​One-Man Chrono Trigger Musical Performance Gets Surprisingly Epic

We’ve seen it plenty of times: A guy sits in a room with a bunch of instruments, performing music from a cartoon or video game. Sometimes the performance is only decent. Sometimes, it’s excellent. This is one of those second times. Here’s Collarblind Music with a one-man performance of Yasunori Mitsuda’s Millenial Fair theme from…

A Meaningful Story Of Friendship Starring…Cockroaches

Having cockroaches around your place isn’t a good thing. In Journey of A Roach you are a cockroach. But instead of causing horrid health and safety issues at the local takeaway, you’re just trying to find your little cockroach friend. This point & click style adventure follows the time honored tradition of combine-that-thing-with-that-other-thing and check-everywhere-till-you-find-that-one-thing-you-missed-earlier.…

From Poverty to PlayStation…One Game Dev’s Climb Toward Success

Shawn Allen is a restless game developer. And a hungry one. Growing up on welfare will do that to you. But growing up on welfare isn’t enough to hold Shawn Allen back. In fact, soon, you might finally play one of his games. Allen is 30 and when I ran into him several months ago…

Late Notch. On November 7, Markus Persson, the man behind Minecraft, will do something few indie developers have had a chance to do: go on a late night talk show. Notch will be on Craig Ferguson’s Late Late Show, which airs on CBS from 12:37AM-1:37AM. Congrats!

New Humble Bundle, Ghosts For $45, Dexter, Breaking Bad [Deals]

In addition to a slew of great deals today, we’ve got a brand new Humble Bundle for you featuring Warner Bros. games and including the first two Arkhams As always, check out The Always Up To Date Pre-Order Discount Guide for even more ways to pre-save. Dexter: Complete Series [Blu-ray] | $220 We’re going in…

Four New PS4 Commercials Hype Up Next Week’s Launch

We are officially ten days away from the PlayStation 4, and to mark the occasion, Sony’s got a bunch of new sizzle reels for their upcoming next-gen console. Today we’ve got four new commercials, all PS4-centric, all super-hypey. I think the most interesting is the look at Remote Play—for me, that feature could be a…

See LSD Guru Timothy Leary’s Unfinished Video Games

What happens when one of the most influential figures of 1960s psychedelic counterculture turns his eyes to video games? We went to the New York Public Library to find out. Timothy Leary became a household name in the tumult of the 1960s as an all around anti-authoritarian who advocated psychedelic drug use as a means…

How To Get The Jungle Ghosts Achievement In Call Of Duty: Ghosts

Every Call Of Duty has its required stealth mission, and the “don’t get caught” achievement to go with it. The Jungle Ghosts achievement is somewhat frustrating to get, but check out this video and you’ll ghost right through it. Of course, the other requisite achievement is the “do something difficult on veteran”. Piece Of Cake…

Call of Duty: Ghosts for $45

We’re going in hot. Grab today’s mega-release of Call of Duty: Ghosts for the Xbox 360, PS3, and even Wii U for just $45 on its release day. Keep that wallet frosty. [Newegg via eBay] PC gamers can pay $3 more to get the [Steam] version from GreenManGaming using promo code GMG20-P6Y1F-KC19F [GreenManGaming] Follow Kotaku…

The Story Behind GTA V‘s Michael and Trevor, Summarized In One Minute

Previously … on Grand Theft Auto V … There’s a slow burn as this game gets to the point of why three characters as disparate as Michael, Trevor and Franklin would or should come together to pull off some astounding heists. That’s where the good ol’ Lore in a Minute series comes in to help.…

Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: DocSeuss asks the big, perennial question “What Are Video Games?” It’s a rambling but entertaining answer. Isaac Davis writes a Last-Gen Hero essay about the kinds of rewards that turn a game into something deeper and richer. And Aestevalis sounds the Last-Gen Hero trumpet for…

Mysterious Chinese Restaurant in Tokyo Raises Eyebrows Online

Purges and harassment. Torture and destruction. And millions dead. Those are what China’s Cultural Revolutionevokes. And according to one Chinese news source, there’s a new Cultural Revolution-themed cafe. Xinhua, one of China’s largest news sources, ran images this week of the themed restaurant, which it claims is based in Tokyo’s Ikebukuro. Xinhua reports that it’s…

The Perfect League of Legends Champion Is None Other Than Hank Hill

Following the way Riot Games spotlights their League of Legends champions, YouTuber Crazy Boris made a similar flash animation for the main character of King of the Hill, Hank Hill. Hank might be an introverted man without any emotion, but with a Texas-shaped propane attack, other League champions have all the reasons to be worried.…