This Week in the Business: Sympathy for the Devil

What’s happened in the business of video games this past week … QUOTE | “It’s like the Satan spawn to some people and it’s the end of the world because games are free-to-play.”—EA COO Peter Moore, talking about how F2P is just a way to get more people into gaming, and it’s growing QUOTE |…

The Best of Kotaku, The Week of August 26

In way the week has just begun, considering it’s only day two of PAX in Seattle, where Owen, Evan, Jason and I are soaking in the games, panels and cosplay. But a Saturday is a Saturday, which means it’s time to look back on our best articles over at Kotaku Selects The 3D Ryu you…

The Great McNugget Rampage Of 2010 Returns, Assumes Ultimate Form

In 2010, this video of a woman going bananas at a drive-thru – because she couldn’t buy chicken nuggets and really wanted chicken nuggets – went viral. It’s impressive footage, but sadly, no audio of the event was captured. Three years later, someone’s got around to fixing that. It’s not the actual audio. Duh. But…

Watch Me Play The New Pokémon Game

Want to see some Mega Pokémon? Watch me play some five minutes of this special Pokémon X/Y demo, made just for PAX. The game comes out on October 12 for 3DS.

I’ve Watched A Stranger’s Baby Grow Up Over YouTube. Life Is Weird.

Two years ago, “bobaepapa” uploaded a video of a baby that was super excited to see her mom, but also waaaaay too sleepy. It was an insanely cute combination—so much so that the video became viral hit. You might’ve watched it, and then never thought about this baby again. Well, I’ve kept watching—in fact, it…

Xbox vs. PAX Pox: Looks like Microsoft took Fahey’s hygiene primer yesterday to heart, bundling Xbox-branded hand sanitizer with its display models to do its part in the fight against con crud. We haven’t seen any PlayStation Purell yet.

Zelda: Wind Waker HD Gets An Adorable New Story Trailer

At PAX Prime today, the line to see Wind Waker was way longer than I thought it’d be. People do love them some hot Wind Waker action! Here’s a new trailer for the first HD Zelda, to be out next month for Wii U (and September 20 if you get a digital copy).

Oh No, Attack On Titan Shouldn’t Be Nearly This Cute

At its heart, Attack On Titan is incredibly unsettling. I mean, it’s about giant humanoids eating humans for seemingly no reason whatsoever; of course it’s unnerving. So you look at this animation by riseken—which recreates some of the early plot of Attack on Titan—and you’re just like, wow, it should be wrong to have the…

How Rocksmith 2014 Will Teach You To Play Guitar

The dream is a good one: An interactive application that can really, truly teach you to play guitar. And Rocksmith 2014, even more so than its ambitious predecessor, is aiming to do just that. In this video, the game’s makers demonstrate how the new “lessons” will function. The lessons look pretty cool, and it sounds…

Is Armillo The Feel-Good Story Of PAX 2013? It Is For Me.

Two years ago, I’m at PAX in Seattle. I’m trying to cover every indie game possible, but even I have my limits. I spot a game called Armillo, don’t pay it much mind, but a developer ropes me in. It’s a Super–Mario–Galaxy–Bomberman–Sonic kind of thing. Looks slick. I’m impressed. I post about it. Commenters like…

More Pokemon Drawn From Memory, Without Erasing

First blayzeon proved that a faulty memory could be a funny thing by showing us what the Pokemon from the first two generations look like if drawn without looking at a reference. Now they’re back with third gen Pokemon drawn from memory, and it’s just as silly as the first time we saw the project.…

This Is How You Hijack A League Of Legends Tournament

This must be one of the funniest e-Sports stream hijacks I’ve seen so far. During a League of Legends event at this year’s Gamescom, someone in a classic creepy horse mask continuously kept distracting viewers from the commentators. So good. There’s more. He was all over the place during Gamescom. Of course, this is not…

GODUS is coming September 13. The spiritual successor to Populous from Peter Molyneux’s 22cans is getting a beta release through Steam Early Access on September 13. The game will be available for $19.99 on PC and Mac. Here’s a trailer to help explain how excited you should be about this.

Clock’s Ticking On Crowdfunding For This Gorgeous Gaming Art Book

This simple mustard-colored book titled Every Day is Play could be one of the most beautiful video game coffee table art books we’ve ever seen. But it probably needs to get Kickstartered first. Designer and loyal Kotaku reader Matthew Kenyon is less than two days and still about $5,000 away from hitting his goal. The…

Dang, This League of Legends Fan Film Is Intense

Every League of Legends champion has a story, and this is the one behind Lee Sin, the blind monk. Not only can you see his history in motion in this live-action fan film by K&K Productions, you also get to see him duke it out with Katarina. The fan film is a part of an…

If Crysis Were A Kids’ Cartoon, This Would Be Its Game

As I watched the first season of Disney XD’s Max Steel, I couldn’t get Crysis out of my head. Here’s a crack paramilitary outfit, a guy in a suit that morphs itself to enhance his physical attributes like strength and speed, he’s fighting aliens — the outfit even has the Crysis suit’s cool honeycomb mesh…

I Can’t Believe Valve Messed With The Chickens In Counter-Strike

What an outrage. Forget Half-Life 3. Truly, Valve spit in the face of their fans yesterday when they introduced changes to the most important part of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive: the chickens. The horrendous changes, asdetailed by the patch notes: [GAMEPLAY] – Chicken changes based on pro feedback: — Reduced chicken sounds dBs and volume. —…

In These Colors, The 2DS Actually Looks Pretty Sexy

Looking at these mock-ups of the 2DSby MYE, I can’t help but wonder if the reaction to the handheld would have been different had these actually been the colors that Nintendo unveiled the 2DS with. I mean, I can’t be the only one that looks at these and thinks they actually make the 2DS look…

Hello, PAX Prime. You’re Looking Swell So Far.

Today’s the first day of Seattle’s version of the Penny Arcade Expo, the tri-annual fan festival that celebrates video games, toys, board gaming and other geeky pursuits. As soon as the doors opened, long queues began to spool out at both Sony and Microsoft’s booths as people lined up for their chances to try out…

If you’re a fan of sports video games and you aren’t listening to the Press Row Podcast, what are you waiting for? The latest edition is out now, and I discuss the review of Madden NFL 25 with a panel of the leading writers on sports games. Hear it at Operation Sports or subscribe on…