Patricia Hernandez

You May Have Already Played A Game Featuring A Beefy, Oiled Up Turkish Wrestler

Yesterday, Buzzfeed published an article featuring Turkish oil wrestling. People took note, because the sport involves men oiling themselves up heavily before wrestling. Winning involves putting your hands down your opponents pants, as you can see in the video above. Probably not something we’d get to do in a game, right? Actually… Fighting games, bless…

It’s Easy To Kill Monsters. Fearing Or Respecting Them? That’s Another Story.

It’s not often I respect my enemies in a game—how could I? They’re just a target. A bundle of HP. An obstacle. Something to conquer. But when you’re a legendary Witcher, your (equally legendary) enemies demand respect. Monster hunting is not for the reckless; approaching creatures in the world of Temeria with an unsheathed sword…

Whoa, That’s Definitely A Pterodactyl In Battlefield 3

First we found a futuristic easter egg in Battlefield 3‘s End Game DLC. Now we have something a bit more…prehistoric. That’s definitely a pterodactyl, right? I think we all know what this means: prehistoric Battlefield is an inevitability. No but seriously though, nice find on the Nebandan Flats, scannerbarkly. Kind of wondering if you can…

Watch Us Play the New Tomb Raider. Right Now. [UPDATE: stream over]

Ever wanted to see how Kotaku plays games? Well, now you can. We’ve set up a special channel on Twitch, where we plan to stream games for your amusement. We decided to start with Tomb Raider. Because it’s out today. So let’s listen to Kotaku editor Chris Person show you around the game. Enjoy!

Daenerys Demands To Know Who ‘Wins’ The Game Of Thrones, Doesn’t Unleash Dragons On George R.R. Martin

You don’t mess with Daenerys Targaryen when she wants something. And she wants to know who the heck wins the Game of Thrones. Or well, Emilia Clarke, the actor behind Daenerys, wants to know. According to Metro News, she’s so adamant about learning who wins the game of thrones, she’s begged George R.R. Martin to…

Ah, So This Is What It Takes To Paint Lara Croft

Check out the handiwork of Josh Summana, the guy behind this very cool time lapse of a Tomb Raider digital painting. Naturally, he includes the grime and the cuts Lara suffers in her newest game. Gotta show us that grit. It’s difficult to watch paintings like this one and not feel awed by how much…

Return To The Crazy World Of Monday Night Combat With Outland Games

In Monday Night Combat’s future, people watch corporation-sponsored clones kill each other for fun. So it’s probably no surprise that in this world, those same clones are volunteered for the highly dangerous “televised combat running.” Anything in the name of entertaining the masses. Hmm, yeah, I could see an endless runner like Outland Games here…

This Remote-Controlled Mako Is A Smooth Ride, Unlike The One From Mass Effect

Remember the Mako in the first Mass Effect? It could brave insane terrain, sure, but that also meant it was far from a smooth ride. This remote controlled Mako by Laura Ducros, though? Smooth as butter. To be fair, it’s also just traversing flat terrain. Who knows what would happen if it was rocky alien…

Here’s the official statement from IGN about the IPL6 tournament cancellation—including how to get your money back.

Introducing ‘The Multiplayer,’ Your Weekly Destination For Games We Play With Each Other

Rules, mechanics, interaction—games are complicated beasts. And so are we, the players. When we play games with each other—that’s when truly fascinating things happen. We can’t help ourselves: anything we touch becomes a messy affair. Games are no exception. Sometimes what happens is poignant—like finding and losing a friend in Journey Sometimes it’s ridiculous, as…

Hey, Aliens: Colonial Marines Is Pretty Good As A Three-Part Comedy

The consensus seems to be that Aliens: Colonial Marines isn’t a very good game. But that doesn’t mean Aliens can’t make for entertaining playthrough videos. Ah, the wonders of YouTube. Enter the always-amusing Criken, who has been uploading his playthrough of Aliens: Colonial Marines to YouTube for the past couple of weeks. He just finished…

He Worked on Call of Duty, And Now He’s Making a Game About Dreams

Check out The Adventures of Dash, a puzzle-platformer where you control a narcoleptic boy. Every dream has a different art style. The game is from former Infinity Ward (Call of Duty) creative strategist Robert Bowling’s new development studio, Robotoki. Here’s the Kickstarter.

Let’s Guess What Happens When In The New Season Of Game Of Thrones, Based On The Episode Titles

Have you heard? Game of Thrones, the fantasy book-series-turned-television-show comes back on HBO soon. At the end of this month, to be specific. Most of the episode titles are out now, though. Courtesy of Winter Is Coming, they are: Ep. 301 – Valar Dohaeris Ep. 302 – Dark Wings, Dark Words Ep. 303 – Walk…

Multiplayer gaming can be a drag thanks to jerks and harassment. Here are some tips to make the experience a better one.

Look At How Cool You Get To Dress In The Next Shin Megami Tensei

Demons, mature themes, samurai—blah, blah, blah. That stuff is important, but guys, look. Look at the things you get to wear in Shin Megami Tensei IV. That scarf. That jacket. There’s probably more; this gameplay footage by SCRAWLfx is short. Either way, I’m excited. Personalization is important! The world might be rather desolate in this…

Just what Super Hexagon always needed: a dubstep xXx420XxX_NoScope trailer.

This Renegade Shepard Probably Beats Your Renegade Shepard

Sterling Archer, the star behind the animated spy sitcom airing on the FX network (also called Archer!), is hands down one of the biggest jerks on TV. We’re talking like, someone so awful that he makes Walter White from Breaking Bad look like a nice, upstanding guy. He’s rude. He’s self-centered. He’s a womanizer. He’s…

Now There’s A Way To Lose Weight by Playing Skyrim

If your guess was “play Skyrim while on a treadmill”—yes, sort of. The device you see in the video above is called the Omni, and it’s a virtual reality/treadmill hybrid that allows you to walk and look around naturally in a game. Well, as natural as “walking in place in a contraption while wearing glasses”…

Getting Fired From Groupon Is A Bit Like Playing Battletoads. Wait, What?

Andrew Mason is the CEO and founder of Groupon, a deal-of-the-day website. Or well, he was—he was fired recently. Notifying the Groupon staff about his departure in an email, he made a ridiculously specific video game reference to Battletoads, which Wired breaks down for us. Mason wrote: I’m OK with having failed at this part…

This Guy Found Some Of The Real Life Inspirations Behind Grand Theft Auto V Screenshots

Maybe you’ve seen some screenshots of Grand Theft Auto V. The game isn’t an exact recreation of LA, but it does take inspiration from it. Some places are comparable enough that, if you searched, you could find something uncannily similar in Los Angeles—as PlayStationAccess’s correspondent did here. That must be cool—to recognize the places you…