The Week In Games: Let The 2015 Games Begin

Two of them are remasters and one’s an incredibly quirky downloadable role-playing game, but there are definitely games coming out this week. Will the trend continue? We’re slowly making our way out of the year change drought, that quiet period of time where the only titles released (for consoles at least) are things like Pure…

After This Smash Bros. Rap Nothing Will Ever Be Okay Again

Smosh‘s lewd and crude Smash Bros. rap has generated more than two million views since Friday’s debut, with countless Villager-induced nightmares to come. I’m never getting this out of my psyche. While the chorus is catchy as hell (We used to be tight like brothers / By the end you want to murder each other),…

The Up All Night Stream Plays Box Boy (Stream Finished)

While everyone was learning about the new 3DS and the re-release of Majora’s Mask, Nintendo quietly released their newest game, Box Boy, in Japan which is half-Tetris, half platformer. So let’s play it. (Full disclosure: It’s really cute, you guys.) Update: Stream is over, you can see it below! Watch live video from BiggestinJapan on…

The Saturday Stream Attempts To Play Smite (All Done)

Having spent last weekend at the Smite World Championships here in Atlanta, I am now a certified expert in all things related to Hi-Rez Studios’ third-person action MOBA, with the possible exception of playing it. There’s something about attending a live event that makes a person brave. During the quieter moments of the competition I…

Don’t play video games for three days straight or you could die. That’s what happened to a 32-year-old Taiwanese man, found slumped in his chair dead following a three day gaming bender at an internet cafe in Kaohsiung city, as reported by Yahoo News. This is the second such death in Taiwan this year, and…

Parks And Recreation‘s Absurd Board Game Could Become A $500 Reality

Created by Ben Wyatt in a season six episode of Parks and Recreation, the Cones of Dunshire has come to represent everything wonderful and horrible about overly-complicated fantasy board games. Now Mayfair Games is Kickstarting a full version — but it’s not cheap. Having dabbled in tabletop role-playing game design in my youth (there’s a…

This Week In The Business: Missing Out On Mobile

QUOTE | “It’s outright embarrassing how totally unrepresented many of the industry’s biggest players are in the mobile arena.” – Jeferson Valadares, Bandai Namco’s head of mobile, talking about how traditional game publishers need to get busy making mobile games Elsewhere in the business of video games this past week … QUOTE | “It’s when…

A Dark Theory About The Origin Of Minecraft‘s World

Have you ever stared up into Minecraft‘s night sky? I mean, like, really taken a good, hard look into the frigid cosmos? You might notice that something’s amiss. It’s kinda empty, and the moon is always opposite the sun, and… this world doesn’t work like ours, does it? Here’s a shockingly bleak theory on why…

Wanna know how long it’d take to beat every game in your Steam library? There’s a calculator app for that. Just go there and either sign in or, if your profile is public, enter your Steam ID. I’m looking at 2842 continuous hours, or 118 days, 10 hours, and 12 minutes. How about you? The…

What Are You Playing This Month?

With all the excitement of new years eve, I completely forgot to post a “What are you playing?” article at the start of January. This injustice shall not stand! Here we are, in the early days of a new year. There haven’t been any big new games in a while, which makes it a good…

Worth Reading: Nerdy NFL Players, Race, And Much More

Kotaku publishes lots of stories, but we are not, as it turns out, the entire Internet. It’s easy to miss some of the wonderful criticism, commentary, and observations about games and games culture that’s put online every week. No more! Every Friday afternoon, I’ll be your guide. It feels good to be back. This was…