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Dark Souls: The Board Game was a smashing success on Kickstarter, raising a whopping $5.4 million over the last month. It’s not due to arrive until April 2017, but clearly, there’s a market for more Dark Souls material.

Retail Game Kiosks Were Better Back In The Intellivision Days

This is one of the coolest things you could see at a K-Mart back in the late ‘70s. The kiosk, not vintage video game collector Jason Brassard, who shows off the beige beauty in Trade-in-Games’ video. He’s pretty cool too. Mattel’s Intellivsion was on the losing side of the first console war, but you couldn’t…

Xbox Live Is Freeing Up A Million Gamertags

This week, Microsoft will release close to a million Xbox Live gamertags to the public, the company said today. These handles, which Microsoft says have been inactive since the original Xbox era, will start going free on May 18 at 2pm ET. Microsoftwon’t give the full list, so you’ll have to use trial and error…

Body Count Be Damned, Hitman‘s Elusive Targets Are Terrific

I can pass for a level-headed assassin in Hitman most of the time, especially with a little practice. But, when the game gave me an “Elusive Target” who I could only pursue once this weekend, my Agent 47 became a murder version of the Keystone Kops. Elusive Targets are a much-awaited feature in the new…

Dark Souls 3 Anti-Cheating Patch On PC Backfires

It’s been a messy few weeks for Dark Souls 3 on PC. It’s a terrific game, but cheating has been rampant, and From Software hasn’t been clear about how they’re going to solve it. So when a patch showed up this weekend, promising to fix things, it was good news! It also, uh, broke the…

Overwatch‘s New Animated Short Explores Hanzo And Genji’s Tragic Rivalry

Overwatch’s series of excellent animated shorts just got another entry. The stars this time? Samurai arrow-slinger Hanzo and cyborg ninja everything-blocker Genji. Here’s the short: Here’s Blizzard’s description of it: “‘Dragons’ explores the history of conflict between the scions of the Shimada clan: Hanzo and Genji. In this episode, we follow Hanzo as he returns…

There’s Already An Excellent VR Rhythm Game

Riding imaginary roller coasters and losing one’s self in immersive 360 degree environments is all well and good, but for me to truly appreciate virtual reality I needed an experience that spoke to my gaming tastes. Vive rhythm game Audioshield did the trick. I love rhythm games, and I hold a particular fondness for games…

Reviewer Targeted For Giving Uncharted 4 Negative Review

“Your Washington post for Christ’s Sake , not a 12-year-old’s diary,” reads a recent internet petition about Uncharted 4. “Treat the game with professionalism and respect.” This petition has over 4,000 supporters and has even been signed and tweeted by the popular voice actor Troy Baker, who co-stars in the newest Uncharted. Its goal is…

RIP Darwyn Cooke, A Comic Book Great

On Saturday, Darwyn Cooke passed away at the age of 53. He was one of my favourite comic book artists (and writers). You may have already heard the news, you may have no idea who he is. It was certainly a shock to hear, given we’d only heard about his battle with lung cancer on…

Yo-Kai Watch 2 Comes Stateside September 30

Pulling a Pokemon for the second installment of Level-5’s kid-friendly ghost-hunting series, Yo-Kai Watch 2: Fleshy Souls and Yo-Kai Watch 2: Bony Spirits come to the U.S. 3DS this fall, along with a ton of corresponding merchandise. Already a massive hit in Japan (where they’re currently ramping up for Yo-Kai Watch 3‘s July release), Yo-Kai…

Uncharted 4‘s Stunning Photo Mode Art

Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End is a beautiful game on its own. Add an extensive Photo Mode and a creative player base and it becomes an art engine, generating an endless array of eye candy. Here are some of our favorites. With plenty of filters, tools and even the avility to remove characters from scenes…

Disney Theme Park Designer Imagines A Castle In The Sky Ride

John Ramirez, whose actual job it is to design rides for Disney, had an idea for a Totoro experience. He now also has one for a Castle in the Sky/Laputa ride, too. It’s great. Perfect. The carriage, the sections of the movie you visit, the multiple appearances of the robots, it’s all the best. As…

Mario vs Dark Souls. By Jason Chan

Artist Makes Badass Battlefront, Killzone & Resident Evil Figures

Snow Corporation is a British artist who, inspired by stuff like Sideshow’s efforts, builds and modifies custom action figures. Star Wars, Warhammer, Marvel, commissions, he’s done it all, and they are all incredible Note this is different to the VTS figures we showed last week; those are commercial bootlegs, while these are either for commission…

Tank Murder Is A Very Funny GTA V Video

Tanks aren’t just in GTA V for shooting stuff and evading cops. There’s so much scope to do more with their heavy, swinging bodies. Like slapstick murder. AwesomeAlvin’s video here covers a lot of GTA V escapades (some of it a bit much), but it’s any part with a tank that’s the highlight.

DOOM PC Benchmarks: Not Hellish At All

Twenty two years ago an obscure game developer called id Software released a first-person shooter that would have a huge impact on the future of PC gaming, computer graphics and the industry as a whole, that game was Doom At the time I was 10, and while I can’t exactly recall if my first encounter…

Bejeweled Is So Over Candy Crush Saga‘s Bullshit

The official description for Bejeweled Stars does not read “You like Candy Crush Saga? Fine. Here’s your damn Candy Crush Saga,” but it really should. PopCap’s Bejeweled wasn’t the first match-three puzzler, but it was the game that put the sub-genre on the map. The wonderfully simple, wildly addictive gem-matching game grew so popular there…

The Official World Of Warcraft Cookbook Calls For Hungry Players, Canned Haggis

Coming this October from the author of the official Game of Thrones cookbook, World of Warcraft: The Official Cookbook will have you searching “where can I buy canned haggis” in Google more often than you already do. The fine folks at Simon & Schuster (via Destructoid) are bringing Chelsea Monroe-Cassel’s interpretation of classic Azerothian food…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Civil Skirmish: The Winners!

“Pick a side, and then make it better than the other side.”Those were the instructions I gave in our Civil War-themed Photoshop contest. These are the results. Originally published 5/11/16 Earlier this week I mentioned postponing these results to the weekend due to sickness, but I made it back in time to run them on…

Let’s Check The Battlefield 1 Trailer For Historical Accuracy

With the recently-announced Battlefield 1 sparking renewed interest in its WWI setting, historians are poring over the launch trailer to see how closely it sticks the details. The Great War’s Indy Neidell takes us through the good, the bad and the okay then. I attempted to go through the trailer myself and look for any…