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Our Favorite Games From April

We got some big games this past month, like Dark Souls III, the new Ratchet & Clank, and the Banner Saga sequel, to name just a few. But those three are just a small part of the two dozen games we’ve looked at, and loved, in April. Have a look: 1979 Revolution: Black Friday On…

Mighty No. 9 Is Actually Coming Out

After endless delays and a gradual drain of fan hope and excitement, the Mega Man successor Mighty No. 9 is actually coming out: on June 21, 2016. Well, sorta. Not content just to announce a release date, designer Keiji Inafune also said today that he’s delayed the 3DS and Vita versions of his upcoming game,…

The Predator’s Designer Builds Killer League Of Legends Statue

Hollywood design and effects legend Steve Wang, who has worked on everything from Predator to Hellboy, was recently commissioned to build a new League of Legends statue for Riot Games. Wang and his team knocked it out of the park. The statue is of Lucian, and boy is there a lot going on. In addition…

People Dressing Up And Killing Produce With Swords Is The Legacy Of Fruit Ninja

I was never a big Fruit Ninja fan, but I love what the game has done to promote real-life fruit ninjaneering. Filmmaker Scott Winn’s follow-up to his 2012 viral hit adds an additional ninja and a flaming sword. Now some might say one extra ninja and a sword coated with flaming oil isn’t much of…

Uncharted 4‘s year-long DLC multiplayer plan, which is promising free maps and modes, gets detailed on the official PlayStation Blog

Animators Team Up To Redo Smash Bros. Melee‘s Intro

More than 30 animators brought in their unique styles for the Reanimation Project’s attempt to remake the beloved intro of Super Smash Bros. Melee This means it’s dozens of small clips, segments of the original intro, (gotta love the Monty Python one around 1:18), tied together as one long fan remake. Here’s the original one…

Fallout 4‘s World Map As A Globe

Suddenly, Fallout 4‘s Commonwealth, which feels pretty big in first-person view, shrinks when we can see most of it from above. An awesome idea from kidaXV, who used a panorama photo stitcher on 45 carefully selected screenshots to make this unique projection. Slightly bigger pic above, and there’s an even larger one (it’s 50 MB…

An Audience with EVE Online’s Space Pope

Two weeks ago, at EVE Fanfest, a convention for players of space MMO EVE Online, I began hearing odd snatches of conversation: “Dude, the pope’s in our hotel”, “Did you kiss the ring?”. This is at the same time as the real pope is out in Greece meeting with refugees, so, clearly, we’re talking about…

Here’s the Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare Debut Trailer

I’ll cut to the chase: It’s Call of Duty. There’s shooting. There are spaceships. There’s a “Space Oddity” cover. That’s right, besides the ground combat for which the series is known, Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare takes players to space, allowing them to pilot a spacecraft. The Italian trailer seemed to first hit the Call…

Popular League Of Legends Streamer Banned For Trolling

Tyler1, a popular League of Legends streamer who recently made a name for himself as a poster boy for toxic behaviour in the game, has been “indefinitely” banned by Riot. Previously a relatively small-timer on Twitch, Tyler1’s popularity exploded earlier this month after word got out that his streams featured non-stop trolling, including everything from…

Virtual Prison Does Not Sound Like A Fun Afternoon

Companies like Facebook aren’t pouring billions into VR just for games. They see the wider possibilities for the tech. As do media outlets like The Guardian, who have released a VR app called 6×9 that simulates the “psychological damage of extreme isolation” in a solitary confinement prison cell. “Right now, more than 80,000 people are…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Civil Skirmish

Sure we’re dealing with some super-powered being sand Spider-Man isn’t in the art to represent Team Tony, but this is hardly a war. If they want a war, we’ll give them a war. Captain America: Civil War arrives in my brain this Thursday night, taking the massive Marvel Comics event I didn’t like and whittling…

Hidden Object Games Are Mindless Fluff, And That’s Why I Love Them

It’s looks a bit like BioShock concept art, but it is most definitely not. This is a screenshot from Abyss: The Wraiths of Eden, one of the finest examples of hidden object games, the trash novels of casual games. I love them so. Many casual game genres can trace their roots back to titles that…

The Weirdly Dark And Insightful StarCraft Visual Novel Is Getting A Sequel

One of the most honest looks at competitive gaming, the literally-named StarCraft visual novel SC2VN, is getting a Brood War-themed sequel: Don’t Forget Our eSports Dream It might seem odd that a visual novel ends up being one of the best pieces of media about esports and pro gaming. But one reason why Team Eleven’s…

Happy Mythical Darkrai Day, Pokémon Fans

It’s May 1, which means the mythical 20th anniversary Pokémon celebration says goodbye to Jirachiand helloto Darkrai. But to get a level 100 version of the dark creature you’re going to have to head to a dark place: GameStop. After few months of Toys’R’Us exclusive plushies and figures and mythical Pokémon easily accessible over the…

Please Stop Doing This, Massively Multiplayer RPGs

You know what I love about massively multiplayer online role-playing games? Losing myself in the fiction of a fantasy world. You know what completely ruins that feeling? The MMORPG equivalent of licensed Happy Meal toys. I’ve been playing MMORPG games for about 18 years. I’ve always found them to be a pleasant alternative to whatever…

Here’s the New Godzilla’s Prototype Model 

This July, Toho Studios is releasing a brand new Godzilla film in Japan. We’ve see the teasers (here and here), but now, let’s get a close-up look at the production maquette. According to Famitsu and Kaiju-Japan, the first maquette was on display at the recent Nico Nico Chokaigi event in Chiba, outside Tokyo. Artist Takayuki…

Early Footage From Assassin’s Creed Creator’s 1666: Amsterdam

In 2010 Assassin’s Creed creator Patrice Désiletsleft Ubisoftto form his own studio within THQ to work on a game called 1666: Amsterdam. Here’s our first look at how that game was shaping up before being sold back to Ubisoft and left in limbo for three years. According to the description of the YouTube video below…

Massive Update Fixes A Lot Of Quantum Break‘s PC Problems

When Quantum Break launched earlier this month the PC version had plenty of problems, including poor performance, forced upscaling and the lack of a button to exit the game. Today’s 27GB update goes some way towards making the port not as horrible. First off, that’s a very large update. I’ve seen folks on various forums…

Just Announce Call Of Duty: Infinite Warfare Already, Activision

Followingyesterday’s spaceship tease, the Nuketown map in Call of Duty: Black Ops III now includes a couple of new decorations, one of which plays this video of a future man pointedly not simply announcing Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare. How much longer can Activision draw this out?