Let’s Take A Trip Back To The 90s With Pokémon

I can’t decide if these old (and edited?) Pokemon videos found by Everything Is Terrible are amazing, embarrassing, or both. I’m sure we’ll look back on current ads and feel the same way about them too—that’s just how it is. But for now, we can laugh and cringe at these old ads freely. And in…

Attack On Titan Cosplay Is Getting Out Of Control

Some cosplayers really know how to take it to the next level, let me tell ya. Last year, we had an amazing Japanese cosplay group that went all out with their Attack on Titan cosplay. This year, we’ve got a German cosplay group that filmed an elaborate cosplay video over the course of four months…

Judge Dredd Is The Jerk Cop Future-Los Angeles Needs

You know Dredd. Big, beefy, never takes off the helmet. Kind of a jerk, isn’t he? Why do we like him again? Maybe you know him from the excellent 2012 movie starring Karl Urban or the less-good 1995 feature film where Sylvester Stallone played him. Or it could be you’re either a fan of the…

​Steal Money In This Game, Get Actual Money In Real Life

“Earn cash and win prizes just by playing video games!” We’ve seen that type of empty promise on dozens of fake-out ads all over the internet. But thanks to one creative indie developer, this weekend it’ll really be possible to do just that. The game in question is Jason Rohrer’s The Castle Doctrine, a multiplayer…

IndieStatik founder Josh Mattingly has stepped down from his position “for the immediate future” following his apology earlier this week for sending crude sexual comments to a female game developer

The creators of the Banner Saga are fighting to keep the game’s name. In a statement sent to Kotaku, Stoic Studios say: Two years ago, the three of us at Stoic set out to make an epic viking game: The Banner Saga. We did, and people loved it, so we’re making another one. We won’t…

Watch The First Three Minutes Of The Last of Us: Left Behind

Hope you haven’t unhooked your PS3 yet; 2013’s Kotaku Game of the Year is getting a new story on February 14, and you can watch the cinematic intro here. (Don’t worry—it’s not as traumatizing as the first few minutes of The Last of Us.) I am totally ready to dive back into the world of…

Jimmy Fallon Makes Fun Of Nintendo’s Money Troubles

Jimmy Fallon can’t pass up a good zinger, and on last night’s Late Night, he let into Nintendo for their recent money problems. Check it out in the video above. Clip via Late Night with Jimmy Fallon

Instagram Ruins Pokémon Snap

Back in the days of the original Pokémon Snap, there were no filters to toy with. But if there was a modern Pokémon Snap game? Chances are, it would have a few Instagram-y options for all the Pokémon pictures we take, like in this video by The Warp Zone I’d be okay with that, personally.…

How To Stop Your Valve Games From Bugging Out On Steam

If you booted up Steam today to try to play a Valve game—like Dota 2 or Team Fortress 2—you may have noticed something funky. Maybe Steam tried to boot up something different from what you picked. Heck, maybe you don’t even own the game it tries to boot up at all. Such is the case…

Things Get Retro With An NES-Style Xbox One Controller

There’s something that’s just incredibly classy about the NES controller—so it should be no surprise that its color scheme meshes well with an Xbox One controller, too. It goes well with everything! This gorgeous paint job comes from Reddit user alechere, and it just further proves that the Xbox One controller would look great in…

The SSD Your PS4 Deserves, PSN Update, Cheap Speakers [Deals]

Your system deserves a better class of storage. We covered upgrading your Playstation 4 to a bigger and/or faster drive a few months ago, and today, the 1TB model of the best SSD you can buy is down to $480, $120 less than it was when we last covered it. [eBay] We’ve utilized more than…

Founder of Ultra-Arcade Cabinet Company Gets Two-Year Prison Term

The founder of the Ultracade, a MAME-type arcade cabinet that once was a status item among video game connoisseurs, will spend the next two years in a federal prison for secretly copying and selling video games and code whose rights he had sold to another company. The sentencing of David R. Foley concludes a legal…

​Crap, We’re Going to Have to Go Down That Tunnel, Aren’t We?

Clumps of probably-sentient, probably-murderous super-fungus. A vent that looks to have been violently wrenched open. A space suit with some kind of tentacles growing out of its head-place. And a dead body off in the distance. Yup, that’s where you’re supposed to go. The screen above is from Soma, the sci-fi horror title coming from…

A Nice Assassin’s Creed IV Moment That I Didn’t Expect

As I continued my new year’s tradition of playing the rest of the previous year’s Assassin’s Creed, I finally played the PS3/PS4/PC-only missions of ACIV. Good timing, if I dare say so. The missions star Aveline, the assassin who also stars in AC: Liberation, the HD version of which I just played right before trying…