Taco Bell Cool Ranch Doritos Tacos: The Snacktaku Review

Oh taco, sweet taco — in terms of pure convenience there is no finer food. Savory meat, vegetables and spice wrapped lovingly in corn or flour, the taco’s greatest strength is the edible container you hold in your hand. From the finest restaurants, the shadiest street vendor or a fast food chain that’s been bastardizing…

Metro: Last Light Is At Its Best As A Stealth Game

I got to play about an hour and a half of Metro: Last Light at PAX East this weekend. What I played felt like two different games. The first game was a stealth game, at least in the way I decided to play it. You could always opt for guns-blazing if that’s more your thing.…

The First Free-to-Play Pac-Man Arrives With a Tournament Twist

Realizing that while we’ll always hold the original in the highest regard, no one wants to buy plain-old Pac-Man anymore, Namco Bandai has set the original arcade game free on Android, with a competitive way to get players to pay a little extra. Pac-Man + Tournaments is the original arcade game with a little something…

Here’s A Video Of That 15-Minute Transistor Demo I Played At PAX East

In all its Supergiant Games glory, here is that 15-minute PAX East demo, thanks to TotalHalibut. Listen to that music, listen to that awesome voice acting. And take in all the art.

The Moneysaver: Free Peggle Deluxe

In honor of PAX East, PopCap is giving away the popular and painfully addictive Peggle Deluxe for free. Peggle runs on both PC and Mac, and the code you’ll receive receive in your e-mail is good for 5 activations. The pinball-meets-pachinko mix of happy accidents and total chaos allows you to take credit for events…

Tips For Playing Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon

The paranormal puzzle-fest Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon came out yesterday for the 3DS. Patricia gave the game a good review, and I’ve spent the past couple of weeks playing it as well. Now that it’s out in the wild, I thought I’d gather some tips for those who are just starting out. Here are some…

Transistor Is The Sexiest Game I Played At PAX East

Transistor—Supergiant Games’ latest project since their incredibly compelling Bastion—is a sexy game. Not because there’s any actual sex (or at least none that I know of!). And not because of any of the other traditional definitions of the word. This isn’t a typical kind of sexiness where short skirts and muscular men automatically mean sexy,…

Recent years have seen fewer games include multiplayer, according to the Penny Arcade Report Did you notice?

The First Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag Gameplay Trailer Is Equal Parts Exciting and Terrifying

Temples hidden deep within uncharted jungles, dramatic pirate ship battles, 20 seconds of GameStop pimping at the end — the first gameplay trailer for Black Flag shows everything I look for in a blockbuster action-adventure, and one thing I do not. It’s not the sharks so much as the container they come in. While I…

Ready, set, annotate! Here’s a view of the PAX East show floor. I shot this on Saturday and figured it’d be a good image for all of you to tinker with as you explore the wonderful world of Kotaku image annotation. This is possible thanks to our new layout. Click on the image and add…

Super Metroid Screenshot, Remastered Into HD In Photoshop Looks Stunning

DeviantArt user Elemental79 did a crazy job converting a screenshot from the classic SNES game Super Metroid into HD using only Photoshop. He recorded the whole procedure in this speed up video to show us how much work something like this needs. He already did the same treatment with Doom, with similar, awesome results and…

Three Colors Combine to Form the Finest Sheep Shooter Ever

Red, green and blue — these are the primary colors, which can be mixed together in varying amounts to create every color of the visible spectrum. I learned this in my grade school art program. At the time I was convinced the teacher made it up to cover for the fact that they only had…

Introducing PixelJunk Inc., the Newest PixelJunk Game

Since 2007, Kyoto based Q-Games has been churning out innovative downloadable titles. These include games like PixelJunk Monsters, PixelJunk Eden, and PixelJunk 4am The latest PixelJunk entry was titled PixelJunk 1-6—until now, that is. Say hello to PixelJunk Inc. Hello! Launching with four player co-op and slated for a Steam PC release later this year,…

RuneScape 3, sequel to the super-popular browser-based fantasy MMOs RuneScape (which used to be called RuneScape 2, naturally), will be coming out this summer. Here’s the PR hype about the free-to-play game: ” RuneScape 3 will see a massive leap forward in technology, with a new fully HTML5 engine, improved graphics, longer draw distances, new…

I Can’t Tell if Doctor Who Makes PlayStation Home More Creepy or Less Creepy

One of the problems I have with PlayStation Home is the avatars — they’re too uncanny; too department store mannequin for my tastes. Does dressing them up as the Doctor and giving them a TARDIS to play in help? Half of that question is rhetorical — everything is better with a TARDIS. Take any significant…

You’ve Seen Games That Let You Play With Shadows Before, But Probably Not Like This

One of the best surprises at PAX East this past weekend was Contrast, a game from the upstart Canadian studio Compulsion. It’s a platformer that lets you become your shadow and climb on other shadows. You might have seen games like Lost in Shadow do something similar, but that game was not this dynamic and…

Infinite Crisis Turns the DC Comics Multiverse into a MOBA Battleground This Fall

You’ll get to have multiple versions of the Dark Knight fighting against each other later this year when the just announced Infinite Crisis comes to PCs. The MOBA title is being developed by Turbine. Here’s what the press release says: Infinite Crisis is a new entrant into the wildly popular MOBA genre that delivers a…

Bastion‘s Writer Talks About Their Next Game, Transistor

There were a lot of big games at PAX East last weekend—Watch Dogs, Assassin’s Creed IV, The Last of Us—but the biggest lines were for Transistor, the newest action-RPG from the makers of Bastion We’ll have impressions from the show later today, but for now, check out this short video I shot while chatting with…

BioShock Infinite: The Kotaku Review

Depending on where in the country you live, you might have the nagging feeling that portions of the United States have broken clean off. Just up and decided to veer into their own orbits, consequences be damned. And, because any notion that these States aren’t United is a really uncomfortable one, a cacophony of voices…

Chinese Teen Pretends Life Is League Of Legends, Jumps Out of Bush Screaming “For Demacia”

Video games are great for relieving tension and stress; sometimes playing is like an escape from reality. However, for some people, it’s hard to return to reality after a long gaming session. One young man in China took his love for League of Legends a little too far. It’s unknown when this story was first…