LeVar Burton Reading Go The F**k To Sleep

A beautiful thing happened duringRooster Teeth‘s 24 hour Extra Life stream: more than $240,00 was raised for Children’s Miracle Network hospitals. Also, Reading Rainbow‘s LeVar Burton read a book and cursed a lot. It’s pretty beautiful. The book Geordi is reading in this clip (via Tastefully Offensive) is Adam Mansbach’s instant classic, Go the Fuck…

The Saturday Evening Stream: Senran Kagura Shinovi Versus (All Done)

Steve Bowling, writer of our TAY community’s review, was embarrassed to play ninja girl brawler and outrageous breast simulation Senran Kagura Shinovi Versus for the Vita. Imagine how I feel streaming it live. Update: stream complete and archived for your viewing pleasure. With an in-game lingerie shop and characters who lose clothes as they lose…

Watching the Extra Life charity streams? Our own Steve Marinconz just started a 24 hour gaming marathon stream withTeam Rob in support of his local Children’s Miracle Network hospital. Last year Steve got horrible food poisoning during the stream, so keep an eye on the bearded guy below.Watch them here.

Google Has Much More To Tell Us About Video Games Now. Maybe Too Much.

You know that neat little box that pops up on the right when you search Google for movies or books and such? Now it does that for video games as well, thanks to an update to Google’s Knowledge Graph. As you can see in the image above, no video game is safe from Google’s database.…

The Most Striking Piece Of Halo Art I’ve Seen In Ages

I was going to call “Master Chief and Arbiter (Gods Among)” by Sita Navas fan art, but the “fan” label feels cheap when applied to this Maya-style masterpiece. This is just art. Posted over on Reddit by her husband to tremendous response, the piece portrays Bungie’s two Halo heroes in the distinctive style of the…

This Week In The Business: End Of The Line

QUOTE | “I think linear story games are really going to suffer in the modern marketplace.” – Far Cry 4 creative director Alex Hutchinson, talking about why he thinks open-world and emergent games will be the most popular games going forward Elsewhere in the business of video games this past week … QUOTE | “It’s…

Felicia Day And Gamergate: This Is What Happens Now

Earlier this week, Felicia Day wrotea blog post. In it, the well-known actor eloquently expressed something that a great number of people in the video game scene have been feeling lately: She said she was afraid. Shortly after publishing, some people posting in her comments section, one under the name “Gaimerg8,” doxxed her, sharing what…

How You’ll Share Your PS4 Games With Friends Who Don’t Own Them

Starting on October 28th, you’ll be able to share your games with friends—even if they don’t own them. We’d heard about a feature called ‘Share Play’ before, but now you get a chance to see it in action. What’s so cool about Share Play is that it lets your friends watch you as you play,…

Track: Paradise Circus | Artist: Massive Attack | Album: Heligoland Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

A Game Collection That Looks Like A Museum

High-level game collectors are an interesting bunch of people. Their drives, motivations and preferences when it comes to curation say so much about what they value in gaming. Austrian collector Andranik Ghalustians is no different. Above is GAMEBOY, a short documentary about Andranik’s impressive collection. Though he doesn’t have a firm count, he estimates that…

Dying In Sunset Overdrive Is Pretty Goofy

Dying a horrible death in a video game is usually, well, horrible. If only there was some way to add a little style and grace to the whole process. What’s that you say, Sunset Overdrive? You think you can make being eaten by a horde of unsightly mutants downright charming? Well, we’ll have to see…

The Orcs Of Mordor Are Having A Bad Day

Even since the game got its snazzy new photo editor, Shadow of Mordor fans have been doing their best to capture the game’s ultraviolence in all its gruesome glory. But what about all those quiet, sentimental moments that unfold in the midst of all the orc-killing? Sauron’s forces have feelings too, you know. YouTuber Bart…