Gaben Makes for a Glorious Dota 2 Shopkeeper

Dota 2’s New Bloom Festival will soon be underway, and the Dota team has invited players to participate by submitting items with a Chinese New Year theme to the Dota 2 workshop. That theme requirement obviously didn’t stop Down Limit, the man behind the Gaben shopkeeper skin, from putting his creation forward. There’s a video,…

In Space, No One Can Hear Your Gnarly Missile Jumps

We last featuredNick Carver’s work in 2012, when he was still involved in what would become Blizzard’s Overwatch. He’s since moved onto something with more robots in it. While still at Blizzard, in his spare time he’s now working on a project called Bounty Hacker, which will hopefully one day be a video game but…

Fake Nintendo ‘App’ Trailer Is A Nightmare From The Future

Imagine a future Nintendo. One that finally relents to shareholder pressure and starts releasing its games on mobile phones. This fake trailer tries to sell that future, and if you’re a Nintendo shareholder, it’s enough to get you weak at the knees. If you’re anyone else, though, reactions may be less pleasant. MarioLinkSamus made this…

Long-Lost Sega Commercial Is Almost TOO 90s

This 28-minute Sega CD commercial, masquerading as the pilot episode of a teen TV series, hasn’t been seen in decades. Almost as though it’s been waiting, beneath the dirt, for the world to finally be ready and able to process just how 90s it was. Dug up and uploaded by Chris Bieniek, every second of…

No Kotaku ‘Shop Contest this week. I’ll be out of town this coming weekend, so we’re going to give your collecting Photoshop skills a little rest to ease us into the new year.

The Week In Games: Happy New Year?

Unless you own a PlayStation 3 or Vita, you can skip the next few weeks. Truth be told, there are plenty of lovely indie games coming out on Steam over the next couple of weeks, but if I tried to keep track of every upcoming Steam release I would go insane. And so I stick…

Steam’s New FPS Counter Makes It Easier To Obsess Over Frame Rates

Before the latest Steam beta update, players concerned with how many frames being displayed per second would have to rely on game-native counters or third-party programs. No longer do we need such affectations to see tiny numbers in the top left corner of our screens. In order to use this handy new Steam feature, one…

No One Does Push-Ups Like Gaston

Hoping to prove his manliness against Disney World’s most manly man, a park visitor challenged live-action Gaston to a push-up contest — and got wrecked. The actor that portrays Beauty and the Beast’s antagonist at Disney World once again proves he’s perfect for the role. Despite being taken down a peg or two by a…

I Present To You: ‘Kongs Of Fire’

I have no idea how I missed this until now, but damn if this isn’t the best meme-worthy Mario Kart 8 video since the Ridin’ Dirty version of the Luigi Death Stare: Also don’t read the comments on the Kongs of Fire video. They’re absolutely fucking horrible. via Reddit

Kung Lao Appears In Mortal Kombat X As An Old Man With A Hat

With Mortal Kombat X‘s story spanning some 25 years after the events of Mortal Kombat 9, it’s no wonder former Shaolin monk Kung Lao is looking a bit long in the tooth. It beats being dead. Not that he was dead at the end of the last game or anything. Well, not that being dead…

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