What’s Your Worst PC Gaming Story?

It’s possible to love something so much, even if it sometimes frustrates the crap out of you. Take PC gaming, for example. PC gamers have it good. The PC is easily the best single platform for playing video games; you get the cheapest, best-looking versions of the big-budget blockbusters, a vast collection of classic games,…

How Players Pulled Off The Longest Turn In Hearthstone History

The arcane missile bombardment has finally stopped, the dust has cleared, and the longest turn in Hearthstone history is complete. 45 hours. 45 goddamn hours. But how did they do it? (Note: there is a video that will auto-play near the bottom of this post. Sorry, there’s no way to make it not do that.…

The Banshee Queen Brings Such Wonderful Pain To Heroes Of The Storm

The latest patch for Heroes of the Storm‘s closed beta hits three major beats—a new game mode, the debut of the Banshee Queen Sylvanas Windrunner and Team League play for players that have reached level 40. I can show you two of those. First off we have a new addition to one of my favorite…

First-Person Crossy Road Would Kill Me

Endless traffic hopper Crossy Road is a delightfully frustrating game. Switch the perspective from top-down-ish to first-person however, and it’s a recipe for a heart attack. With its charming block graphics and colorful characters it’s easy to fall in love with endless street hopper Crossy Road. I did it. Mark Serrels ofKotaku Australia did it.…

How League Of Legends Enables Toxicity

For many people—even many gamers—”toxicity” and League of Legends go hand-in-hand. The game has a longstanding reputation for harboring a noxious player-base that continues to spew hateful epithets at one another despite developer Riot’s best intentions to make them stop. The truth is a bit more complicated. By design, League of Legends is a game…

Father And Son Build Giant Transformers Out Of Used Car Parts

Yu Zhilin and his son’s work is solid proof that the Transformers movies are the most popular thing in China, and in this case, I think it’s absolutely forgivable that they used the Michael Bay versions for their statues. Scrap metal and discarded car parts have never looked so good. According to ShanghaiIst (via Sina)…

Ancient Japan Has Never Looked Better in Minecraft

It really hasn’t. Twitter user Tachibana 11111 created this “fantasy Japanese style” village. The design is modeled after a Japanese village filled with traditional inns. Tachibana 11111 spent one year and eight months to complete this work, using a self-made custom texture pack to capture that Japanese feel. The result is truly spectacular. [All photos:…

This is what happens when you cross fanart with sugar, spice and everything nice. The Powerpuff Girls are the latest subjects of Sakimichan’s beautification process—look below for the higher-definition pic, and click here for more art from Sakimichan Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest, funniest game-related screenshots…

Where Is Hideo Kojima? Show Him To Me.

Have you seen this man? His name is Hideo Kojima and he makes video games. And since March 19 he seems to have vanished. Of course, he hasn’t vanished from the internet. There have been various stories about Hideo Kojima and how his production company seems to have vanished. Then, there was, in my opinion,…

Tokyo Hamburger Restaurant Covered in Anime 

No, no. Not every burger restaurant in Japan is like this. Too bad, huh? The Lotteria in Tokyo’s Ikebukuro is… different. One floor of the restaurant is reserved for anime collaborations and covered in whatever show (or game) is being promoted, whether that’s Sword Art Online, Fate stay night, or The Idolmaster Not only are…