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‘Xbox, Have Interesting Original Documentaries’

Well, this is neat. Microsoft is starting a documentary series that will run on Xbox 360 and Xbox One next year and it’s got a pretty good name behind it and a good topic for the first installment. The series will be produced by Jonathan Chinn and Simon Chinn. I don’t know Jonathan’s work—30 Days,…

Ninja Theory Makes Lovely Console Games. They Also Made This.

Taking a break from creating big-budget console games starring striking characters with large, moist eyes like Enslaved and DMC, Ninja Theory releases a mobile brawler featuring a character with a thing for striking. The game is called Fightback, and it’s definitely different from anything else Ninja Theory has done. Quick hits of swipe and tap-based…

Meet Deadman, The Most Useless Superhero of All

No, it’s not the ghostly character from the DC Universe. This Deadman is from the Garry’s Mod universe. It took modder Rush_Freak and friends more than 500 hours to create him (and the video). The end result is a superhero who is more heroic than most living superheroes. Below is the full clip. Why is…

To celebrate The Elder Scrolls Anthology collection, digital artist Hieronymus7z filled his piece—besides the obvious Beatles reference—with heroes, locations and little details from all five Elder Scrolls games. You can see the Imperial City, the Adamantine Tower, the Red Mountain, silt striders and a lot more. Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning,…

Assassin’s Creed IV’s Fancy New Smoke Will Probably Get You Killed

The latest patch for Assassin’s Creed IV on PC added support for some fancy PhysX particle effects, which includes smoke. Lots of smoke. In fact, enough smoke to prevent you from telling what the hell is going on—which can be something you might actually like, sure. Chaos can be fun. But still, my guess is…

In This, The Year Of Amazing Luigi Merchandise

As This, The Year Of Luigi draws to a close, let us gaze upon one of the finest Club Nintendo exclusives ever to materialise. Sadly, he will be out in March 2014, which is NotThe Year Of Luigi (it’ll be The Year Of Someone Else). The cost is 1500 Coins, which for an exclusive 5-inch…

Marvel Kills Amazing Iron Man Suits

A group calling themselves the “Iron Man Factory” had hoped to use Kickstarter to fund construction of a series of incredible 3D-printed Iron Man costumes. They really should have asked Marvel first, though. Without their blessing, the comics giant has unsurprisingly shut the campaign down, which is a triumph for copyright law but sad news…

LEGO Car Has LEGO Engine, Actually Drives

“The Super Awesome Micro Project”, as this has become known, is not a special effect. That really is a life-size car made out of LEGO, and it really is being powered by an engine made out of LEGO. Built from 500,000 bricks, the engine (four orbital engines with a total of 256 pistons) uses compressed…

The Nintendo Blockbusters They’ll Never Actually Announce

Nintendo announces a lot of stuff during a Nintendo Direct, but a lot of it is usually fluff. It’s never the MEGATON you’re secretly hoping – and beating yourself up – for. Dan Teasdale’s Secret Nintendo Direct Announcement Finder lets you experience the momentary illusion of seeing those MEGATON dreams come true. So painful, and…

Report: South Park Game Hilariously Censored In Australia

Australia may finally have an adults-only game rating, but that doesn’t mean anything and everything is approved for consumption down under. Take the upcoming South Park game, for example, whose alien anal probe scene has had to be heavily censored for Australian release. Seems alien anal probes are a sore point for Australian censors; Saints…

Luke’s Top 10 Games Of 2013

I must have played hundreds of games this year. Maybe more. Maybe millions of games. I’m about to tell you which of them were my favourite. Keep reading to indulge me. Some of the games that made the cut, like Assassin’s Creed IV and Gunpoint, were no-brainers. Easily two of the best games I’ve played…

Lawsuit Accuses EA Of Lying About Battlefield 4

Battlefield 4’s PC version has had some problems since launch. For some, this is an annoyance and an inconvenience. For others, it’s grounds for a lawsuit. We’ve already seenone firm consider taking the giant publisher to court, but there’s now a second, filed in a U.S. District Court and which is the first step towards…

​A Helpful Explanation Of Where Holiday Traditions Come From

I’m sure you’ve always had a sneaking suspicion that the story of Christmas past is quite a bit different from the story of Christmas present. But how about Chanukah and Kwanzaa? Watch Mental Floss host John Green get historical on a bunch of holiday traditions. Come for the Transformers: Dark of the Moon jokes, stay…

The Year In Visceral Press Releases

VISCERAL: felt in or as if in the internal organs of the body : deep visceral conviction> not intellectual : instinctive, unreasoning dealing with crude or elemental emotions : earthy visceral novel> of, relating to, or located on or among the viscera : splanchnic January 9: The recipient of multiple industry accolades, including “Best PC Game” and “Best MMO”…

​Outstanding Fake Beans Commercial Stars Horrifying Space Monster

In this, the era of Pacific Rim and Godzilla, we could use a couple beans commercials like this one. Created by European visual effects house Cinseite, it imagines a world where beans companies are actually cool enough to make ads this awesome. I wish I lived in that world. [Via Digg Video]

​The Best Video Game Music Of 2013

What music will ring out during your next adventure? What soaring melodies, what elephantine beats, what shocked silence? With each new video game comes a new aural accompaniment, a new collection of custom-made compositions. And so we press the buttons, push the sticks, and lose ourselves once more in the rhythm of play. 2013 was…

The Video Gamers of the Year

Yesterday, Kotaku kicked off its look back on 2013 with our (and your) nominees for Game of the Year. Just as important as the games, though, are the very real people who play them. For the second year, we’re also naming our Gamers of the Year, people who made contributions on behalf of video gaming’s…

Operation Broken Eagle, the first downloadable episode for Dead Rising 3, has been delayed to January 21. The DLC was originally expected on December 24, but Microsoft says they’re pushing back the date in order to spend a few more weeks polishing and playtesting.

Report: Zynga Founder Asked Obama To “Pardon” Edward Snowden

Yesterday, a bunch of America’s leading tech sector executives met with US President Barack Obama. They were meant to be talking about the failure of Heathcare.gov, but things got really interesting when the conversation moved onto the fate of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. The former CIA employee, who fled overseas to avoid US prosection for…

​Guy Creates Massive, Working 3D Printer In Minecraft

Every day it seems someone makes something remarkable in Minecraft. But this… well, this is one of the most remarkable Minecraft things I’ve seen in a while. It comes from ItsJustjumby, who has crafted a working, Star Destroyer-sized 3D printer in the game. Watch the video from the start, where he demonstrates it in action,…