a scam. Mineorama, which was due to take place this weekend in New York City, was pitched to parents and kids across the country as an unofficial…

Here’s How Pricing Works In Hearthstone‘s New Expansion

Blizzard just announced pricing details for Hearthstone‘s first single-player mode, Curse of Naxxramas, which they plan to release this month for PC and iOS. There are five wings in the collectible card game’s first dungeon—yes, it’s a card game dungeon!—and you can buy them either separately or in bundles. They’ll open for purchase gradually in…

Hey, It’s Spider-Man Swinging Through Grand Theft Auto IV

Until Grand Theft Auto V comes out for PC (soon!) and starts getting modded, we’re going to have to be satisfied with GTA IV mods. That means no West Coast Avengers dashing through San Andreas just yet. Nope. For now, we’ve got Spider-Man swinging through Rockstar’s New York. This mod comes to us via GTA…

The Legend Of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds: The Miiverse Reveiw

Putting us out of business, one Miiverse post at a time… A good find by Alex Price and the quality people behind the Bad Miiverse Post Twitter. We love you, and we love the Miiverse. (A Link Between Worlds isn’t half-bad, either!) To contact the author of this post, write to [email protected] or find him…

A new No Man’s Sky video at Gamespot has a few new details on the procedurally-generated sci-fi game, including glimpses of combat, mentions of bad guys/antagonists and a peek at how all those lifeforms get created

Project Spark, Microsoft’s video game about making video games, is coming out on October 8th. The company said in a press release that it will be available for the Xbox One and Windows 8.1 computers. Learn more about the game here

Deals: Humble Gets Bioshocked, Civilization Complete, Discount PS4/PS+

The latest Humble triples down on the Bioshock and throws in Spec Ops: The Line and XCOM for good measure. It reminds me of ridiculous day at the deli, when prices were so low, it was ridiculous. [Humble] Not one, not two, but three Complete Civilization Games for $28. [Civilization Complete] Been holding out for…