A Stop-Motion Oculus Rift Teardown That Might Teach You Something

Now that he’s broken down a PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, Jake Roper of YouTube’s Vsauce3 sets his sights on Facebook’s virtual reality headset. I must be the only person at Kotaku who hasn’t tried out the Oculus Rift. That means if we’re ever attacked by the Oculus Rift, I am our last line of…

One Carefully Placed Bomb Can Break Titanfall

Evacuation ships that appear at the end of matches are always targets in Titanfall—and usually, destroying these ships simply results in more points for the attacking team. Usually is the key word here. DefendTheHouse is back with a great episode of ‘Titanfall Mythbusters’—and in this video, they meant to test out whether or not one…

Avatar, Grave of the Fireflies, Logitech G602, Dark Souls II, 4K

We had a great deal on the Avatar graphic novels recently, and today you can complete your collection with great prices on the show. I finally got around to watching the whole series recently and yeah, it’s really really good. Avatar: The Last Airbender Book One ($12) | Amazon Avatar: The Last Airbender Book Two…

OK, I’m Addicted To Hearthstone

Oh, Blizzard. Over the past two decades, no company has consistently gotten me hooked on video games the way you have. Just how do you do it? Yesterday I picked up Hearthstone, the free-to-play card game set in the Warcraft universe, which came out for iPad earlier this month. Blizzard first released Hearthstone for PC,…

​The Pokémon Theme As An R&B Slow Jam

The Pokémon theme is an iconic part of many people’s childhoods — a perfectly catchy intro to a classic cartoon. But sometimes you gotta slow things down a bit and really jam it out. From Scott Bradlee (the guy who put together the sad clown version of Royals by Lorde) comes a ’90s slow jam…

What’s Your Favorite Game Boy Memory?

The Game Boy officially turns 25 today—it is now a Game Man—and to celebrate, we want to hear your favorite memories of Nintendo’s influential handheld gaming system. What were your favorite Game Boy games? Where did you play them? What kind of Game Boy(s) did you have? Which was your favorite? I will never forget…

“WTF A Flying Boat?”

Stun_Gravy and PonylionHD take down a gunship using an RHIB launched into the air with C4, and confuse the hell out of a spectator. RHIB vs Gunship [Stun_Gravy]

Report: Apple And Google Buy Exclusive Games With Promo Space

As mobile gaming continues to loom ominously over the console wars, Apple and Google are beginning to adopt a tactic from their predecessors: fighting tooth and nail for platform exclusivity. According to a report in today’s Wall Street Journal, the two tech giants are starting to compete with one another to woo mobile game developers…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: On: Platforms • Press X to Feel Bad: Do Video Games Make You Feel Guilty? • Dreamcast Outsells Wii U, By at Least One Metric • Happy 25th Birthday, Game Boy! TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

Brilliant Special Effects Give Little Boy One Hell Of A Commute

I’ve watched this like five times so far. It’s wonderful. This video is part of an ongoing series called Action Movie Kid, and I kind of wish creator Daniel Hashimoto—a special effects animator at Dreamworks—would turn it into a feature-length film. [via Laughing Squid]

Monster Hunter trailers are always entertaining—here’s a new one for the 3DS game Monster Hunter 4G, which will be out in Japan later this year, and out in the U.S. and Europe in early 2015. It’ll be called Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate when we get it.

Chinese Porn Identification Officer is Sickened By Porn

Somewhere in the world, some guy might think being a porn censor is the best job in the world. Sitting around and watching porn all day may look good on paper to some, but according to an actual Chinese government porn watchdog, the job is sickening. Censorship is a big part of what makes China…