Even if you're tired of the Lego video games (I'm not), you've got to admit this looks cool. Or cute. Or... come on. Lego: The Lord of the Rings? There are those among us who would eat this stuff up, yes? We've got a teaser for the new Lego Lord of t...

The province of Skyrim expands this summer with Dawnguard, 1,600 Microsoft points worth of new epic adventure for the Xbox 360. Dawnguard is a timed Xbox 360 exclusive, which is unfortunate seeing as I am fully invested in the PC version of the game...

This is the video game trailer that the people I follow on Twitter have been buzzing about all day. It's for Among the Sleep. It's a horror "experience" played in the first-person perspective.

I sometimes worry about the insides of my PC. I don't clean it as often as I probably should. Is there too much dust in there? Is that dust going to break something dear to me? It might, but then, I see videos like this and think, shit, my PC is spot...

Do you love NBC's comedy show, Community? I love Community. Though the show often pokes fun at film and television tropes—typically through the dorky, yet lovable character Abed—the characters sometimes toy around with video game jokes, too. Last nig...

Multi-national releases are a difficult process. Not only are there linguistic and cultural barriers to overcome, but very often content or simple monetary reasons can keep a game from entering one country or another.

The rigamarole is always the same: Big game is released, problems ensue. But for Diablo III, the launch was bigger—twelve years in the making. And the problems?

It looked like Grand Theft Auto, but it was very real—and almost very deadly. Last week, a Hyundai YF Sonata pulled out of traffic and went tearing down the street, weaving through traffic, and piling into a stopped car.

I don't like most zombie games because, well, they're not really zombie games. They're action games using the texture of a walking corpse as your opponent.

It's hard not to get all wistful and teary-eyed when you watch these videos of Final Fantasy VI's various landmarks, faithfully recreated in Minecraft by builder Felix Trapper and set to glorious Nobuo Uematsu-composed music.

You know how, on Sunday afternoons, a great adventure flick you've seen a dozen times comes on the TV at random and you spend the next hour watching it?

Just...look at this. LOOK AT IT. The suit's not brand new, so you may have seen it before, at least in picture form, but seeing it in motion like this...wow. UPDATE - Here's a longer video showing its creator, Anthony "Master" Le, putting the suit th...

Those daring boys at Simple Pickup tap into the video game vault once more, snagging digits left and right with some painful Pokémon pickup lines. This time they even dressed the part.

The correct answer, as EVE Online players already know, is last year, when an expansion to the game brought about avatars that must surely be the envy of every other video game involving human characters on the planet. The lighting helps, especially ...

You die and die and die. Load up another save, maybe. Finally, you emerge triumphant over the boss battle or end sequence you've been struggling with.

When I first heard that a visual novel centered around dating girls with physical disabilities was being made, my first thought was "only in Japan." Of course, I was completely wrong.

Harrison Krix, aka Volpin Props, is someone whose work you should be very familiar with if you're a regular Kotaku reader. His latest piece is this incredible helmet from Skyrim, which through good design and fine craftsmanship reaches into the game,...

LEGO builder Nick Jensen, who already has an impressive arsenal of replica Halo weapons to his name, has outdone himself with this 1:1 model of the series' trademark sniper rifle. Based on the Halo: