4344739’s channel modded a 3DS so they could use a Gamecube controller on it. Woah. Suddenly, portable Smash Bros actually sounds enticing! (Via Tiny Cartridge)

It Took Seven Years To Find 400 Stunts In Halo

The Ultimate Stunting Tutorial is a tremendous effort by dozens of people who came together in the name of doing awesome stuff in the original Halo. Flips. Explosions. Balancing acts. Vehicle launches. Defying physics. UST has it all. Best of all, as the name implies, the video series—which takes place entirely in Blood Gulch—teaches you…

Track: Dancing in the Dark | Album: These Wilder Things | Artist: The Ruth Moody Band Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

Kratos Is A Loser Even When He Wins

If there was ever a video game character that needed to go into therapy, it’s God of War star Kratos. Even David Jaffe, one of his creators, has said that the guy should calm down But can you really blame him? He lost his entire family before the original God of War even started. And…

Someone’s Suing Sony Because A PS4 Game Isn’t 1080p

Proving the theory that anyone will sue anyone for anything, a legal firm filed a class-action lawsuit for $5 million against Sony yesterday because the multiplayer mode in PS4 game Killzone: Shadowfall doesn’t run at a “native” resolution of 1080p. Yep, this is for real. The suit, which you can read below, alleges that Sony…

The Sims 4 Without Toddlers Looks… Weird

The Sims 4 will have no toddlers. None. You can look in ball pits, on precariously high tables, at Lego-eating conventions—anywhere. You will not find them. Many players are upset. How will the game work without that crucial stage of development? Like this. So that’s a bit, um… strange. Don’t get me wrong: I wish…

I Love That I Can Pause Dota 2

The first time someone paused a match of Dota 2, I was shocked.I didn’t know pausing was possible. I remember thinking to myself, wow, what the hell? What’s happening? Am I seriously playing a multiplayer game that people can pause? Games have done stuff like this before, that’s true. But as I sink more time…

Times I Died Finishing Resident Evil 4‘s Professional Mode RE4 is among my all-time favorite games. It’s a comfortable fall-back. When I get sick of new games and just want to slaughter some pseudo-zombies, it’s always been there for me. Part of that comes from the game’s crazy unlockables and the ease with which you…

​Yoshi’s Real Name Is Actually ‘T. Yoshisaur Munchakoopas’

An old Nintendo character guide lets us know all sorts of things about Mario and his Mushroom Kingdom friends. Like the fact that Bowser invaded Princess Peach’s sovereignity because he can’t stand the thought of ‘happy fungi.’ Over the last 24 hours, writer Blake Harris—who penned the excellent Console Wars book—has been sharing tidbits from…

Twitch is changing the way its users can edit and archive their gameplay videos, the company announced today. While this is meant to improve the way that videos are stored and made available to watch after they’re originally broadcast, it also means some archived material could disappear. None of this material has to go away,…

Blizzard Sets Corgis On Fire For WoW‘s Tenth Anniversary

It’s World of Warcraft‘s tenth anniversary, and to encourage people to come celebrate Blizzard is offering—among many other nostalgia-tacular goodies—a molten corgi. You know, like classic mega-dungeon Molten Core only… yeah, you get it. Cue uncontrollable squealing. A flame-wreathed pet is just the tip of this iceberg (fireberg?), though. All of WoW‘s tenth anniversary treats…