The Games That Destroyed You
There's nothing like a good, solid emotional breakdown to really liven up your day. And when it happens in a video game? Even better.
What Game Have You Felt The Most Conflicted About?
Our attitudes towards games are very rarely cut and dry. Even in a wonderful, perfectly engineered game, you can still have lingering doubts. Likewise, you can fall in love with a game that is broken, yet does something very special.
Show Us Your Game Console Setup
Over the last couple of weeks, lots of people have added one or even two new gaming consoles to the space under their TVs. As a result, some reorganization has been required. Where the hell are we supposed to fit all these black boxes?
The Best (and Possibly Worst) of The New Pokémon Designs
New Pokémon games means new Pokémon designs—that's practically a given. The real question is, are they any good?
One Of The Few Mega Evolved Pokemon I Would Care About. And You?
To be clear, this isn't a Mega evolved version of Bidoof, although it should be. It's just a meme that was created by That Splicing Adventure; Bidoof mashed with every (other?) legendary in the Pokemon games. Glorious, yes, but probably not something Game Freak would ever make a reality. Unfortunately!
16-Bit Characters Fit Perfectly In Real-Life Environments
Mixing old video game sprites with real life is not one of the most difficult artforms, but if you're creative enough the results
There's So Much Room For Activities In Grand Theft Auto V's Open World
Yesterday's gameplay trailer
Show Us The Games You're Playing To Survive The Summer Doldrums
Every summer there's a video game dead zone, a break between the games of spring and the deluge of the fall. Lately it's seemed as though that dead zone is getting shorter and shorter. But it arrives each year nonetheless.
Our Monitors Show Us So Many Things. Now Show Us Your Monitors.
Unless you're reading this on a cell phone or tablet, you're staring at a monitor right now. They are glowing portals that take us to work and play every day. What does your window to the digital world look like?
The Best Games of 2013's Amazing First Six Months
The year could end right now and we could already declare 2013 one of gaming's greatest years. Have we ever had a first half as stacked as this? Let's celebrate by having some friendly debates about which games were the best.
The Silly Conversations In Animal Crossing: New Leaf
Come on and slam! In Animal Crossing: New Leaf, our actions and the reactions of the animal citizens can trigger some pretty terrific dialogue. Managing our town wouldn't be the same without these characters and their rather interesting personalities.
Show Us Your Animal Crossing: New Leaf House
They say you can tell a lot about a person based on how they decorate a room. And if you're playing Animal Crossing: New Leaf, you're gonna have a lot of rooms to decorate. Let's share, shall we?
Fake Smash Bros. Character Screens Flood The Internet
For me, probably the funniest thing during last week's E3 was the reveal trailer of Smash Bros. for the Wii U and all the hilarity that followed. The internet picked up that poor villager
The PS3 Had 12 Games At Launch. Here's What They Looked Like.
We finally saw the actual PlayStation 4 during Sony's E3 press conference on Monday, and we got sneak peaks at the console's upcoming games, some of which will be launch titles. But how do those games compare with the PS3's launch titles? Let's take a look.
The Best 2D Arcade Game Backgrounds
Classic 2D arcade platformers, brawlers and beat 'em ups can have amazing background art—with pixel perfect details and a wonderful color palette. Unlike the similarly awesome 2D fighter backgrounds
This Tank Can Barrel Roll And Other Popular GIFs From This Week
Whether it's StarCraft II, Grand Theft Auto IV, or Battlefield 3, seems like the possibilities for something unexpected and funny to happen in games are unlimited. And one of the best ways to share that moment is through an animated GIF.
The Most Terrifying Mystery Mansions In Video Games
You gotta love horror games with mysterious, haunted mansions. They work so well. You enter the estate, or wake up in a calm part of it, only to find hordes of traps, the undead and a bevy of haunted horrors waiting to overwhelm you.
These Games Let You Play As Aliens
Alien lifeforms aren't always just non-player characters, enemies or simple decorations. From time to time some games let us slip on creepy, gooey and downright ugly alien suits to play as cool aliens and extraterrestrial races.
The Best SNES Endings
Compared to video game endings on the NES
The Games That Make It Hardest To Say Goodbye
There haven't been a ton of new games out lately, so maybe you've had time to finish one or two that had been sitting on your backburner. And maybe, if you were lucky, one of those games was good enough that you had a hard time letting go.
This Week The Internet Went Crazy Over These Glitchy And Artistic GIFs
The reveal of the Xbox One might have overshadowed content on the Internet this week, but that certainly wasn't the case for the craftiest of internet denizens who convert anything worthy into an animated GIF. Whether it's some sort of a video game glitch, like giant Spock's terrifying stare above, or a nice form of…
Classic Video Games With Real-Life Backdrops Are Delightful
Video games from the 8-bit and 16-bit era mixed with real life environments look awesome, and it's a technique that lets anyone's creativity shine. It's something that Kotaku has covered before
The Internet Reacts Hilariously To The Xbox One Event
The big Xbox reveal event yesterday swept through every major forum and community, resulting in the inevitable production of hilarious jabs at the console itself, console wars, and especially the dog companion from Call of Duty: Ghosts in just a couple of hours.
The Xbox 360 Had 18 Games At Launch. Here's What They Looked Like.
The Xbox 360 was released on November 22, 2005. It had 18 launch titles. Now that the Xbox One has been revealed along with a few of its launch games, let's take a look back at the launch titles the 360 had, and see how they hold up.
After tomorrow, the next new console announced will be the... 1) Apple Something, 2) The Wii 3, 3) The PlayStation 4 1/2, 4) ____________. Any guesses?
Here Are A Bunch Of GIFs People Have Been Going Crazy Over This Week
The Internet is a funny place. Do pretty much anything, and someone, somewhere is going to turn it into an animated GIF. Because there is a law written somewhere that pretty much legally binds us all to this rule.
The Most Amazing Video Game Title Screens
We did a gallery on the most awesome continue screens
A Kid Who Doesn’t Want to Be Spider-Man Is My Favorite Panel This Week
Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #23 - People who’ve worn the webbed mask have abandoned being Spider-Man before. The cover of this week’s Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #23 riffs on the classic John Romita image from Amazing Spider-Man #50, when Peter Parker quit. And I want to say that Ben Riley stopped web-swinging because …
This Guy Has Been Using The Same Pokémon For Nearly A Decade
Many of us get kind of teary-eyed when thinking about how Mass Effect has allowed us to transfer Commander Shepard across three games over the last five years. That pales in comparison to Pokémon, which, barring the early games, allows you to transfer creatures for over a decade across many titles—a feature which…
