You’ve Never Heard Of Half Of These Songs About Video Games

I love old songs about video games. Not specific games mind you, but just the general idea of video games. They tend to be joyful, simple and wonderful. With that, here are some you might not have heard of. Below are a handful of obscure or old songs on the vague topic video games from…

Random Encounters comes back next week—for now, talk about all things JRPG right here. Have you played the Bravely Default demo yet? What do you think?

The Childhood Memories Locked Inside Our Lost Toys

Few physical objects are as emotionally charged as children’s toys. They absorb our memories and moods, holding them until an errant look or touch brings them flooding back. Lost Toys from Barking Mouse Studios is a taste of that. Mobiles filled with forgotten childhood icons hang in a forgotten room, wooden idols charred and misshapen.…

10 Famous Movie Quotes You Might Be Getting Wrong

Memory is a fickle, faulty thing. The things we swear happened might’ve actually gone down completely differently, sometimes. It should be no surprise, then, that sometimes we might remember famous lines from movies a tad differently from what they actually are. Check out this list of ten movie quotes that people tend to misquote by…

Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance‘s always-online PC problems have been fixed, according to a couple of tweets this morning from Kojima Productions’ Steve Key. A Konami representative also confirmed to Kotaku that the issue has been resolved. New downloads should work fine, though already-affected users will probably have to re-download the game and Konami now says…

Rayman Legends and Thief Preorders, The Best Electric Razor [Deals]

The second wave of next gen titles is upon us, and you can save $10 on one of the more anticipated games for your console of choice. Preorder Thief [PS4]| $50 with Promo Code EMCPWWP57 Preorder Thief [Xbox One] | $50 with Promo Code EMCPWWP57 Mionix NAOS 8200 Gaming Mouse | $40 Preorder Rayman Legends…

‘Fallout 4 E-Mail’ Is A Hoax, Bethesda Says

Did you get an e-mail from someone claiming to be the Bethesda Store? Bad news, my friend: you’ve been pranked. The above image is fake. Like last year’s massive “Fallout 4 ARG,” this is yet another hoax designed to get all of our hopes up only to punch us in the face. A number of…

Probably The Best Trailer You Could Make For A Snowplowing Game

You’re fired.

​Rambo Looks Shorter Than Sylvester Stallone in New Video Game Trailer

Many big-deal Hollywood actors are not tall. They are short. And all kinds of tricky camera angles and techniques get used to make them look like towering heroic badasses. Doesn’t look like they used any of them in the new trailer for the Rambo video game. The game’s an FPS but you see the Rambo…

Watch Super People Play Super Games Super Fast

If you haven’t been tuning into this year’s Awesome Games Done Quick, you are missing out on some serious rapid-fire video gaming. All week the fine folks at AGDQ have been speedrunning their way through new games like Metal Gear Rising, classics like Super Mario World, and exercises in self-destruction like Battletoads The marathon ends…

All The Joy Of The Legend Of Zelda In One Plunderphonic Masterpiece

Artist Jeesh, who we’ve featured here before, plunders sounds from more than two and a half decades of The Legend of Zelda and mixes them all up to to create some of the most delicious ear candy I’ve heard in ages. This is going on everything I have that’s capable of outputting music. It’s a…

​Huge Image Gives a Little Peek Into the Next Halo

All-new console. All-new Halo. And, according to this 343 Industries update, this is a look at an all-new slice of the Halo-verse. Loads of detail in there, eh?

Meeting With Cultists In DayZ Is The Last Thing I Want To Experience

Three pantsless players in spooky masks, walking in the middle of the road towards you in the online survival game DayZ. What could possibly go wrong? We’ve already seen that interacting with others in the game is anything but normal, and it’s just beyond insane when a whole group roleplay as cultists, as in the…

Here’s the latest from Kotaku‘s official reader-written blog, Talk Amongst Yourselves: What I Hate—And Love—About the People and Zombies in DayZ • Kirby’s Dream Land was Ahead of It’s Time in One Crucial Way• The Tom Cruise Movie That Would Make a Great Video Game TAY Classic — TAY Open Forum — Beginner’s Guide To…

How To Play League of Legends‘ Newest Champion Properly

Yasuo, a martial artist character with the power of the wind, was added recently to the League of Legends champion roster. And if you play this character properly, he’s almost undefeatable in certain situations. Here’s Aaron “Bischu” Kim, one of the best players around showing off his skills and the characters’ The title of the…

Yoshi’s New Island surfaces on the 3DS on March 14. The sequel to Super Nintendo classic Yoshi’s Island has a lovely Friday release date now. Yoshi and Baby Mario are playing middle men to February 28’s Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy and the newly-announced Disney Magical World, releasing on 3DS April 11.

Hardcore Studying in China Looks Absolutely Frightening

Exams! If you are a student, you have them. And probably hate them. But your methods of staying awake probably aren’t as interesting—and downright scary—as these. Recently on China’s Weibo, photos are currently depicting the ways some students stay away as they cram for exams, whether that be with clothes hangers or scarfs or whatever.…