We Tried PlayStation Now–Here’s How It Went

Back in January, Sony announced Playstation Now, a system that lets you stream older Playstation games. It’s in beta now, so you can finally watch it in action. The overall Now experience was really smooth. You can skim through the library and get games up and running really quickly, and they work well once they’re…

The Internet Reacts To The Steam Summer Sale

One of the most anticipated days of the summer is here: the Steam summer sale. PC gamers everywhere are examining their bank accounts and backlogs, wondering if they should drop some dollars on a enticing, cheap game. This means lots of people are talking about the Steam summer sale. What they’re saying depends; there are…

​Old EGM Articles Are Full Of Beauty And Irony

Rumors about Nintendo launching a handheld. Genesis/Turbo Grafx debates. Charmingly illustrated level maps. Things were very different in the heyday of video game magazines. Used to be that you could only get tiny photographs of upcoming games as a preview of what you’d be playing at home. Gamers of a certain age may remember what…

A Game For People That Love To Spam Twitch

People love watching livestreams of people duking it out. People also love spamming the living heck out of Twitch chatrooms with inane comments. Seems like a great idea to combine the two! At E3 this year, we interviewed Frank Cifaldi from Other Ocean about their game #IDARB. You may remember it as one of the…

You don’t have to be afraid of missing out on Outlast’s scream-inducing fun any more, Xbox One fans. It’s now available on Microsoft’s latest console, Major Nelson announced in a blog post this morning. The terrifying survival horror game made it through our latest revision of the PS4 bests list, so Xbox One owners with…

Sonic, What Have They Done To You?

Today, the Android version of Sonic Dash updated with a new unlockable character. It’s Sonic, in the shape of the Android robot. Andronic the Droid Hog, if you will. This is what he looks like. Image courtesy of Pocket Gamer, here’s the Android robot, for comparison’s sake: And here’s what Andronic looks like in action,…

Steam Summer Sale Day One and More Deals

If countless gamers are holding out for the Steam Summer Sale to stock up on games, then what we’re really looking for from it are unprecedented prices. That wasn’t the case last year, so let’s take a look at 2014’s offerings. As always, you are best served holding out for the flash sales that cycle…

Charity Creates Life-Sized Super Mario For Boy Battling Cancer

Video games offer their players a much-needed chance to escape the stresses of real life, however temporarily. One ten year-old boy in Saskatchewan, Canada needed this kind of relief more than most to help cope with the fact that he’s living with a terminal form of brain cancer. So rather than just handing Patrick a…

The Kiss: here’s a great story by Simon Parkin about the same-sex kiss at an E3 demo in 1999 that basically saved The Sims.

How To Build A Life-Size Monster Hunter Dragon

Ever wonder how the giant displays at conventions like E3 get made? Well the folks at Tested took a step-by-step look at the making of a giant dragon for Capcom’s booth at this year’s E3. Frank Ippolito was in charge of building the Gore Magala from Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate, and the result is pretty…

Want to see a mountain get blown up FOR SCIENCE? Well now is your chance. Today, a mountain in Chile will have its top blown off to make room for the European Extremely Large Telescope, and it’ll be livestreamed here. UPDATE: apparently the actual blast is at 2:10 pm EST. UPDATE 2: They did it…

League of Legends Is Turning Into An Actual College Sport

Over the past few years, we’ve seen a remarkable rise in the popularity of competitive gaming. The fighting game community gets bigger and bigger; the Dota 2 International’s prize pool is almost up to $10 million; and League of Legends remains one of the biggest games around. Lots of people are starting to notice the…

Velocity 2X Makes My Brain Hurt (in a Good Way)

Did you play Velocity or Velocity Ultra on Vita? You should – right at the end of the PSP’s life and at the beginning of the Vita’s, Brighton-based studio Futurlab came up with a compact but complex arcade space-shooter that was both nostalgic in its aesthetic and inspirations and playfully modern in its mechanics. This…

The excellent indie platformer Guacamelee! is coming to a whole bunch of new consoles, developer Drinkbox Studios just announced. It’s coming to the PS4 July 1st, and the Xbox 360, Xbox One, and Wii U the following day. Huzzah!

Metal Gear Solid V Is Full Of Silly Moments

The 30-minute gameplay demo of Metal Gear Solid V Kojima finally showed us in his podcast wasn’t just about hiding behind corners and riding around the desert. If you watched carefully, you could have spotted all the little details and jokes that are so typical to the series. And new ones as well. For example,…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Tomodachi Life: The TAY Review • Game Of The Week—Dynasty Warriors Is Better With Dragons • Laziness, Ragequitting, And The Quest for Love • Why Do We Care For True Mature Games All Of A Sudden? TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

Clone Of Clone Of Clone Now On 3DS eShop

Today Nintendo announced that the 3DS eShop just got a new $2 game called 2048, by a developer named Cosmigo. Cosmigo’s 2048 is a copy of Gabriele Cirulli’s open-source 2048, which itself is a clone of a game called 1024, which is, of course, a clone of the stellar iOS game Threes Video games