If you don’t get Dave Collinson’s joke, start singing (and counting)….

White PS Vitas Available In US

The gorgeous white PlayStation Vita, previously only available as a standalone unit in Japan, has very quietly turned up for sale online in the US. No press releases from Sony, no announcement, nothing. The unit has been available in the US before, as part of the Assassin’s Creed Liberation pack, but this is the first…

Nice Day For A White Wedding

Lukas Esch is an artist at OnePixelBrush, a studio we’ve featuredrecently on Fine Art for their work on games like BioShock Infinite and Ryse. You can see more of Lukas’ work at his personal site and CGHub page To see the larger pics in all their glory (or, if they’re big enough, so you can…

The Dreamcast Wasn’t The First Time Sega Quit A Hardware Business

The day Sega stopped making video game hardware was a sad one, but it’s worth remembering that, like former rivals Nintendo, video game hardware wasn’t the only thing Sega had ever made. Sega’s history is likewise littered with other stuff, from slot machines to photobooths, but one of the coolest has got to be the…

Xbox One Updates Will Make Important Stuff Easier To Find

While Microsoft generally lies low at CES, Xbox’s Marc Whitten had a little chatwith tech site Engadget, speaking about the kinds of things we can expect in the Xbox One’s first major update. “The feedback we’ve gotten is pretty valid; some of the social stuff is hidden or harder to use than it was on…

Skyrim Coming To Xbox One, PS4? [UPDATE]

That’s what Bethesda’s official site for the game says, at least, with listings for the next-gen platforms now displayed alongside those of the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC editions of the fifth Elder Scrolls game. At time of writing the listing was still there; whether it’s a mistake or an inadvertent early reveal, who knows.…

What Is This, A Press Release Or Bad Fanfiction?

Gigabyte has unveiled a new gaming PC at this year’s CES. The Aorus X7. It’s an impressive machine, but we’re not here for the specs. We’re actually here for the laptop’s accompanying press. Which is wonderful. I’m not sure whether the stuff you’re about to see is the result of a language barrier (Gigabyte is…

Snacktaku Special Report: Coca-Cola Life Surely Tastes Like Something

While vacationing in Buenos Aires, Kotaku editor-in-chief Stephen Totilo sampled Coca-Cola Life, a special green-canned version of America’s favorite sugar water developed specifically for Argentina and Chile. How does it taste? Not a clue. Stephen was so grateful the beverage inside the can was not green, he neglected to tell us how it tastes. This…

Luke Hates Funko’s Game Of Thrones Vinyl Figures

Excitedly I pasted this picture of Funko’s Game of Thrones vinyl figures into our site chat, eager to share what I thought was absolutely adorable with my fellow editors. “Yuck” said Luke Plunkett, breaking my heart. It’s not only the cute factor that draws me to these vinyl figures, which go on sale at retail…

Want to make modern-day Skyrim look amazing? Check out this Rock Paper Shotgun feature from Duncan Harris of Dead End Thrills—whose work we love to highlight here—as he outlines his process for making Skyrim look better than ever in 2014.

A Modern Love Story Unfolds, Courtesy Of Nintendo

Stand back, Romeo and Juliet. Here’s an epic tale of teenage love, rejection, bad grammar, and Miis—all of which unfolds on the 3DS’s Miiverse (or in other words, a social network on the 3DS and Wii U). It all starts with a user asking folks to comment if they need a girlfriend. One intrepid 8th…

​Watch 30 Minutes Of The New Longest Journey Sequel

If you like point-and-click adventure games and have a heart beating in your chest, you probably like The Longest Journey. And so you were probably happy to hear that Dreamfall Chapters, the next game in the series, had a successful Kickstarter campaign and will be coming to PC. If you’re wondering what the game will…

Two Kids Built A Minecraft Office For Their Dad’s Company

Apparently there’s some entrepreneur out there who is also a big fan of Minecraft, so to communicate with him, Avery and Eliot built a Minecraft version of their dad’s offices. The offices come complete with a meeting room, kitchen, and custom textures! Sure, at first it reminded me of when every company was building virtual…

This Baby’s Name Comes From Mass Effect, and Grandma is Thrilled

Here she is, and doesn’t she look adorable? This is Tali’Zorah, and that is indeed her entire full first name. She was born this weekend to a couple in North Carolina and yes, she is named for the Mass Effect character. BioWare, the studio behind Mass Effect, tweeted out her picture as a tribute this…

Vous etes si belle, Aveline. Assassin’s Creed: Liberation‘s HD facelift looks pretty impressive. The remastered version of the game that debuted as a Vita exclusive will be out next week for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC.

The studio that made the SOCOM series went kaput in early 2012 Its alumni re-formed into Special Operations Forces Studios and now bring you H-Hour: World’s Elite, which as this video shows, is right in their wheelhouse of third-person tactical military shooters. SOF Studios cautions this is all pre-alpha. “Nothing has been tuned yet. Really,…

7 Days To Die Is Like Minecraft With Gravity

I’ll just put it like this: 7 Days to Die is like Minecraft but with guns and lots of zombies. Really, that’s what it boils down to. Which is perfectly fine with me, considering how much I’ve enjoyed my time with 7 Days to Die. Building defences with friends and huddling in the corner hoping…