Gaming Journalism’s Most Exciting Project

Cara Ellison’s excellent “Embed With” (geddit?) series chronicles her experiences temporarily living with various gaming luminaries. The latest entry focuses on occasional Kotaku writer and Videoball/Ziggurat mastermind Tim Rogers. It’s brilliant stuff. Required reading, if you ask me.

Tekken Tag Tournament 2 Gets Added to EVO 2014 Line-Up

Whether you love or hate Namco’s long-running Tekken series, you have to admit that it sure was weird not seeing its latest installment as part of the EVO 2014 line-up. But, Heihachi Mishima fans can rest easy now: Tekken Tag Tournament 2 has just been announced as one of the titles that the world’s best…

Free Month of Xbox LIVE, New Humble, Indiana Jones, GTAV [Deals]

Signing up for Bing Rewards (which you should do anyway), gets you a free month of Xbox LIVE. No-brainer. You do have to use the service a bit to get the reward, but it’s nothing major. [Bing] New Humble Weekly hosted by Destructoid | Critter Crunch is awesome. This has been a bit of an…

Finally, A Video Game That Lets You Worship Gabe Newell

The wonderful folks at Giant Bomb got their hands on a copy of Crawl, which lets you explore a dungeon where your friends are the monsters. It looks like the game’s sense of humor is already living up to its excellent trailer. You can check out the gameplay in the video below. It’s an early…

Every Death In Game of Thrones So Far [SPOILERS]

In case you needed a reminder that nobody will ever, ever be happy on Game of Thrones, here’s a three-minute catch-up on every death we’ve seen on-screen so far, courtesy of Digg. Thanks, George RR Martin. Game of Thrones season 4 starts on Sunday. Expect lots of sex, blood, and sweet house insignias.

What’s Inside the Amazon Fire TV

They’ve done it for the PS4, the Xbox One and damn near ever high-profile piece of consumer electronic tech that’s come down the pike in recent years. Now, iFixit’s popping open the Amazon Fire TVand documenting the innards of the online giant’s streaming mini-console. All of the Fire TV’s hardware gets pried open in iFixit’s…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Silver Spoon: The Ani-TAY Review • Power Fantasies are Great, and Here’s Why • Memories of Launch Day: Xbox 360 • Zooming in (and out) on Games • Sometimes the Best Stories in Games Don’t Come from a Quest Log TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY…

Here’s A Sweet Short Film For The Elder Scrolls Online

This five-minute short, released by Bethesda today, tells you absolutely nothing about The Elder Scrolls Online, which is officially out today for PC and Mac. But hey, it’s a pretty snazzy film and a solid way to start your Friday morning. Very Return of the Kingish. Enjoy.

Phase 2 of Final Fantasy XIV’s PlayStation 4 beta test begins today. If you’re new to the game, you can download the client through the PlayStation Store for free. The test runs until Monday, April 7, 1AM Pacific, and characters made during this phase will be playable after the game’s April 14 launch.

The Avengers (and other Marvel Heroes) in Their Official Anime Forms

Earlier this week, the new anime Marvel Disk Wars: The Avengers started airing in Japan. And while it is the first Avengers anime series, it is not the first time that many of these iconic Marvel superheroes have appeared in an anime. Iron Man (Disk Wars) (Marvel Anime Iron Man) (Iron Man: Rise of Technovore)…