The Problem With Trash Talk

Regardless of what you think about Justin Carter’s current situation in jail, and regardless of whether or not he was serious, one thing is clear: the comments he made on Facebook, where he said he would “shoot up a school full of kids and eat their still, beating hearts” are messed up. This isn’t the…

The Toughest Foe You’ll Face In Cross Horizon Is The Paywall

During my first ten minutes playing MarvelousAQL’s Cross Horizon I was asked if I wanted to purchase a key to open a chest I’d found on the battlefield. Were I not playing it for review, I would have stopped right there. Despite my knowing full-well that there’s no such thing as a truly free-to-play action…

The Five Best StarCraft II Matches Of The Weekend

There were some close calls in this weekend’s latest round of matches during the 2012-2013 StarCraft II Proleague. We hand-picked five of these games to recap for you, focusing on those that really show the current state of the competitive StarCraft II scene, highlighting incredible unit control and decision making Let’s start off with one…

Ten Stolen Controllers, Xbox 420, and One Yellow Bicycle

Crime is a constant feature of video games writing. Somewhere, someone is doing something illicit with them—sometimes comically stupid, sometimes tragic. Games and consoles are currency, objects of dispute, sometimes even weapons themselves. Kotaku‘s Police Blotter is here to round up the latest in games crime. The Bicycle Thief VENICE, Fla.—For a month cops pursued…

For some reason, dinosaurs wearing high-fashion hats slide across the screen if you enter the Konami Code on the British Vogue website. Hail Rule Britannia, I guess.

The Console Wars Become A Triumphant West Side Story-Style Musical

Boy, boy, crazy boy; get cool, boy! Something’s coming, I don’t know what it is, but it is gonna be great! Not just lyrics from West Side Story; those could be the mottos of E3, come to think of it. This outstanding tribute to the console wars by AVByte (via NeoGAF) breaks down the coming…

New Trailer For The Pacific Rim Game Is… Kinda Rough

This trailer isn’t for Guillermo Del Toro’s Kojima/Kanye-approved, GLaDOS-featuring robots vs. monsters film. No, it’s for Yuke’s fighting game based on the property. And it is, unfortunately, not really looking so hot. Robots are cool. I like robots! But if you’re going to try to sell me a game about robots fighting monstrous Kaiju from…

How Ash Ketchum’s Character Design Has Evolved Over The Years

The Pokemon television series has been around for a while now—long enough that Ash Ketchum’s character design has changed a number of times over the years (sometimes, not so subtly—the same goes for Pikachu). Now that there’s a new game coming, there’s also a new anime series to go along with it. Said season starts…

The Moneysaver: Amalur, DMC, Borderlands, Battlefield, Pandaria

I am full price’s reckoning. It’s Monday. Accept it. Time to save some money. Console owners can finally get in on all the awesome Borderlands 2 deals we’ve been seeing and grab the main game for $12 at best. For the PC folk, GamersGate is picking up the Summer Sale slack from Amazon and Green…

There Was No Real Reason to Be Excited During E3, You Fool

Did you cheer when Sony delivered that epic smackdown retort to Microsoft’s unpopular policies during its E3 press conference this year? Did you gasp at the shiny newness of The Division? Were you choked up at seeing Mega Man in the upcoming Smash Bros. game? You shouldn’t have been. The hobby/medium that you’ve loved has…

Ryan Davis, RIP

The news is sad and brutal. Ryan Davis, 34, longtime Senior Editor at Giant Bomb passed away last week just a few days after getting married. Davis’ passing was announced today by his heartbroken colleagues at Giant Bomb. No cause of death was given. Goddamnit. It’s always too soon. It’s always so painful. We always…

Damn, Even Star Citizen‘s Economy Is Exciting

If everything goes according to Wing Commander creator Chris Roberts’ plan, a “fully-simulated economy” might be one of the coolest aspects of a game involving gorgeous spaceships shooting each other. Sure, that 300i is a gorgeous ship, but keeping it fully-stocked with missiles is a complicated process. First, the factory making the missiles needs raw…

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…