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Braid Clone Is Illegal, But Also Kinda Cute

Bootleg games are nothing new, but most of the time they’re either brazen clones or inept scams. This one falls somewhere in between, and as a result has a strange charm all of its own. Braid was, despite its platforming roots, a game with a lot to say, and some novel ways to say it.…

A Video Showing Everything A Mouse Clicks On In A Single Day

Clicking on a mouse has become such a mundane task, such an embedded part of our daily lives that it’s become like breathing. We need to do it, but we never actually think about it when we do it. So it’s fascinating watching this video of an artist who took a picture every time he…

Internet Magic Tricks: Six Seconds Per Laugh

Vines may only be about six seconds long, but that’s all Zach King needs to to pull an awesome trick, illusion or silly stunt. And before you can react or wonder how he did it, boom, he hits you with another neat parlor trick. It’s pretty great! Some of these, like the Pikachu one, you…

Building Your RPG Characters In The Real World

Hero Forge is like an RPG character creation tool. You choose a gender, choose a build, choose some armour and get yourself a reasonably unique character. Only at the end of this one, your character gets made in the real world instead of being trapped inside a video game. Designed with tabletop gaming in mind,…

​Hotline Miami Pop Mash-Ups Combine Murder And Kanye

The top-down murder-death-kill simulator Hotline Miami had already earned the distinction of having one of 2012’s top video game soundtracks. But these mash-ups from Jessica “NNXT” Gore take the whole thing to another level. NNXT mixes Kanye, Missy Elliott, Snoop Dogg and Katy Perry up with original tracks from Hotline, and it is pretty great.…

Skyrim Guards Are The Worst At Law Enforcement

Sometimes, criminal scoundrels need to be stopped—it’s true. But dang, Skyrim guards, just because some Dragonborn get out of hand doesn’t mean you can just do whatever you want! Granted, it’s the guard’s willingness to do things like sick a vicious dog on someone or outright kill a suspect that makes this Cops parody by…

The Xbox One Can Do A Lot More Than You Might Think

Sure, the Xbox One has a few tricks up its sleeves—some of which we’ve told you about before. But, damn, had I known about some of the more advanced things the Xbox One is capable of, Microsoft would have sold me on the console way quicker. Thankfully, Sean Ong takes the time to walk us…

A moment to appreciate the excellent music of Assassin’s Creed IV: Freedom Cry. I liked the soundtrack for AC IV: Black Flag just fine, but I really like Olivier Deriviere’s work on Freedom Cry, which blends orchestral arrangements with traditional Haitian folk songs for a distinctive, evocative flavor.

The Console Wars Aren’t Just Real, They’re Personal

The Console Wars™ can often seem pretty dumb when you’re looking at them from within the sane circle of your home outward onto the dregs of Internet forums. What should be intelligent discussions turn into nasty rivalries and insult-throwing with fans vehemently and blindly defending big corporations. It’s all pretty silly, actually. But fan loyalty…

​Artist Turns The Hobbit Book Into Paper Sculpture Of Smaug

Books are art, you know? Sometimes literally. This paper-sculpture is the work of Danish artist Victoria, known on DeviantART as FarTooManyIdeas. She crafted it before the most recent Hobbit movie came out, “after watching the trailer many many times.” I’ve heard of words that “jump off the page” before, but this is taking it to…

Attention, new fans of bizarre fighting game Nidhogg, you might enjoy this brief, bizarre interview we did with the game’s creators nearly three years ago.

Soul Fjord, the Ouya exclusive by Portal creator Kim Swift and her team at Airtight Games (Quantum Conundrum), will be out on January 28. It’s free-to-play (with in-app purchases, of course, because nothing is ever really free).

Comic Book from Writers of Hitman: Absolution Isn’t What You’d Expect

People love the Hitman games for the meticulous ways you can take out a target. Wear an outrageous outfit, slide in between the shadows and NPCs and perform an assassination with meticulous stealth. Yeaaah, there’s none of that in the new comic from two dudes who worked on the last game featuring Agent 47. It’s…

Telltale Games says that the next episode of The Wolf Among Us will be out during the first week of February. After a thread on their own forums and on Reddit blew up with outrage over the lack of news as to when episode 2 would be coming out, the developer announced that “It’s been…

If PlayStation All-Stars Had Every Good PlayStation Character…

…It’d probably look like this fan art, drawn by talented Kotaku reader Max and his brother Leonardo. Lots of old PlayStation characters to spot in there. BONUS FUN FAN ART—also by Max and Leonardo, here’s Breaking Bad, Mario Kart style:

A Game That Captures The Majesty of Space

Space, as a general rule, is a quiet place. And space travel is by all accounts a very lonely profession. Few games capture that sense of desolation. RymdResa, however, does. In the video above, I walk through the very moody indie title RymdResa, currently in beta on iPad and on Steam Greenlight (here). It’s a…

The Creator Of Final Fantasy Tactics Wants To Make Another One

Yasumi Matsuno is asking for $600,000 to make a spiritual successor to Final Fantasy Tactics, and if that sentence doesn’t make you giddy, you haven’t played Final Fantasy Tactics. For those of us who have played the legendary strategy-RPG… Pause. Breathe in. This is actually happening. Matsuno, the creator of Vagrant Story, Tactics Ogre, and…

​Fake Demon Baby Terrorizes New Yorkers

Babies: They do the darndest things! Especially when they’re the animatronic spawn of fake Satan. If you see an unattended baby stroller on a busy city street, you probably walk up to make sure everything’s okay. And then… well, if you’re lucky, you just may be attacked by a screaming, vomiting, remote-controlled demon baby. Likethe…

DayZ or Rust: Which Players Are Friendlier?

Two games. Both about surviving in a post-apocalyptic world. One lets you force-feed people disinfectant. The other lets you run around naked and bash people with rocks. I had to know – which has friendlier players? Note: If you’re confused, Rust is the game with naked people, but you have to turn off the “censor…

EA Says It Took Over Six Months To Make SimCity Work Offline

In the wake of yesterday’s news that SimCity will be getting an offline version, EA has come out with a blog post explaining just how they made it happen—and how much effort that took. “The original creative vision for SimCity was to make a game where every action had an effect on other cities in…