Ray’s The Dead, a neat-looking zombie game we covered last year, is back on Kickstarter after a failed first campaign. This time they want $30,000for the narrative-heavy zombie action adventure. Looks rad!

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: What Psychologists Are Saying About Video Games & Wasting Your Time For A Decade: Interview With A Video Game Researcher • Breath of Fire: A Series Retrospective • Tales of the Sixth Grade: Anime Friends • Phantom Breakers Battle Grounds – The TAY Review TAY Classic—TAY Open…

Track: Anaconda | Artist: Nicki Minaj | Album: Single

They Always Make Disney Infinity‘s Toy Box Look So Good

Last year I was assaulted by trailer after trailer filled with the magical possibilities of Disney Infinity‘s Toy Box building mode, only to find the best my imagination could muster was an incredibly high plataeu to drive cars off of. My hopes aren’t quite as high the second time around. I used to love games…

Pink Grasshoppers Are Real, Rare, and Vaguely Cute

A sixth grader in Gunma Prefecture, Japan recently discovered a pink grasshopper—which is “extremely rare.” It and the boy ended up on NHK, the country’s equivalent of the BBC. As The Huffington Post points out, not much is known about pink grasshoppers other than it’s thought the mutation is caused due to the grasshopper having…

People Really, Really Want to Work at Valve

At least, according to those polled for an International Game Developers Association (IGDA) poll. And how bad do they want to work there? More than at their own company. As pointed out on GameSpot, over 2,200 developers were polled as to which game developer or publisher they’d like to work for. Here are the top…

Man Proposes with 1,001 Hot Dogs

Hot dogs are great! I don’t care what anyone else has to say about them, but I enjoy eating hot dogs. Well, it seems I’m not alone in this world as one young man in China has gotten all frank to propose to his girlfriend. This past Saturday, Chengdu Evening News reported that a 28-year-old…

Japanese Viewers List This Summer’s Most Popular Anime

It’s so hot! There’s a good way to pass the time: Watch anime. And recently, male and female anime viewers were polled over their favorite shows of this summer. As Zaikei reports, download music site Recochoku polled 578 people between July 25 and August 5, asking them to name which anime of the summer they…

Pierce Brosnan Kind of Sucks At Goldeneye

Here’s Pierce Brosnan, playing Goldeneye with Jimmy Fallon. Brosnan’s not the best at the game, but hey, that’s OK. He can say he used to be James Bond. Brosnan says that prior to this moment, he had only played Goldeneye once before—so you can’t really fault him for not being the best at it. And…

So THAT’S What They’re Saying In Civ IV’s Intro

Vocalists Peter Hollens (a Kotaku regular) and Malukah (you may have heardher work before) have teamed up to deliver one hell of a cover of the intro song for Civilization IV. The song, Baba Yetu, won a Grammya few years back, and its composer Christopher Tin actually helped the pair out with their pronunciation in…

Track: Towers | Artist: Asteroid | Album: II Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

OK, The XCOM Board Game Sounds Awesome

While the idea of a co-op XCOM board game sounded great, the fact it required use of an app turned a lot of people – myself included – off. Well, maybe I was being premature, because it turns out calling it an “app” is doing it a disservice. PC Gamer got some hands-on time with…