Every year, it seems like more and high-end merch from Nintendo lands on the shelves of Toy Fair. Once again, Kotaku hit the annual trade show in New York City and, this year, we might have seen some of the most beautiful sculpted versions of the company’s characters yet. Look at these figures of Link…
Threes immediately captivated the people who started playing it, with folks bemoaning the lost hours and tired eyes they got in pursuit of ever-higher scores. But, over the last few days, any buzz surrounding Asher Vollmer’s second mobile game has been but a whisper compared to the roaring whirlwind surrounding Flappy Bird, which doesn’t exist…
The rollout of Steam Tags has been full of highs and lows. It seems like for every funny or useful tag attached to a game, there’s been a lot more that are mean-spirited or judgmental. It’s been called out as a major failing of the system. Now, Valve’s looking to do something about it. In…
Anders Behring Brevik killed 77 people in Norway in 2011. Since he said that he used Call of Duty to practice his aiming and World of Warcraft to hide his plans, video games have been became part of the story of his horrific crime. Now, 18 months into a 21-year prison sentence, he’s demanding that…
Shinji Mikami’s long-awaited return to classic survival horror comes out during the dog days of summer, on August 26 for North America and August 29 for Europe. If you’re someone who’s been disappointed by the increasingly action-heavy take that Resident Evil has taken, then the next game by Mikami—who created the seminal Capcom series—should be…
“I have one response to all of you who blame me for the destruction of the Death Star: Are you FUCKING serious???” This hilarious open letter over at Dorkly comes from Dak Exhaustport, the heretofore unnamed joe who drew up the blueprints for the Death Star. And he says that what some saw as a…
A bunch of us here at Kotaku are deep in thrall to Threes, a simple-on-the-surface-but-hypnotically deep numerical puzzle game that hit iOS devices last week. (Seriously, look at that picture. We’re not even talking to each other.) There was talk of doing our own guide to playing Asher Vollmer’s hit game but it came to…
Bound by Flame is a new PlayStation exclusive action/RPG hitting multiple platforms later this year. Without any kind of sense as to how it plays, it looks pretty middle-of-the-road for a game coming out in 2014. But that voiceover—sounding enthralled, huckster-ish and befuddled—will take you back straight to the 1990s, in good and bad ways.…
Silver Surfer tricking off of Galactus’ head is cool but, come on, Bobby Drake is the gold medalist of doing cool stuff in/with cold weather, right? These drawings comes from superstar comics artist Francesco Francavilla, who’s doing that gruesome Afterlife with Archie series and the excellent superhero pulp noir The Black Beetle among others. He’ll…
Batman is no stranger to love. He hugs people and things sometimes. (Usually after something bad happens, though.) So Valentine’s Day stuff with the Dark Knight’s likeness on it aren’t necessarily the worst merchandising idea. But these old cards featuring Batman, Robin and their enemies are, honestly, a little freaky. Found by cartoonist Mark Anderson,…
Ever wonder why the people wearing those awesome cosplay outfits do it in the first place? Or how they put their get-ups together? A new documentary series called Cosplay Boom wants to tell the stories of the people who dress up as beloved characters and make fan gatherings so much fun. If the filmmakers hit…
With 74 straight wins and millions of dollars in winnings, Ken Jennings has dominated Jeopardy! like nobody else. And he says that the current champ Arthur Chu—who’s been the subject of a lot of scorn lately—has been using a time-tested strategy that’s worked for people in the past. Jennings’s record-breaking run made him probably the…
Start looking for those Half-Life 3 clues that aren’t there, folks. Valve has put up videos for all the presentations that happened at their no-press-allowed Steam Dev Days conference. Be sure to check out Michael Abrash and Palmer Luckey‘s talks about VR and the various Steam Machine talks, too.
New trailer: Disney Magical World—the life simulator that was a hit in Japan last year—now has an English-language promo clip.
Last year, we stared the downside to living in the future straight in the face. After the NSA’s PRISM program was revealed—which worked via access to the servers and networks of major tech companies—it got a lot harder to deny the worst conspiracy theories about being surrounded by gadgets with all sorts of geo-tagging/always-online/picture-taking capabilities.…
Threes has become a problem for me. Last night, I was seriously torn between making sure my three-year-old ate her dinner and getting a few more rounds of the new iOS puzzle game in before bedtime. I fed her and then I went back to obsessively doing math. ‘Til 2 a.m. Here’s how I feel…
Master Chief makes it look easy, doesn’t he? But, it turns out that wielding the famous bladed Covenant weapon from the Xbox sci-fi FPS isn’t all that graceful. Watch yourself, dude. You ain’t no Spartan! In the latest segment of the Man At Arms webseries, Tony Swatton and crew craft one of a video game…
Playing Eliss Infinity is like taking care of a toddler. It’s fun, stressful and, if you do it wrong, poop winds up on everything. Ok, maybe not that last part. But, it does communicate the idea that something incredibly valuable in the universe needs the constant attention of your hands to live. No pressure. The…
Open-world survival games where you need to worry about other people more than the fantastical enemies. Hugely successful creations that are in alpha and are nowhere near finished. Weird shit happening when people mess with each other. Yes, Rust and DayZ are pretty similar. But, as of last night, only one of them will have…
Time to go back to the island, Jack. Ubisoft has sent out a release saying that Far Cry Classic—a remastered version of the open-world shooter already announced for Europe—will be heading to the U.S. The publisher says it’ll sport “graphical enhancements, revamped cut-scenes, and a fresh new user interface” and will be a $9.99 digital…
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