20 Gruesome Ways To Die In The Last of Us

I hate dying in The Last of Us. But I also like dying in The Last of Us. It’s complicated. I like it because I like the brisk, matter-of-factness of the death screen. A clicker grabs Joel, things get ugly, and the game immediately cuts to black. But I hate it because I love the…

Street Fighter Player Wins Great Match at EVO With Unpopular Character

In a sea of Akumas and fireballs during this year’s EVO, any change-up in character selection was welcome. Even so, you don’t expect one of the “worst” characters on the Street Fighter roster to suddenly make an appearance in a top 8 match. Thank god it did, because Infiltration pulling out Hakan to go up…

Pacific Rim’s Most Emotional Line Was Left Untranslated

One of my favorite scenes in Pacific Rim didn’t involve robots or monsters. It involved a brief exchange in Japanese. Spoilers follow for Pacific Rim I saw Pacific Rim for a second time last weekend. I’d worked my way into an advance press screening a couple of weeks ago, but I wanted to come back…

The Moneysaver: Major League Gaming Monitor, Fuse, Sharknado, Pokedex

The definition of insanity is pulling full price over and over again and expecting things to get cheaper. There’s a whole world of deals outside the Steam Summer Sale, and you can explore it in this very post. The console gaming sections are not exactly stacked today, but we’ve got a great selection of apps…

The Basic Psychology Behind the Steam Summer Sale, Explained

It seems you can’t discuss the Steam Summer Sale without doing one of the following: Personifying your wallet and mourning some injury done to it; bemoaning all the unplayed games you have before piling another on it; commanding friends to buy a game, more for the price than the game and, of course, buying games.…

Shin Megami Tensei IV: The Kotaku Review

My favorite character in Shin Megami Tensei IV didn’t make the front cover of the North American release. She’s not one of the samurai warriors tasked with keeping the world’s demons in check. She’s not technically even a real person, much less a she. Her name is Burroughs, and she’s the keeper of the menus.…

EVO Wasn’t The Only Impressive Tournament This Weekend

It was a massive weekend for eSports. Gfinity—a Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 Tournament that granted the winner $55,000—dominated the UK and EVO broke new ground for the fighting game community in Las Vegas. Not only were the events themselves a big deal but there were shake-ups with some of the top Call of…

He Forged Wolverine’s Claws. Then, He Cut Stuff With Them.

While we’ll feature a profile on the prolific blacksmith Tony Swatton later this week, for now you get to watch him make the type of Wolverine claws that you wouldn’t be able to take anywhere near a convention. These puppies are sharp—at one point during the “smash stuff” section by AweMeChannel, they cut through some…

You can play a demo of the roguelike Dungeonmans—designed by games industry vet Jim Shepard—whether or not you choose to back it on Kickstarter. Shepard’s looking for $35,000 to make it happen.

Tiny Thief Is The Grandest Larceny Of Them All

There may be no cars to swipe, and at no point was this a dark project, but 5 Ants’ Tiny Thief is as capable a criminal as they come, ready to steal the hearts of adventure fans everywhere while they pay for the privilege. The second game published under the Rovio Stars indie program, Tiny…

Moneysaver: Steam Sale Day 5 Breakdown [Updated Tuesday 10am]

Dealnami. Steam Sale Day One | Steam Sale Day Two | Steam Sale Day Three | Steam Sale Day Four Every voting option is a repeat, and all three have been cheaper. Two of them have been cheaper in the past 3 days. • Community Sale Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 Platinum ($5) | If you’re…

One-Man Console War, Vol. 1

The only people who ever lose a console war are people who make games. The people who actually play games usually win. We, the gamers, dictate who the victors are while enjoying the spoils. The worst thing that’ll happen to a gamer because of a console war is that he or she might miss out…

Ahhhhhh there’s a rainbow in my town ahhhhh

I’ve never seen a rainbow before! Ahhhhh.

Pokemon Trainer Goes Through Entire Elite Four With Just A Magikarp

It’s not uncommon to find playthroughs where a player decides to go through an entire game of Pokemon with something silly, like Bidoof. But Magikarp, a fish Pokemon that’s largely taken as the most useless Pokemon ever? That’s a whole other level of insanity. Still, it can be done. This (sometimes sped-up) video shows Meikachuchu…

Happy 30th Birthday, Famicom

Your carefree 20s are over, Famicom. No more gallivanting. It’s time to settle down—find a nice wife, get a stable job, maybe put a down payment on a house. You’re 30 now. The Famicom—or Family Computer—first hit Japanese stores on July 15, 1983, and although it took a couple more years for it to make…

Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: FrogFro writes about the bosses you may have fought entirely wrong. JJtheTexan goes even deeper into the rabbit hole of long-lost Nintendo games. And PyramidHeadcrab wants to know what your favorite Mario game is And you can always go join the voices talking about video…

The Best Way To Catch Beetles In Animal Crossing: New Leaf

This might sound rash. I’m going to suggest you basically demolish your island. Say your goodbyes, because you’re about to go on a tree murder spree, you criminal. As Patricia already highlighted in her handy How To Make Mounds Of Bells And Then Roll Around In It article, the island is where you want to…

Ittle Dew Is A Zelda-Style Game That Doesn’t Take Itself Too Seriously

Poking around on the Ouya today, I was lucky enough to find Ittle Dew, and it had me laughing within five minutes. This is a fun adventure game with a great sense of humor, but it also has a female protagonist that likes to beat people up and take their loot. Watch the video above…

Bask In The Glory Of My Roses

My front lawn is FILLED with this stuff.

OZombie Shuttered as American McGee Pursues Alice Film Rights

OZombie—American McGee’s zombie take on the Oz stories—has been taken off of Kickstarter so its studio, Spicy Horse, can focus on securing the film rights to the Alice series McGee created. The two efforts had been paired in a $950,000 Kickstarter campaign that Spicy Horse was unable to then separate into two different campaigns. “The…