Check Out How Much Better the Tales of Symphonia Sequel Looks in HD

Last week we took a look at how the PS3 remaster of Tales of Symphonia stacks up against the original GameCube version. But this is not the only game in the Tales of Symphonia Chronicles HD remaster collection. Its 2008 sequel, Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World, has had an HD makeover as…

One Man’s Harrowing Quest For Toilet Paper, As Told By A ZombiU Short

Admit it. You would brave the undead-filled streets for some toilet paper, too. Zombie apocalypse? Pfft. This ten-minute short, created over six months with (amazingly enough) a budget of only £250 (about $400), tells the story of Ron, a lone survivor in the ZombiU universe whose priorities might seem skewed at first, but really—would you…

Here’s a Marvelous New Dragon Quest 3DS XL

Early next year, Dragon Quest Monsters 2: Iru and Luca’s Marvelous Mysterious Key hits the Nintendo 3DS. To mark the occasion, Nintendo is releasing a special 3DS XL. Neat DQ print, no? Dragon Quest Monsters 2: Iru and Luca’s Marvelous Mysterious Key is a remake of Dragon Quest Monsters 2: The Mysterious Key to Malta,…

PC Classic Gets A Gentle Glove Slap To The Face

One of the best PC games ever made is Sid Meier’s Colonization. A big part of that is the way it simulates the great unknown: as you venture westwards, unless you’re playing on the boring “real” map, you’re truly venturing into the great unknown. Few games have managed to copy that success, most recently Paradox’s…

Science Is Turning Disabled Kids Into Awesome Cyborgs

You might think 3D printers are only good for making your own bootleg action figures, but there’s a far more practical use for them: building robotic limbs for kids who would otherwise have a pretty tough time of it. That’s what a group called Robohand does. They use 3D printers to build the parts necessary…

Valve Is “Constantly” Trying To Improve Steam’s Wonky Offline Mode

While Steam theoretically allows you to play your games without an internet connection, there are catches, like the fact that every now and then you have to get back online for the feature to work. Which in some circumstances kinda defeats the point! Weirdly, while you’d be forgiven for thinking this was a design decision,…

The PocketStation Returns! For The…Vita.

Come on. When Sony started teasing the return of a quirky PS1 peripheral – the PocketStation – you didn’t really think they’d re-release the actual hardware, did you? No, instead it’s returning in the form of a PlayStation Vita application (literally called PocketStation for PlayStation Vita), which is being made available free to PlayStation Plus…

Streets Of Rage? More like Beats of Rage.The latest a cappella jam from Smooth McGroove takes us on a dance-party trip through a classic beat ’em up.

MLB 14 The Show on PS4 is the Only Next-Gen Baseball Game

Forget about baseball on Xbox One next year, if this image touting MLB 14 The Show is any indication. Sony announced the next edition of MLB The Show for PS4, PS Vita and PS3 tonight at the MLB Players Choice Awards on the MLB Network. But that’s not the real news because it, like baseball,…

Get your Vita ready for PS4: In preparation for the PS4 launch, Sony will soon be releasing a 3.00 software update for their Vita handheld. The new software will allow you to access the PS4’s remote play functionality and take panoramic photos, among other things. This video from Sony outlines the new features, and gives…

​He Crafted Thor’s Mighty Mjölnir, Then Smashed Stuff With It

There are few fictional weapons as mighty as Thor’s hammer Mjölnir. It can harness the power of lightning, drain radioactive energy, and knock Iron Man down a peg or two. This version of the legendary hammer, crafted in honor of Thor: The Dark World by AWE‘s Man At Arms Tony Swatton, may not be able…

If You Think About It This Way, Call of Duty Is Quite a Bargain

Call of Duty, like so many other games, is a better value over time. The more you play it, the less expensive its $60 price tag seems to have been. How cheap? Well, even if you buy all the map packs and play just two hours a week, the cost goes down to a dollar…

WWE 2K14: The Kotaku Review

Twenty-five years ago my best friend and I set up a wrestling ring in my basement—four barstools for the turnbuckles, some old mattresses for the canvas. The actual wrestling we did was hesitant, unplanned and uncompelling. But man, the stuff we did out of the ring makes me smile to this day. My facemask was…