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Your Best (And Worst) Video Game Stories

Some of our most memorable times with video games have little to do with the game itself, and everything to do with who we were, who we were with and what we were doing at the time. Here are some Kotaku reader’s tales of triumph, despair, friendships lost, puking, battles with cancer, broken saves… For…

A Sign Of The Times

The option to disable copyrighted music in a major video game would have been unthinkable or at least seemed irrelevant years ago. Now it’s in a major Xbox One release like Quantum Break, as seen here. This will likely become increasingly common as game makers want gamers to be able to stream without fear of…

Steph Curry, Shaking That Ass Just Like An NBA Dancer

Sport video game modders, you’ve finally gone too far. To be frank, I’m not all that mad at the mod that overlays the bodies of NBA all-star players onto the animations of a league dance team. It’s hilarious watching Steph Curry, Lebron James and other hoop greats getting loose at halfourt. But the disturbing part…

Hidden Gem Hand of Fate Gets A Sequel Early Next Year

The 2015 hybrid card game and action role-playing game Hand of Fate was surprisingly good, if a bit rough-edged. It built a following, sold some 400,000 copies on PC and console, added 1.5 million more through a free Xbox Games with Gold promotion and was successful enough that it’s getting a slicker sequel that was…

Skyrim Player Says He Went Through Hell Just To Adopt A Virtual Dog

And now, an epic tale of love and dedication only possible through video games. Patrick Lenton is a Skyrim playerwho had but one simple desire: to adopt a virtual dog. Adopting a dog in Skyrim isn’t straightforward, however. As the Elder Scrolls Wiki explains, pets can live with you only if your adopted children accept…

Marvel’s New Poe Dameron Comic Expands The Star Wars Universe

Marvel’s Star Wars comics have been pretty damn good so far. But the creators on these titles have had it easy: they’ve been working with characters who have been popular and well-loved for decades. The team doing this week’s Poe Dameron comic has a tougher job: keeping the momentum going from one of the biggest…

Fallout 4’s Next DLC Drops April 12th, Lets You Collect Monsters Like Pokémon

Introducing Wasteland Workshop, a Fallout 4 DLC that lets you make your settlements more homey. Assuming, of course, your idea of “home” means building better death traps for your settlers, or having the ability to collect cats and Deathclaws. It might be worth it for this alone: My question is, can we force cats and…

Team Ninja’s Samurai Dark Souls Is Getting A Week-Long PS4 Alpha Demo

Spirit sharks and Shiba Inu puppies aside, Team Ninja’s Nioh continues to give off strong Dark Souls vibes, right down to the more polite “Ready To Die?” tagline in the trailer. We’ll see if that vibe holds when the week-long PlayStation 4 alpha demo kicks off later this month. Nioh (or sometimes Ni-oh) has been…

The Greatsword of Artorias From Dark Souls Isn’t For Normal Human Beings

Even for veteran fighters from medieval times, handling a giant two-handed sword must have been a challenge. And while the folks at Man at Armsdid a very good job forging a replica of this iconic weapon from Dark Souls, they have a bit of trouble wielding it. But as the end of the video shows,…

Famous Dragon Ball Locations In 3D

Here are some aesthetically perfect Dragon Ball fan-pics by NicoTheSane, who remade four well-known locations from the series in 3D using a very cool, clear style. King Kai’s planet (with all of its landmarks: apple trees and a well), Kami’s Lookout, the original World Martial Arts Tournament Arena, and of course, the Kame House. via…

Diablo II’s Final Boss, Looking Unusually Badass

This Baal is more like the Baal I’d imagine after dying over ten times in Diablo II Act V’s Worldstone Chamber. The above model is the fifth and final piece of a 3D fanart series about the act bosses of Diablo II. The artist, Svein Yngve Sandvik Antonsen from Norway, first started working on the…

1980s Anime Lives On in This R-Type Tribute

Irem’s 1987 side-scrolling arcade shooter R-Type comes to life in one man’s loving fan-made tribute. This is the work of Paul Johnson, whom you might remember from the incredible TIE Fighter animation to which he devoted four years of his life. Johnson has also uploaded a clip of him drawing, giving an insight to how…

Lush Green. Shiretoko National Park, Hokkaido, Japan. By Zachary Sorenson. JPGs is a photo peek into wherever gamers might find interesting. If you’re a photographer and have images you want to share, drop us a line!

$5000 Console Is Covered In 24k Gold

The very fancy Analogue NT, a replica NES for wealthy adults, is expensive enough at the best of times. Never mind when it literally ships covered in gold The makers of the console have decided to build ten of the already-expensive consoles plated in 24k gold. Each of these are be priced at $4999. As…

You don’t need to know much about the game to be completely hypnotised by this motion chart tracking the world’s top chess players.

Years Later, Fans Are Still Trying To Fix Aliens: Colonial Marines

To recap: Colonial Marines was shit. But where Gearbox and friends failed, a very dedicated fan is still plugging away trying to make things right. TemplarGFX is working on something called ACM Overhaul, which seeks to, well, overhaul much of the game’s content and either replace it or make it work better. That means new…

The Force Awakens On Game Consoles

Like the Force, there is a light side and a dark side of purchasing a digital copy of Star Wars: The Force Awakens on your PlayStation 4 or Xbox One. The light side involves the iconic fanfare and a jovial BB-8 rolling across the screen. And the dark side is the PlayStation 4. No fun…

VR Talk Show Is Awkward And Amazing

The first episode of The Foo Show, a virtual reality-based talk show hosted by Tested’s Will Smith, begins with a trio of gawky avatars sitting around discussing the game Firewatch. Then they step inside, and it’s pretty magical. Smith and his guests, Campo Santo’s Jake Rodkin and Sean Vanaman, move jerkily about like old Thunderbird…

I Think You Mean “Loss,” Street Fighter V

Subnautica Developer Explains Why He Won’t Add Guns To The Game

Underwater survival game Subnautica has a lot of things that can kill you. As has long been a point of contention among players, you can’t do much to kill things back. This weekend, one of the game’s developers revealed the reasoning behind Subnautica’s lack of lethal weapons. Charlie Cleveland, Subnautica’s game director, responded to a…