Something Else Cool About The Xbox One’s New Achievements

Remember, the Xbox One’s new achievement display does more than just look fresher. It also lets multiple people earn separate achievements from within the same game, even logged onto the same console, and display that as its own colour-coded pop-up. Here’s an example, taken from around the 11:15 mark in this video You’ll notice at…

Yes, Even NFL Players Can Be Pokémon Nerds

Looks like Seattle Seahawks wide receiver Doug Baldwin Jr. got himself a steal. Teammate and All-Pro cornerback Richard Sherman knows the score. [thanks Kevin!]

Boo Berry: The Snacktaku Monster Cereals Review Spooktacular

The sudden chill as you turn into the cereal aisle; the soft, lilting voice at the periphery of hearing, musing on breakfasts long ago; the ephemeral taste of berry-like flavor on the tip of your tongue — all these are Boo Berry, the Monster Cereal forever trapped between this world and the next. I must…

The Space May Be Dead, But It’s Still Pretty. The latest from Dead End Thrills: Grandiose shots of Dead Space 3.

Dadliest Voices: check out this new footage of Octodad: Dadliest catch, one of the silliest titles coming to the PS4 (and PC later this year). Now it has voice-acting! But also/more importantly: lots of hijinks.

It’s A Good Time To Play (Or Replay) Deus Ex: Human Revolution

Today, Square Enix released a newly updated version of Deus Ex: Human Revolution called the Director’s Cut. It makes a good number of improvements and additions to an already great game. To this day, I regularly have fun monkeying around in Deus Ex. The more I push it, the more I find weird and surprising…

Get your clicking fingers ready: registration for PAX East 2014 starts tomorrow afternoon. It’s safe to say that tickets will be sold out within the first few hours, so keep an eye out!

Track: Reflektor | Album: Reflektor | Artist: Arcade Fire Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to—and gaming to—at the moment.

I Can’t Believe Valve Messed With The ‘Bongs’ In Dota 2

Outrage after outrage, man. First Valve practically destroysCounter-Strike: Global Offensive by daring to mess with the most integral part of the experience, the chickens. Now they’re at it again with Dota 2—the latest patch messes with the bongs. Or well. They’re technically not bongs. Players just call them bongs. The point is, there used to…

GTA V Is Actually About Loneliness

Look, Franklin, you really need to sort your life out. Taking your dog for a nice, serene walk is all well and good. But randomly murdering some poor innocents outside of Taco Bomb is just wrong. You’re letting your “friends” get the better of you. But it’s not your fault. It was all preordained. Wish…

Spotted In The Wild: The PS4’s Dualshock 4 controller, all boxed up and ready to go. (Photo snapped by Sargon Aodisho, h/t Dualshockers/NeoGAF.)

Save On Gone Home, Vita Memory Cards, And All Your Pre-Orders

I was just chatting with Chris Person about Game of the Year contenders, and Gone Home was certainly a part of the conversation. If you haven’t played it yet, you’re missing out, and it’s $10 today on the official site. [Gone Home] Last Day to vote on your favorite gaming keyboard Tell us what you…

The Great New Comic You Should Buy Tomorrow Is ‘Pretty Deadly’

Time was, there were loads of rootin’, tootin’ cowboy comics on spinner racks everywhere. But none of those books were narrated by a dead bunny. That’s only the tiniest piece of the macabre brilliance inside the first issue of Pretty Deadly, an acid-trip twisted fairy tale western which comes out tomorrow. Along with romance and…

Target Apologizes, Making Good On Cancelled PS4 Pre-Orders

Last Friday, we reported that Target was canceling PlayStation 4 preorders that had been bundled with delayed games like Watch Dogs and Driveclub. It looks like the retailer is taking action to make good on the console part of those preorders, as well as giving $100 gift cards to make it up to those affected.…

Inside Arby’s Test Kitchen: A Snacktaku Special Report

Every year, Arby’s executive chef Neville Craw and his crack team come up with upwards of 1,200 potential new sandwiches. Around 50 of those are developed until release-worthy. Only five or six make it to stores. One of those is the Smokehouse Brisket sandwich. Earlier this month, Arby’s invited me to its Atlanta headquarters to…

Apple Exec Accidentally Calls Batman ‘The Black Knight’

Today at Apple’s big presser, marketing VP Phil Schiller accidentally called Batman the Black Knight. What he meant, of course, was the Dark Knight. Unless he was referring to Martin Lawrence.