Our Favorite New Horror Game Doesn’t Hold Your Hand

I could probably start this off with a knock knock joke, but I wouldn’t be able to forgive myself. No, Knock-Knock deserves better. Knock-Knock is an inherently strange horror game…but perhaps horror’s not the right word. It’s more of an unsettling experience, waking up at night in a cabin in the woods doesn’t exactly sound…

NSFW: Players Uncover A Naked Ellen Page In Her New Video Game

If there’s one thing we can count on, it’s that some people are interested in seeing naked character models—this is true regardless of the game. In a sense, you could say there was a metaphorical timer starting the second that David Cage’s latest game, Beyond: Two Souls, which stars popular actress Ellen Page, was released.…

Violent Games Should All Hire Viscera Cleanup Detail To Scrub The Gore

Now this is the kind of cross-promotion I can get behind! Devlover Digital, the publisher behind such non-nonviolent video games as Hotline Miami, has enlisted the guys behind Viscera Cleanup Detail to help them clean up after their latest game, Shadow Warrior. Players who buy Shadow Warrior will get a free custom standalone game in…

One Of The Weirdest JRPGs We’ll See Next Year

Note: Today on Random Encounters, we’ve got a very special treat for you: a guest column by Kotaku bossman Stephen “JRPG Lover” Totilo. Be nice! —Jason. Thanks, Jason… can I start my column now? —Stephen. Some of us like video games that we might call “insane.” We mean this in the best of possible ways.…

Slick New Zelda: Link Between Worlds Trailer Introduces ‘Lorule’

It’s not Hyrule—it’s Lorule. Get it? That’s the twisted new dark world that Nintendo will introduce in The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, which is out for 3DS on November 22. Check out this sleek new trailer for an introduction to Lorule… and someone named Hilda? It’s unclear how Lorule is related to…

You Never Realized Fonts Could Be This Exciting

I’ve been waiting weeks to write about Type:Rider. I’ve not been this excited about a mobile game in ages. It’s all about learning the most important human achievement in the history of humans achieving things: typography — the art and technique of arranging letters to make language visible. Without it, kjfdflkjhsdflsdjfhsdg. Having a language people…

Watch Valve’s Insane Steam Controller In Action

Here’s our first live-action look at the joystick-free Steam Controller, being used to play games like Portal 2 and Civilization V. Valve says they’ve got more live-action demos planned over the next few weeks and months. Valve’s Steam Controller, announced two weeks ago, might be one of the most interesting elements of the company’s living-room-takeover…

GTA Online, Week Two: All People Want To Do Is Kill Each Other

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNfhcD… I’m a week into playing GTA Online. My character mysteriously had a sex change during one of the Social Club outages. She still never has arms when I log in, and changes clothes every time I look away. Somehow I ended up in a dogfight with a fighter jet and, some time before that,…

NYCC Cosplay: Baby Hulk, Cranky Zombies and a DC/Marvel Power Couple

Baby Hulk is the strongest one there is! Especially when he doesn’t want to take his nap! The 2013 New York City Comic-Con opened its door yesterday, summoning all manner of comics, video game and pop culture devotees to the west side of Manhattan. Even though the hordes don’t really swarm the Jacob Javits Center…

Get Pizza With Your Bioshock And Borderlands, Upgrade Your TV, EVO SSD

I have the Panasonic ST60 sitting on my bedroom dresser because I haven’t had time to wall mount it yet. It’s stunning, total overkill for a bedroom, and double the price of this Pansonic S60 we’ve got for you today. $600 is a small price to pay for 50 inches of Panasonic’s legendary, smart plasma.…

It’s Official: Real-Life Pokémon Look Awesome

We’ve seen live-action Pokémon before, but that was all fan-made. Consider these fantastic beasties the official real-life versions of your favorite critters, straight from the folks at Nintendo. None of the screens, trailers or character art have made me quite as nostalgically excited for tomorrow’s launch of Pokémon X and Y as the 15 seconds…

I’m Not Sure, But I Think PETA Is Upset With Pokémon.

Remember when we had to wait years for a follow-up to our pro-animal rights propaganda video games? The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals return to the Unrelated Region a year after Pokémon Black & Blue with Pokémon Red, White & Blue: Loosely Connected to McDonald’s. Last year’s game called out all of humanity…

A Horror Game From 2001 Still Has The Best Ending In Gaming History

It’s not enough to have multiple endings in a video game to make it feel like a satisfying conclusion to the hours you’d just spent making your way there. There’s a real art to constructing an ending, and throwing three options you can click your way to with one button doesn’t suffice. Of course, you…

Twitter Hijacking Is Not Cool #NYCC [UPDATE]

Today in News That’s Sketchy As Hell, here’s one of the worst social media gaffes we’ve seen in a very long time: New York Comic Con hijacking peoples’ Twitter accounts without their permission. See, attendees at the convention this week were given the option to connect their Twitter accounts to their badges, as Mashable reports.…

The Top 5 Board Games That Really Will Ruin Friendships

One piece of trivia orbits modern board gaming like a dark, sexy star. Someone who doesn’t really play them will always have heard from their friend, who heard it from another friend, that games like Game of Thrones or Battlestar Galactica are mean. They ruin friendships. It’s true that in recent years, board games have…

Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: EtchedChamp talks about what it feels like to revisit your Animal Crossing town after being away for so long, Marsh Naylor answers the question of whether you should get a 2DS or not, and Zarnyx talks about a love for Cowboy Bebop and its soundtrack

The Next Game From The Creators Of Amnesia Looks Disturbing As Hell

Soma, the next game from the folks behind Amnesia will be out in 2015 for PC and PlayStation 4, and it’s a doozy—a sci-fi horror game starring a psychotic computer that sounds like an angrier GLaD0S. Here’s the first bit of gameplay footage. The folks at Frictional Games have been teasing this reveal for the…

Top StarCraft Player Leaves For League of Legends

Sad news for StarCraft fans, but great news for League of Legends fans. Lee “MarineKing” Jung Hoon, one of the most famous and iconic personalities of the StarCraft eSports scene is stepping away from space battles and entering League of Legends territory. According to South Korean site Inven, he had several reasons to switch, one…

GTA Online Players Get $500,000 In-Game Make-Good for Unstable Launch

If you’ve played GTA Online over the last few days, you might have noticed that things feel a bit better than when the multiplayer portion of GTA V first opened its doors. It takes patience to stick around during a launch as creaky as the one GTA Online had. So Rockstar wants to say thank…

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