When Humans Are No Longer Predators, It’s Gripping and Gruesome

It’s an alien invasion! Blood, guts, mutilation, and morphing-blade-headed aliens. This manga has it all. *Note* This article contains graphic images of carnage that some may find offensive or disturbing. “寄生獣” or “Kiseiju” (pronounced “kee-say-joo”) is a manga that debuted in Japan in 1990. Why am I bringing up a manga that’s over 20 years…

Kenji Eno Passed Away, But His Friends Are Making His Last Game

It’s been a year since game creator Kenji Eno passed away, but his spirit lives on as his friends and fellow creators seek to make what was his last game proposal a reality. It’s been a year to the day since Kenji Eno, musician and game creator passed away from heart failure induced by high…

An Artist’s Work On Uncharted & Star Wars

Polina Hristova is a concept artist who has worked on projects like Uncharted 2, Project Eternity (now known as Pillars of Eternity) and the Clone Wars TV show. You can see more of Polina’s work at her personal site To see the larger pics in all their glory (or, if they’re big enough, so you…

People Are Finding New Ways To Get Upset At Total War: Rome II

Total War: Rome II went from being one of 2013’s most promising games to one of its most disappointing. Indeed, it took months of patches and updates to even get it to a presentable state. Not that performance and AI were the last of the game’s troubles. A fresh uproar has kicked off following a…

What If Dishonored Had No Bad Guys In It…

The Old City is an exploration game that’s currently in-development for the PC. And pardon me for making such a crude comparison, but my brain looks at the architecture and processes this as being “Dishonored without all the bad guys”. And that’s pushing my buttons. Set inside “a decaying city from a civilization long past”,…

Developer Making “Singleplayer RPG Adventure”…With His Kid

Nick Pasto, the developer behind the excellent Abobo’s Big Adventure, is making a new game. With his daughter. Who is eight. It’s not for a school project, it’s not some cheap little gimmick game, it’s a real game, one that’s promising to be a fairly epic 2D adventure, with boss fights, levelling-up, fancy gear, the…

Kid Shot Dead By Cops, Witnesses Say He Was Holding Wii Remote

Police say that 17 year-old Christopher Roupe was shot and killed because he answered the door pointing a gun. Everyone except the Police say he opened the door holding a Wii Remote. Roupe was shot and killed last Friday night when Police arrived to serve his father a probation violation warrant. He opened the door…

Everybody Games: GaymerX, a con that celebrates diversity and inclusivity, launched a Kickstarter for its upcoming conference in July. The con will host a wedding for a Portal proposal we featured last year, along with a variety of panels and speakers/guest appearances from folks like Bioware’s David Gaider and WWE star Darren Young. Full disclosure:…

‘Twitch Plays Pokémon’ Is Breaking Parts Of Twitch

Twitch Plays Pokémon,’ the stream where thousands of players try to control a single trainer in Pokemon Red, is pretty popular—so popular, in fact, that whenever we posted about it, we’d get a number of reports from unhappy streamers who claimed the chat function in other completely unrelated streams were being affected by Twitch Plays…

Track: Coffee | Album: Coffee/Dress | Artist: Sylvan Esso Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to—and gaming to—at the moment.

World Of Warcraft‘s New Orc Female: Now 100 Percent Less Stupid

Of all the race/sex combinations getting a graphical overhaul in World of Warcraft’s upcoming Warlords of Draenor expansion, none needed it as much as the female Orc. How I hated her stupid old face. The body was fine — a powerful frame with well-defined muscles. Sure, she had no fingers, but who did back in…

​A Comic That Perfectly Captures The Evil Genius Of Eve Online Players

One giant, horrifically expensive space ship destroying another, while its crew erupts in gleeful laughter. Yep, that sure looks like EVE Online. Starting today, you can get the first issue of a new comic-book series based on the infamous sci-fi corporate warfare MMO for free. Created by Daniel Way and Tomm Coker, EVE: True Stories…

All The New Features In Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD

HD visuals, new dress-spheres, a crazy new tower dungeon in which every action is turn-based… these are the new features in the upcoming remakes of Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy X-2, which are out on March 18 for PS3 and Vita. Really, the only thing not to be excited about here is that you…

What’s In The Box?! Oh, It’s A Playable Flappy Bird.

The original Flappy Bird may be gone, but it continues to live on in all sorts of tributes—and not all of these tributes are digital. Take this awesome cardboard box contraption, for example—it’s a machine that lets you play Flappy Bird ‘in real life.’ It’s also just as tough as the original Flappy Bird. Excellent!…