The Perfect Insider Is a Locked-room Mystery for the Digital Age

On a small island, a brilliant computer programmer has spent the last 15 years of her life confined to her small apartment in a high tech research lab. In that time, no one has entered or left—until the day her armless, legless, wedding dress-clad corpse comes rolling out of her room. But before we get…

Around the Neighborhood. Chiba, Japan. By Luca Eandi JPGs is a photo peek into wherever gamers might find interesting. If you’re a photographer and have images you want to share, drop us a line!

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Bayonetta Everywhere: Winners!

Earlier this month we found out that M-rated action star Bayonetta would be one of the final competitors added to Super Smash Bros. on Wii U and 3DS. I asked our image-manipulating community toput her in all the games. They did not disappoint. We had many outstanding entries, though several of them wound up disqualified.…

Boy Opens Christmas PlayStation 4, Finds A Block Of Wood With A Dick On It

It’s bad enough that a Massachusetts family’s Target-purchased Christmas console wound up being a piece of wood in a PlayStation 4 box, but did whoever swapped it out have to draw a dick and balls on it? According to areport by Boston’s Fox 25 and the step-mother’s Facebook post, nine-year-old Scott Lundy was over-the-moon when…

Star Wars Fan Spends A Year Building The Best LEGO Millennium Falcon Ever

LEGO builder Marshall Banana spent a year planning and building this 7,500 piece replica of the latest version of Han Solo’s ride. It’s one of the most beautiful pieces of garbage I’ve ever seen. The official LEGO set for The Force Awakens’ Falcon is 1.329 pieces, and it doesn’t look so hot. The biggest official…

Sunday Comics: Please Monkeys

Welcome to Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira. Published December 23. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published December 21. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…

Captain America’s Latest Comic Book Enemies: Corporate Snakesssssss

The Serpent Society used to be a group of slither-themed lamers that Steve Rogers used to pound on for months at a time. They were supervillains in the classic mustache-twirling mode. Today, they’re a lot more dangerous. Today, their leader name-drops his buddies at Bain Capital. It’s acerbically funny—and wince-inducing—stuff. Originally posted 12/23/15 The newest…

Lightning Would Like To Return This Purse

Final Fantasy XIII’s pink-haired star is modeling for Louis Vuitton now, but that doesn’t mean she’s made of money. Square Enix posted a video of a new collaboration with the famous French fashion house yesterday, demonstrating how alien the concept of a purse is to the heroine of Lightning Returns She seemed much more comfortable…

Fahey’s Top 10 Games Of 2015

It’s late December with just days to go until the clock strikes the new year, which makes it the perfect time for Kotaku’s various editors to list their favorite games of 2015. I’ll go first, for I have no fear. Well, I have a little fear. If you’ve kept track of my lists from 2012,…

The Official Awesome Holiday Gift Sharing Post 2015

As people around the world fill garbage cans and dumpsters with discarded bits of colorful paper, we take a look back at the wonderful things we gave and got during the 2015 holiday season. In other words, what’d ya get? I’ll go first. Each year I’m getting more into the giving than the getting, though…

Steam Goes Nuts, Offers Access To Other People’s Accounts [UPDATES]

Steam faced something of a catastrophe this afternoon, giving players across the world access to some of the personal information in other people’s accounts. It’s not yet clear how this happened, but it’s a doozy. Call it the Steam Winter Fail. Various players across the world logged into their Steam clients today to find their…

GTA Online’s Coolest Christmas Present Turns Players Into Building-Hopping Monsters

There’s snow in Los Santos today, which is, y’know, nice. But the other freak occurrence—becoming or slaying feral manbeasts that can jump over buildings—in Rockstar Games’ fake Los Angeles is a lot more fun. See for yourselves. A bunch of holiday-themed goodies hit GTA Online this week, most of it fairly predictable in nature. But,…

You Can Celebrate Christmas In These Video Games

Christmas is all about spending time with family and friends. But when you get bored of those family and friends, why not play some video games? As the holidays fill the air—except here on the East Coast where it’s somehow like 70 degrees—here’s a list of games that are doing special things for Christmas. You…