This Week In The Business: If You Don’t Like It, Don’t Buy It

QUOTE | “If these folks had their way, none of those people would be able to buy Grand Theft Auto.” – Take-Two president Karl Slatoff reacting to Australian protestors who got GTA V pulled from some retailers; ultimately Slatoff believes “if you don’t like it and it’s offensive to you, then you don’t buy it.”…

Grand Theft Auto V Shows Other Games How Graffiti Is Done

Grand Theft Auto V‘s Los Santos is based on Los Angeles, so graffiti is a big source of the color in its concrete jungle. And while it’s easy to think of graffiti as simple window dressing, these things often come from a very real place. AbsolutePab put together a video that fuses GTA V graffiti…

Kirk, Patricia and Stephen Talk About How Maddening Destiny Is

Destiny is a frequent topic of conversation around Kotaku‘s team chat. Some of us play the game religiously, others have barely played. All of us struggle to get our heads around how a game can be so simultaneously brilliant and maddening.

Boo, Valve Removed Bird Surfing From Counter-Strike

For a brief, magical period of time, you could surf on birds in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. As in, ascend into the skies on their tiny, feathered backs. Unfortunately, it broke the terrorist-fragging heck out of the game, so Valve had to take it out. But they added something fun to make up for it. When…

The Disturbing Cannibals of Fallout

In a messed-up world like Fallout, it’s not surprising that some people would turn to cannibalism. Still, cannibals make for some of the more disturbing characters in the game. Here’s a look back by ShoddyCast at the many (!) factions and people in Fallout 3 and New Vegas that eat other humans. I remember being…

Far Cry 4‘s Knife Kills Defy The Laws Of Gravity

You can do a lot of things in Far Cry 4. Kick a rhino? Sure. Stampede over your foes on the back of a wild elephant? Totally. Fly like an eagle? Well, yes actually. Kinda. But there are limits. Here’s a video of people testing them to see just how far they can go. (Spoiler:…

​How To Get A Lot Of Glimmer In Destiny

If you’re playing Destiny right now, there’s a good chance you’re feeling kind of broke. That’s because after the expansion, you’re going to need a ton of in-game cash (aka glimmer) to purchase new versions of your prized exotic gear, and even more to re-upgrade everything. There was a time when I never worried about…

Strange ‘STALKER’ Developers Re-Emerge To Ask For More Money

Remember Areal, that suspicious Kickstarter project made by a studio claiming to be in an “information war” with Russia after receiving a signed letter from Vladimir Putin? It disappeared after its Kickstarter campaign was suspended. Areal is still gone, but its creator is back with something even more strange. After several months of relative silence,…

No Humans Are Allowed In This Smash Bros. Tournament

If you’re not careful, an Amiibo can become a monster in Smash Bros. Thankfully, this doesn’t have to be terrifying for us humans—instead, the intense skill of Amiibos can be turned into a spectator sport. That’s where The Amiibo Fighting Championship comes in. As the name suggests, it’s an Amiibo-only tournament, where only Nintendo toys…

Apple’s rejection of Papers, Please due to ‘pornographic’ content? Apparently that was a mistake. Creator Lucas Pope told me via email that nudity will be patched into the iPad version soon. He also explained what led to this all happening. Check out my updated story to read his full statement.

Opening Game Logos Are The Worst

You start up a game. Before you can make it to a start screen or main menu you’re barraged by a series of loud swooshy logos and copyright text you don’t read. This is the modern hell of video games in which we live. I’ve never really paid all that much attention to opening game…