Today in Crazy, Bizarre, Fascinating Kickstarter Projects, here’s Billionaire Banshee, a game designed to see what kind of weird fantasy creatures your friends will date. It’s developed by Razlo Bailey, a designer who used to work at Harmonix.

Marvel Wants Its Video Games to Be Connected—And Good—Like Its Movies

Used to be movies and TV shows adapted from Marvel Comics’ superhero universe were almost guaranteed to be terrible. Then, the publisher angled itself into a position of decision-making and control. It’s a strategy that’s led to creative and financial success for movies tied to Captain America, Thor and Iron Man. Now, it seems that…

Evolve, Star Wars Weekend, refurb Xbox Ones, Watch Dogs Deluxe

May the 4th means Star Wars deals, the highlight of course being the franchise pack on Steam. 14 games from a galaxy far away for $34, but the individual games are cheaper on Gamefly even before an additional 20% with code MAY20OFF. We’ll post other great Star Wars deals below, and if the weekend brings…

Street Fighter‘s Guile Wasn’t Really In The Military

Pete Holmes has pointed out several issues with the tactics other Street Fighter characters use, but there was no need to even go that far with one look at Guile’s military qualifications. One might wonder what war Guile could have fought in, and the answer is apparently “he didn’t.” I went to double check this…

What do you get when you combine Lemmings and Tetris? Letris? Uh…sure. But the good people over at indie studio Crunching Koalas seem like they have a better idea with this painfully adorable-looking new game MouseCraft. Check out the new trailer above. It comes out July 8th for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita, PC,…

The People Behind EVE Are Making Another Sci-Fi MMO

It takes balls to announce a new space shooter MMO in the same year as Bungie’s Destiny is due to appear, but if there’s one thing that EVE Online developer CCP has never been short on, it’s ambition. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK A couple of years ago at its annual fan gathering…

You Should Really Listen To The Full Mario Kart 8 Soundtrack

We still have to wait a few more weeks to play Mario Kart 8, but here’s something to help tide us all over until the game finally launches at the end of May. If you go over to Nintendo’s main Mario Kart 8 website, you can spend the rest of your Friday listening to the…

I’m Already In Love With This Indie Sky Pirate Game

This is 20,000 Leagues Above the Clouds, an upcoming indie game that looks like Sid Meier’s Pirates! in the sky, and if you thought of Skies of Arcadia, rest assured you’re not alone. It looks incredible. Check out the teaser trailer: A three-person team of Swedish indie developers is working on 20,000 Leagues, which will…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: My Stepson Plays Video Games On “Easy” • What Video Game Features Would Improve Your Everyday Life? • Short Experiences in Terraria, Hotline Miami, and The Lone Survivor TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

EVE Valkyrie Is The Closest We May Ever Get To Real Space Dogfighting

Fun, beautiful and stunningly immersive, EVE Valkyrie could be virtual reality’s Wii Sports moment. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK EVE Valkyrie—or EVE-VR, as it was known this time last year, when it was just a tech demo made for developer CCP’s annual gathering of internet spaceship pilots, EVE Fanfest—has come a long way…

This is Codemancer, AKA Programming 101: The Game. Basically, it’s a turn-based fantasy game designed to teach how programming works to kids or, well, pretty much anyone, with a combat system based on writing simple programs. It’s on Kickstarter, but it’s already funded, so expect to see it on PC in July next year.