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Watch Michael Moore’s Audition Tape To Direct Star Wars VII

If this was a real audition tape for Michael Moore to direct the recently announced resurgence of the Star Wars films, I imagine it’d go pretty much exactly like this. But it’s not real. It’s a Conan skit.

How It Feels To Review Halo 4 On Microsoft’s Turf

When I’ve got a game to review, you’ll often find me in my tiny studio apartment, sprawled out on my bed with controller in hand and laptop to my side for note-taking. I’ll take breaks here and there to flesh out thoughts or grab some food. The most recent game I reviewed was Halo 4.…

Damn, Guys… You Are Sporting Some Impressive Halloween Costumes

Click to view When Evan asked you all to share your Halloween costumes with us, you did not mess around. I’m blown away by the originality of some of these, and the extensive detail on a lot of these. You should all be very proud, and excited to show them off this Halloween night.

I’m Getting Nervous Just Watching This A Machine For Pigs Halloween Trailer

In the Halloween trailer above released today by Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs developers Frictional Games, you’ll see the protagonist’s panting, nervous crawls through the indirect sequel to The Dark Descent. Oh, and our own Kirk Hamilton will be happy to see that you can lean around corners to scope out dangers. Of which you…

My Insane Hurricane Sandy Video, As Seen on The Weather Channel

What you see above is an electrical fire in Queens, NY that I took last night at around 8pm. My dad and I walked outside to check the damage Hurricane Sandy had done to our neighborhood in Douglaston. Winds were very powerful, but nothing seemed too crazy. Not just yet. Then we saw a transformer…

The Best of Kotaku, This Week

Welcome to the Best of Kotaku, where I round up all of this week’s best content. This week’s best image is a “digital” graffiti found in Bologna, Italy, by Andrea Vannini. Thanks to Copiously Geeky for the find. Moving on to our Best Of content this week, we kick things off as usual with a…

According to Twitter, The Wii U is “AWESOME,” “Overall pretty comfy”

Retailers Best Buy and GameStop have slowly been receiving Wii U demo kiosks to show off the upcoming Nintendo hardware to interested gamers. Though not every store seems to have gotten their kiosks yet, many have. And many gamers have gotten their hands on the Wii U’s GamePad. So what are they saying? What do…

Apple’s Game Center Seems to be Malfunctioning Today. Blame Letterpress?

Game Center is really acting up today. iOS players have been taking to Twitter to voice concerns about Game Center breaking when attempting to play games, specifically Letterpress Letterpress is a fairly new word game for iOS devices. It relies on Game Center’s connectivity that allows you to play against your friends, sending notifications as…

The Best Glitch In Dishonored Gets You A Dance Party With Corpses

A dance party with corpses?! Corpses that I made?! Sign me up! The guys are RoosterTeeth have outdone themselves yet again. *slow clap* Achievement Hunter : Things to do in: Dishonored – Dance Party [YouTube]

Don’t Let Your Xbox Red Ring This Halloween, Or Gameface Will Come For You

Mega64 wishes you an impending Happy Halloween with their latest video, telling the tale of Gameface. The video starts off a little slow, but stay for the great ending. Mega64: The Legend of Gameface [YouTube]

Someone Found A Rainbow Road in Forza Horizon

In the midst of the beautiful, open roads of Colorado found in this year’s Forza game is a hidden surprise: Mario Kart‘s Rainbow Road. Ok, ok. It’s not really Rainbow Road. It’s a glitch found by AmetDj2. But if you close your eyes real tight and replay the fond memories of performing the famous shortcut…

Here’s Everything I Learned About Borderlands Legends

Have you heard? One of this year’s most exciting releases—Borderlands 2—is getting an iOS complement…sort of. The mobile game—called Borderlands Legends—is part shooter, part RPG, part action, and part strategy. Yes, all those things. And somehow, except for the occasional clutter, it works pretty well. From an angled projection, top-down view, you’ll control the original…

This Dog’s Halloween Costume Gets Funnier The More Excited He Gets

Oh, you adorable puppy, you. (I call all dogs puppies, shush.) Spotted in Tompkins Square Park, NYC at the Halloween Dog Parade, this cutie wagged his tail (or nose?) with increasing ferventness. He looks a little violated, though, when he turns around and notices these random people, including nycpackrat, staring at his butt. It’s cause…

Someone Put Portal‘s Wheatley In Halo And Now I Can’t Stop Laughing

Cortana bickering with Wheatley: think about it. The two are strong personalities in their own rights, but put together they make for some hilarious banter. I would never have imagined Wheatley’s deadpan humor to work so well under the seriousness of Halo‘s plotline, but apparently Toadking07 did and I’m all the happier for it. Wheatley…

L4D2 is free to play for one weekend (starting this Thursday). New achievement added for long-time players.

Drop Bombs On Your Friend’s Head Using This iPhone App

What? You’ve never heard of Action Movie FX before? Oh man. It’s a simple iOS app. Point the camera at any flat surface, place a kitty on said flat surface, and record for about 5 seconds. Then watch the kitty explode from an EMP blast-damaged helicopter, or from missiles from Call of Duty: Black Ops…

That Borderlands iOS Game Is Real. You Can Play It On October 31, For $5

Surprising no one, that Borderlands Legends iOS game will officially be a reality on Halloween. You can buy it for your iPhone for $5 or your iPad for $7. Entertainment Weekly has the first look on the mobile Borderlands shooter game that lets you control the four original vault hunters simultaneously and from a top-down…

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Meet The Most Amazing Etch-A-Sketch Artist I’ve Ever Seen

Yes, Etch-A-Sketch artists are a thing, or at least they should be an official thing. Looking at this list of hand-picked, video game related selections from Jane Labowitch, aka pikajane, what else could you call her? My hands are tired just looking at these things. Etch A Sketch Art [pikajane via Geekologie]

Let’s Remember A More Colorful Nintendo

Graphic artist Jillain Kristen has a good perspective on Nintendo, exchanging the gray-scaled consoles with her colorful nostalgia of playing with them as a kid. The result is this series of prints, all delightfully colorful. She explains the inspiration to me in an email: I wanted to design out the consoles in really child-like and…