Depending on how you look at it, comic book variant covers are either a delightful added bonus to the comic collecting experience... or a semi-shady cash grab publishers use to confuse readers into buying multiple issues of the same story.
Netflix's Voltron: Legendary Defender ended season three on more of a question mark than a cliffhanger, mainly because the Powers That Be chose to split the latest season into two half-seasons. The latest trailer for "season four" is here, showing Voltron gaining some major popularity for the war effort... but it isn't all sunshine and rainbows for the Paladins.
Guild Wars 2's second expansion, Path of Fire, launches this Saturday, taking players to the Crystal Desert and the Kingdom of Elona to track down a rogue god. Along the way, giant rabbits will be mounted. Who's excited?
While trying out Mario Kart VR et cetera at Bandai Namco's VR Zone Shinjuku yesterday, I visited the cafe inside the virtual reality arcade. I was about to make a mistake.
It's not easy being a giant robot with a body better suited to destroying planets than saving them, especially not when people react to your noble, monster-vaporizing efforts with bullets and lasers of their own. Jettomero, though, doesn't really mind. He just wants to make sure everybody's alright.
This weekend I spent hours playing Dragon Ball FighterZ in a closed beta on Kotaku's Twitch channel. The game is gorgeous, but I'm more impressed with the number of tricks and tools it gives players to turn a match around.
What kid hasn't imagined finding a secret door that leads to an adventure-filled multiverse? In Vault Comics' Maxwell's Demons, the titular hero is smart enough to actually build the tools to really go on those adventures. But the cosmos is a big place, filled with joy and horror in equal measure — as poor Max finds out.
Her Story. Age of Wonders.. Pixeljunk Shooter. Tharsis. Shadowrun Returns. Trine 2. Shadowrun Dragonfall.
And that's just the stuff under $5.
Timed with the release of the game, Capcom has announced their first high-profile tournament series for Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite. Unlike the currently Street Fighter-exclusive Capcom Cup, however, Battle for the Stones introduces some quirks to the traditional competitive environment in the hopes of making real-world decisions as crazy as what players can pull off in-game.
Even by comic book standards, Ben Reilly has lived one of the most complicated and difficult lives that any fictional clone ever has. Introduced as a mentally unstable Spider-Man clone The Amazing Spider-Man #149, Ben truly believed himself to be the true Peter Parker before being forced to confront the truth.
If you've been wondering how Hollywood would reboot Tomb Raider, here's the first full trailer so you can get an idea.
The latest game in the NBA 2K series is frustrating to play if you don't want to spend any additional money on top of the $US60 ($75) you have to shell out to get the game.
Poor Mass Effect: Andromeda. It's copped plenty of beatings this year already, but that didn't stop a cheeky JB Hi-Fi staffer from putting the foot in one last time.
Hideo Kojima's classic game Zone of The Enders is getting a remake on a PlayStation 4 with enhanced graphics, 4K support, new sound design and, of course, VR support.
Charlie Brooker's body of work is defined by its pessimism. From the pointed critique of lazy hipster irony in Nathan Barley to the gory satire of reality shows depicted in Dead Set, his work pinpoints the worst of humanity. Black Mirror continues that bleak trend, sometimes to the point of parody. Earlier this week, Brooker won his first Emmy. It was for the only episode of Black Mirror with a happy ending, "San Junipero".
I've been playing through L.A. Noire for the last month and a half on Kotaku's Twitch channel. This weekend we finished the game. The conclusion is bittersweet but there was no other way for a tale of crime and corruption to end. Controversial in its day, L.A Noire's ending is perfect when viewed in retrospect.
Earlier today we featured a list of the best video game trailers. They're very good indeed, but there's an absolute corker that we didn't include.
How do you distil all of human history into a game? How do you inscribe all of our knowledge and learning upon 105 cards? How do you condense millennia of scientific progress and technological innovation into a 30-minute-card game called Innovation?
Dungeons & Dragons' selling point is that is lets players be and do things they have always dreamed of. Dinosaur racing has never been one of those things for me, but if it is for you, D&D's newest adventure, which launched today, delivers on that very specific fantasy.
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