A Rap About Grand Theft Auto V? You Knew This Was Coming.

British rapper Dan Bull was readier for the GTAV launch than you were, having put together this fantastic track in honour of Rockstar’s big game. A warning, though: it’s NSFW, so if you’re at the office, grab some headphones. If you’re home, and your kids are around, send ’em to bed already. GTA V EPIC…

Build Your Own Xbox One (Case) With These Chinese Parts

Why wait for November? Chinese manufacturers are already selling external casings for Microsoft’s Xbox One console. So you could buy some now, build yourself a PC from similar parts and pretend What’s interesting about these is that, aside from the replacement value, it shows how damn fast the grey market on this type of thing…

Battlefield 4’s Beta Starts In October (Also: Rad New Trailer)

EA confirmed today that Battlefield 4’s beta will begin on October 1 for some, and October 4 for the rest. Which also gave them an excuse to release a fantastic multiplayer trailer. Those getting in on October 1 will be anyone who preordered the digital deluxe version of Battlefield 4, Battlefield 3 premium members and…

Turn Your Current-Gen Games Into Next-Gen Games For Just $10

Torn between buying a big game now or holding out for the next-gen version? Publishers like EA, Activision, Ubisoft and 2K want to take the hassle out of the decision by offering a pretty reasonable way for you to get both Over the past month, some of the biggest publishers in the world have revealed…

Congratulations Breaking Bad, You Broke Us

Good lord. Last week, I asked you guys to make some predictions about what would happen in this week’s episode of Breaking Bad. While the specific predictions were all over the map, one thing remained constant: We were all pretty sure that this week’s episode was going to be bonkers. We were right. SPOILERS FOLLOW,…

All’s Well That’s Haswell In Origin PC’s Millennium Gaming PC

Origin PC makes a damn fine $3,500 gaming system, even when the CPU isn’t exactly geared towards the high-end PC gamer. Well, that was an easy review. Who’s for dessert? It happens every time Intel introduces a new processor line — a barrage of announcements from the boutique PC industry mainstays, announcing that they’ve got…

How To Install GTA V On Xbox 360 Without Hurting Performance

Today, Rockstar support advised Xbox 360 players not to install Grand Theft Auto V‘s second “play disc” to their hard drives. Doing so, they suggested, would affect performance. The 360 version of GTA V comes on two DVDs. One is an 8GB “install disc” that you must install, and a second one is a “play…

That’s a lot of PS4. This delivery of 120 PS4 development kits just arrived at Uncharted and The Last of Us developer Naughty Dog’s studio in Santa Monica. Question: You think these boxes hold actual PS4s, or just PS4-like PCs? (Pic: Christophe Balestra via NeoGAF)

Fake Cocaine Lines Wins “Stupidest GTA V Launch Event” Award

Obviously it’s not real drug paraphernalia — it’s fake — but at a midnight launch for Grand Theft Auto V, one store set up pretend lines of cocaine on an in-store sales desk. Considering the reputation of video games, and the reputation of Grand Theft Auto in general, this seems like a completely idiotic move.…

Why Tim Schafer Doesn’t Make A Lot Of Sequels

These days it can seem like every other video game is a sequel. Everyone loves sequels, right? They’re familiar, they let game-makers perfect their formulas and expand the worlds they’ve created. But a few developers still make mostly new games. Case in point: Tim Schafer’s Double Fine productions. Of the fifteen games the studio either…

A Game About Soup. Because Soup Is Nasty Business.

In space, soup is a nasty business. You’ll need to build bases that defend automatically themselves from attackers and jump your way to remote locations for out-of-the-ordinary ingredients. But, even in the far future of Pixeljunk Inc., people need their stews. You can tell just by looking at it that Pixeljunk Inc.is going to be…

How To Get A Tank, Fighter Jet And Passenger Jet in GTA V ASAP

Alright, I know there’s a bunch of you out there who don’t care about what happens to Michael, Franklin and Trevor in Grand Theft Auto V. You need to know how to blow up as many things as possible, as soon as possible. Well I’m here to help, with two convenient videos! If grabbing a…

Serenity Flies Again, Sort Of: Okay, it’s just a cloud. But it’s a cloud that looks remarkably like a certain beloved Firefly-class transport ship. Perhaps this apparition is a magical leaf on the wind, the product of all our collective wishes for another Firefly movie. Photo: jackie4kneeyay via Nathan Fillion

NBA Live is actually coming back: EA’s troubled basketball series will return on November 19, launching on both Xbox One and PS4

There Is No Escaping This Week In Gaming Apps

The coast looks clear. There are certainly a lot less android roaming the streets than there were last week, but what if it’s just a ploy to lead you out into the open? You take a couple of cautious steps out of the shadows, and BAM! — the Week in Gaming Apps. It’s a predator,…

Gran Turismo Fans’ Best Ideas For New Tracks

Readers of our car-crazy sister site Jalopnik have answered the call and hand-crafted some tracks that they’d love to see in a future Gran Turismo. Take a look. Full-disclosure, Jalopnik ran the contest to help promote their upcoming film festival, which is presented by Gran Turismo 6. Still, cool tracks!

Why So Serious, Retro Batman?

Back in the day, there were plenty of 8- and 16-bit video games about Batman. But none of them retold the story of Christopher Nolan’s 2008 Bat-sterpiece The Dark Knight Here, from CineFix‘s 8-Bit Cinema, is a re-creation of what just such a game would look like. I always enjoy how these guys’ videos re-create…

Gabe Newell Teases Steam Box Announcement For Next Week

Will we find out more about the elusive Steam Box next week? Valve boss Gabe Newell teased his company’s second-most-anticipated announcement while speaking at LinuxCon today, as reported by Ars Technica “Next week we’re going to be rolling out more information about how we get there and what are the hardware opportunities we see for…

6th Grade Teacher Asks His Students Why They Want The New Call of Duty

No matter how you—likely an avid gamer—feel about the Call of Duty franchise, it seems like there will always be a market for the famous (infamous?) shooter series. So how do a bunch of eleven to twelve-year-olds feel about the game? And why? Kotaku reader and TAY poster GiantBoyDetective asked his students to find out.…

The Problem With Review Scores, Part V

Review scores: they’re not just arbitrary and meaningless, they’re toxic to discussion, too. Grand Theft Auto V reviews came out today, and with them came a whole host of poisonous Internet comments not about the content of those reviews, but about the numbers attached to them. Arguments raged hard: is this game worth a 10?…