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A Video Game About Being A Mountain

Before this week, David O’Reilly was best known in the gaming scene for making the pretty-looking futuristic video games in the recent science fiction film Her. Sadly, none of them were actually playable for anyone other than Joaquin Phoenix’s character in that movie. But now O’Reilly has returned with a playable video game that’s just…

​Yes, Far Cry 4 Lets You Ride Elephants

Like its predecessors, Far Cry 4 will let you get your kill on in a quiet and stealthy fashion. But who wants to do that when you can ride an elephant, smash through gates and bust shotgun shells at fools? The video above from PlayStation Access showcases two very different approaches to playing through a…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Did Nintendo Just Make An Original Shooter Starring Girls? • My Own Hero: Link, Zelda, Love, And Why I Don’t Want Change • TAY Impressions: Super Smash Bros Wii U • SnackTAYku: Taco Bell’s Quesarito (Beef) Is Quesalicious TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them…

Nintendo’s E3 2014: You’re Buying a Wii U Now, Right?

Last year Nintendo dressed its developers up in cat ears and paraded them in front of a huddled group of attendees at its booth rather than have a press conference at E3. This year, it didn’t even do that much. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK I thought that might mean it had nothing…

The New Adventure Time Mobile Game Is An Addictive Dance Off

There’s a new free Adventure Time mobile game called These Lumps. It adapts the play mechanic of the classic Osmos. These Lumps features Lumpy Space Prince battling gender swapped Adventure Time characters including Fionna and Cake in a dance off. Gameplay is essentially a turbo-charged version of Osmos and Hundreds. Each character on the dance…

DayZ Jeopardy! Is Brutal And Has Only One Topic

And that one topic is: DayZ! Still, questions about the game cause headaches for a lot of newspawns in the recent video of Friendly in Cherno. The lucky ones can continue their journey with some extra gear, but everyone else has no other choice but to roll a new character. DayZ Jeopardy With Irregular Dave…

Off-road truck simulator Spintires is now out on Steam, exactly one year after the successful conclusion of its Kickstarter campaign. The launch trailer, which was released a few weeks ago, should be able to show you what the finished game is like (though I believe the actual game has significantly less wubs).

People Say Aaron Paul Is Turning on Their Xbox Ones

Breaking Bad actor Aaron Paul’s latest role is starring in Xbox One ads. In them, he sits on the sofa, and, according to some, turns on strangers’ Xbox One consoles. The nerve! In the commercial, Paul shows off the Kinect voice command features for Xbox One, saying, “Xbox One on.” That command is apparently switching…

The Kerbal Version Of NASA’s Warp Drive Ship Is Just As Cool

This week, NASA revealed a possible design for the IXS Enterprise, a faster-than-light concept spacecraft. It looked pretty interesting! Interesting enough to prompt the Kerbal Space Program community to recreate it, even. The Enterprise at the top was created by redditor Oldnumber007. He used several mods to build the craft and then launch it into…

Bloodborne Gameplay Video Leaks

This is a gameplay video of From Software and Sony’s upcoming Bloodborne. You know, the Dark/Demon’s Souls successor for the PS4. And it’s pretty interesting. Not just because it gives us our first good look at the game in action, but because the clip itself is from well before E3, before the project was called…

Enough Mortal Kombat X Gameplay Footage To Stab A Spine With

New characters, old characters, new stages, new moves. This is a huge gameplay demonstration of the latest Mortal Kombat game, presented by series creator Ed Boon. I don’t really like Mortal Kombat that much, but I love this demonstration in principal. So much of E3 is bullshit, but this? This is live, raw gameplay, exactly…

Like Blade Runner? Try This PC Classic

You probably missed it since you’re coming down from E3 madness, but a very special game was released on Steam today. It’s called Mean Streets. Well, these days thanks to branding (the game saw the debut of the character) it’s called Tex Murphy: Mean Streets, but back in 1989 when it was first released it…

Miyamoto Tries Oculus Rift. Oh, The Possibilities.

I like to think there are two possible things running through his head. The first is “A new Mario game using this would be amazing“. The second being “I hope our legal team doesn’t sue into oblivion the first people to come up with a Starfox mod for EVE Valkyrie”. For reference that’s Bill Trinen…

The Moment That Defined E3 For Me

There’s a PlayStation mural outside of E3. It features PS mainstays in boats, a parody of this George Washington painting. I was picking out who was who with a friend. “It’s Infamous guy! It’s Claire from Resident Evil! It’s… a basketball player!” Then a security guard walked up. “I only recognize one of those characters,”…

Poor, Poor Luigi

Now that the Year and memes are over, it’s back to business for Luigi. Poor, sad Luigi. The Mario Bros. [Safely Endangered]

Oh Good, They’re Fixing The Worst Thing About Assassin’s Creed

There’s a lot to like about Assassin’s Creed, but the series also has a host of long-running annoyances, chief among them the infuriating way you’ve had to “tail” people from the shadows. So thank the heads of various religious faiths and beliefs that the way you do this is changing for the upcoming Assassin’s Creed:…

Sushi Joint At Nintendo HQ Closed For “Potentially Hazardous Foods”

The dubious quality of Nintendo’s eateries has been a touchy subject for a while now, and that saga continues with the temporary closure of a vendor operating at Nintendo of America’s headquarters. According to a detail listed in a recent update on the public health section of the King County website, the food vendor “I…

Nintendo Is Planning A Future For Both 2D And 3D Metroid

Time to get your hopes up, Metroid fans. The series no-showed E3, but you might be heartened by what the men overseeing Nintendo’s game development had to say about it. Cutting to the chase, they say they’re talking internally about what to do about the series and that they’d like to talk about what’s next…

As If Bayonetta Weren’t Badass Enough, Now She’s Got A Mech

Revealed during today’s demo live from the Nintendo E3 Treehouse, Bayonetta 2 is giving players much more to play with than killer hair and footie guns. This thing is awesome. According to the clip, the mech will control pretty much exactly like the witch herself, swinging arms and slinging bullets all over the place. It’s…

Harrison Ford Has Been Injured By The Millennium Falcon

Veteran actor Harrison Ford has been injured on the set of Star Wars: Episode VII, hurting his ankle and having to spend a little time in hospital. The culprit? His own ship. The injury isn’t serious, but it’s notable because Variety’s Marc Graser reports that he busted it on the door of the Millennium Falcon:…