Stephen Totilo

PC Mod Turns GTA IV Into GTA V, Sort Of

Not content to wait for Rockstar’s inevitable announcement of a PC version of Grand Theft Auto V, a group of ambitious modders are trying to transform GTA IV into Rockstar’s most recent GTA We’ve got a few shots to show you how it’s going. The idea is to convert the map of IV into that…

What A Next-Gen Tetris Should Look Like

Today brings news that Assassin’s Creed and Rayman mega-publisher Ubisoft will be crafting a version of Tetris to the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. A next-gen Tetris needs some next-gen features, right? We ask you, the Kotaku reader, to suggest the best possible cutting-edge features from modern gaming that should be added to Tetris We…

Shreds Of Evidence That Pokémon X Is More Popular Than Pokémon Y

We here at Kotaku have been wondering which version of the latest Pokémon game was more popular. X or Y? Whenever we’ve asked Nintendo, they wouldn’t tell us. But perhaps there are other ways to tell? The challenge is that most of the outfits that talk about Pokémon X and Y‘s sales combine the two,…

How To Announce A Sequel In 2014: Level With Fans, Offer Comfort Food

What is the best way to announce a big sequel? Do it through a Game Informer cover? Put it on stage at E3? How about this: publish an open letter to fans in the sleepy month of January. That’s what the Hitman people just did. What we’ve got today is an open letter (read it…

Four-Person Super Metroid Speedrun May Consume Next Hour Of Your Life

Four people race through the Super Nintendo classic Super Metroid. Who wins? Also, how in the world do they do this stuff? The video above, uploaded by YouTuber Charles English, shows the four-person Super Metroid speedrun that went down last weekend as part of the Awesome Games Done Quick charity event. I started watching and…

Attention, new fans of bizarre fighting game Nidhogg, you might enjoy this brief, bizarre interview we did with the game’s creators nearly three years ago.

The Rarest Video Game In The World

On a warm evening earlier this month outside a cafe in Buenos Aires, Colin Northway took a sip of his drink and told me about the rarest video game in the world. He was making the game, he told me, and he was excited about it. He didn’t call it the rarest game on the…

In Last Week’s Comics, Angry Gamers Nearly Killed Superman

Modern DC Comics give us such memorable moments as an evil Superman snorting Kryptonite or Batman and Catwoman having sex. The publisher’s New 52 line has also just brought us a three-part story in which the super-villain Mongul has attempted to dominate the Earth by harnessing the rage of gamers. What a plan! The storyline…

I Finished These 31 Video Games in 2013

For the eighth consecutive year, I’ve counted the number of games I finished in the last 12 months. The number has gone up, even as I played fewer games. I’ve been keeping countsince 2006, the year I didn’t just finish Suikoden V and Star Fox Command but also the likes of Metal Gear Solid 2…

PlayStation, Xbox About To Offer WWE/WCW/ECW Nirvana And Help Kill PPV

Even if you’re not a pro wrestling fanatic, you might be impressed by the insane deal the people behind World Wrestling Entertainment just announced since it’s yet another sign that the old way that TV worked is dying fast. Starting on February 24, wrestling fans are going to be able to sign up for the…

Do we need a good pro wrestling game on iOS? One in which you’re the promoter, not the wrestler? Wrestling fan and game creator Brian Papa thinks so. Check out his Kickstarter for a game called Ringmaster. Looks cool.

Pranksters Almost Voted An Erotic Game As Our Readers’ Game of the Year

Well, that was close! Thousands of loyal Kotaku readers voted in our Game of the Year poll last week, and they have chosen The Last Of Us as their favorite game of 2013. But what’s the game in the number two spot? The one that missed the top spot by just 24 votes? Why, it’s…

Kotaku Asks: The Story Behind Nintendo’s Innovative 3DS StreetPass Games

One of 2013’s best surprises was the release of four unusual games for the Nintendo 3DS, all experimenting with a new style of multiplayer game little seen in the long history of interactive entertainment. The games were made by four Japanese studios, all overseen by Nintendo. Where did the games come from? Why were they…

The Last of Us Is Kotaku‘s 2013 Game of the Year

We have a winner, as voted on by Kotaku’s staff: The Last of Us — Kotaku’s Game of the Year. Our Review. The game’s GOTY argument by our own Kirk Hamilton. Vote tally below. Reader’s choice to follow later today. Top GIF inspired by NeoGAF, made by Naughty Dog, modified by Luke Plunkett. It’s a…

A reader asked why I left BioShock Infinite out of my top 10 games of the year. Good question, especially since the game got hit with some rough backlash. I liked the game! Over the weekend, I explained the omission. Read my take right here. Warning: vague spoilers for the game.

Our demented friends at sister site Deadspin have once again sifted through public records in order to present a very disturbing list of things people got stuck in various bodily orifices in the past year. Read here. Warning: it’s not safe for the faint of heart.

Stephen’s Top 10 Games of 2013

Sorry, Super Mario 3D World. Hundreds? Hell of a game. You were grand, Tearaway. I liked so many games in 2013 that I can’t put all the great ones on my Top 10. But I can put, uh, 10. (Actually, I’m going with 11.) Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag Pirates! More modern-day stuff that only…

Predictions For 2016’s Winners and Losers Of The New Console Generation

Bookmark this post and re-check it in 2016. Eminently quotable games business analyst Michael Pachter doesn’t just host fun shows on GameTrailers. He crunches numbers, gives stock advice and forecasts the future of the gaming industry. Today, he revealed his mathematical model’s predictions for the new console generation. The following is from an e-mail he…

Seemingly Impossible GTA V Stunts

The following words appear at the end of an incredible new video filled with four minutes of amazing Grand Theft Auto V bike, car and plane: “No cheats or mods were used to perform the stunts”. Wow. The video features the amazing feats of the Nomad Union crew. The video was uploaded to Machinima. We…

Rockstar Support is replying to as many people as they can about the GTA Online money hackers. No news since Tuesday, but the gist remains the same. Hackers are gifting people unwanted gobs of in-game money, seemingly making recipients vulnerable for game bans. Rockstar’s position, since Tuesday, from their Support Page, is what they’ve had…