EverQuest Loot In A Minute. Lore. I Meant Lore.

Having been in operation for 15 years now, Sony Online Entertainment’s MMORPG EverQuest has built a rich and detailed history for players to ignore while they scrabble for loot. Just like I don’t spend all day thinking about world history instead of doing my job, EverQuest players have more pressing concerns than worrying about which…

Try The Chalupanator And Other Horrible Fast Food Mash-Ups

Are you craving a bacon-pregnant burger from Wendy’s, or one of Taco Bell’s countless variations of the same couple of ingredients? Why not have both? It’s so easy to lose sight of the bigger picture when determining which terrible yet cheap-and-tasty fast food to put in your mouth. We look at each individual restaurant as…

The Saturday Morning Stream Plays Infamous: Second Son (Stream Over)

You’ve read the review. You’ve seen the tips. You may have even see us stream this very game live earlier this week, but this is the Saturday Morning Stream, and we play what we like — and that’s Infamous: Second Son. Okay, so maybe I wasn’t paying attention to Kotaku on Thursday and missed the…

Three screens from the upcoming G.I. Joe-themed episode of Community: There’s Jeff (Joel McHale) as Wingman (yes, he has a backpack with wings), Annie (Alison Brie) as Tight Ship, Britta (Gillian Jacobs) as Buzzkill, and Shirley as Three Kids. Airing April 3. EW has more.

Amazon has jumped on the bandwagon and discounted the Xbox One Titanfall bundle by $50. Use code X1AMAZON at checkout. Same discount applies to the “standard” model which is bundled with Forza 5. [Amazon]

It’s Like Zelda, But Your Sword Can Reprogram The Entire Game

These days most people know the basics of the top-down action adventure game. You know, “the Zelda-like.” Character with a sword, walking through dungeons, solving puzzles and fighting monsters, opening chests. Time to introduce a major twist, no? Enter Hack n’ Slash, a new game from Double Fine and one of the most creative and…

A Simple Adventure Game Lets You Convince A Character You’re God

The 4th Wall lives up to its name, since the main character is talking directly to you within a minute. The game doesn’t offer much choice, but the whole thing is only 5 minutes long, and it offers a few chuckles along the way. Check out this video by YouTuber ThingsWePlay, and you can play…

​If Robin Hood Starred In Metal Gear

He robs from the rich and gives to the poor; he also navigates high-tech compounds and dodges robot enemies like Solid Snake. That’s the setup of Volume, the in-development stealth game from Thomas Was Alone-creator Mike Bithell. I caught up with Bithell at GDC earlier this week and he gave me a demo of an…

Pikachu Cake, I Don’t Choose You!

Things don’t always go according to plan when you cook meals—that’s normal. Your end result doesn’t always look like the snazzy pictures on the recipe instructions, or the boxes containing the ingredients. But this monstrosity that someone baked is something else. Normally, Pikachu is supposed to be a cute monster—like in the picture above. Recently,…

BioShock Art With A Glow-In-The-Dark Secret

We already know that there’s a connection between the two iconic locales where the Bioshock and BioShock Infinite happen. Turns out all you need to do to go from Columbia to Rapture is flip the light switch off. The image above comes from artist Mark Englert, whose New Eden print will be premiering at the…