The Hardest Lesson in The Last of Us

The story of a minor character you never meet in The Last Of Us teaches one inescapable truth of that world: one way or another you are getting blood on your hands and you’d best make sure it’s not your own. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK Note: the article contains mid-game spoilers for…

One of Minecraft’s Greatest and Oldest Web Series Turns Four [UPDATE]

“You’re probably asking yourself, what the heck is this? And, yeah, you are 100% right to ask yourself that. This is Minecraft, and everything you see around me right now is a randomly generated world.” Minecraft was first revealed to the public in 2009, but it would only really take off with the release of…

Eggs and Plastic Bottles Thrown at Japanese Porn Star in China

While politicians bickered, one thing China and Japan could always find common ground on was anime. And, uh, pornography. Which is why this recent incident was all the more surprising. Japanese adult video stars Emiri Okazaki and Anjyu Kitagawa were guests at the Dalian International Adult Expo, an adult goods convention in Dalian, China. [Photo:…

Interested in a behind-the-scenes look at last week’s real-life Mario Smash Bros. trailer? The creator, Dean Wright, now has a making-of post online on his blog detailing how much work went into filming, animating, and even recording sound effects for his one-minute video over the course of four+ weeks.

This Pokémon Bread Looks Like Crap. Literally.

Pocket Monster Dedenne just got its own Pokémon bread. Congrats! Too bad the snack looks like… Shit. [Photo: fla_mofu] Above, you can see an image posted by Twitter user fla_mofu, who wondered if it was alright that Dedenne’s bread looks like poop. Pokémon bread (ポケモンパン or Pokémon pan) is a long-standing snack food, with each…

Wu-Tang and Crash Bandicoot, together at…last? This mashup of Gravel Pit v Crash Bandicoot: Warped is just fantastic.

One Dude Sings Halo Theme In A Church, Sounds Like The Real Deal

I can’t remember the last time there was a greater disconnect between what I was looking at and what I was hearing. This is…just some dude! Looks like he’s on holiday! Only, he can sing. And he’s singing in a church in Switzerland where the acoustics are just right. I’m pretty much head-to-toe with goosebumps…

Awesome School Teaches Through LARPing

There is a school in Denmark that teaches through Live-Action Role-Play. Or, LARPing. Amazing. This isn’t actually a documentary; it’s part of a larger film called Trapped Treasure, which is all about LARPing. We featured another excerpt from it last year. Can’t wait to see the finished product.

Cosplayers Asked On National TV If They’ve Had Sex In Their Costumes

Well, this is kinda weird. Jimmy Kimmel’s team went to Comic-Con last week, and asked a bunch of cosplayers if they’d ever had sex in their costumes. A funny enough question, I guess, but Kimmel’s tone and the “game show” element seems a bit off. Like, this could have been a cool feature on cosplay,…

So, You Can Now Buy Badass Motherboards?

Here’s a motherboard for people who buy internal PC components based on their looks. It’s the *deep breath* ASUS Republic of Gamers Maximus VII Formula Z97. Proving yet again that these companies could do with paying someone to think of better product names. In terms of specs, it can take 32GB of DDR3 RAM, has…

I Don’t Want To Walk To Everything I Can See In A Game

There’s this thing that developers of open world games have been fond of saying a lot lately: If you can see it, you can travel to it. It’s meant to be an awe-inspiring statement about how rich and full the world is, but every time I hear it I roll my eyes. See, not only…

The Majora’s Mask Fan Remake Is Still Moving Forward

Everybody wants Nintendo to remake or remaster classic Zelda-er Majora’s Mask, and maybe that is going to happen someday. In the meantime, some fans have been taking this matter into their own hands for a couple years now, as you can see above. That video update for what appears to be a Majora’s Mask remake…

This Is The Zelda Monopoly Game Board, Out Next Month

Announced back in April with few deets, finally we now know what the Legend of Zelda version of the popular-amongst-old-people board game Monopoly looks like. Don’t be too alarmed by that “GAMESTOP EXCLUSIVE” tag there; as with new video games, GameStop just has a couple extra perks in its box, and all these pictures came…

Maybe This Hand-Drawn Mass Effect 3 Box Art Is The Best One

It’s always a bit difficult to gauge the legitimacy of such things, e.g. whether a store employee stuck this on this GameStop shelf just long enough to take a picture or whatever. Either way I’m amused by this ugliness, as a Mass Effect guy. Would I use this over the FemShep one, though? Eh. via…

Watch This Couple Get Engaged While Wearing Ninja Turtles Costumes

Last night was “TMNT Night” at the Fresno Grizzlies minor league baseball game. It’s only natural, then, that a dude dressed as one of the Turtles would propose marriage on the field during warmups to his girlfriend who was also dressed as a Turtle, as you can see in the video. This is just heartwarming…