A Game About Soup. Because Soup Is Nasty Business.

In space, soup is a nasty business. You’ll need to build bases that defend automatically themselves from attackers and jump your way to remote locations for out-of-the-ordinary ingredients. But, even in the far future of Pixeljunk Inc., people need their stews. You can tell just by looking at it that Pixeljunk Inc.is going to be…

How To Get A Tank, Fighter Jet And Passenger Jet in GTA V ASAP

Alright, I know there’s a bunch of you out there who don’t care about what happens to Michael, Franklin and Trevor in Grand Theft Auto V. You need to know how to blow up as many things as possible, as soon as possible. Well I’m here to help, with two convenient videos! If grabbing a…

Serenity Flies Again, Sort Of: Okay, it’s just a cloud. But it’s a cloud that looks remarkably like a certain beloved Firefly-class transport ship. Perhaps this apparition is a magical leaf on the wind, the product of all our collective wishes for another Firefly movie. Photo: jackie4kneeyay via Nathan Fillion

NBA Live is actually coming back: EA’s troubled basketball series will return on November 19, launching on both Xbox One and PS4

There Is No Escaping This Week In Gaming Apps

The coast looks clear. There are certainly a lot less android roaming the streets than there were last week, but what if it’s just a ploy to lead you out into the open? You take a couple of cautious steps out of the shadows, and BAM! — the Week in Gaming Apps. It’s a predator,…

Gran Turismo Fans’ Best Ideas For New Tracks

Readers of our car-crazy sister site Jalopnik have answered the call and hand-crafted some tracks that they’d love to see in a future Gran Turismo. Take a look. Full-disclosure, Jalopnik ran the contest to help promote their upcoming film festival, which is presented by Gran Turismo 6. Still, cool tracks!

Why So Serious, Retro Batman?

Back in the day, there were plenty of 8- and 16-bit video games about Batman. But none of them retold the story of Christopher Nolan’s 2008 Bat-sterpiece The Dark Knight Here, from CineFix‘s 8-Bit Cinema, is a re-creation of what just such a game would look like. I always enjoy how these guys’ videos re-create…

Gabe Newell Teases Steam Box Announcement For Next Week

Will we find out more about the elusive Steam Box next week? Valve boss Gabe Newell teased his company’s second-most-anticipated announcement while speaking at LinuxCon today, as reported by Ars Technica “Next week we’re going to be rolling out more information about how we get there and what are the hardware opportunities we see for…

6th Grade Teacher Asks His Students Why They Want The New Call of Duty

No matter how you—likely an avid gamer—feel about the Call of Duty franchise, it seems like there will always be a market for the famous (infamous?) shooter series. So how do a bunch of eleven to twelve-year-olds feel about the game? And why? Kotaku reader and TAY poster GiantBoyDetective asked his students to find out.…

The Problem With Review Scores, Part V

Review scores: they’re not just arbitrary and meaningless, they’re toxic to discussion, too. Grand Theft Auto V reviews came out today, and with them came a whole host of poisonous Internet comments not about the content of those reviews, but about the numbers attached to them. Arguments raged hard: is this game worth a 10?…

Pokemon Brings Back “Gotta Catch ‘Em All” With A Bad Music Video

“Gotta Catch ‘Em All” never truly left our hearts, but it did leave official Pokemon channels for a bit. The Pokemon Company is bringing it back, and they’ve recruited renowned electronica artist Pogo to produce this bit of nonsense. That’s right kids, this was the big tease. The song is called “Catchatronic”, and it’s a…

Moneysaver: GTAV, Logitech Gold Box, Saints Row IV, Rogue Legacy

Between it being your last chance to pre-order GTAV, and the great Gold Box Amazon has on Logitech products, you’ve got your deals cut out for you. Don’t miss out on deals on Rogue Legacy, the Amazon bundle of Square-Enix games, Bioshock Infinite, and lots of classic Disney cartoons on DVD. Well when you price…

Speeding Coast To Coast Through GTA V Takes About Six Minutes

Grand Theft Auto V is very large. But after the game’s map leaked last week, I noticed some people speculating that, no, it’s not that big. How about if we hop in a car and drive from end to end? Up top, you can see a drive from the southern tip of the game’s massive…

Well This Celebration Certainly Just Got Awkward

Beating the world’s best StarCraft II player at this weekends Dreamhack tournament? No problem! Doing a proper traditional champagne celebration after the finals? Nope! It presented some difficulties and awkward moments for Korean terran player Liquid Taeja and Dreamhack boss Robert Ohlén—who came to help out—to open the giant champagne. It’s not an easy task!…

Podcast: GTA V, Wii U, Next-Gen Consoles

Is Grand Theft Auto V the best game ever or just the best game ever? Can Nintendo save the Wii U? What does “next-gen” actually mean? A few months ago, right after E3, Kirk and I put together an impromptu podcast. Kotaku readers seemed to like it, so we’re bringing it back. Starting today, we’re…

Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: It’s a SnackTAYku Interbational smackdown! Zarnyx and Supergeek each offer up takes on dim sum houses in their native Trinidad and Netherlands. Readers also get GiantBoyDetective’s review of PS3 platformer Puppeteer And you can always go join the voices talking about video games and life…

The First Great Mobile Japanese Action RPG Is Getting A Sequel

Released in early 2010, EXE-Create’s Japanese action role-playing game Across Age was a turning point in my mobile gaming career — the moment I realized that the types of games I really loved would soon be in my pocket. Across Age II is coming this winter, and I’m positively giddy. The only real issue I…

28 Minutes Of GTA V‘s Stolen Planes, Tanks And Selfies

The original plan was simple. Drive to the airfield and take the plane Trevor uses to run drugs and show off flying in GTAV. Unfortunately, I forgot that I had landed that plane in the middle of the highway and abandoned it. Plan B: Go to the airport and steal a private jet. What could…

Grand Theft Auto V: The Kotaku Review

Rockstar Games has scaled a mountain with Grand Theft Auto V, creating the best-looking, best-sounding and, most importantly, best-playing version of gaming’s most notorious franchise. Scaling one peak, however, reveals another—their cloud-piercing ambition to create a great ensemble video game drama, an epic of intersecting, interactive lives. Rockstar doesn’t summit that new peak as impressively…

Grand Theft Auto V’s iPhone App Is Like a Gangsta Nintendogs

It’s all the rage for AAA console games to have smartphone apps that hook into the main console game. So, yeah, GTA V has one, too. But, at least Rockstar Games isn’t taking theirs too seriously. Here’s how iFruit is described on the Apple App Store: “How would we survive without apps? Apps can transform…