One Of Gaming’s Greatest Questions Has Finally Been Answered

Some Twitter jokes are elaborately patient affairs. Others are a little more accidental. The account belongs to FIFA Youtuber Duaineml0, who I guess set up a Twitter account in 2009, forgot all about it then joined for real a year later with a new account that he actually uses. Only to later remember that he’d…

Booth Falls On Pro Gamer’s Head, But He Still Wins

Pro StarCraft II player Koh “GuMiho” Byung Jae was playing in Korea the other day when he suffered a pretty drastic technical mishap: the booth he was sitting behind collapsed, hitting him in the head and sending his monitor flying into his face. It looks like it him him pretty hard, so his stunned look…

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​How To Record Videos On A PS4

There’s nothing quite like seeing a once-in-a-lifetime moment in a video game and realizing it’s too late to go back and get a video of it. It’s over and gone, lost forever. Womp, womp. Both the PS4 and the Xbox One promised to help gamers avoid that scenario by including hardware that’s constantly recording a…

See How Much Faster Your Wii U Gets You Into A Game

The latest update to the Wii U adds a Quick Start menu, which lets you select a recently used game or app to load before the console even boots up. Take a look at how it works with Kotaku Editor-in-Chief Stephen Totilo. Note that the feature doesn’t actually make games load faster, it just saves…

Goat Simulator’s Patch Notes Are The Best

A whole bunch of stuff, like hats and multiplayer, gets added to Goat Simulator today—all for free. While that’s cool, you’ve gotta read how the developers, Coffee Stain Studios, are describing the update. From Goat Simulator’s patch notes over at Steam: Added local splitscreen multiplayer Added a new map, try it out in the “custom…

The Legend Of Zelda Didn’t Make The LEGO Ideas’ Cut

Fans of Nintendo’s The Legend of Zelda franchise and LEGO toys breathlessly waiting for the results of the LEGO Ideas Winter 2014 review results can exhale now — the results are in, and Link won’t be appearing in plastic brick form. Wes Talbott’s submission to the LEGO Ideas (once CUUSOO) program did Zelda fans proud.…

Flappy Bird Is The New ‘Hello World’

Yesterday, Apple announced a new programming language called Swift for building iOS apps. Less than 24 hours later, someone has already used it to build a Flappy Bird clone. If you aren’t familiar with Hello World, it’s basically what programmers traditionally use to demonstrate a programming language or test a basic system, since it’s a…

What’s Wrong With The Movie Gravity? Ask Neil deGrasse Tyson

When a movie is too scientific for Cinema Sins to handle, they call on noted astrophysicist and host of Fox hit Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, Mr. Neil deGrasse Tyson. Science made me not want to see Gravity. Having been a fan of that particular means of explaining how reality functions for decades now, I was…

I Just Heard A Mario Kart Joke In My PS4 Game

Lego Marvel Super Heroes contains all sorts of great cameos. It also includes a Mario Kart joke, made by the Human Torch, right before you go to Thor’s home realm of Asgard where they’ve got a rainbow bridge. I heard this while playing the PS4 version of the game over the weekend, and I captured…

This Kanye West Oculus Rift Game Isn’t Real, But It Should Be

Otter Spice, the small team that brought us Kanye Zone back in 2012, just delivered a vision of what that ridiculous and amazing browser-based game would be like on the Oculus Rift. Sadly, the thing is just a joke. But like many things on the internet, it doesn’t have to be! West famously compared himself…

Craiglist Ad Seeks Buff Dudes To Dress Up As Dragon Ball Z Waiters

Are you a “physically fit male” who is “MUSCULAR, and is willing to dress in Dragon Ball Z attire for 2-3 hours”? If so, then boy do I have a job for you. Oh yeah, you’re going to have to hold some appetizer trays. But that shouldn’t be a problem for a Super Saiyan, right?…