Uncategorized

Bunker Punks Is A Cool Steam Early Access Game You Should Try

Bunker Punks is a roguelike first person shooter by Shane Neville’s one-person studio, Ninja Robot Dinosaur. That’s a bunch of cool words all crammed together. Which is appropriate, because Bunker Punks is crammed with a bunch of cool stuff. William Gibson-esque future where you make runs on corporations gone wild? Check. Randomized pixel art levels…

VR Game At A Glance: Space Dogfighting In EVE: Valkyrie

The Oculus Rift VR headset is officially out this week, and there are a bunch of games to play on it. One of the most well-known is the outer-space dogfighting game EVE: Valkyrie, which is about as impressive a technical showpiece for virtual reality as I’ve seen. Here’s a video of me playing a round…

The Division‘s Newest Farming Exploit Is Elaborate Yet Effective

The Bullet King may be dead, but that doesn’t mean The Division players have been unable to find new farming strategies to exploit. The latest popular strategy is about as elaborate an approach as I’ve seen. In this video, MarcoStyle lays out what to do: It’s much more complicated than “go and shoot the guy…

LEGO Batman Is The Movie Hero We Deserve

Speaking of better Batman moments, I enjoyed this minute and a half teaser video for The LEGO Batman Movie more than anything I saw in Batman V. Superman. Not to be confused with last week’s teaser, this is a brand-new video featuring the best bad Batman, Will Arnett, caught in a tender moment with picture…

11 Stories That Have Better Batman-Superman Moments

The storyline that pits Clark Kent against Bruce Wayne in Batman v Superman isn’t very good, barely held together by the flimsiest of threads. But this grudge match/team-up has already happened a lot in comics, and most times it’s been more compelling than Zack Snyder’s mess of a movie. Superman and Batman have been around…

Microsoft’s announced that Halo Wars, Soul Calibur 2, and King of Fighters ‘98 are now backwards compatible on Xbox One. It sure seems like Microsoft is getting these games out at a rapid clip now!

 What Made F-Zero Great

F-Zero GX was a critical hit that, 13 years later, stands as a racing game classic for Sega and Nintendo. It was the latest in a string of excellent F-Zero games. It was also the last one ever made for a console. Nintendo has largely neglected the series beyond the mid 2000s, and as such…

How To Play Stardew Valley On Your Mac Right Now

There’s no Mac version of Stardew Valley (yet), but that’s no problem. The official word on Stardew Valley coming to Mac is that it’s contingent on sales. Given how popular the game’s become, there’s reason to think there will be a version for Mac (and Linux) in the future. But what about today?? Or tomorrow??…

YouTuber’s Journey Into Abandoned MMO Is Creepypasta Material

Active Worlds is an MMO from 1995 that nobody really plays anymore. That’s where this story begins. YouTuber vinesauce plays unusual games all the time, and recently he took to exploring some of Active Worlds. For the most part, Active Worlds seems like a digital graveyard that nobody roams anymore. At least, that was the…

Sign Up For The Kotaku Newsletter To Get Our Top Stories E-mailed Directly To You

We’ve launched an official Kotaku Newsletter, full of our top stories of the day. To get it e-mailed to you daily, take five seconds to sign up right here. It’ll show up around 4pm ET.

One Wild, Occasionally Nauseating Week Of Virtual Reality With The Oculus Rift

For the past week, I’ve been strapping a headset to my face and embracing the sensory overload of modern virtual reality. I’ve watched VR short films and played around 30 VR games, all from the comfort of my own home. I’ve fought off space raiders, monsters, and VR-induced nausea. Let me tell you all about…

Worms Armageddon Feels Like An Appropriate Way To Predict The U.S. Presidential Race

Assigning candidate names to AI-controller, combat-ready invertebrates and letting them wage war until only one stands? YouTube’s Many A True Nerd might be onto something. In order to simulate the U.S. presidential race, Jon from Many A True nerd created a custom battle in Team17’s 1999 multiplayer battle classic. Worms representing Ted Cruz, Hilary Clinton,…

Streamer Transforms Super Mario World Into A Whole Other Game Just By Playing

Using an exploit allowing him to write processor instructions to Super Nintendo system memory, speedrunner and Minecraft builder extraordinaire Sethbling injected the code for mobile hit Flappy Bird into Super Mario World in under an hour. (Video below will autoplay, sorry.) This is not an emulator running code. The Super Nintendo was not modded. A…

Original Snake Voice David Hayter Has No Love For Hideo Kojima

“I was kinda hoping that Konami would take me back now that he was gone.” In a special edition of the Game Informer podcast, actor and screenwriter David Hayter talked about his “humiliating” replacement as Metal Gear’s leading man and how he really feels about the series creator who wanted him gone. If you’re interested…

Anime Sculpture Will Mess With Your Mind

It really will. The wire sculpture starts with Detective Conan and then… …goes to Phoenix Wright from Capcom’s Ace Attorney series, which is getting a TV anime. This sculpture was recently on display at this weekend’s Anime Japan in Tokyo. Kotaku East is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points…

The Old Nintendo 3DS Turns Five

The Nintendo 3DS was released in North America five years ago today, and we’re still using at least two of its Ds. Do you still have yours, or did you trade it in for something sexier last year?

Five-Year-Old Two Worlds II Gets New Story DLC And A Sequel

The open-world fantasy role-playing series that opened with a horrid whimper but continued with a refined bang is getting bigger. Polish developer Reality Pump and TopWare Interactive announce fresh DLC for Two Worlds II and the beginning of work on Two Worlds III I made a lot of fun of Two Worlds II when it…

That Weird Time DC and Marvel Joined Forces

In 1996, something happened that most superhero comics fans thought was impossible: DC Comics and Marvel mashed their characters together into an all-new fictional construct. The Amalgam era was truly a once-in-a-lifetime event, because the comics published during this brief experiment probably aren’t getting reprinted anytime soon. Originally published 3/22/16 It’s long been a ritual…

It’s Been A Mythical Month, Celebi

Time’s almost up for the second Mythical Pokémon in this year’s monthly celebration of two decades of pocket monsters. As collector fever begins to ramp up, we say goodbye to the toys of Pokémon #251. I was wandering around Toys’R’Us the other day, as you do, and noticed a small swarm of toy collectors circling…

Everybody’s favorite seagull wannabe, Marin joins the cast of Hyrule Warriors on Wii U and 3DS later this year in the Link’s Awakening DLC pack. Squawk!