Streaming Video Games All Day Is Harder Than You Might Think

It’s a little bit shocking that you can make real money playing video games all day. For a certain generation, this was the dream: being a “streamer,” one of the legion of men and women who live a joyful existence of being likable while playing games on camera. Against all odds, it’s an actual career…

North American Counter-Strike Has Its Best Moment In Years

Counter-Strike is not exactly a sport where North American teams dominate. North American Counter-Strike is something of a joke in the CSGO community, known more for drama and sloppy team play than stunning site takes or bodacious bomb defusals. But that might be changing. In a stunning upset against the best CSGO team on this,…

VR Game At A Glance: Playing With My Alien Friends in Farlands

Have you ever wanted to visit an alien planet and make friends with some cute alien creatures? Farlands might be your jam. It’s a neat Oculus Rift exclusive that takes a little Pokémon Snap and a little Animal Crossing and puts it all in virtual reality. Here’s a clip of me playing some of the…

​The Ten Commandments Of PC Gaming

PC gaming is pretty much the best. You get the prettiest, cheapest, most flexible versions of almost every game, along with hundreds of games that aren’t available anywhere else. But despite all that, some of the people who make video games don’t treat PC gamers all that well. This piece originally appeared 12/12/14. We’vereturned to…

Mod Fixes The Biggest Problem With Fallout 4‘s Robot DLC

For whatever reason, Fallout 4’s Automatron DLC did away with the ability to put a cute bowler hat on Codsworth. Thankfully, there is a mod that fixes that, and it also allows you to put other cutesy hats on your robo companions. Yay!

Cursing Is Still Allowed In Nintendo’s Miitomo App

Today is the day that Miitomo launches in the United States and many other countries. When Nintendo’s first mobile release came out two weeks ago in Japan, you could get your Mii character to say curse words. As of right now, your Mii can still drop f-bombs to friends and family. After Miitomo went live…

It’s 2016 And Warframe Is Still An Excellent Free-To-Play Game

In the distant future of Warframe, you are a space ninja who has woken from a long slumber to find the solar system in disarray. Armed with a variety of exciting powers, you must fight an army of decaying clones, tech-minded science jerks, mutant freaks and other awesome enemies. The entire game is free to…

Fallout 4‘s Head-Exploding Rifle As A Rusty Replica

The talented folks over at Show and Tell Props made a real life version of Fallout 4‘s limb-destroying, unique gauss rifle, The Last Minute It’s an awesome-looking replica and with that scrap table in the background, it’s ready to get some mods too. Here’s some work in progress pics by Show and Tell Props and…

EVE Online Is Moving Towards Its Largest Conflict in History

After two years of relative peace, various recent events are dragging the players of online space MMO EVE Online towards another massive war. This time it’s between the game’s biggest coalition, The Imperium, against an alliance of smaller factions. A group of 40,000 players (basically a coalition of gaming guilds), calling themselves The Imperium (also…

That Time Sega Killed The Dreamcast

Some people have always lived in a world where Sonic the Hedgehog shows up on PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo platforms, but it wasn’t always that way. In January 2001, the company announced it would stop making its own hardware and go third-party. Yes, that actually happened. This story was originally posted on October 30, 2015.…

All This Week’s Big Final Fantasy XV News

Last night, Square Enix held its Uncovered: Final Fantasy XV event in Los Angeles. The big news was the game’s release date. Which leaked early. Heh. But that wasn’t all. Here’s a round-up of Kotaku’s coverage. Final Fantasy XV’s Release Date Final Fantasy Movie Coming This Year With Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad Actors Final…

The Final Fantasy XV Anime Compared with the Game

We’re talking looks here. Square Enix just began streaming a Final Fantasy XV anime, so let’s see how the anime stacks up to previously released game footage. A-1 Pictures is handling the animation, and while it obviously doesn’t look exactly the same (which, honestly, isn’t necessary because these are different mediums!), there are some interesting…

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