How The Apple Watch Could Make Mobile Games Better-ish

Apple’s next big thing ships next month, and soon wrists all around the globe will be thrumming with iTechnology. What can a wrist-based device with a tiny screen bring to gaming? Quite a lot, probably. I’ve been considering whether or not to invest the $350 necessary to add Apple to my arm since the Apple…

Philadelphia police have set up a trust fund for the family of officer Robert Wilson III, who was shot during a robbery at a GameStop while buying a game for his son last week. All the donation information is right here

Still think the Joker might be coming back in Batman: Arkham Knight? Well, in the latest chapter of the tie-in digital comic, the Clown Prince of Crime gets cremated. The folks at DC Comics and sister company Warner Brothers Interactive Entertainment are sure trying their best to convince fans that it won’t happen. The first…

A Game That Combines Dark Souls With A Stylish Horror Flick

Once bitten by the Souls bug, there’s no going back. Everything is different, and all you want is more of it. While I patiently wait for Bloodborne, I’ve searched for more Souls to consume, and found myself drawn to Malebolgia, best described as Souls mixed with a stylish horror flick. First, let’s talk about what…

Helldivers Bug Erases Progress If Your PS4 Controller Dies. Seriously.

Here’s a shitty bug for ya: A fair number of players are reporting that they’ve lost all their progress in the new PlayStation game Helldivers after their controller died while they were playing. Apparently, if you’re playing the game and your controller runs out of juice, the game spawns in a level 1 character when…

My Five Favorite Kotaku Stories From Last Week

I was on the road all last week, traveling to San Francisco for Game Developers Conference and then to Boston to gaze at PAX East and piles of snow. While I was gallivanting around, Kotaku ran some good stories. My favorites: I Tried VR Porn, And It Was Weird | Virtual reality was a big…

Tales From The Borderlands‘ second episode, Atlas Mugged, will arrive on March 17. That’s next week! To celebrate the release date, Telltale Games has released a trailer. You can reach the author of this post at [email protected] or on Twitter at @patrickklepek

Sexually Suggestive Dialogue Cut from DmC Definitive Edition

The demonic cabal who ruled the world in DmC are bad guys who said bad things in 2013’s reboot of Devil May Cry. Now it seems one of the more egregious pieces of dialogue—which invoked an image of rough sex—has been cut from the new remastered edition of DmC The line in question happens in…

Gamers Club Unlocked Gets a Huge Price Drop, Logitech G402, More Deals

At $100, Best Buy’s Gamers Club Unlocked was a decent deal for hardcore gamers, but a tough sell for most. Today though, they’re dropping the price to $30, which gets you 24 months of the following benefits, among others: 20% off all new physical video game purchases 10% off all preowned video game purchases 10%…

Weird Al Singing ‘Yoda’ With Autistic Children Made Me So Happy

During Comedy Central’s biennial Night of Too Many Stars benefit for New York Collaborates for Autism, Weird Al Yankovic and 13-year-old autistic singer Jodi DiPiazza performed a stunning rendition of the classic “Yoda” that moved me to tears. It’s not that “Yoda”, Weird Al’s 1985 parody of “Lola” by The Kinks is a particularly moving…

The Coolest Cosplay at PAX East, Day 3

Daylight savings time didn’t stop folks from showing up in their finest outfits for the last day of PAX East. Who needs a snooze button when you’re dressing up as Iron Man? This round-up of cosplay photos—courtesy of Dave Yang Photography—features a few members of Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed crew, as well as a few popular…

Awesome Fighting Game Let You Cut Other Player’s Heads Off

You can keep Street Fighter, Tekken, King of Fighters and Dead or Alive. My favourite fighting game pre-dates every single one of them, starred large men in furry underpants, and rather than lasting minutes could, if you knew your moves, be over in seconds. Because you weren’t using fists. You were using giant swords. Sure,…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Rockmandash Rambles: My Personal Biases in Reviewing • Where’s My Transformers Game? • How Do You Deal with Video Game Overload? • There are good English anime song covers? Yes, yes there are. TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

The Ultimate StarCraft Action Figure

Sideshow’s partnership with Blizzard has resulted in some pretty amazing collectibles—Deathwing from World of Warcraft, the Diablo III version of the Prime Evil—but nothing nearly as spectacular as the meticulously crafted sixth scale figure of StarCraft‘s Jim Raynor in his signature space marine armor. Fans with $500 to burn have been eagerly awaiting Raynor’s arrival…

The Most Complex Besiege Bomb Delivery System

The Besiege community never disappoints when it comes to building deliberately over-engineered siege engines to perform the simple task of eliminating a few knights. David Mcl‘s Rube Goldberg machine-like bomb delivery system is no exception—it’s one of the finest creations I’ve seen so far. You can follow the bomb’s path in the video below. But…

Watch The First Kill Of One Of The Hardest Bosses In WoW History

Blackhand, the final boss of Blackrock Foundry, Warlords of Draenor‘s second raid, is a tough guy. The raid’s hardest Mythic difficulty has been open for 27 days, yet only a couple of guilds managed to kill its endboss. And now, the three guilds on top of the leaderboards finally released their kill videos. Blackrock Foundry’s…