Rest In Peace, Age Of Empires

Today, July 1, Age of Empires Online is no more. Few will mourn its passing, but many more will nevertheless look to its demise as a sad event, given the attachment people once had to the words “Age of Empires”. The first Age of Empires, released in 1999, was amazing. As was its medieval sequel.…

Splinter Cell: The Younger Years Is Something I Could Watch

A dark, moody film about the early days of Sam Fisher sounds like the kind of thing Hollywood would want to dabble in. They’ve been beaten to the punch, though, by this impressive-looking fan project. You have no idea how many of these sorts of things we see every week. No idea. And so many…

Real-Life Fruit Ninja Is Very Dangerous With A Knife

He slices. He dices. And it all looks a lot more fun than running your finger across a phone screen. I pressed play on this and thought, whatever man, I can do that one or two times in a row. Then he kept going. And going. And going. And he absolutely will not stop, ever,…

​What Are You Playing This Month?

Sometimes it feels like the idea of a video game “dry spell” is a thing of the past. Other times, there really aren’t that many new games and it’s time to dig into the backlog. Here at the start of July, it feels a little more like one of those latter times. Then again, the…

It’ll Take Him 17 Days To Get To The End Of Minecraft

Thirty thousand kilometers. That’s how far JL2579 has to travel to get to the edge of Minecraft--more than twice the diameter of Earth. You can watch him do it live, right here. Unlike Kurt J. Mac, who is walking to the end of Minecraft via Let’s Play-esque videos, JL2579 is riding a minecart to the…

Please Don’t Ever Fix the Physics In Grand Theft Auto V

Nine months after release and Grand Theft Auto V is still pregnant with ridiculously impressive stunt potential. In the latest from Nomad Union, absolute insanity happens. I’ve actually put my Grand Theft Auto V plans on hold, pending the release of the PC version of the game. I see a video like this, imagine what…

My Current PS4 Obsession: Resogun‘s New Survival Mode

I did not expect to be playing Resogun in the summer of 2014. I thought I was done with it. I was wrong. The new $5 Resogun Heroes expansion for the PS4 launch game has a great new mode with it, a mode that has taken over my gaming life. Watch the video above for…

Evolve Wins ‘Best of Show’ At E3 2014

As voted on by 28 outlets and Kotaku, here are the official Game Critics Awards winners of various E3 2014 awards, a good chunk of which were stolen by Evolve and No Man’s Sky, unsurprisingly. Best of Show Evolve (Turtle Rock/2K Games for PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One) Best Original Game No Man’s Sky (Hello…

We were so intrigued by the World War I adventure game Valiant Hearts that we reviewed it twice. Sort of. Luke reviewed it for us last week. Stephen (that’s me!) just reviewed it for The New York Times. Read the latter review here if you didn’t already pick up the paper.

If Dota 2 Heroes Played Counter-Strike

What would happen if we put Dota heroes in a match of Counter-Strike? Who would get the first kill? Bets on who would win? MaritimeTR ☆ DotA 2 & SFM Animations ☆ brings us this unlikely mash-up of Valve games, and the results are pretty funny. P.S. NyxNyxNyxNyxNyxNyxNyxNyx Dota 2 Nyx Assassin Voice [MaritimeTR ☆…

Deals: The New Samsung 850 Pro SSDs, Everything 4K, PC Pre-Orders

Samsung’s 840 Pro SSDs have long set the high water mark for consumer SSD performance, and now it’s getting a sequel. The 850 Pro promises read speeds of up to 550 MB/s, and write speeds of 520MB/s, and you can preorder yours at a discount right now on Newegg. [Preorder Samsung 850 Pro SSD] If…