Tina Amini

Watch The Next Xbox Reveal Right Now, Live

Today is the big day for Microsoft, folks. It’s the next generation. The company behind that big box of X will finally be revealing the next piece of hardware in their line of gaming consoles, and you can watch the entire thing right here. The GameTrailers livestream, hosted by Kotaku friend Geoff Keighley, starts now—noon…

Imagine If This Was How Microsoft Revealed Their New Xbox Tomorrow

Microsoft is holding a conference tomorrow for their big reveal: the next Xbox. That means there is one day left for the Internet to have fun with rumors, jokes and parodies. Machinima, not one to miss out, took advantage of the last remaining day before the new Xbox becomes a real-life thing and our jokes…

The Best of Kotaku, The Week of May 13

Helloooo Kotaku! Happy weekend to you. This has been quite the busy week, what with Stephen off at a pre-E3, week-long event. Fortunately, he was still prepared with gifts. Gifts in the form of previews of Watch Dogs, The Last of Us and Scribblenauts Unmasked, disappointing but perhaps expected news from EA, and a cute…

Here Are All of Today’s Nintendo Direct Announcements In One Video

In case you just missed Nintendo’s latest stream of Direct To You announcements, you can check out the full video here. The gist? There’s a little bit of Sonic. A little more of Sonic plus some Mario. Some old school Zelda, thanks to the Virtual Console. Luigi gets the spotlight. Japan gets another thing we…

The Glitchiest–And Sometimes Very Painful–Fails Of April 2013

Falling on your crotch is funny, when it’s in a video game. So is dying multiple times over for no apparent reason. Achievement Hunter hosts a separate YouTube channel, called Game Fails, that they fill with random deaths, glitches, and outright outrageous instances in all sorts of games. It can sometimes be hit or miss.…

Ever Wonder Just How Big League of Legends Is? Let This Video Show You

Seventeen League of Legends champions die for every baby that is born, and many other crazy facts put just how big a game this online multiplayer is into perspective. League of Legends certainly has a huge presence online, with a robust and enthusiastic competitive community, too. But I bet you never thought one livestreamed competition…

Lonely Hearts, Empty Wallets and Next-Gen Console Questions Answered

Welcome to the first official Ask Kotaku column, where I will provide weekly answers to the questions you send me. There were lots of questions for this first event. They ranged from love and life troubles to job woes, Kotaku, help with specific games and help with organizing them. I tried to answer as many…

We’re Getting Another Adventure Time Game, And Not Just On The 3DS

Oh, joy joy joy! WayForward and D3Publishers are teaming up with Adventure Time writer Pen Ward again for a second Adventure Time game, the companies announced today in a press release. That image here of Finn? That pretty much explains how I feel about this. (Minus the punchiness.) I quite enjoyed the first 3DS/DS Adventure…

This LEGO Aliens Video Is A Better Game Than Colonial Marines

And it’s not even a video game! It’s a stop motion video made out of LEGO! This video by Kooberz is a new series initiative—going by BrickTube—hosted on Machinima. You might remember Kooberz’s work on the incredible Portal 2 LEGO stop motion video that makes me desperately want to go back home and replay the…

The Best Of Kotaku, The Week of May 6th

Good morning, Kotaku! How’re you all this weekend? I’m fabulous because I’m in Austin visiting my brothers, and that is a very, very good thing. We had some previews this week, Zac Gorman returned with a funny comic, Evan checked out NYU’s No Quarter event where he talked to the creator of QWOP about his…

Introducing: Ask Kotaku, Where I’ll Give Advice On Anything You Need

Hello Kotaku! My name is Tina. Have we met? I’m here to answer your questions with savvy advice. What questions? Any questions! Be they game-related or life-related, I want to hear you out. And I want to offer an ear and perhaps a shoulder and a few wise words. Or funny ones! Sometimes laughter beats…

Watch This Guy Try Really Hard To Sell You…Mark Paynopolis

Mark Paynopolis? Mark Paynopolis. You heard right. I’ll admit, the gameplay for Mark Paynopolis seems a little…boring? Maybe? But the game still retains that quintessential bullet time motion and, well, this guy tries really hard to sell it to you. Enough that I might fork over the cash just because of that. And, hey, at…

Observe What Borderlands 2‘s Next Playable Class Is Capable Of

The first time Gearbox gave us a look at the playable psycho bandit named Krieg, I knew this character was made for me. Krieg is rampage incarnate. He’s off-the-walls crazy. The more carelessly you play, the more damage you can deal. And I just love carelessly shredding into enemies. It’s what Borderlands was made for,…

Watch our own Kirk Hamilton chat about Tomb Raider (expect tons of spoilers) and Lara Croft with Revision 3’s Adam Sessler and Tara Long.

Nerd King Stabs Link and Steals Zelda Away

So, here’s Nathan Fillion stabbing Link and stealing Zelda away. Because he is Nerd King. (via Reddit) And here it is in its full glory:

Show Us Your Best Wallpaper

I’m rocking the Portal wallpaper you see here on my home computer. On the work desktop I’ve got some Calvin and Hobbes, which has remained one of my favorite pieces for some time now. And here’s a full version of the fancy Portal wallpaper. The artist’s name escapes me, unfortunately. If you know who it…

Guy Almost Breaks Monitor Using The Oculus Rift As Roller Coaster Sim

We’ve been enjoying quite a few Oculus Rift reactions/shenaniganries on Kotaku lately, but this guy jolting and bobbing around while on a virtual roller coaster is quite fun on its own, too. Imagine what it must feel like, standing up in a regular ol’ living room but totally believing like you’re dropping down from a…

Princess Peach Will Kill You In Precisely Seven Levels

The Ring girl crossed with Princess Peach is a terrifying thought. Consider your childhood memories—and every console connected to a screen—forever ruined. Or at least ruined for the next seven days, after which you realize you were being ridiculous. C’mon, guys, seriously. The Ring girl isn’t real! …Right? Um, I’ll be in my bunker for…

An Artist Fights His Creations–Literally

YouTuber and artist Jonny Lawrence put together this neat stop motion video featuring his hand battling what looks like Akuma from Street Fighter. It’s like Master Hand, but in Street Fighter. And less virtual, more epidermis. (via Laughing Squid) To contact the author of this post, write to [email protected] or find her on Twitter at…

The Best of Kotaku, The Week of April 29th

There were some exciting video game happenings this week! Grand Theft Auto V got three new trailers—one big trailer?—for the three protagonists you get to control in Rockstar’s next game. Bossman Stephen Totilo checked the game out for the very first time, and came away with a ton of details written with a ton of…