Witch House Looks Like Gothic XCOM

Supernatural crimes? Turn-based tactics? A detective main character who sounds like when he says he wants a whiskey on the rocks, he means jagged shards of gravel? Gee, Witch House, it seems an awful lot like you’re trying to get my attention. Witch House takes place in the prohibition era. More specifically, it’s set in…

That Time A Zelda Trailer Supposedly Made Grown Men Cry

Few game reveals are more anticipated a brand-new Legend of Zelda game, but nothing touches the intense reaction Twilight Princess generated at E3 2004. It’s common for game companies to stuff their press conferences full of employees. These are the people who are happily clapping for every announcement, big or small. But at Nintendo events,…

Halo’s Arbiter Has Been Holding Back On Us

The Covenant’s best warrior has been a bad ass in the Halo games, but not nearly the bad ass he’s being in his appearance in season three of fighting game Killer Instinct As hinted late last month, the third season of Killer Instinct features a cameo from Microsoft’s storied shooter franchise. Instead of going with…

A Video Game’s Stats For The 2016 Presidential Candidates

There were many bad omens foretelling the demise of Jeb Bush’s laughably ineffectual run for the White House. There was his confusion about his position on the invasion of Iraq, his awkward performances in the debates. “Please clap.” That desperate gun tweet. On top of all those real life failings, he also got thrashed in…

Spider-Woman Just Had a Baby

Jessica Drew ain’t letting a little thing like an emergency C-section in a space station hospital slow her down. Shown as being well into her third trimester after the series’ post-hiatus reboot, last week’s Spider-Woman #4 finally saw the lead character become a mom. It was a pretty dramatic childbirth, coming in the middle of…

Our Favorite (And Least Favorite) Vita Memories

The PlayStation Vita turns four today in North America, which makes for a good excuse to look back and reminisce about Sony’s much-criticized portable console. Come join some of Kotaku’s staff for a chat about the Vita and what we’ve done with it over the past few years. Jason Schreier: Hi guys! Four years ago…

The Black Superhero Who Helped Me Navigate a White World

By the time that Power Man and Iron Fist #125 came out in the late summer/early fall of 1986, I’d already learned not to trust comic-book covers. (This essay, originally titled “Steel-Hard Skin,” was written in 2011 and appeared in Hey Kids, Comics!: True-Life Tales from the Spinner Rack, an anthology that collected personal essays…

Snacktaku Eats Stale Munchkins And Sadness At LaGuardia Airport

After spending nearly a week in New York City eating Taco Bell and attendingToy Fair 2016 I was more than ready to fly home to see my wife and children. Due to uncooperative weather I spent the night on the floor at LaGuardia instead, eating the worst version of tasty things. My flight to Atlanta…

Tips For Playing Fire Emblem Fates: Conquest and Birthright

You’re going to need more than a cool dragon transformation if you want to survive out in the battlefield. Thankfully, we’re here to help. As you may have heard by now, Fates is way tougher than Awakening. I’ve had to readjust some of my thinking about how Fire Emblem should be played. I thought I’d…

Daredevil, Remade In Fallout 4

A game set in Marvel’s version of Hell’s Kitchen, featuring Matt Murdock and Frank Castle would be pretty cool. UpIsNotJump’s recreation of the Season 2 trailer of the Netflix series in Fallout 4 proves this perfectly. To contact the author of this post, write to: [email protected]

Fan Creates Awesome Holographic Pokémon Projections

Great fan project! Kennywdev made a prism of plexiglass and mounted a camera on top for image tracking. Then, he projected some 3D Pokémon scenes that he made in Unity on it. It’s a very smart way to create cool-looking holographic projections. It’s worth watching a tutorial on how these are made, it’s actually not…

Duriel, Scariest of the Lesser Evils

Duriel, with his tiny-ass lair, slow-down aura and incredibly dangerous attacks, is an annoying Diablo II boss to fight. Now, thanks to this piece of fanart, he’s also terrifying to look at. Yay! The one responsible for Duriel’s HD-ification is one Svein Yngve Sandvik Antonsen, who works as a character artist at Interceptor Entertainment (the…

Beards Make Dragon Ball Characters Sexy, Too

We’ve seen how facial hair turned Street Fighter character Ryu into “Hot Ryu.” And now, in the most recent Dragon Ball Super episode, let’s see how beards do the same for Vegeta and Goku. [Image via SoulOfAngel] Of course, Vegeta had a mustache in Dragon Ball GT (above), but this time, he and Goku are…

Five-Pound Edible Kaiju Is a Destroyer of Appetites

This is not a Gamera figure. It’s a Gamera dessert. You can eat this. Shoya Okamoto is a student at Otemae College of Confectionery in Japan, and he created this Gamera out of sweet bean paste, with food coloring mixed in to achieve the proper hues. [Photo: aiiida308] [Photo: aiiida308] [Photo: aiiida308] The dessert weighs…

Cosplayers Turned into Drawings

For the past month or so, cosplayers have been uploading photos to Twitter, asking illustrators to turn their photos into 2D illustrations. Previously, Kotaku published a series of photos that were turned into illustrations. The key difference here is, as mentioned above, cosplayers have been requesting these drawings, using the Twitter hashtag #絵師さんにイラスト化してほしい画像をレイヤーが垂れ流す (loosely translated,…

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Classic Rivals In A “Best Of The Rest” Battle In North American League of Legends

With Cloud9 and Counter Logic Gaming tied and Team SoloMid just one game behind them, this would be a dream season of League of Legends, if only it were still 2014. In 2016, it’s still pretty great, but it’s also bittersweet watching the big three of NA LCS playing their guts out for a (very)…