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Giant 1920s Mechs: The Video Game

Normally, a concept artist’s job is to work on a game that already exists. In this case, a concept artist’s personal work has proven so popular that it’s inspired its own video game. That artist is Jakub Rozalski. We featured his badass “1920s Polish mechs” works a few years back on Kotaku, and while in…

Rogue One’s LEGO Trailer Is As Good As The Real One

The Star Wars: Rogue One trailer was released on April 7. That’s less than a month ago, and already, a team of fans have gone and made something that actual LEGO game developers Traveller’s Tales would be proud of. The clip was a collaboration between nine of the internet’s best LEGO animators (full list here),…

Uncharted: Fortune Hunter Is A Puzzle Game Worthy Of Nathan Drake

Once again, Nathan Drake is following in Lara Croft’s footsteps. Released today ahead of the much-anticipated debut of Uncharted 4 next week, Uncharted: Fortune Hunter gives players a new perspective from which to control Naughty Dog’s iconic hero. Much like Hitman Go and Lara Croft Go, Fortune Hunter places Nathan on a grid-based puzzle environment…

Thanks. I don’t usually use sprays in multiplayer shooters, but now, thanks to Overwatch player kharnna, I finally understand the appeal. Here’s the full clip:

The Nostalgic Moment In Dark Souls 3 That Made Me Go ‘Oh, Shit’

If you’ve played the whole Dark Souls series, you know what I’m talking about. If you haven’t played Dark Souls 3 yet, there are huge spoilers ahead. Again, I’m about to spoil a huge reveal in Dark Souls 3. Reader beware! Pontiff Sulyvahn proved to be one of the toughest fights for me in all…

Already great on PC and mobile platforms, Downwell’s fantastic vertical shooting action will be hitting PS4 and Vita on May 24

Samurai Showdown 2, Runner 2, Phantasy Star 2, and Sonic & Knuckles are now backwards compatible on Xbox One, Microsoft announced today. Even if people aren’t really using backwards compatibility, it’s nice to see the library getting updated every few days. Do you use it?

The Witcher 3’s Big Battle Sounded Like A Nightmare To Make

The Witcher 3 is an incredible video game, one I’m still playing a year after release. One of the main reasons it’s so good is that, for a big open-world game, everything actually comes together and works You take that for granted while playing, but considering the scale of the map, the way combat is…

The Life of Undertale’s Flowey, in GIF Form

Flowey is the first character you see in Undertale, and his story… let’s just say it’s unique. Also, turns out, it translates well to digital flipbook, or at least animated GIF form. Note: Heavy Undertale spoilers follow. The 53-frame animation, or rather the 53-part image series, depicts Flowey’s life, starting with his suicide and his…

Persona 5 Looks As Incredible As Ever

You thought the last Persona 5 trailer was amazing? It was. Ditto for this latest one. Check out this new gameplay, new characters, and sweet, sweet user interface. Today, Atlus revealed that Persona 5 will be out September 15 in Japan on the PS3 and PS4.

Pokémon Battles Are Pretty Messed Up In Halo 5

The creative stuff people come up with in Halo 5‘s Forge almost reach Garry’s Mod levels of silliness. Here’s, for example, a very well designed map for Pokémon battles. It’s a rock-paper-scissors type map with Blastoise, Venosaur and Charizard, where the winner can eliminate the other player with a powerful weapon. It’s made by CaptainDireWolf,…

Nintendo Is Using Their E3 Press Conference Slot For A Zelda Event

When Nintendo announced last week that Zelda will be the only playable game at this year’s E3, they left the door open for a press conference or Direct where they could announce other non-playable games. Seems like that ain’t happening, either. On Tuesday, June 14, rather than hold some sort of blowout event full of…

VR Lets You Wait For A Catbus With Totoro

For the past couple of years, British studio Fire Panda have been working on something that might just sell a few VR headsets to those not currently interested in games: small virtual tours through some of Studio Ghibli’s most famous movies. Via The Daily Dot, they’ve got one for Totoro (the famous bus stop scene),…

Lock Xbox Controller In Attack Position

To ring in this most special of marketing holidays, End Of Line Designs built this incredible X-Wing pilot-themed Xbox One controller. You can’t buy it—it’s a one-off custom—but don’t let that stop you wondering what it’d be like for Microsoft to put the same effort into custom Elite controllers (oh for that to be a…

State of Anarchy is basically the original GTA games if they’d never made it off a sketch book. It’s $1 on Steam

Some Great Plays From Overwatch‘s Open Beta

Overwatch’s open beta has been running for a day, and even then, this is only the early access portion of the show. Still, there’s been an unusually high concentration of excellent moments. First, here’s Harumiura with a textbook example of how to use Reinhardt. Set ‘em up, knock ‘em down. Really, really far down: Next,…

Both Star Wars: The Force Unleashed games are now backwards compatible on Xbox One, Microsoft announced today. While it’s not the Knights of the Old Republic remake I’ve been hoping for, it’s something.

Dark Souls 3 Player Wrecks One Of The Hardest Bosses In A Single Hit

Holy crap. Take a look at this. Yes, that’s someone beating Pontiff Sulyvahn in one hit. It’s one of the more impressive things I’ve seen someone pull off in Dark Souls 3 so far. This clip comes courtesy of neptunusequester on YouTube: They claim it’s part of the 1HKO Challenge, aka one-hit knockout. I suspected…

Seven-Year-Old Mario Maker Creator Just Hopes Nintendo Won’t Delete His Levels Again

My heart broke after reading a letter from a seven year old fan named Daniel, who was hoping I’d play his Mario Maker stage. The problem? He feared Nintendo would delete it before I had a chance to check it out. I play new Mario Maker stages every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday on Twitchand YouTube.…

I Can Finally Play Star Wars: Shadows Of The Empire Whenever I Want

Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire, much like the recently re-released Star Wars: Rogue Squadron, used to be a pain to get your hands on. Now, though, it’s just a few clicks away. Shadows of the Empire was a sort of Star Wars mid-quel, an attempt at bridging the gap between Empire Strikes Back and…