The Best (And Worst) Advice Video Games Can Give

We’re so used to the idea of games prompting us and helping us out that the concept of some 1s and 0s giving us advice just seems…weirdly natural. The Twitter feed Video Game Advisor (via Super Punch) is here to remind us how absurd that is, cataloguing a constant stream of those times video games…

The Friggin First Five Minutes Of Guns, Gore And Cannoli 

If you’re a horde of undead looking to devour the living, maybe don’t do it in a 1920s city run by the Mafia. Watch on Youtube Released for the PC back in April, theXbox One last week and the PlayStation 4 when it feels like it, Guns, Gore and Cannoli is a game about what…

Elves March Into Battle In Huge Dungeons & Dragons LEGO Fan-Build

There’s no question LEGO builder Ivan Angeli is into Dungeons & Dragons and its Forgotten Realms setting. His gigantic, awesome D&D diorama is the proof. Remember Baldur’s Gate II’s final chapter? It took place in the elven city of Suldanessellar, and this part of The Forgotten Realms is what Ivan Angeli rebuilt. And just like…

How To Get Into World of Warcraft‘s Hidden Zone

Around the northern shores of the Eastern Kingdoms lies a zone we can see on Azeroth’s map, but compared to all the other zones, it’s unmarked, not part of the game and accessible only through tricky ways. This tiny area’s purpose is unknown, but it has been speculated over the years that it was supposed…

Breaking Japan’s Big No-No One Photo at a Time

In Japan, there’s one rule that, more than anything, will probably make people upset when broken. These fashion photos destroy that rule. Forget things like eating on trains (a definite no-no in Japan) or sticking chopsticks into a bowl of rice (which is reminscent of Japanese funeral rites). Those are bad manners, sure, and are…

A Very Special Nintendo Bento

During New Year’s in Japan, people eat special food called osechi ryouri (お節料理). Nintendo is ready to 1up that traditional cuisine with Mario and friends. In the past, Japanese business, including food markets, would completely shut down for New Year’s. People would eat osechi, serving the food in stacked bento boxes, over the course of…

Why Yakuza Is the Greatest Game Series on Earth

Because Beat Takeshi is in the new one. That’s why. What the hell else do you need? The Yakuza games have always been very, very good with Japanese celebrity casting. This, however, might be the best choice yet ever. This Yakuza 6 footage was originally shown in a closed theater at the Tokyo Game Show,…

Art From The Avengers, Transformers, Spider-Man (And More)

Josh Nizzi is an artist who has worked on some of the biggest movie franchises of the past decade, from The Avengers to Transformers In between all those superheroes he also found time to work on Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained (and also this random little game). You can see more of Josh’s work at his…

When The World Ends, Cosplay Remains

A couple of weeks ago, I asked if any cosplayers wanted to tell their stories. Here’s Dimitri Zaitsev talking about life, costumes, the apocalypse and…not washing.

One Of Japan’s Biggest Visual Novels Is Coming To The West

Muv-Luv is one of the most popular visual novels in the history of the genre. It’s appeared on everything from PC to Xbox 360 over its 13-year history, but the thing is, it’s never been released outside of its native Japan. A new Kickstarter is looking to change that, hoping to bring the first two…

That’s not Skyrim. It’s Ark: Survival Evolved. The megalodon of Steam survival games is getting two new biomes today: snow and swamp. There are new creatures populating each, including dire wolves and giant devil frogs. More details here. You’re reading Steamed, Kotaku’s page dedicated to all things in and around Valve’s stupidly popular PC gaming…

City-Builder + Card Game Concrete Jungle Is Really Good

So that we’re all on the same page, I will crudely reduce the excellent card game Concrete Jungle down to this: it’s SimCity vs Tetris vs Scrabble. Which sounds weird, I know, but trust me, it works If I was going to explain everything about the game—especially the stuff I like—I’d be typing all week,…

Players Still Haven’t Figured Out All Of Undertale‘s Secrets

Undertale is an RPG where you can talk your way out of every battle. It’s amazing. And yet, that might be the least remarkable thing about it. (Warning: BIG spoilers for Undertale follow. I’m not gonna spoil everything, though. Rather than discussing each specific secret, which would be terrible of me, I’m gonna talk more…

GTA Online Crew Goes All Out With Recruitment Ad

Meet Los Demonios. They are a GTA Online crew that is looking for new blood. I’ve seen my share of GTA Online crews who do some intense roleplay, but this gang’s recruitment ad takes the cake: Not only did they put in the effort to make a nice cinematic trying to woo prospective brothers and…