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A Survival Horror Game That Never Plays The Same Way Twice

The fear of the unknown is powerful. Darkwood takes that idea to heart: it’s a top-down procedurally generated survival horror game. This means that every time you play, you’ll experience something different. Adding to the tension is the fact that the game features roguelike elements and permadeath. You’ll also be able to craft items, build…

Now That SimCity Has Curved Roads, It Also Can Have…

The city in the above image was created in the beta for the new SimCity and demonstrated that, as always, if gamers can draw some male genitalia into a game, they will. Really, they will Previous SimCity games only let players draw straight rodes into their cities. The new game lets you draw curved roads,…

This Animated Zelda Cake Is The Most Impressive Thing You’ll See Today

Holy crap. Kotaku reader Will Turnbow and his wife made this cake for their daughter’s tenth birthday, and I think it’s no exaggeration to say this is the coolest thing you’ll see today. Based on The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, the cake includes Skyloft, the Sealed Grounds, the Faron Woods, and a ton of…

In a Week of Big-Name Runner Games, This Indie is On Fire

It’s been a huge week for mobile running games. There’s a new Temple Run that’s tied to Disney’s Oz: The Great and Powerful. Mini Ninjas went for a jog, Sonic the Hedgehog busted out time-tested moves, and the Monday Night Combat folks launched the Outland Games. All of these running games based on popular properties,…

Ultima Creator Richard Garriott Revolutionized Video Game RPGs. Now He Wants To Do It Again.

The man known as Lord British has been gone from video games a long time. Yeah, he’s had the whole space travel thing going on. And there was a messy bit of business where he got half a million dollars stolen from him to buy fancy magician paraphernalia. But it seemed really weird that Richard…

They Want $250,000 To Make A DRM-Free Clone Of SimCity

A team of developers is looking to make a single-player city-building game that seems like the anti-SimCity—and they’re asking for $250,000 on Kickstarter to make it happen. Called Civitas, the project promises to be a SimCity clone that you can actually play offline, which might come as welcome news to fans burned by the recent…

Don’t Worry, God of War Isn’t Going to Run Out of Deities to Beat Up Anytime Soon

There have been five God of War games and, in each one, Kratos slaughters his way through significant portions of the Greco-Roman pantheon. Wow, you might say, is there anybody left for the Ghost of Sparta to be mad at? Yeah, there is. In a post on the PlayStation Blog, God of Ascension lead combat…

This Stunning Life-Sized Princess Zelda Statue Is Entirely Made Of Paper

According to papercraft-master minidelirium, even with instructions and templates it took more than 200 hours to build this stunning life-sized Princess Zelda. That’s a labor of love right there. She is 5’6″ tall (~170cm), made of really strong paper, and looks just like her equivalent in Super Smash Bros. Brawl And what did minidelirium do…

KingsRoad is the Closest You Can Come to Playing Diablo on Facebook

Launched just this week, Rumble Entertainment’s KingsRoad is about as far from a traditional Facebook game as you can get. It’s a Diablo-style action role-playing game with all the bells and whistles — including multiplayer — and it’s servers are running just fine. The people of Alderstone have lost their king, and a mysterious evil…

Our First Look at Shadowrun Returns in Action Shows $1.8 Million Well-Spent

Last year Jordan Weisman’s Harebrained Schemes raised $1,895,772 via Kickstarter to create the ultimate game based on the magic-meets-technology pen-and-paper role-playing game, Shadowrun. Today we get our first look at Shadowrun Returns gameplay, and so far it’s everything I wanted it to be. This should completely wash the bad taste of that first-person shooter from…

According to MCVUK and Eurogamer, SimCity‘s UK launch seems “fine” and working “for now”. Wait until this weekend…

Assassin’s Creed’s New Protagonist Sure Looks Like This Porn Star

At first glance, Edward Kenway—the protagonist of the upcoming Assassin’s Creed IV game—looks like your typical leading dude. Stoic, beefy, masculine. Nothing special, right? Those with more astute observation skills over at Reddit, like zinadello13, noticed that Kenway bears a striking resemblance to Capt. Edward Reynolds from Pirates. As in, the (in)famous porn from 2005…

This Tomb Raider Rap Is Pretty Damn Good

Yes, yes. Another day, another rap-tribute to a video game. But this one’s particularly good. Alabama rapper Kadesh Flow goes beyond “fun and/or goofy” and enters the realm of “real chops.” Give it a watch. (Thanks, Tai!)

I Didn’t Know Disney Helped Make The New Mass Effect 3 DLC

One of the best parts of Mass Effect 3‘s new ‘Citadel’ add-on—and there are a lot of good parts —comes near the end, when you have an opportunity to spend some quality one-on-one time with each of your companions from throughout the entire series. I liked all of the interactions that I saw, but this…

This funny Fire Emblem: Awakening text-adventure faithfully captures the experience of playing the game itself.

Nvidia has announced that the PlayStation 4 will support their nifty PhysX physics software.

Here’s an interesting short feature on the father of video games, Ralph Baer.

SimCity Makers Address Launch Fiasco, Vow To Continue Adding Servers Over The Weekend

The head of the studio behind the troubled new SimCity told Kotaku today that efforts to solve the game’s server woes will continue aggressively into the weekend. The statement, from Maxis general manager Lucy Bradshaw, indicates that some people are in fact playing the game but that EA has a long way to go to…

The Most Hilarious Skateboarding Glitches, Now In Motion

Video games that rely on a lot of physics-driven character animations tend to have some pretty funny glitches. Last week, we shared a selection of the most awesome classic sport game glitches, so it only made sense to do a follow-up, featuring skateboarding games. Lots of animated stuff here, it might take a few seconds…

NFL Punter Kicks The Crap Out Of EA And SimCity

Everybody’s sick of this SimCity disaster. Everybody! Even Chris Kluwe, a punter for the Minnesota Vikings and big gamer, has taken to Twitter to say some… colorful things about SimCity, and about EA’s decision not to let people play the game offline. Behold: Gotta love a guy who isn’t afraid to speak his mind.