Cameron Gidari

Thanks for the warm welcome this weekend, Kotaku faithful. I hope you all had as much fun as I did. Hit me up on Twitter at @CGidari if you ever want to say hi, and I’ll see you around the comments section!

How To Make Old Games Feel New Again

As a young lad my gaming library was pretty limited, so I needed to find ways to make those games last. You can only play a game so many times before you’ve explored every nook and cranny of it, and once that happened it was time to get creative. (Top photo courtesy of Retro Game…

Sunday Comics: Ice Ice Baby

Welcome to Kotaku‘s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. Mike Fahey might be away this weekend, but I couldn’t leave you hanging. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira. Published August 22. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published…

How I Broke My Addiction To Achievements

The first piece I ever wrote for Kotaku chronicled my fun-sucking addiction to achievements. 15 months later, I’m back to tell you how I overcame that addiction. Even back then, at the peak of my achievement obsessing, my resolve was starting to crack. The grind had become too tedious, too time-consuming, and too much of…

A 16-Bit RPG That Promises A Modern Twist

Standing out in a crowded sea of retro-style indie games is no easy task, but 16-bit RPG Elysian Shadows caught my attention recently for what it’s promising to do differently. Fashioning itself as a “next-gen 2D RPG,” Elysian Shadows isn’t shy about wearing its inspiration on its sleeve. Chrono Trigger and Secret of Mana both…

Sega announced this morning in Japan that Yakuza Zero is the next title the Yakuza series, and it’s in development for PlayStation 3 and 4. There’s not much more info outside of a teaser website, but Sony promises to reveal more details at the Tokyo Game Show in September.

How To Make Your PS4 Load Times Just 10 Seconds Faster

If you’re upgrading your PlayStation 4 with a new hard drive, you’re likely deciding between a larger regular drive and a faster but smaller SSD. Digital Foundry has a side-by-side comparison of the load time performances between several different hard drive models, and the speed difference is substantial. The 240GB SSD regularly handled loading times…

The Best Card Game I Ever Played ‘Died’ 13 Years Ago

In 2001, gaming company Decipher Inc. got dealt a hand that should have been a fatal blow to their popular Star Wars: Customizable Card Game – they lost the Star Wars license. Unable to come to terms on a new deal with Lucasfilm, Decipher watched as the Star Wars license passed to Wizards of the…

Mojang COO Vu Bui confirmed on the company’s blog that there will be no MineCon in 2014. Instead, Bui said that they are “shooting to have” the next MineCon in the spring of 2015 in London.

The Zelda Soundtrack You Probably Haven’t Heard About

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time has an iconic soundtrack, but the game also has a second official soundtrack that was only released in Japan. It’s really good. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Re-Arranged Album debuted in Japan on December 22, 1999. Arranged and performed by artist MOKA, the 12-track album featured…

A Version Of P.T. That’s Somehow Equal Parts Funny And Terrifying

P.T. might not have much in common with The Stanley Parable, but that didn’t stop Youtuber Its a mirage from mashing up the narration of the latter with the spine-tingling gameplay of the former. It works beautifully, and yet I don’t think I’m brave enough to even play this version of P.T.

A Criminally Underrated Game About A Pig Farmer

Dink Smallwood was a little indie darling that deserved a lot more attention than it got back when it was first released in 1998. Developed by a three-person team at Robinson Technologies, Dink Smallwood was the antithesis of your typical RPG adventure game. You were not the chosen one, or a knight, or even all…

Diablo III On Xbox One vs PS4 vs PC

Diablo III: Ultimate Evil Edition dropped for Xbox One and PlayStation 4 this week, and it’s good. So good, in fact, that it has Kotaku‘s Yannick LeJacq switching his Diablo allegiance from PC to PS4 Now the folks at Digital Foundry have put together a helpful side-by-side comparison of the game running on all three…

Hey Kotaku, I’m Your Guest Editor For The Weekend

There is no need to adjust your television set. Mike Fahey will be back with your regularly scheduled programming next weekend. In the meantime, I’m Cameron Gidari and I’ll be your guest editor for the next 48 hours. You might have seen me around these parts before. I’m thecolorblind guy, the guy obsessed with achievements,…