Patricia Hernandez

Disabled Gamer Gets A Rare League of Legends Kill Without Using Hands

According to Riot, the odds of getting a pentakill in League of Legends is one in every 1,500 matches. A pentakill is when you manage to kill the entire enemy team in a short period of time—no easy feat! Twitch user Aieron accomplished a pentakill though, and he did it without using his hands: he…

The Most Exhausting Way To Play Team Fortress 2

Remember Omni, the virtual reality/treadmill hybrid that allows you to walk and look around naturally in a game—like Skyrim? This time, Virtuix, the folks behind the tech, are back with footage of the Omni, Team Fortress 2 and the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset running all at once. This is as immersive as you can…

The Luigi Craze In Mario & Luigi: Dream Team Sure Is Ridiculous

It’s the year of Luigi. What better way to celebrate than with an RPG adventure where you drop into Luigi’s dreams? While that’s a weirdly specific way to celebrate a character, it’s exactly what you’ll be doing in the upcoming Mario & Luigi: Dream Team. And when you’re in Luigi’s dreams, the Luigibilities are endless.…

Sometimes, You Just Gotta Break Up With Your (Gaming) Buddies

Compatibility is difficult, that’s why there’s an entire industry behind dating and advising people on how to best find true love. It’s not just romance, though: compatibility is important, yet equally difficult when you’re playing games with your buddies. What if your playstyles don’t match up? Here’s an amusing video by TheWarpZone which looks at…

The Wii U’s Biggest Problem Is The 3DS

Analyzing a company’s position and their marketing strategy with consoles is often of little interest to me: I’m not an investor, and sometimes the conversations feel like a slightly more sophisticated version of people arguing about the CONSOLE WARS™ on forums. Bleh. And yet I walked out of a Nintendo preview event yesterday with one…

This Is What A Boss Battle In The New Zelda 3DS Looks Like

Yesterday, after Nintendo announced a new Zelda set in the world of A Link To The Past, Kotaku was given a chance to have some hands-on time with the 3DS title. We saw the new wall mechanic, and Kirk Hamilton was able to work his way to a caterpillar boss battle in the demo—you can…

Sacred Citadel, a neat-looking side-scrolling brawler, drops today for XBL, Steam and PSN. Check out the launch trailer here. We’ll have more on the game soon.

Buy Toothpaste, Get New Buildings In SimCity. Because Advertising.

Move over, Nissan Leaf®. We’ve got some new brands in town: Crest® Toothpaste and Oral-B®. According to EA, specially marked Crest® and Oral-B® products come packaged with a SimCity code for downloadable content called “Attractions Set.” Here’s what is included in the set: Giant Garden Gnome, Dolly the Dinosaur, Llarry the Llama, MaxisMan Statue and…

I Hope Mewtwo’s New Form Has A Magical Girl Transformation Sequence

There’s a new, mysterious Pokémon that looks suspiciously like Mewtwo. We don’t know much about it, though judging by appearance alone, it’s hard to fault anyone for thinking the Pokémon is a new Mewtwo form. And if that’s the case, I hope Mewtwo transforms into the new Pokémon like in this short video by alypkm.…

Some Don’t Like BioShock’s Forced Baptism. Enough To Ask For A Refund.

Before you can step into Columbia—before you can find out about Elizabeth and Comstock, before you know about “tears” and the Vox Populi, BioShock Infinite requires the player to do one thing: accept a baptism. There is no way around the religious sacrament which uses water as a means of ritual purification. The only way…

Sex Workers Reveal How They Attract Geeky Entrepreneur Clients

Today, CNN published an article that takes a look at sex workers who use technology, social media and geek interests to attract “well-off engineers and programmers” in the Bay Area. These men are likely young and have disposable income, making them lucrative clients. To clarify the term, CNN describes sex workers as a term that…

He Forged A Kingdom Hearts Keyblade. Then, He Smashed Stuff With It.

Last time we saw Man At Arm’s Tony Swatton, he forged the iconic sword from Adventure Time. This time he’s back with a video that walks us through how he took the keyblade from Kingdom Hearts, and actually made it deadly. Awesome. I’m pretty sure keyblades don’t have to be sharp to be deadly, but…

BioShock Infinite Is The Best Multiplayer Game I’ve Played In A While

Technically, BioShock Infinite has no multiplayer mode; you can only play the single-player story. But let’s look beyond how we traditionally understand multiplayer games for a moment. If we do, what we find is that just because a game doesn’t come packaged with a multiplayer mode doesn’t mean it can’t become a multiplayer experience. Multiplayer…

One Hour of Call of Duty Warfare In Real Life Sure Would Be Expensive

Call of Duty warfare would also cost a ton of lives—enough that, if it went on for six days, there would be no humans left on earth according to Vsauce3. Really, getting into the nitty gritty details of how many (fake) resources we use in Call of Duty is intense and ridiculous: thank god it’s…

A Look At The Crazy (And Not Totally Accurate) Science In BioShock Infinite

Pay attention, there will be a quiz at the end. No but seriously though: check out this educational video by outsidexbox, which looks at quantum mechanics, and how it relates to BioShock Infinite. Or in other words, the science behind stuff in BioShock Infinite (like floating cities, or multiple universes), along with a look at…

This Is Why Gym Leaders Shouldn’t Give Away Pokémon Badges Willy-Nilly

The way it should work is, if the Pokémon trainer defeats the gym leader, the trainer gets a badge. None of that touchy-feely “you get a badge because you proved your kindness” crap, like in this NSFW cartoon by egoraptor. Brock finds this out the hard way, though. PokeAwesome 2 – Getting a Gym Badge…

The Secret Audio In BioShock Infinite Sure Is Creepy

At one point during BioShock Infinite, you gain a vigor called Possession. The scene where this occurs is evocative and eerie, and the audio that plays at the time is partially to blame. If you play that eerie audio backwards, it becomes even creepier: you can understand what’s being said. And this audio found by…

An Effin’ AI In BioShock Infinite Is More Of A Human Than I Am

A gun. That’s it, that’s often all I amount to in first person shooters. I might spend time customizing a body, I might see myself during a cutscene, my first-person view might allow me to see fingertips holding a gun steady, I might bleed and perhaps die (eventually), but at best I could be said…

Five Minutes of Cinematic Badassery In Battlefield 3

This isn’t a Battlefield moment—it’s obvious that most of this is staged by YouTube user Lupey19.And yet that doesn’t matter at all. That’s just how awesome this video is; it practically looks like an action movie once it gets going. Battlefield 3: GYMKHANA EDITION [Lupey19]

Happy Birthday, Commander Shepard

Do you know what today is? Why, it’s Commander Shepard’s birthday! I can’t believe some of you forgot. And if you didn’t forget, why aren’t we celebrating? According to the Mass Effect Wiki: Shepard was born on April 11, 2154[1], is a graduate of the Systems Alliance N7 special forces program (service no. 5923-AC-2826), and…