How The PlayStation 4 Comes Apart

Now that theiFixItfolks are finished with their live launch-day teardown of the PS4, they’ve posted a lovely video showing us how easy it is to get to the new console’s delicious innards, and the bits that might cut you. While the PlayStation 4 gets a pretty high score for repairability, there are a couple of…

The Closest Thing To A New D&D Game Is This Civilization V Mod

You might be surprised by how ambitious and detailed framedarchitecture’s Civilization V mod is. While other mods only change a few things, his attempts to fully convert the entire game to one of the largest and most famous campaign settings Dungeons & Dragons has to offer: the Forgotten Realms. You can choose from 25 civilizations,…

Here’s what’s going on in Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: We had you covered on the news that came out of Spike TV’s PS4 coverage last night, but truthtellah has a nice rundown of the entire event, 4DALULZIGUESSYOUKNOWWHATEVER has a conversation about next-gen worries, the hype machine as well as the Steam machine, and…

Why Metal Gear Solid V‘s Prologue Is Sold Separately

The first part of Metal Gear Solid V wasn’t always going to be on next-gen consoles—in fact, series creator Hideo Kojima says it could have been a PSP game. Then we might have been waiting even longer between the game’s two parts. Speaking to Kotaku through a translator at the PS4 launch event earlier this…

Five Important Things to Know About the Vita TV

Dying to own a Vita TV so you can play Vita games on your giant flat screen TV? Well, before you shell out the big bucks to import one, there are some things about the Vita TV you should probably know. 1) You Can’t Use Your Western PSN account As I booted up the Vita…

Street Fighter’s Producer Doubts Capcom Would Hire Him Today

If you’re a fan of Capcom’s Street Fighter series, you’ve probably heard of Yoshinori Ono: he’s been the series’ executive producer since Street Fighter IV, which was released back in 2009. But he didn’t start out that way. “At the time, I liked games and was more interested in composing music for them rather than…

The Ragnarok Creator’s New Game Will Have 80 Classes. Eighty.

Hakkyu Kim, who a long, long time ago created the crazy popular MMORPG Ragnarok Online, recently took the show floor over at South Korea’s G-Star convention to talk about his new game, Tree of Savior—a game that will no doubt drive altoholics insane with its huge amount of classes. According to Korean news site inven…

If Pokémon Were a Musical Set in College

Oh my, would that be awesome. This insanely catchy musical number is the product of a labor of love between several YouTubers, Pokémon fans, and talented singers, and shows us what a real-life Pokémon University would look like. Or rather, what a Pokémon-themed, actually watchable High School Musical would look like. Quite a step up…

Legolas Meets His Ultimate Enemy… The Friend Zone

Alas, poor Legolas All he wanted was to be a happy couple with Freckles Tauriel. But nope, “brother she’s never had.” Truly awful. The Brotherhood Workshop, responsible for the excellent LEGO version of The Hobbit’s trailer, this time went more a more focused short about Legolas’ love life… or lack thereof. To be fair, he…

Nintendo just bought a stake in NicoNico Douga’s parent company Dwango. The company provides content via smartphones, but Nintendo says it won’t be using Dwango for that. More on Siliconera.

The Best PC Patch Notes Keep Getting Better

It’s OK, Crusader Kings IIisn’t for everyone. I get that. But I’d like to think we can all at least find common ground and enjoy the game’s patch notes, which continue to be the very best Having earlier fixed such glaring errorsas “If married, women now fool their husbands about the parentage of children born…