Tina Amini

Last Of Us Renders One Of The Loudest YouTube Personalities Speechless

That ending, huh? It was certainly an…interesting one. To the point that it left one of the louder-known YouTube personalities in the gaming community—PewDiePie—speechless. Just for a moment, of course. Spoilers, obviously. Skip to 10:05 for the good parts. Regardless of your feelings towards PewDiePie, he’s well-known and well-liked by many on the Internet, and…

The Best Of Kotaku, The Week Of June 24th

It kinda feels like it’s been a slow week, but looking back it really wasn’t. Deadpool released, so did Company of Heroes 2, we’re still catching up with all our E3 previews of games we saw in LA, and everyone is slowly coming together to discuss The Last of Us as they complete it. Check…

How The PS4 Came To Be

Ever wonder how the heads at Sony came up with the PlayStation 4? Watch Mark Cerny, lead architect behind the console and director of upcoming PS4 exclusive Knack, give an in-depth lecture at Gamelab 2013 where he discusses the two decades’ worth of history in console-making that influenced the path they’d take to creating Sony’s…

Will Current Headsets Work With Xbox One and PS4?

Details on how the Xbox One and PS4 will work are still a little unclear. So it’s no surprise that this week’s mailbag included a few next-gen-specific questions. I’m here to provide as many answers as I can. Chris is gone on vacation this week (lucky him!) so no video edition this time around. Though…

Fans Are Upset Over YouTube Duo ‘Game Grumps’ Break-Up

The best friend duo made up of JonTron and Egoraptor just got a little less grumpy. The YouTube group, Game Grumps, announced yesterday that they’d be breaking up. Sort of. JonTron is leaving to focus on his own work while Danny—a writer/comedian/singer from NinjaSexParty—replaces him on the show. NinjaSexParty, if you’re wondering, is a self-described…

Tiny Tina’s Racism Reference In The New Borderlands 2 DLC [Update]

“BOOYAH. Not racist,” exclaims Tiny Tina in the newest Borderlands 2 DLC, out today. It’s not every day you hear video game characters discussing racism. Especially those who have had history with the concept, warranted or not. For the record, I do not think Tiny Tina’s personality conveys any sort of racism. If you are…

Borderlands 2 Summed Up In One Clip

Borderlands 2 just got brand new downloadable content. It’s called Tiny Tina’s Assault on Dragon Keep, and it’s fantastic. It’s seriously the best Borderlands 2 DLC yet. Partially because it’s huge and partially because it’s basically fan service to a hell of a lot of games (including Borderlands itself, of course) that we adore. But…

This Is A Screenshot Of A Video Game

This is not a painting. It’s actually a game called Morphopolis If you’ve ever played Machinarium, you’ll find this game somewhat familiar. The game with robots and an industrial backdrop was actually an influence to Morphopolis, the creators say. Check it out here: This hidden object game will be out this summer for Windows, Mac…

The Best Of Kotaku, The Week Of June 17th

E3 is over! Kotaku Selects—where I round up the best stories we posted from the week—is back. Fahey was a trooper last week running home team while a bunch of us were running around LA like madmen. The chaos was a little overhwhelming, so Kotaku Selects missed a beat (as did Ask Kotaku—sorry guys!) but…

How To Deal With Your Jerk Friends And Other Advice

In this week’s Ask Kotaku I answer a bunch of questions covering newly announced games, your friends and life at Kotaku Sorry I missed you guys last week. I was busy running around LA like a maniac and being really tired and stuff. But I’m back! So let’s get into this week’s questions on Ask…

Here Are All The New Enemies You’ll Face In The Next Borderlands 2 DLC

Gearbox, the creators of the Borderlands series, say the next campaign DLC—Tiny Tina’s Assault on Dragon Keep—is the biggest piece of content for their sequel yet. More areas to wander, more guns to fire and, more importantly, more enemies to shred to pieces. What do those enemies look like? Well, here they are. All of…

Watch our own Kirk Hamilton join Rev3’s Adam Sessler and Zac Minor as they spoil the hell out of The Last of Us in a lengthy dissection of the game.

The Creepy Side Of E3

You might not have heard about the security guard that groped a journalist at this year’s E3. Or the writer who gave a PR woman his business card by slipping it in her dress. Or the women presumed to be booth babes simply because of the way they looked. E3 is the busiest time to…

South Park‘s Main Fight Move Is Appropriately Juvenile

It’s the same old story with a totally South Park twist. The elves versus the humans. Stan and Kyle versus Cartman. While sitting in a demo room on the E3 showfloor last week, I was shown a portion of the upcoming South Park RPG game. The Obsidian developers controlling the demo showed off how combat…

I skipped a week of Ask Kotaku! I’m the worst ever, I know. Send me questions (email info is in this post) and I’ll make it up to you this week with more excellent, top-notch advice. It’s like you don’t even need to pay that therapist. To contact the author of this post, write to…

The (Fake) Official Trailer For a Movie About Addiction To Candy Crush

Everyone’s got that one mobile game they’re addicted to, at least for a time. For me, it was Jumping Finn. For a lot of people, it’s Candy Crush Saga. This trailer for a totally fake movie about addiction to Candy Crush and games like it is a hilarious reminder of how crazy we can get…

This Is The Most Confusing Game I Saw At E3

It’s called Hohokum and it’ll be out on the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3 and Vita (though what you see here is on the PS4). You control a snake-like character while you explore worlds and discover new ones. You help in-game characters and creatures locate items and other characters and creatures. Sometimes, you turn lights on…

Jonathan Blow Thinks Adventure Games Are Bad. So He’s Making One.

Behind The Witness—Jonathan Blow’s next puzzle-esque game after Braid—is a mission. To solve all those awful adventure game tropes. Adventure games can be tricky. Most either love or hate them. Personally? Flaws and all, I love them. But Blow, an independent designer whose games are published on Sony’s platforms, thinks he can solve some of…

Only 10 Minutes Into The Next Walking Dead And I’ve Got Tough Choices

We’re mere minutes into the next The Walking Dead episode—recently announced downloadable content for the first season of Telltale’s fantastically emotional zombie series—before we’re forced to make some unfair decisions. Warning: The scene I describe takes place at the start of one of the characters’ storylines, but if you rather leave it unspoiled, avoid reading.…

If You’re Wondering What The Hell Quantum Break Is, Here You Go

In the midst of frozen time and shattered glass, you might have forgotten that Quantum Break—the recently-announced new game from Alan Wake‘s creators that was shown off again at Microsoft’s Xbox briefing on Monday—has a TV show that plays out alongside the game experience. You might have also even thought, what is going on in…