On October 1, President Obama took the stage at a press conference and did something unusual for the leader of the free world: He explained why a website wasn’t working. Specifically, Obamacare’s overloaded online service healthcare.gov, which hadn’t had a particularly smooth launch. For a moment, the president sounded indistinguishable from a PR rep for…
If you’re curious what Pokémon is all about, hopefully you took the time to read Patricia’s great breakdown of the series, its history, and its appeal. But if you don’t have time—or just like exuberant! musical! numbers!—this smurfy mini-musical from AvByte might be just the thing. (Via Laughing Squid)
Hopefully you could tell from my decidedly mixed review of Beyond: Two Souls whether or not the game is for you. And if it is for you, a piece of advice: Consider bringing a friend. Beyond can be played from start to finish in 2-player local co-op. I found that I had a much better…
The Wii U Won’t Be Getting Assassin’s Creed IV DLC. Yesterday, Ubisoft detailed the downloadable add-ons coming Assassin’s Creed IV, among which is a cool-sounding standalone adventure that casts the player as an escaped slave. Unfortunately for Nintendo fans, today Ubisoft confirmed to Kotaku that the Wii U version of the game won’t get that…
Track: Civilization | Album: Audio, Video, Disco | Artist: Justice Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.
Sure, the game came out several months ago. Most of the good jokes have already been made. And yet some of the goofier aspects of BioShock Infinite are still pretty funny. This video from Nerdist features Chris Hardwick and Chloe Dykstra as Booker and Elizabeth—the last time we saw them in these getups, they were…
Picture this: A bunch of people are riding the train. Like most commuters these days, they’re staring at their phones: Skimming Twitter, reading books, playing games. A man takes out a .45 pistol. Puts it away. Takes it out again. No one notices. Then, he shoots and kills someone. Sound like a made-up cautionary tale?…
In Beyond: Two Souls, you‘ll do some things you rarely get to do in video games. You’ll control a young, frightened girl as she hugs a stuffed animal and tries to fend off nightmares. You’ll decide whether to accept beer at an awkward high-school party, and you’ll try to pick music that’ll impress a group…
If you recently watched Alfonso Cuaron’s marvelous outer-space odyssey Gravity, you probably walked out of the theater with your mind just a little bit blown. Or, if you’re renowned astrophysicist and science distributor Neil deGrasse Tyson, you came out and decided to kill everyone’s buzz by nitpicking the film. Heads up, some of these tweets…
EVE Online is a big, big game about big, big ships. The ships are bigger than even the biggest competing sci-fi starships. But still, it’s not all that common to see them looking this nice. Thanks to Dead End Thrills, we can take a moment to appreciate these massive space-cruisers in all their high-res glory.…
Have you ever had someone spill a drink on your laptop? It happened to me once, and I got pretty angry. If only I’d had telekinetic powers… This whole thing might just be a big promotional stunt for the new Carrie movie, but it’s still pretty fun to watch. (Via Matt Zoller Seitz, who makes…
We’ve spent plenty of time imagining what a Breaking Bad video game would look like. And heck, if you customize your character right, you can make GTA V into one… kinda. But what if the type of game best suited to Heisenberg’s odyssey is the kind with no graphics at all? The folks at Vulture…
Here’s a new gameplay demo of The Long Dark, a chilly post-apocalyptic survival game that’s currently on Kickstarter. The game, which will be released episodically on PC, is being made by a collection of talented developers. It sounds (and now, looks) pretty interesting.
The League of Legends Season 3 world championship is going down tonight. You can watch the whole thing, live from the Staples Center in Los Angeles, right here. Korea’s SKT T1 will be facing off against China’s Royal club for the championship. The whole thing is streaming at Riot Games’ Twitch Channel, and is embedded…
GTA Online Update: Rockstar has shared more details about the fixes in the new title update for GTA Online. The title update is now live for PS3 and is coming to Xbox 360 soon; Rockstar estimates the Xbox update will be live sometime overnight.
If you’d asked me in 1998 to look fifteen years in the future and guess who the the most enduring names in video games would be, I might’ve listed the usual suspects: Sid Meier, Tim Schafer, Will Wright, Shigeru Miyamoto and maybe a few others. I probably wouldn’t have included Tom Clancy. And yet here…
If you play games on PC, there’s a good chance you use a graphics processing unit (GPU) built around technology from one of two companies: Nvidia or AMD. The question is: Which? I’ve used both brands off and on for a while now—both Nvidia’s GTX line and AMD (formerly ATI)’s Radeon cards have their own…
It’s 1980. You’re a student at William McKinley high school in Chippewa, Michigan. You’re wearing your favorite Army jacket, and it’s time to hang out with the Freaks outside, where they’re smoking cigarettes. What do you do next? At first, I thought this video from The Fine Bros was just going to be another retro…
It’s hard to believe they didn’t see it. And yet Microsoft’s Phil Spencer says he didn’t anticipate that their new console, the Xbox One, would immediately be dubbed the “Xbone” by fans and detractors alike. “At first, I guess the thing that bugged me the most is I didn’t see it,” Spencer told Gamespot in…
Track: Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes | Album: Graceland | Artist: Paul Simon Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.
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