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Metal Gear Solid V Is Full Of Silly Moments

The 30-minute gameplay demo of Metal Gear Solid V Kojima finally showed us in his podcast wasn’t just about hiding behind corners and riding around the desert. If you watched carefully, you could have spotted all the little details and jokes that are so typical to the series. And new ones as well. For example,…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Tomodachi Life: The TAY Review • Game Of The Week—Dynasty Warriors Is Better With Dragons • Laziness, Ragequitting, And The Quest for Love • Why Do We Care For True Mature Games All Of A Sudden? TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

Clone Of Clone Of Clone Now On 3DS eShop

Today Nintendo announced that the 3DS eShop just got a new $2 game called 2048, by a developer named Cosmigo. Cosmigo’s 2048 is a copy of Gabriele Cirulli’s open-source 2048, which itself is a clone of a game called 1024, which is, of course, a clone of the stellar iOS game Threes Video games

What No Man’s Sky Is

“What does sci-fi mean to you?” I was asking Sean Murray, the managing director and founder of Hello Games, this question. He’s one of a small team of developers working on the game that had everyone buzzing at E3 this year. “That’s a really good question,” Murray said to me during an interview in a…

Pillars of Eternity Looks Like The Next Great Computer RPG

In September of 2012, I got an e-mail from veteran writer and game designer Chris Avellone. He told me that he and a group of other designers at Obsidian were planning to launch a Kickstarter, and that they were looking to make an RPG in the style of old Infinity Engine games like Baldur’s Gate…

Nintendo’s been quiet about when games from the Nintendo 64 might be coming to the Wii U Virtual Console. But there’s a new mention of “the future addition of titles from the Game Boy Advance and Nintendo 64 systems” on the webpage for the console’s eShop digital storefront. Hopefully, this means that titles from the…

New LEGO Sets Put Your Buildings In The Virtual World

They’re called LEGO Fusion, and their big new feature is the ability to digitize your structures—to put them on your tablet or phone, basically, where you can then play around with them in various ways. To facilitate this, each Fusion set includes (apart from a set of bricks, of course) a Fusion capture plate. What…

Conan O’Brien Tries Games (And Hijinks) At E3 2014

Looks like someone had a great time at this year’s E3. Conan O’Brien returned to the show to check out Sunset Overdrive, take part in some creepy-funny chats at various stages and to take an embarrassingly close look at Project Morpheus Here’s the full clip: Conan Visits E3 2014 [Team Coco, YouTube] To contact the…

The Making of Monument Valley

Having sold over 500,000 copies for iOS platforms – a pretty tidy return given the £2.49 asking price – in less than two months of App Store visibility, it’s safe to say that ustwo’s Monument Valley is one of the mobile hits of 2014 so far. It’s just launched on Android, too. This post originally…

How To Sell A Fighting Game – Step One: Offer Peanuts.

Pre-order DLC? Pfft. Who needs that when you can get delicious nuts with your purchase. The game is the Xbox One version of EA Sports’ UFC, a fighting game out for new-gen consoles this Tuesday. The location is Target, the American retail chain, which is offering two six-ounce cans of Planters brand peanuts with every…

A Halo Motorcycle Helmet And More Brand New Video Game Goods

Today was a good day if you like video game merchandise. Newly-revealed products include a Diablo action figure, Destiny and Dragon Age tees, and a Halo motorcycle helmet: Union Aerospace tee (Doom). Dragon Age Inquisition heraldry tees and mug Shadow of Diablo action figure by NECA Destiny tees Master Chief motorcycle helmet also by NECA…

The July Game Informer cover, featuring Far Cry 4, is gorgeous and bold. You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

The Newest Infinite Crisis Characters Are Zatanna And Supergirl

A Red Lantern luchador, Mecha Wonder-Woman, Nightmare Superman—new characters and costumes for DC’s free to play Infinite Crisis continue to be a weekly delight. The newest options are Supergirl and Ame-Comi Zatanna (and Zatanna’s giant bunny): First up is Ame-Comi Zatanna: Gather around Protectors: The show’s about to begin! Light up the lost sectors with…

Famous Game Logos. In Arabic.

Video games don’t have a great track record when it comes to Arabic, but those are Western games where people have done a shitty job depicting the language. Things look much better when we let a natural handle things. Egyptian graphic designer Ibrahim Hamdi has taken a bunch of famous and iconic gaming logos and…

Take The Time To Appreciate A Game’s…Buttons And Menus

This Destiny video is unlike any other you’ve probably seen about the game, because it’s all about…the user interface. Which, as you may have noticed during the alpha, is really really good. It’s not in visuals or sound that the really expensive games, the ones made by hundreds of experienced developers, can stand apart from…

What 1200 Pounds Of Nintendo Games Looks Like

This large cardboard box measures around 48″x 48″x 48″. It is full of Nintendo DS and 3DS games. Around 1200 pounds of them Redditor HxCurt, who works at an e-cycling plant, says most of them are Activision’s dreadful iCarly 2 on DS, which will never find a home, not at any price. Hence their arrival…

Son of a Glitch: check out this comprehensive video on the many funny and useful glitches you can find in The Last of Us—you’ll even learn how to do most of em. My fave would have to be Joel and Ellie standing on top of their horses. So goofy.(By A+Start)

Hey Suikoden fans: series creator Yoshitaka Murayama has given an interview to the Suikoden Revival Movement, and while he’s no longer involved with Konami or the series he built, he still has some interesting things to say. “I believe Kickstarter’s notion of ‘by the fans, for the fans’ may very well be the solution to…

Good News, Vault Dwellers: The classic PC role-playing games Fallout, Fallout 2, and Fallout Tactics are once again available on Steam. All three games were pulled from online stores earlier this year after Bethesda obtained rights to the series from Interplay. No word yet on whether they’ll be back on GOG as well, but we’ve…

How A Seemingly Impossible Game Is Possible

× If there’s one comment louder than all the praise that No Man’s Sky has been getting, it’s got to be something along the lines of, “Wow, how is that even possible?” Questions like that confuse Sean Murray and David Ream, managing director/founder and creative director of No Man’s Sky developer Hello Games, respectively. For…