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Finally, A Great Trailer For A Virtual Reality Game

It is notoriously difficult to convey what a virtual reality video game looks and feels like to people who aren’t wearing virtual reality goggles. This trailer for Vive launch game Fantastic Contraption, however, nearly nails it. The mixed-reality video from indie trailer maker Kert Gartner inserts live-action footage of a person playing the gizmo-building VR…

There’s Something Not Quite Right About The New DOOM

I hadn’t even finished downloading the beta on Friday when the first messages began flooding in. “If the campaign for the new Doom is anywhere near the quality of the multiplayer beta, then that’s the franchise over,” the most scathing take read. This post originally appeared 4/3/16 on Kotaku Australia It wasn’t that bad. But…

Donald Trump Tweets A Terrible Campaign Ad That Rips Off Mass Effect

I’m Commander Shepard, and this is my least favorite racist on the Citadel. Continuing his tendency to Tweet absolutely anything,no matter how ridiculous, Donald Trump recently shared the following video with his 7.3 million followers: Yes, that is Mass Effect music and voice acting throughout the ad, which appropriately ends with a title card reading…

The Sad, Strange Fates Of Live-Action Video Game Actors From The 1990s 

Back in the 1990s, folks thought that video games that relied heavily on filmed sequences were the future. That future never really came to pass, but the cheesiness of 1990s games like Night Trap and Harvester earned them places of affection in gamers’ collective subconscious. However, some of the onscreen talent from those games wound…

15 Minutes of Uncharted 4’s Beautiful Madagascar Level

Surprising absolutely no one, Uncharted 4 continues to look amazing. Naughty Dog released a new chunk Uncharted 4 footage today, and though it’s brief, you can spot all sorts of cool details within: Some highlights… The mud physics! They’re great. Naturally, trying to drive your car up a very muddy incline is difficult, if not…

The Great Wars Of EVE Online

EVE Online is a complicated game full of politics, subterfuge, and grand-scale wars. Factions rise and fall, corporations are overthrown, and you don’t have to play the game to know that a lot of what’s going on in it is really cool. Empires of EVE: A History of the Great Wars of EVE Online by…

A 3D Legend Of Zelda Tribute You Can Play In Your Browser

Or at least while it lasts. A pair going by Scott and Mike are well on their way to creating a playable voxel-based The Legend of Zelda in honor of the game’s 30th anniversary. Hosted at Zelda30Tribute.com (via Nintendo Life), the fan recreation is built entirely in WebGL, mixing 3D voxels with the music, sound…

A More Mature Super Mario

Super Mario and the Mushroom Kingdom becomes a dark world with some intimidating enemies in artist Sylvain Sarrailh’s fantastic fan-art. The top pic’s set in a crystal cave, while this second one looks like one of the first stages of any Mario game. To contact the author of this post, write to: [email protected]

GTA V Mod Lets You Play as The Flash

Here’s a GTA V mod, in case you ever wanted to run so hard that you create a tornado and suck up all nearby objects. In GTA V This script mod which, of course, turns you into The Flash, was made by JulioNIB (via DSOGaming), he of legendary status in the modding community and purveyor…

Dark Souls 3‘s Butt Glitch 

The assumption might be that another glitch will eventually surpass this. But that will not happen. Note: This story contains content some readers might find objectionable. While it’s not yet known how widespread the glitch is, it seems like it happens when there’s bowing and squatting while decked out in a robe. I’m sure From…

When You’re A Regular Guy, But You Can Also Fight Like A Witcher

This is Alan Padziński. Actual human being, but also master of the various sword styles of The Witcher universe. We’ve seen Alan’s work before, but I thought this new clip was also worth sharing, if only for the comparison montage there at the end.

PlayStation Employee Builds Custom Controller For Gamer With Cerebral Palsy

College student Peter Byrne has cerebral palsy, and as a result has been having problems with his new DualShock 4 controller. Or, was having problems, until a PlayStation employee got him sorted out. Byrne wrote to Sony to explain an issue he was having, where his left hand was constantly brushing against the DS4’s touchpad,…

Never Forget Your Horse Armor

Ten years ago today Bethesda defined bad downloadable content with two dollars and fifty cents’ worth of horse barding. Downloadable content was a relatively new thing back in 2006 whenmy favorite Elder Scrolls game was released, and players and publishers alike were still getting a feel for what worked and what did not work. Then…

It took more than 130 hours of play time, but Twitch streamer Rudeism finally hit level 100 in World of Warcraft using only a dance pad. His final 12 hour session took him from level 95 to 100, after which he sat down and used mouse and keyboard like a normal person.

Widowmaker Aims To Kill In The Second Overwatch Animated Short

Thefirst bit of Pixar-quality Overwatch animation from Blizzard was touching. The second is downright chilling. Everybody’s favorite rear-end model co-stars in Widowmaker’s short story, attempting to stop the deadly assassin from taking out the metal face of the robot/human equality movement. It does not end the way I thought it would. Two down, two to…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Ditto

Ditto is a Pokemon that can transform itself into a near-perfect copy of any opponent. With rudimentary image manipulation skill, anyone could be a Ditto. Anyone. Let me share with you all the inspiration behind this week’s ‘Shop Contest, mealypotatoes’ entry from the epic Pokken Vs. UFC battle. The only difference between a Ditto copy…

When Ratchet Met Clank . . . Again

The first meeting between the Lombax mechanic and defective Warbot is much more dramatic in the Ratchet & Clank movie than it was in the game. It had to be, really. As much as I love the PlayStation 2 classic, the coming together of its titular heroes wasn’t exactly a momentous occasion. It’s was pretty…

Powerpuff Girls Flipped Out Is Two Different Games, Depending How You Look At It

Sugar, spice and an interesting game-shifting device is what Cartoon Network and developer Grumpyface put into Powerpuff Girls Flipped Out, the mobile side of this year’s big relaunch. In landscape mode Flipped Out is a tactical brawler. Players move Bubbles, Buttercup and Blossom about the screen by taping and swiping. They’ll auto-attack whichever monster they…

War Is Beautiful In EVE Online

The largest war in EVE Online history is brewing, and you don’t need to understand what’s going on to appreciate the gorgeous spectacle. The conflict is so exciting that it’s drawn EVE Online YouTuber Rooksandkings back into the fray, crafting a short video that’s one part documentary, one part recruitment propaganda. If I were versed…

I Ditched My Glasses For Virtual Reality

These are my eyes. Normally they are surrounded by thick frames with thicker glass. But now that virtual reality is a thing, I needed room on my face for other things. After nearly three decades I’m switching from eyeglasses to contacts. Note the lingering remnants of telltale red marks on the bridge of my nose.…