Tina Amini

Microsoft Is Working On Kinect Game Gestures You Might Actually Use

I just got out of a tech demo—called Reflex—where a Microsoft representative leaned side-to-side, pointed at the screen, and raised an Xbox One controller to help him maneuver, attack and defend in a first-person shooter type of game. It wasn’t as elegant as they’d have us believe, but it certainly looked more useful than most…

Sony’s President Drops A Victorious Mic

Sony had a good day yesterday. They said basically everything every gamer and press member in the audience—and watching on livestreams—wanted to hear. (Everything except for good news on The Last Guardian, that is *sadface*.) So when Jack Tretton was invited on Spike TV to reminisce about the grand announcements, host (and Kotaku friend) Geoff…

The Best of Kotaku, The Week Of June 3rd

It’s almost E3! Kotaku Selects is going to be busy next weekend, but we have plenty of our best stuff to show you from the past week. Check it out over here. I’ll be in LA for next week’s round-up, but Fahey will keep you all comforted. See you guys on the flip side. As…

How To Dress At The Zelda Symphony. Plus, Other Advice.

It’s a first for Ask Kotaku! I thought my column was getting a little unwieldy, what with how long it was getting, and figured it might be fun to do a video-formatted one for this week. But the gist is the same: you ask me questions, and I give you advice. We’ve got some life…

Watch Dying Light‘s Characters Free-Run Their Way To Safety

In a new trailer released this morning, you can get a glimpse at a free-running scenario in the newly-announced Dying Light, the next game from the makers of Dead Island. Stephen called it Mirror’s Edge with the undead. And as you can see in the trailer above, that description feels pretty accurate. We already knew…

Xbox One Lets You Share Your Games With Up To 10 “Family” Members

Here’s another interesting detail from the Xbox news that popped up this evening. Microsoft says that 10 of your “family” members can access your shared games library. Not just on your console. On any Xbox One. Here’s Microsoft: Xbox One will enable new forms of access for families. Up to ten members of your family…

We Liveblogged Konami’s Pre-E3 Show Right Here

In the usual fashion of events leading up to the big E3 gaming convention (which is, scarily, fast-approaching) Konami is among the handful of publishers hosting a pre-show to reveal what will likely entail some next-gen game announcements. At the very least we know we’ll hear more on Metal Gear Solid 5 and, in particular,…

by Peeking Boo

Don’t you wish you had someone to give you advice when you feel like you can’t help but run into walls? Well, now you do. It’s called me and it’s run by Ask Kotaku. Or…wait, yeah. Something. Clearly I am qualified. So email me questions! Tina at Kotaku dot com. Oh, and if you’re running…

The Best Of Kotaku, The Week Of May 27

Welcome to the weekend, Kotaku. Which means I’ve got a round-up of all our best content on Kotaku Selects. While Microsoft and Sony still aren’t talking about the online and other details for their newest consoles, others are talking. So while we wait for news from E3 in roughly a week (oh god one more…

How To Get Out Of Work You Hate…And Other Advice

Welcome to another week of Ask Kotaku, where people are fed up with their jobs and responsibilities. You need a way out, and I can offer some hope for you (hopefully). **If you want advice on anything at all, send me an email at Tina at Kotaku dot com for next week’s column.** Regarding Work…

If This Spring Breakers Parody Is Half As Good As The Film, I’m In

It’s Spring Gamers, starring Games Franco! This is a thing I want that I never knew I wanted. iam8bit is doing a parody film of the surprisingly amazing—aka not just stupidly amazing—Spring Breakers. The teaser scene you see above is a gamer’s recreation of the real scene where James Franco’s thugged-out character brags to his…

Limbo, the shadowy puzzle game where you unintentionally murder a small child multiple times over, will release on the Vita (and PSN) for $14.99 next Tuesday, June 4.

Four Things To Know About That Borderlands 2 Tiny Tina Campaign DLC

It’s ok if you’ve never played Dungeons and Dragons before. You can still appreciate Borderlands 2 shoved into a fantasy-trope skin. Why? Because the whole thing is narrated by Tiny Tina with a few eye-rolly comments from Lilith or an adorably clueless remark by Brick. And chances are you’ve played some variation of a fantasy…

The Best of Kotaku, The Week Of May 20

Oh, man, what a week! The next Xbox, officially called Xbox One, has been revealed. Now Sony’s and Microsoft’s secrets are finally out. Or, most of it anyway. You can read the best of our work this week over at Kotaku Selects. I’m pooped out from planning for E3, which is a great place to…

Watch Zelda Draw Her Life

Princess Zelda heard about all those “draw my life” videos on YouTube and decided to try her artistic hand at a similar one for herself. She’s certainly had a…unique enough life to warrant one. These kind of videos can be a really emotional or fascinating look into someone’s personal life, but I think doing them…

Fighting Sickness. Nailing Your Dream Job. Your Questions Answered.

Life is pretty damn unfair. Sometimes that means you’ll find yourself in a situation with no solutions. Sometimes the best you can do is cope. In today’s Ask Kotaku advice column, I have to answer some tough questions. And it hurts my heart to not have a quick fix for you all. If you’ve got…

Hey, Facebook. Your ‘Like’ Button Is Ugly. Here Are Better Options.

Can you guess which games each of these icons represent? I don’t know about you guys, but I’m pretty tired of seeing the bulky, medical-blue ‘Like’ button on every website and, increasingly, coffee shops and other random locations boasting their profile pages and begging for interest. But if they were video game-themed, like those above,…

Watch Major Nelson Chat Live About The New Xbox One, Right Here

Microsoft’s next generation console—named Xbox One, as we learned today—has finally been revealed. Major Nelson’s panel to further discuss the new gaming machine follows the conference today, and you can watch it live right here

We’re Liveblogging the Next Xbox Reveal Right Here

Microsoft is about to reveal their next generation Xbox console, and our own Stephen Totilo is at the conference in Washington state to report to you live. Watch him liveblog the festivities right here. The conference officially starts at 1pm EST, but should be seeing Stephen sooner than that while he settles in his seat.…