How To Get Out Of Work You Hate…And Other Advice

Welcome to another week of Ask Kotaku, where people are fed up with their jobs and responsibilities. You need a way out, and I can offer some hope for you (hopefully). **If you want advice on anything at all, send me an email at Tina at Kotaku dot com for next week’s column.** Regarding Work…

If WarioWare Were An Epic Fantasy Adventure, It’d Be This Game

Welcome to another one of those app reviews where I spend all day planning on reviewing a specific title but then get so caught up in something unexpected and new that I go completely off-track until I’m peeing on a brush fire. Peeing on a brush fire is just one of many activities in G.O.L.…

How Razer’s New Ultrathin Gaming Laptop Compares To A MacBook Air

Despite the company’s marketing tagline, Razer’s new Blade ultrathin gaming laptop isn’t really “thinner than a dime.” It’s thinner than a dime… that’s been placed on its side. That said, it’s still a pretty darned thin gaming laptop. (And you know what, it’s sort of a cute tagline. After all, a laptop truly thinner than…

Watch This Guy Draw A “Playable” Duck Hunt With Chalk

It’s mesmerizing to watch AweMeChannel do 3D chalk art of Duck Hunt at high speed. Not only that, but they also animate the chalk art at the end to make it look like the Duck Hunt is “playable.” Very awesome. Duck Hunt 3D Chalk Art [AweMeChannel]

The Game Boy Color Zeldas Are Still Two Of The Best Games Around

It’s always fascinating, as a video game fan in 2013, to pick up old games and see how well they’ve aged. Sometimes you’re disappointed. You discover all the warts and blemishes that somehow looked oh-so-lovely a decade ago. You find that Xenogears, which you consider a masterpiece, has text so slow you’ll start thinking about…

Prison Architect, a Smart Game Worth a Look, Now Has Better Riots

The somewhat-wonderful, somewhat-demented interactive incarceration simulator Prison Architect always gets the best updates. To wit: “Internally we’ve done a lot to increase the realism by implementing a more advanced model of prisoner anger. This now results in full scale riots and riot police to restore law and order.” They’ve also added Steam Workshop support and…

Why Is Company Of Heroes 2 Poking At World Of Tanks?

You want tanks? Oh, Company of Heroes 2 has your tanks. It’s got an entire world of tanks. It also has things that aren’t tanks, which is something you can’t say about World of Tanks why are we doing this? Perhaps you are confused, Sega, being new to the whole Company of Heroes thing. You…

The Moneysaver: Fuse, Last Day Of Mayhem, Humble Weekly, Indiana Jones

Hey Jude, don’t pay full price. Take a bad deal, and make it better. Remember, to read the Moneysaver, then you can start, to make it better. This is it, make a separate save file and get all your sidequests done before continuing on, because Amazon’s Mayhem Sale ends today. Click here to see the…

Achievements Have Ruined How I Play Games

It‘s almost midnight and I have spent the last hour killing myself over and over and over again. 205M. Too far. 199M. Almost there. 199M again. So close. This continues, the tapping of my space bar sharpening behind the force of frustration with each failed attempt, for dozens of playthroughs. 201M. Fuck, seriously? This is…

No TV Talk At The Xbox E3 Conference, Microsoft Says

A large chunk of the Xbox One reveal was dedicated to telling us that we don’t watch TV the right way, and that Microsoft’s new machine will help fix that. But don’t worry! E3 will be different. Microsoft spokesman Larry “Major Nelson” Hryb assured fans today that their E3 press conference on June 10 will…

In Borderlands 2, “I Love You” Is Pronounced “Poop Train”

Oh Krieg — dear, sweet Krieg. The Psycho Pack addition to Borderlands 2‘s roster had already won my admiration with his fire and axes. With this bittersweet peek at the man behind the madness, he’s won my heart. I’ve always wanted to get a heart tattoo on my arm, complete with a flowery banner that…

If This Spring Breakers Parody Is Half As Good As The Film, I’m In

It’s Spring Gamers, starring Games Franco! This is a thing I want that I never knew I wanted. iam8bit is doing a parody film of the surprisingly amazing—aka not just stupidly amazing—Spring Breakers. The teaser scene you see above is a gamer’s recreation of the real scene where James Franco’s thugged-out character brags to his…

LAPD swarms game development studio, guns drawn after mistaking Call of Duty statue for armed man. Polygon‘s got the full story. Shades of our infamous 2009 Bungie adventure

I Freelanced On Halo 4. It’s Time For Gaming’s Contractors To Strike.

My name is Nathan (RC) Peters. In March 2011, I was hired on as a contract Quality Assurance tester to work at Certain Affinity studios in Austin, Texas. I worked on the multiplayer portion of Halo 4. Here is an inside look at the reality of being a contract worker within a video game company,…

Moneysaver One-Shot: The New Logitech G700s Gaming Mouse

A rechargeable mouse with frickin’ laser beams. Amazon has the newly-released Logitech G700s Rechargeable Gaming Mouse for $80, 20% off what everyone else is selling it for, and tied for the lowest it’s been so far. 8200dpi, multiple profiles, optional wired USB connection if you prefer that to wireless, this one has all the trimmings.…

Here’s what’s going on at Talk Amongst Yourselves, Kotaku’s reader-written blog: GiantBoyDetective flexes his gargantuan smallness at the digital versus physical conundrum, Jbronin puts the fate of the entire gaming industry in the hands of Sony and Microsoft, and Zarnyx calls for the community’s ideal anime waifus and husbandos. And you can always go join…

Cosplaying QWOP Properly Is Much Harder Than Playing It

Anyone can strike a pose, but to properly cosplay the out-of-control virtual athlete of brilliant flash game QWOP, one has to be in total control of their real body, like this guy right here. The footage was captured by YouTube user ProTekProductions at Anime North 2013. Comparing the cosplayers’ performance to last year’s event, his…

We Hear The People Behind Dishonored Are Now Working On Prey 2

The long and strange saga of Prey 2 may have a new twist: we hear that the sci-fi shooter will be rebooted by Arkane Austin, the development studio that made Dishonored What’s more, we hear that at least some of the folks at Arkane don’t want to make the game, which publisher Bethesda has been…

Assassins’ Creed IV Cosplay Begins With This McFarlane Toys Creation

Okay, any Assassins’ Creed cosplay is going to start with a white hood, but soon after that you’re going to need a weapon. Comic book legend Todd McFarlane provides, with a replica of Edward Kenway’s Hidden Blade Gauntlet so pretty you can barely tell it’s plastic. McFarlane Toys is doing lovely things with the Assassin’s…

Got a Thousand Bucks? Buy This Rare Nintendo Cartridge…Test

The Famicom Test Cart was used to, well, test Nintendo’s Family Computer. It might be rare, but it’s certainly not exciting. But it is somewhat interesting! And probably more so for hardcore collectors. As Famicom World explains, there were test cartridges for the console itself as well as ones for the controllers. Have a look…