Jean Grey Is The Best Thing Wrong With The Wolverine

The only film in the X-Men saga I didn’t see in theaters might not have been had I known about the heavy reliance of Jean Grey hallucinations. Let’s see what else The Wolverine messed up, courtesy of Cinema Sins. This 11 minute critique is the most of The Wolverine I’ve managed to watch without falling…

Humble Spring Sale Redux, Mario Kart 8, Amazon Coins

The best of the Humble Spring Sale returns today with a killer selection and a ton of great deals. We recommend just grabbing everything. [Humble Spring Sale] The Humble Daily Bundle Melee Bundle will also be around for about an hour after our post goes live, followed by a new Humble Daily. Save hard on…

Street Fighter‘s Blanka Can’t Make It Past The TSA

There’s no question that Blanka can fight in the Street Fighter tournament, but he’s got a bigger problem – the Transportation Security Administration. Street Fighter Red Tape [Pete Holmes]

Child of Light will be coming to PlayStation Vita on July 1. Ubisoft’s very pretty role-playing game will be a digital download for Sony’s handheld game system. You can read Kotaku‘s review of the game right here.

Retro Game Crunch Is Out On Steam

You may remember when I posted about this before, but here it is with a nifty trailer!

Come On, Stop with the Weird Noises in the Let’s Play Videos, Okay?

If you watch a lot of videos where people play games and talk about them at the same time, you’ll be wincing with recognition at Dorkly‘s latest webcomic. Talking over video game sessions has become a popular pastime and big business, too. Lots of people are donning headsets in the hopes of becoming the next…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: The Twelve Anime of Spring 2014 Worth Watching • Drakengard 3: The TAY Review • Tales of the Video Game Composer Follow them here.

How Video Games are Helping Returning Soldiers Cope

Like the action movies of the 1980s, mainstream video games view war through a pretty rose-tinted lens. Even when big budget military shooters make an effort with the narrative, war is regularly presented in games as a singular event: ‘a war’ rather than ‘war’; something that parachutes you in for the opening chapter, runs you…

​It’s Almost Time to Kill Hitler. Again.

Well, someone who looks a whole lot like Adolf Hitler anyway. Here’s the trailer for Sniper Elite 3‘s Hunt the Grey Wolf DLC, which continues the series’ tradition of special missions that let you assassinate Der Fuhrer. This time, you’ll be stalking the leader of the Third Reich through the Libyan city of Tobruk. Hunt…

There’s Finally A Woman Jack Bauer

JACK BAUER HAS FINALLY MET HIS MATCH. Meet Kate Morgan, a steely CIA agent who has almost immediately elevated herself to the role of co-star on 24: Live Another Day, bringing the type of raw energy and all-around skills that her colleagues seriously lack. She’s smart and ruthless—”She’s good,” Jack confesses to Chloe at one…

Company Sued For Making ‘Magic Clone’ Says They’re Being Bullied

Less than a week after Wizards of the Coast announced that it was suing Hex Entertainment and Cryptozoic Entertainment for cloning the company’s popular card game Magic: The Gathering, the two companies have come back with a statement in defense of their game Hex: Shards of Fate Here’s the full statement written by Cryptozoic president…

Mortal Kombat Fatalities, Re-Imagined With Pokémon

Pikachu would teach Raiden a lesson or two on how to use lightning properly in Mortal Kombat. And you probably wouldn’t have to worry about Snorlax or Bulbasaur. In this stellar animation, Adrian Jensen shows us what Pokémon would do if they were playable characters in Mortal Kombat Reminds me of Primal Rage: Pokemon Mortal…

My First 40 Turns With Civilization: Beyond Earth

We’ve probably all theorized about fictional situations and how we’d deal with them. The zombie apocalypse, any end-of-the-world narrative, or maybe even less far-reaching scenarios like exploring and colonizing new planets in space. Well, just last week I got to put my hypothetical space adventure decisions to the test in the next chapter ofCivilization I…

The Spinning Lady Will Mess with Your Mind

You are looking at an optical illusion. It’s been doing my head in all day. Do you know which direction the woman is spinning? Is she spinning clockwise? Counter-clockwise? Or does she suddenly change directions? Try blinking and see what happens. Maybe she changes direction. Maybe not. It depends on how you see. The Spinning…