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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Pixel Farming The Real World

We’ve gone just a tad Stardew Valley crazy here at Kotaku, but that’s okay—so have plenty of other folks. So much so that the pixels have started bleeding into real life scenes of rural living. Or at least they will have once this week’s ‘Shop Contest is done. Update 3/9/3026: Whoa-oh, we’re halfway there. Some…

Real Life Hitman, Controlled By Remote Players

The folks over at Realm Pictures created quite an interesting interactive experience for Hitman, where players could control a real life Agent 47 in a huge mansion filled with human actors, items and objectives. The rules were the same as in the Hitman games. The main character could steal clothes, move objects and attack people…

Dragon Ball Short Story, Told With Paper Cups

Frieza and Goku clash in the most unusual way: Japanese artist Shinrashinge used three paper cups to draw a short Dragon Ball story. The story unfolds as we rotate the right cup with the right layers. Pretty cool panels! And it’s not just on the outside. There’s even some stuff drawn on the bottom and…

In Beacon, Death Is A Small Victory

This is Beacon, a roguelike top-down shooter with a very interesting twist on death (and rebirth). You’re expected to die in a roguelike, but Beacon is trying something neat: When you inevitably die, the DNA of the enemies you’ve killed can be used to grant you different stats and potentially gameplay-altering physical mutations for your…

Amazon Japan Now Sells Games Internationally

Well, here’s a pleasant and unexpected surprise. Via some brave testers at NeoGAF, Amazon Japan has quietly begun allowing customers from outside the country to buy its video games. What does this mean for most of you? Not much! But it’s big news for importers and fans of games that haven’t seen a Western release…

The Division‘s Toughest Moral Challenge Yet

THIS CIVILIAN IS IN NEED… of a tasty beverage. What should I do? On the one hand, I do have a soda. I found it somewhere on the street, and I’m pretty sure it’s cool to drink. On the other hand, soda is pretty bad for you. It’s also not clear what kind of soda…

Darkest Dungeon just added a new class, The Antiquarian, along with some other tweaks. Full patch notes here

Just Cause 3’s New Jetpack Kicks Ass

Just Cause 3 had some issues, but it also hadsome of the best video game flying I’ve experienced in a long time. The game’s fun, brief new jetpack-centric “Sky Fortress” DLC manages to improve that flying, with a twist. The DLC is the first of the three-part “Air, Land, Sea” series that’ll be coming to…

A Salute to Mortal Kombat‘s Surprises

There I was, wrapping up a match in Mortal Kombat X and trying to remember the inputs for a finishing move so I could pull off a spectacular win. Then, suddenly, my opponent died in a totally egregious way that I wasn’t expecting! This sudden Brutality reminded me that I’ve always loved Mortal Kombat’s bloody…

A Few Helpful Tweaks For The Division On PC

If you’re playing The Division on PC, there are a few tweaks you can make to get the game running more smoothly. Or, if you’re getting a black screen at startup, to get the game running at all. Alt+Enter Your Way To Freedom First of all, that black startup screen: If that’s happening to you,…

New PS4 Game Everything Lets You Play As… Everything

“In Everything, every single thing is a playable character,” writes artist David O’Reillyon the PlayStation Blog today. “If you can see it, you can be it.” Well. Alright then. In this newly announced, insane-sounding PS4 game by O’Reilly—who also designed Mountain—the pitch is simple: You can be everything. Rather than bother with typical video game…

Not Even The PS4 Can Save Heavy Rain’s Terrible Sex Scene

Heavy Rain remastered is out for the PS4 this month, and boy, some aspects of the game have not aged well. Back when Heavy Rain came out in 2010, it marketed itself as a video game for adults. So, there was nudity. And sex. Now that it is 2016, however, everything about this sex scene…

The Division‘s Weather Makes The Viral Apocalypse Look Pretty

It was difficult to stand still long enough in The Division to record an hour of weather and lighting changes, but the lovely two and a half minute time-lapse of a day in virtual New York City was worth it. I didn’t expect to play The Division last night. I certainly didn’t expect to be…

My Quest To Seduce The Grim Reaper In The Sims 4

The first time a Sim died on me, my surviving Sims circled the body and cried their eyes out. Personally, I didn’t feel the need to mourn. I was far too fascinated by the fact that the Grim Reaper had turned up to take the Sim away. This piece originally appeared on October 30, 2014.…

Because You Can Never Have Too Many Digimon, Here’s Seven More

In appreciation for all the fans that picked up copies of the excellent Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth, Bandai Namco is releasing seven new trainable Digimon for free on March 10. New additions include Rosemon and six less important ones. I kid, I kid. I love all Digimon equally, even if they are named Ravemon. Rose…

Fallout 4 Mod Upgrades Nick Valentine To A Gen-3 Synth

The best companion in Fallout 4 sure does clean up nicely. Introducing Generation 3 Nick Valentine, a mod that tweaks the hard-boiled detective’s look to make him appear a bit more human-like. While I do think a big part of Nick’s character and charm is in his wear and tear, it’s fascinating to look at…

The remastered PS4 version of Valkyria Chronicles will be out on May 17, Sega said today. It’ll be $30 and run at 1080p resolution/60 frames-per-second, the company says.

Darth Vader Doesn’t Do Pep Talks

Darth Vader was a student once. He learned at the feet of masters on both the light and dark sides of the Force. But don’t go begging the Dark Lord of the Sith to be an instructor. He’ll smack you down with the quickness. Spoilers follow. The current storyline in Marvel’s Darth Vader series has…

The Division Trolls Are Blocking Other Players’ Progress By Standing In A Doorway

The Division has been live for just a few hours, but it’s already got a hilarious griefing problem. As discovered by Eurogamer—and documented in their video, below—Division players with an inclination to troll can simply stand in the doorway of the game’s opening safehouse. As you can see, this makes it tough to leave the…

Top-Ranked Street Fighter V Player Smacked Down Hard By Capcom’s Anti Rage-Quit Measures

Last week Capcom started removing League Points from Street Fighter V players disconnecting from online matches before the game registers a loss. Yesterday the top-ranked player in the world got docked back to the bronze age. As reported by the fine folks at Event Hubs, Japan’s WORLD_COMBO was one of the first two players in…