100 Things You Might Not Know About Final Fantasy VII

In honor of Final Fantasy VII‘s recent Steam re-release, here’s a video by YouTuber NEroNeRoNerON exploring some trivia from Square’s classic RPG. Some of these factoids are a little silly—yes, if you park the airship on an island, fly a gold chocobo across the water, and then release the chocobo, you’ll lose access to your…

Zynga Dethroned As The King Of Facebook Games

January of this year marked the first time in ages a non-Zynga game made it to the top of the Facebook app charts, as FarmVille 2 was passed in active users by King’s ridiculously popular Candy Crush Saga. According to the latest estimates from app metrics site AppData, today King took the crown as overall…

Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: GranArcanum writes about the daily challenges that gamers face. JJtheTexan continues his survey of Nintendo’s lost franchises. And, RombleTom offers up an essay about the women in The Last of Us and video game feminism And you can always go join the voices talking about…

Aaron Hernandez’s Appearance in NCAA 14 Will Be Brief, says EA Sports

As much as I wanted to say Aaron Hernandez, the NFL star facing murder charges, is free and unlocked (heh heh)—in NCAA Football 14—that ain’t the case. Some are seeing his card pop up if they get a gold medal in one of the events of the game’s new Nike Skills Trainer. Here’s what’s going…

This hilarious Peter Molyneux life simulator imagines what the life of the creator of Fable and Black & White might be like. So many ideas!

The Failed Gaming Projects of This Year’s Hottest Filmmakers

Zack Snyder. Guillermo Del Toro. Gore Verbinski. Michael Bay. Peter Jackson. These are just some of the top filmmakers in the world who have tried to make video games—who have said that they’ve got ideas that’d be great to play—yet who’ve mostly failed in the realm of PC, PlayStation, Xbox and Nintendo. What follows is…

Two New Japanese Games Are Coming To Vita Next Year

In what may have been this weekend’s most surprising news, the fine people at NIS America—the publisher best known for localizing Disgaea and other Japanese games—announced two interesting new games for western release. One is a dungeon crawler called Demon Gaze (art pictured above). It’s out for Vita early next year in North America and…

Sir, You Are Being Hunted Gets A Smashing Set of Gorgeous Screenshots

Guess that frenetic scavenging and robot-dodging won’t be just terrifyingly exciting—it will also be beautiful Big Robot, the creators behind the heavily British tweedpunk sci-fi survival sandbox that is Sir, You Are Being Hunted, have released seven new screenshots showcasing the somber beauty that’s present in their game. It’s good of them, considering you’ll hardly…

Deus Ex: The Fall, the first mobile installment of Eidos-Montréal’s cyberpunk-themed action RPG series, will be available on iOS devices this Thursday for $6.99.

The Trailer for This Sci-Fi FPS Truly Deserves The “Cinematic” Label

Even if you don’t care about sci-fi shooters, you might wanna look at this What you’re seeing up top is the backstory of City Interactive’s (Lords of the Fallen, Sniper: Ghost Warrior) upcoming old-school style sci-fi FPS, Alien Rage. If the two-minute movie did pique your interest, have a look at what the developers have…

Cube World Developer Says His Game’s Servers Are Under Attack

Cube World’s alpha launch has been a rocky one—eager fans waiting to get their hands on the immensely charming voxel RPG likely haven’t been able to buy the game yet, even though the developers have been trying to sell it for days now. At first, it seemed like it was just immense demand that was…

The level of camouflage technology Snake from Metal Gear Solid 3 uses to blend in his surrounding environment—in this case, a brick wall—is truly impressive. Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest, funniest game-related screenshots and art that we can find. Send us suggestions if you’ve got them.

“Weird Paranoia” at Valve, Says Former Employee

Valve is an iconic game company. It has a unique corporate structure. One former employee, however, said it “felt a lot like high school”, complete with popular kids, troublemakers, and everyone in between. Then, there’s the alleged “weird paranoia”. “Now we’ve all seen the Valve handbook, which offers a very idealized view,” former Valve employee…

Civilization V: Brave New World: The Kotaku Review

There are those who feel that Civilization V, as it was first released, was a little thin. The game’s first expansion, Gods & Kings, addressed some of that criticism. Its second, Brave New World, transforms the game into one of the best the PC has ever seen. It does the things you’d expect from a…

Chinese Military Police’s Secret Training Involves Video Games

Normally, playing video games at work in China is frowned upon. Unless you’re working in the games industry or covering the games industry, gaming at work can lead to trouble. However, for one branch of China’s military, video games are just a part of their daily training regimen. Much like the armed forces in the…

Video Games Almost Blamed As Anti-Japanese Vandal Gets Just Deserts

Last year, Sin0-Japanese relations hit an all-time low. Protests that bordered on the brink of riots broke out in China over China and Japan’s tug-o-war over a little speckle of islands, called Diaoyu in China and Senkaku in Japan. During the worst of these protests, vandals and misguided people took advantage of the situation to…

The Bikini Isn’t the Only Thing Wrong with This Gaming PC Video

MSi, the Taipei PC gaming company, released a new video that shows how to build a MSi Z87-GD64 Gaming PC. Or something. Apparently, all you need is a Philips screwdriver, a bikini, and a bad English language dub. Oh, don’t forget the cheese ball pop music! Because that’s how you build a gaming PC, right?…

On Twitter, upon being asked whether the light bar on the PS4’s DualShock 4 controller can be turned off to conserve battery power, Sony worldwide studios president Shuhei Yoshida confirmed that the light bar, in fact, cannot be turned off. [Thank you, ThatVGBlog.]

In Japan, McDonald’s Just Released a $10 Quarter Pounder

This is the “Gold Ring” Quarter Pounder. Priced at 1,000 yen, it was only available for one day, this past Saturday. The burger was inspired by jewelry. Because jewelry tastes delicious? McDonald’s always had yummy-looking hamburgers in its promotional images—and less delicious-looking ones in real life. But if you are paying ten bucks for a…

Starbound, AKA The Best “Performing ‘Still Alive’ in Space” Simulator

Yeah, let’s go with that. Since we last saw it, Starbound, indie group Chucklefish’s upcoming 2D sci-fi sandbox title, made leaps and bounds in development. And being a good, feature-rich sandbox, the game will have, alongside the usual spelunking, exploring, mining, and building, a full-scale music system. Here’s Chucklefish: You’ll be able to craft musical…