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When DayZ Becomes A Horror Movie

You meet the weirdest, most unhinged people playing DayZ, I swear. Take this guy that NKA17 finds while wandering around in the dark, for example. He’s taken it upon himself to make the DayZ experience creepier for everyone, which is kind of great (if not unsettling). Okay, yes, it’s even kind of funny for a…

Battlefield 4 Should Have One Less Problem Soon

After months of scrambling to fix a plethora of technical issues that were keeping fans from going online and actually playing Battlefield 4, series developer DICE announced Friday morning that it’s officially bringing out the big guns to try and fix the game’s problems once and for all. The furor over Battlefield 4’s initial connectivity…

OK, Yes, South Park: The Stick of Truth Is Worth Playing

Here’s the bad news: South Park: The Stick of Truth is still full of bugs. In fact, yesterday, after patching Obsidian’s latest role-playing game and jumping back in for the first time since early March, I discovered a new one: Cartman’s walking animation stopped working, leading to some hilarious moments as I dragged an inert,…

New Final Fantasy Commercial Is One Hell Of A Nostalgia Trip

This new Japanese commercial for Theatrhythm Final Fantasy Curtain Call is absolutely ridiculous. Thirty seconds of creepy horror movie singing followed by another 30 seconds of Final Fantasy nostalgia tripping. I love it. Curtain Call, the sequel to 2012’s Theatrhythm, is a rhythm game where you tap tap tap your 3DS stylus to the beat…

A Fully Functional Fallout Pip-Boy For Astronauts

Unlike most replicas of the Pip-Boy 3000, the indispensable gadget of Fallout 3 and New Vegas, the one designed by Ashley Hennefer and her team has an actual, working geiger counter, real-time mapping and some other pretty cool sensors, all in glorious post-apocalyptic Fallout style. They submitted their project to a space apps challenge, pitched…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: 10 Signs That You May Be in a Harem Anime • Why a New Fatal Frame For Wii U Sounds Good • Gamer-Teacher: Video Game Music in the Classroom • Dex’s Review: Strike the Blood TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

How To Turn Your Mind Into A Video Game

Alan Kwan has turned his mind into a video game. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK For two years the Hong Kong­-based artist, film-­maker, and technologist recorded his waking life with a bespoke camera mounted on his glasses. Every night he uploaded the footage and stored it inside digital houses on a surreal open­world…

Here’s the new trailer for Mad Max, the upcoming car combat game based on the memorable series of eighties-era post-apocalyptic movies that starred Mel Gibson before he became a crazy person. The video mostly focuses on the cars, which all look pretty in the rusty post-apocalyptic sort of way, and suggests that players will be…

The Robot Dog From Battlestar Galactica Was A Chimp In Costume

The original Battlestar Galactica featured a robot dog called Muffit. The robot-Daggit was played by a chimpanzee named Evolution. The Galactica.TV site has a video of the original series’ actors reminiscing about working with the chimpanzee, as well as concept art for the creature, including this illustration by Ralph McQuarrie: You are now looking at…

Here’s the first trailer for the upcoming live-action Lupin the Third movie. The dramatic trailer music is a bit weird for an adaptation like this, but hey, the whole cast—and the iconic Fiat 500!—is visible in the trailer. The movie is slated to open on August 30 in Japan. 映画 「ルパン三世」実写版 特報 [YouTube] To contact…

Pets Will Hate This Cheeky Dino Robot

It’ll be hard to be a pet in a household where one of these smart, remote-controlled baby dino robots can run around freely. While the one in the clip is just an early prototype, Spin Master’s robot dino will be able to perform a lot of cool tricks when it arrives sometime this fall. It…

Sloth Quest Looks Stupid, But I Still Wanna Play It

Or I want to watch people play it, at least. Looks like a perfect game to get keyboard-smashingly frustrated over. Sloth Quest is a somewhat QWOP-esque platformer about being a sloth. Swinging from vine to vine, dressing up in costumes, dodging… alligators and tree-dwelling leopards. Actually, go ahead and read the developer’s description. Like the…

It’s been a year since the game’s Kickstarter campaign, and to celebrate, Larian Studios has revealed the official release date of their turn-based PC RPG, Divinity: Original Sin: June 20. The announcement came in a special anniversary-video-slash-gameplay-trailer, which you can see above.

A Kick-Ass 2 Game Is Still Coming And Here Is The Trailer

Freedom Factory Studios, which previously made the poorly reviewed game Young Justice Legacy, released this trailer for a Kick-Ass 2 game. The trailer simply says “coming soon.” Via CBR You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

New Super-Articulated Solid Snake Action Figure

Solid Snake leads of the new slightly smaller line of super-articulated figures by Kaiyodo. Revol Mini Snake will be 4.25″ tall and sell for around $25 this July. He’ll be joined in the new line of figures by Kinnikuman: Via Tomopop and TAG Hobby You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to…

Splinter Cell: Echoes Cover

Cover by Marc Laming for Splinter Cell: Echoes #1. From the publisher: Splinter Cell Echoes takes place between the events of Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Conviction® and Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Blacklist™. The comic book series bridges the gap between the two games with a realistic, original story that sets the tone for the opening…

Before Gears, Before Unreal, There Was ZZT

The following is an excerpt from ZZT, Anna Anthropy’s upcoming book about Epic boss Tim Sweeney’s classic game creation system. Easy Being An Object For all the worlds of ZZT I would ultimately explore, it took me a long time to work up the nerve to press the W key, the one labeled “World: TOWN”…

A Street Fighter Series That Might Not Suck

Aside from a few decent anime movies, Street Fighter’s theatrical history is one to forget. Good thing this isn’t a movie, then. Street Fighter: Assassin’s Fist is an upcoming webseries that’ll run on Machinima, which is a “coming of age” story about Ryu and Ken. Sure, there’s a certain degree of corny you can’t escape…

One Very Good Reason To Play Co-Op On Your PC

Well, this is a pleasant surprise. Mashed, an arcade racer released on Xbox and PS2 (and in some places PC) a decade ago, just hit Steam. This, along with Broforce, are two very good reasons to start using your PC for local co-op. While there’s a singleplayer experience to be had, the real joy with…

For Zis Adventure Game, Zee War Isn’t Over

One of the first video games I ever played was 1986’s The Great Escape. It’s nice to see a more modern return to the idea. Obviously inspired by the same tale/movie, The Breakout is an upcoming adventure game that has you trying to escape from a German POW camp in the Second World War. What…