Easy Cosplay Ideas Using Everyday Stuff

Dressing up like characters from pop culture, while cool, looks like a ton of work. Cosplay doesn’t have to be hard, though. If you’re willing to have fun with it, you can make all sorts of costumes with stuff you have lying around the house. Such is the idea behind the My Half Assed Cosplay…

As Close To A New Game Boy Game As We’re Going To Get

I miss the days of dash attacks, the platformers of yesteryear. I miss Rocket Knight Adventure, and Mischief Makers. Lucky for me, The Joylancer: Legendary Motor Knight scratches that itch. In the video above, I play the “shareware” demo of The Joylancer, a retro-platformer that harkens back to the days of Gameboy and the 16-bit…

TV Guy Gets His Black Men Mixed Up, and Samuel L. Jackson Roasts Him

Didn’t we just go through this with Morgan Freeman? Look, this is even worse. If there is one black guy you do not want to confuse for another black guy, it is Samuel L. Jackson, because he will not let your ass off the hook. KTLA-TV’s Sam Rubin learned this the hard way this morning…

​He Made Halo‘s Energy Sword, and It Looks Really Awkward to Use

Master Chief makes it look easy, doesn’t he? But, it turns out that wielding the famous bladed Covenant weapon from the Xbox sci-fi FPS isn’t all that graceful. Watch yourself, dude. You ain’t no Spartan! In the latest segment of the Man At Arms webseries, Tony Swatton and crew craft one of a video game…

A Japanese Adventure Game Inspired By Snatcher

Here’s a new Kickstarter game that might be worth some attention: Blackmore, an adventure game by some of the folks behind the old Konami adventure game, Snatcher. David Hayter’s in there, too. The game is called Blackmore, and they want $200,000 to bring it to life. The summary, via Kickstarter: Blackmore is a Japanese adventure…

Adam Orth Is Turning His Personal Disaster Into A Beautiful Game

Adam Orth, one of last year’s most notorious people on the Internet, was nervous last week as he was showing me his new creation: a beautiful, unusual game that he says was borne from his 2013 travails. “This is how I chose to, in the words of a famous philosopher, ‘deal with it,’” he self-consciously…

Everything Wrong With The Terminator, In Seven Minutes

The first Terminator movie was pretty good, I think—but if you pay close attention while you watch it, you’ll find lots of silly and ridiculous details in the movie. Maybe its better not to nitpick….or maybe its funnier if we do. Whatever you prefer, the folks over at CinemaSins caught a ton of amusing and…

The Last of Us for $30, 2DS Pokémon Bundle, 4K AV Receiver [Deals]

In case you haven’t heard, The Last of Us is really, really good. If you still haven’t played the game that went all Meryl Streep on the DICE Awards (after picking up Kotaku game of the year honors, no less), you can pick it up on Amazon today for just $30. I might have to…

Final Fantasy Tactics Wasn’t Supposed To Have Casting Times

You know how in Final Fantasy Tactics—the wonderful strategy-RPG released for the PlayStation in 1998—your wizards and summoners all had to deal with charging times? And how if you wanted to cast a spell, you’d have to wait X number of turns before it went through? Here’s a bombshell for you: creator Yasumi Matsuno says…

Watch Dogs Delayed On Wii U

Following rumors, the Wii U version of Watch Dogs has been delayed, Ubisoft announced during their earnings call today. Watch Dogs will be out for PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, and PC this spring—between April and June, Ubisoft says. The Wii U version will come “at a later date.” A few weeks ago, the…

Payday 2 is the latest freebie for PlayStation Plus subscribers. It hits the Instant Game Collection on PSN tomorrow.

New trailer: EA Sports UFC. Still no release date yet for the game (last word was Spring, sometime after March) but here’s a detailed look at the fighters’ distinct features and animations. The game is for Xbox One and PS4.

You’ll only get tomorrow’s Xbox One firmware update if you manually choose to download accept it. But it will also enable all future console updates, including the Party-Chat-upgrade one in March, to be updated in the background if background updates are enabled, an Xbox rep told Kotaku. A good improvement! UPDATE: For clarity’s sake, I…

Happy Valentine’s Day Week—here is a beautiful new romantic trailer for Final Fantasy X, a video game about an athlete’s illicit love affair with a woman who’s just trying to save the world. The HD remakes of FFX/FFX-2 are out on PS3 and Vita next month.

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50 Useful Tips for Playing DayZ

Being in alpha DayZ changes a lot day by day, and it’s easy to get lost in the ocean of bugfixes, nerfs and gameplay additions. What seemed like a great strategy the day before might not work the next day. That’s where YouTuber Wobo comes in, sharing some excellent gameplay tips. Here’s the clip; it’s…

Why Is Heavenly Sword Getting An Animated Film? This Lady Right Here.

There’s an animated movie based on Ninja Theory’s PlayStation 3 action adventure Heavenly Sword this year. The second trailer for the film (via IGN) is a rock-infused tribute to the reason this is all happening — Anna Torv. Yes, I know the video below is all about Nariko, but Nariko is all about the voice…