A Man Playing the Guitar While Doing Karate

As one does, no? Here is a gentleman showing off two very different skills at the same time. While the video was uploaded a while ago, it’s once again making the rounds online. The stunt is ridiculous, ill-advised, and totally metal. And how about that finale? *throws up horns* To contact the author of this…

The Final Disney Infinity 2.0 Characters Are Digital-Only, Because Tron

With tons of props from both movies in the series already in the Toy Box, it’s about time Disney Infinity 2.0 added a couple characters from Tron, and even if they’re from Tron: Legacy. Call me an old man who’s behind the times, but I will always prefer original Flynn, Tron and Sark to the…

Game of Thrones Star Breaks A (Mythical) 1000 Year-Old Strength Record

There’s a legend in Iceland that 1000 years ago a guy called Orms fláttr Stórólfssonar (or Orm Storolfsson) put a 1400lbs/640kg mast on his back and took three steps with it. It endures as a heroic test of strength in the region, but this week a real man took up the challenge and kicked Orms’…

Dude Beats A Super Mario World Record Five Times In One Week

You thought that near-impossible Super Mario World glitch completion time was fast? It was just the beginning. While the guy who first demonstrated the glitch, SethBling, has whittled his world-record-setting completion time all the way down to 3:07.2, he’s been completely blown out of the water by another player who goes by the handle Dotsarecool.…

A Skyrim Kissing Mod That Doesn’t Totally Suck

We highlighted a mod that let you kiss everyone in Skyrim a while back, but it was kinda embarrassing. Your character latched onto people like some kind of alien everything-sucker and made this cartoon smooching noise. This one, however, is a bit more like the real deal. Kinda? The somewhat awkwardly titled ” Kissing—Immersive Lovers…

Track: Brussels | Album: New World Sundown | Artist: Hotel of the Laughing Tree Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

Persona Dance Trailer Is 0% Gameplay, 100% Good Times

Well, this is new. A game trailer that doesn’t have gameplay or live-action nonsense or cinematic puff. It’s just…well, it’s the perfect trailer for a Persona game that’s about dancing your ass off.

Pac-Man Ghosts Are Smarter Than You Think

Pac-Man might not seem like much next to today’s hyper-realistic gun, dungeon, and gungeon-packed blockbusters, but the tiny puck that aspired to manhood inhabited a surprisingly complex world. His nemeses, the ghosts, are still pretty clever, even by modern video game standards. PBS’ ever-interesting Game/Show took an in-depth look at Pac-Man‘s ghosts and the way…

Guy Beat Dying Light With No Weapons

It was only a matter of time before some brave soul tried to make it through the terrifying zombie survival game Dying Light using only protagonist Kyle Crane’s hands and feet. Hats off to YouTuber BOYvsVIDEOGAME for providing extensive documentation showing just how it’s done. In the “No weapons, fists & kicks only playthrough” that…

How People Use Twitch, Visualized

At any given time, there are tens of thousands watching and playing games on Twitch. Some people are obsessed with one game, other people watch lots of games. The service recently enlisted its “science” team to visualize what communities of Twitch look like, and it’s beautiful. Wait, they have a science team? Yep. It’s a…

Smash Bros. Glitch Turns Everything Into A Tomato

Smash Bros. has dozens of items, all of which work in different ways. For whatever reason, one person’s copy of the game turns every possible item into a tomato, while still retaining the original item’s function. It’s the most hilarious thing I’ve seen all day. The issue, which is being encountered by Leron Tolmachev, is…

Dying Light’s latest patch removed a popular weapon-duplicating exploit, but don’t worry: there’s already a workaround. It only took players like Reddit’s BillSavage a few hours to find a new way to break the game’s loot system wide open. Learn how to do so in the video tutorial above. Text-instructions included below. Here’s how another…

Nintendo’s YouTube Plan Is Already Having Problems

Last week, Nintendo started a controversial program lets YouTubers make money off of any Nintendo-related videos submitted for approval. The process was supposed to take two to three days, but today Nintendo announced that they’re having trouble keeping up with the demand. As spotted by Venture Beat, here’s what the Nintendo website says about the…

Kingston HyperX Cloud II Gaming Headset: The Kotaku Review 

Last year the folks at memory and storage company Kingston Technologies showed the world theyknew a thing or two about putting together a good gaming headset. Now they’re back with the HyperX Cloud II, adding virtual 7.1 surround sound to an already successful piece of hardware. What It Is The HyperX Cloud II gaming headset…

The Most Popular Pokémon Used By Top Players, In One Image

Not all Pokémon are made equal. Some Pokémon are used more than others, and even elite Pokémon players have their favorites. Posted by Reddit user on r/Pokemon, here’s a look at the most popular Pokemon used by top players on Pokémon Showdown. For those that don’t know, Showdown is an online battle simulator used by…

What Telltale Could Learn From Life is Strange

There was a time when “Telltale” was just a game studio. But over the last few years, fueled by the success of 2012 Game of the Year contender The Walking Dead, it’s become shorthand for a whole genre. That genre is in desperate need of a viable competitor to spur Telltale to fix some annoying,…