Official The Simpsons LEGO Is Coming. Here’s A Look.

It may have taken decades longer than it probably should have, but official Simpsons LEGO is on the way. And while the Danish toy giant has yet to release its own promotional images of the line, which is due in early 2014, pics of some minifigs have begun leaking out a little early. Nice shots…

A History Of Movie Archers, From Robin Hood to Katniss Everdeen

In video games, it’s been the year of the bow for almost two years now. But games aren’t having all the fun – movies have been right in the thick of it. In fact, recent films like Brave and The Hunger Games have carried on a long Hollywood tradition of bows, arrows, bowstrings and arrowheads.…

Track: Difference a Day Makes | Album: Takes Time | Artist: Jim Guthrie Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

Every Xbox dashboard, leading up to the current dashboard on the Xbox One—neat to see how much stuff has changed, no? GIF via(r/gaming)

First World of Warcraft Movie Actors Revealed

The World of Warcraft movie doesn’t just have a release date. It’s got a cast now as well. If you were expecting BIG NAMES on this list, you won’t find them. The actors announced by Legendary and Universal Pictures are: Ben Foster (Six Feet Under) Travis Fimmel (Vikings) Paula Patton (Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol) Toby…

Transformers Legends‘s Next Update Is Beast Wars. Hell Yeah.

Free-to-play mobile card collecting game Transformers Legends has been slowly slogging through early Transformers history for what seems like ages. Now they’re getting to the good stuff in the next update — Beast Wars. The computer animated show started off slow and built to a wondrous crescendo, attaching itself to first-generation cartoon continuity through a…

Come for the killer Tetris tune, stay for the hypnotic Tetris gameplay. As much as I liked the latest from Smooth McGroove, I was oddly transfixed by the gameplay video that goes along with it. Tetris, man.

Every Star Wars Character Is Special, Like A Snowflake

With just a piece of white paper and some scissors, you can make your very own lovely, intricate Star Wars decorative snowflakes. ‘Tis the season, after all. These templates come to us from Anthony Herrera, who has made it oh-so easy to make a kickass snowflake shaped like Boba Fett, an AT-AT, or even a…

You Can Spend $140 On One Car In Gran Turismo 6

Gran Turismo 6 is coming to the PlayStation 3 on Friday, bringing with it the first real-money microtransactions in franchise history. It’s a game where five bucks can buy you 27 1998 Mini Coopers, or 2.5 percent of a ’66 Jaguar XJ13. European and UK microtransaction pricing for the sixth game in the storied racing…

The Year of Luigi Will Continue into 2014

Remember that in February, Nintendo declared the “Year of Luigi.” Unless they were retroactively declaring January to be a Month of Luigi, too, this proclamation should extend into 2014—and Reggie Fils-Aime, the Nintendo of America president, said today it does. Siliconera got an interview with Fils-Aime today and didn’t waste the shot at a clever…

​The Year In Video Games, In Just Under Two Minutes

What a year it has been. So much drama, so many exciting happenings, so many games. You’d need at least an hour just to cover it all… right? Well, maybe not. Malcolm Klock has put together this lovely tribute to the games of 2013 that runs just under two minutes. It’s really sorta just the…

Insomniac’s Space Pokémon Game Flees Facebook For Mobile Pastures

The makers of Ratchet and Clank turned their attention to Facebook last year, creating Outernauts, a hip, Pokémon-style battle game with absolutely splendid art design. Today Insomniac revealed plans to shut down the game’s web presence on January 31, focusing on making a mobile version more people might play. Insomniac relayed the bad news earlier…

Nintendo’s New Wii U Commercials Ignore The Console’s Best Feature

If you have been watching TV over the past few weeks—particularly, if you spent all of Saturday watching a Harry Potter marathon on ABC Family because it was on and you like wizards whatever don’t judge—you’ve probably seen a commercial or two for the Wii U. Designed to help raise public awareness of the struggling…

EA Won’t Work On New Battlefield 4 DLC Until Flawed Game Is Fixed

Flagship first-person-shooter Battlefield 4 is so troubled that the game’s development studio won’t proceed on development of any new, planned expansions until the game’s problems are sorted out, BF4 publisher EA told Kotaku in a statement today. That update comes at at an awkward moment. Online connection issues have been frustrating some players of the…

YouTube Users Overreact To Its New Comment System

The fact that not everyone is happy with the way YouTube comments work now isn’t news—not everyone wants to use their real names online, and Google Plus doesn’t feel like its taken off. Still, it’s amusing to actually hear some of the ridiculous reactions to the new comment system. Granted, this video Shesellssheshells doesn’t let…

Depression Quest, the thoughtful game about mental health, is now back on Steam Greenlight—it was initially taken downdue to death and rape threats. If voted through, the developer, Zoe Quinn, hopes to put the game up for free. (Update: Full disclosure, Quinn and I are friends.)