This Portal-Themed Bedroom Is Outrageous And I Want To Live In It

Have you ever wanted to live like an Aperture Labs test subject? You have? Well then, you might want to consider living in a ridiculously cool custom-made bedroom like this one. The room, designed by a gamer/interior-decorator/accountant/wizard named Lauren, has been a labor of love, and man, does it show. She details her work at…

Gamasutra’s got a fascinating article about how the developers behind Japanese games like Paladin’s Quest create worlds and characters. Go check it out.

The Week In Gaming Apps Is Sorry It Tried To Kill You

Look, we all make mistakes. None of us are infallible. Sometimes I forget to pay my cable bill until after the due date, Stephen Totilo thinks Majora’s Mask is one of the best Zelda games ever, and the Week in Gaming Apps plotted your demise. Let’s all just make up and move on. Look, Week…

This Tank Can Barrel Roll And Other Popular GIFs From This Week

Whether it’s StarCraft II, Grand Theft Auto IV, or Battlefield 3, seems like the possibilities for something unexpected and funny to happen in games are unlimited. And one of the best ways to share that moment is through an animated GIF. Just like we did last week, it’s time to sort and collect some of…

I Wish America Had Local Game Coverage Like This

I end up watching a lot of news in my line of work, and one thing that is frequently hammered home is this: mainstream American media doesn’t know what they’re doing with games. Across the board what you see on television (with the exception of business reporting) is at best marginally competent and at worst…

A Game Where Keeping Your Date Alive Is Surprisingly Difficult

Save the Date is one of the more clever games I’ve played in recent memory. It’s a visual novel with a simple premise: go out to dinner with someone. Well, it should be simple, except every time you try it, the dinners turn into scenarios that would be right at home in the Final Destination…

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,…