Tina Amini

The Best of Kotaku, The Week of July 8th

Oh, hello weekend. How I’ve longed for you. If you’re just catching up on some gaming news and Kotaku articles, you can see my round-up of the highlights over at Kotaku Selects. This week included GTA V new trailer day, as well as Ash’s amazing photoshop post, so there’s definitely some fun stuff in there…

What It’s Like To Review Video Games

This week’s Ask Kotaku is special because it features guest host Evan Narcisse, who also happens to be celebrating his birthday today! Wooo! Happy birthday, Evan! In this week’s advice column, Evan and I answer some of your questions on family life, heartbreak and Kotaku. It’s a long one—since we both offer our perspectives on…

Is…Is That A Threat?

It Was A Gift, You Bastard

Yeah, this item belongs to Tank AFTER I GAVE IT TO HIM AS A GIFT.

That’s a nice way of saying, “Congratulations you have no social life”

This Feels Like A Lose-Lose Deal For Me

How is that even a good deal? I literally just met you, and all you’ve done so far is ask me to play dumb games where I give up my things in exchange for a few bells. DON’T YOU KNOW I AM A PRO BEETLE CATCHER. I DON’T NEED YOUR DAMN BELLS.

I Hate Pelly

I hate you, Pelly. What do you mean, “Nice try”?? It can’t just have been that I assumed another day passing might mean a new gift is available for me? It has to be that I’m trying to game the system somehow? Oh you’ll assume it was an honest mistake, huh? Didn’t you just accuse…

Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: pyramidheadcrab muses over what a gaming version of Mt. Rushmore would look like, notgoodforyou offers some suggestions for games that should be on the Vita and etchedchamp explains getting hooked on Animal Crossing

Click for a visual tale. via Brave little princess

This is what you do when you visit your friend’s town. They watch you poop next to a chocolate fountain.

I had bad luck and wouldn’t stop falling flat on my face 🙁 It was kinda funny, too, though.

Blanka Is A Troll

Goddammit, Blanka. Look at him go on his public rampages, totally unapologetically. Causing all sorts of havoc! I’m definitely the sort of person to laugh at this kind of slapstick humor, but it’s even more golden with Blanka involved. I somehow missed the first episode of this, so in case you did too, here you…

Can you believe this shit? Trampling on my roses?! No shame.

I like to creepily sit in my Animal Crossing villagers’ homes and watch them sleep.

4 Minutes Of Some Of the Stupidest The Last of Us Glitches Imaginable

I honestly never experienced a single bug (that I noticed) in my time with The Last of Us. But I have heard tales of a few funny and flailing polygons. So here’s a four minute clip of a bunch of them, set to goofy clown music. YouTuber Ben Buja compiled the glitches you see above.…

The Best Of Kotaku, The Week Of July 1st

Mid-week days off are always strange, aren’t they? It barely felt like a real week! And yet, as evidenced by Kotaku Selects—where I round up all our best content—it most certainly was a real week. As for the ‘revenge’ pic above, it’s the fantastic work of Vincent Bocognani, found by Dotcore. Check out Vincent’s Flickr…

How Do You Avoid Spoilers? What’s With Gamer Entitlement?

Happy Fourth of July and welcome to Ask Kotaku, where I answer all of your random questions. Keep the questions coming in for next week, and don’t be afraid to have fun with it! You can ask me anything. Who would win in a fight, a ninja or a zombified lion? What’s the best hangover…

The Moral Ambiguities In The Last Of Us

I wasn’t always sure how to feel about the things I witnessed in The Last Of Us We’re about to enter a world of spoilerhurt. Proceed with caution. Joel is a good man. After everything we’ve been through, as player and avatar, I still whole-heartedly believe that. I kind of have to believe that. Because…

Darkspore is back on Steam, EA tells us today. You can find it in the store. They’ve confirmed that Error 3, which was blocking players from saving changes to their heroes, has been fixed. Though not widespread, a few people are still reporting difficulties of logging in due to Error 73003, but EA promises they’re…

EA Says They’re Actually Still Going To “Support” Darkspore [UPDATE]

Earlier today we linked to a report from GameTrailers noting that EA would not be supporting their 2011-released RPG Darkspore in the face of persistent errors. The moderator on the forum in question where this alleged announcement took place, however, is not an EA employee, EA said in an email to Kotaku today. Here’s the…