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Your VR Apathy Is Entirely Understandable

First impression in a room full of people playing virtual reality games: these people look goofy, and the games they’re playing look dull. Then you put on the headset. With the headset on, wow, some of them are so impressive! This is how it is with VR, and let’s not pretend otherwise. These games do…

Adult Swim Has Issues

Seriously, what the hell Adult Swim? What. The. Hell?

Hot Toys’ New Ant-Man Figure Comes With A Giant Hawkeye

Though it seems as if Hot Toys is straying a bit from their normally excellent attention to detail and articulation with the Captain America: Civil War Ant-Man figure, they’re really stepped in up in terms of accessories. I guess when you’re working at such a tiny scale some compromises have to be made. Then again,…

Not every game at this year’s GDC is a VR game! Here’s five minutes of Kingdom running on an Xbox One. This side-scrolling strategy game has a great look, as our Nathan Grayson explained last fall. Here, I’m playing a newer build at a showcase for indies coming to Xbox One. Kingdom is slated for…

Eight Of The Best Oculus Rift Games I’ve Played

Of the 41 launch-window games for Oculus Rift – 30 of which will be out on launch day – I reckon I’ve played slightly over half of them, including 10 in one day on Monday. Some of the stuff I’ve seen recently is so much more exciting and impressive than VR games were a few…

Nintendo Just Made A Maddening Change To Mario Maker‘s P-Switch

When Nintendo updated Super Mario Maker last week, it secretly tweaked the way P-Switches work in the game. It’s causing headaches for everyone. Traditionally, the P-Switch is used to swap solid blocks into coins and vice versa. But more complicated stages have found uses familiar to anyone who’s ventured into kaizo-style levels or the expert…

Disney Infinity’s Marvel Battlegrounds Set Changes The Game Entirely

Where previous Disney Infinity expansions have worked within the rules and tools of the core game, the new Marvel Battlegrounds set breaks those rules, creating a Power Stone-esque competitive brawler that’s almost worthy of a standalone release. Instead of working with the movesets the Disney Infinity team’s established for its Marvel Comics characters over the…

I Think My Minecraft Character Had A Dream The Other Night

Over the weekend, after months of pressure from my children, I started playing Minecraft on my iPhone. The children play it on the iPad, in creative mode, trundling around in unlimited diamond armor. Being an adult, I settled into survival mode: spawned onto the savanna, got slaughtered by monsters of the night for a while,…

Board and card game designer Eric Lang announced he’s working on an official Bloodborne card game. It’s based on the game’s chalice dungeons, and has “risk management with a bit of groupthink, inventory management / upgrades and tactical play in an intense 30 minute card game.”

Pokémon Designer Killed In Freak Accident

Veteran Pokémon artist and designer Eric Medalle died Sunday in Seattle when a massive tree collapsed onto his car. He was 42. As reported by KING 5 News in Seattle, Medalle had been driving with one of his two daughters near a park called Lost Lake Trail. A significant windstorm knocked over several trees in…

Here’s Oculus Rift’s Full Launch Lineup

Oculus Rift comes out March 28, and with it comes a slate of VR-friendly games both new and old including Elite Dangerous, Adrift, and Lucky’s Tale Via Oculus, here’s the full list of titles, which the company says will range in price from $5 to $60. And a sizzle reel: Exciting times for VR fans.…

Ron Paul Cops Rainbow Six Image For Anti-FBI Article

See the scary-looking image on top of the new article published on the website of libertarian politician Ron Paul? It’s not a real picture, nor is it based on a real picture: He got it from a Ubisoft game. The article, “America’s Gestapo: The FBI’s Reign of Terror,” was posted on Paul’s website and Facebook…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Pokken In The UFC

Apparently I wanted to see Pokken Tournament and UFC 2 mashed together so badly that I couldn’t stop with just one image. Perhaps you nice people can help. Update 3/16: We’re halfway there, and the entries so far have been exquisite. You’ve got three more days, make them count! Two fighting games arrive this week,…

Hitman NPC Walks It Off Like A Champ

These are no ordinary guards Agent 47 has to face in Hitman As Terry Pratchett once wrote: “Give a man a fire and he’s warm for a day, but set fire to him and he’s warm for the rest of his life.” The NPC then accepts his fate after a few seconds of burning. Seems…

Terra and co. entering the coal mining town of Narshe for the first time. Orioto’s fan-art captures the moment from Final Fantasy VI’s intro perfectly and brings back some good memories. Dayshot is an image-based feature showcasing some of the prettiest, funniest game-related screenshots and art we can find. Send us suggestions if you’ve got…

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Screw Making America Great Again

Paradox is thinking bigger. That hat—which I’m trying to find out if you can buy—was part of Paradox’s GDC presentation earlier today, in particular the part where they showed off space strategy gameStellaris and said it’s out on May 9. If you dig space and big PC strategy games, it’s hard not to get excited…

Obsidian Announces Brand New RPG Tyranny

Tonight at GDC, independent developer Obsidian announced Tyranny, a brand new isometric role-playing game coming later this year for PC, Mac, and Linux. It’ll be published by Paradox, who also helped get Pillars of Eternity out the door. Details are scarce, but Obsidian says the game is set in a world where there was a…

Guy Trying To Hit Level 100 In World Of Warcraft…Using Dance Mats

Rudeism is a New Zealander on a mission: he wants to get from level 1-100 in World of Warcraft. Sounds pretty doable! Only, instead of using a mouse and keyboard, he’s using two dance mats. It looks…arduous, though it’s probably also a good way to keep fit. And go insane. Because using dance mats is…

The New Master Of Orion Developers Are Caught Between A Space Rock And A Hard Place

At PAX Australia last year, NGD Studios executive producer Randy King told me that Wargaming acquired the Master of Orion (MoO) IP because the company’s billionaire CEO, Victor Kislyi, wanted his kids to be able to enjoy the game the way he had. But the fans that grew up with the iconic franchise aren’t kids.…