New Jersey’s state senate voted unanimously for a program that will print up a bunch of pamphlets about the dangers of scary, scary video games and send them home with schoolchildren. The bill, sponsored by Democrats, now moves to the state Assembly.

Madden Special Edition Includes ‘Sunday Ticket’—Even Without DirecTV

Yesterday, EA Sports announced a $100 “Anniversary Edition” for Madden NFL 25 that will include a code offering buyers access to DirecTV’s NFL Sunday Ticket—the channel that lets you watch any team outside of your local market—even if they aren’t subscribers to the satellite TV service. There’s been a bit of confusion as to what…

Patton Oswalt’s Amazing Star Wars Episode VII Rant, Brought To Life

The totally improvised, 7 1/2 minute filibuster from an episode of NBC’s Parks & Recreation last month, in which Patton Oswalt outlines his vision of Star Wars: Episode VII (with Marvel crossovers) could not possibly have been more perfect, could it? Well, yes, it could, actually … YouTube video uploaded by iZacLess To contact the…

Days before the next Xbox’s unveiling, NBA Live‘s social media decides to come out of hibernation. It had been totally silent since NBA Live 13‘s abrupt cancellation in September.

Like Sands Through the Hourglass, So Are the Fake Games of Our Lives

This week, Days of Our Lives joined stock photography services in the business of presenting unrealistically attractive people playing bullshit video games. What is this, Angry Birds X Call of Duty for the Xbox 360? Furthermore, what the hell is that guy playing the game on? A Curtis Mathes console TV from 1976? To contact…

EA Sports Developer Calls Wii U ‘Crap’ and Nintendo ‘Walking Dead’

At the end of a week in which Electronic Arts confirmed it wasn’t developing a thing for the Wii U, one of the software engineers in EA Sports’ Canada studio, in a series of since-deleted tweets, disparaged the console as “crap” and suggested Nintendo should give up on hardware altogether. “The Wii U is crap.…

This Week in the Business: ‘What a Bunch of Elitist B.S.’

What’s happened in the business of video games this past week … QUOTE | “That idea of saying, ‘you’re not allowed.’ What a bunch of elitist bullshit. Go [expletive] yourself.”—David Jaffe, veteran designer, talking about consulting on a Kickstarter for Autoduel and why critics of some Kickstarters annoy him QUOTE | “The downside didn’t appear…

The Best of Kotaku, The Week of May 13

Helloooo Kotaku! Happy weekend to you. This has been quite the busy week, what with Stephen off at a pre-E3, week-long event. Fortunately, he was still prepared with gifts. Gifts in the form of previews of Watch Dogs, The Last of Us and Scribblenauts Unmasked, disappointing but perhaps expected news from EA, and a cute…

Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance is coming to PC, Hideo Kojima’s podcast revealed. Details about the port are TBA. [HideBlog via PG_jp]

Oh Hey, It’s a Naked Man on a Scooter, Carrying a Crucifix

It’s not everyday you see a naked man riding a scooter with giant cross. Warning: This article has content some readers might find objectionable. Last month, Kotaku brought word of a Beijing man who ran through the streets nude while carrying a sex doll. Online in China, the images soon went viral, and one Chinese…

Today’s Gamers Are Having A Little Trouble With Super Mario World, Too

It was recently established that the 2013 gamer is perplexed by some parts of 1994’s Super Metroid. The 2013 gamer is having some issues with 1990’s Super Mario World, too. We can see these struggles on the Nintendo Wii U’s Miiverse, a community accessible primarily through Nintendo’s new console. The Miiverse enables gamers to take…

If OKCupid was a dating site for cats, you’d probably find these types of creepy felines on there all the time. Sometimes, not so different from the creeps you might find on the site anyway.

Not One Of This Week’s Gaming Apps Will Cut Your Throat In Your Sleep

I know you’ve been worried. You’ve been keeping your phone in that heavily-padded case in a locked lead box under your bed. Your iPad is in a safe, and not for its own protection. You’ve got handcuffs for your Nexus 7, and not the kinky kind. Well do not worry, my friends. None of this…

The Swapper—the cool-looking sci-fi platformer that’s been in the works for a while—will be coming out for PC via Steam on May 30th. That art style look incredibly creepy/cool.

Inheriting Civilization V‘s Brave New World, One Trade At A Time

I’d like to think I’m a people person. I might not agree with 75 percent of what other people say or think or believe, but I get along. It’s what I do. In today’s society it works, for the most part. In Civilization V it didn’t, at least not until now. It’s a Brave New…

Xbox Exec Points to a Holiday Release For The Next Xbox [Update]

While not a direct confirmation, NeoGAF noted that during the latest Major Nelson podcast episode, Aaron Greenberg, chief of staff for interactive entertainment at Microsoft, seemed to imply that whatever is shown during the Xbox reveal will be out this holiday. The assumption, of course, being that they’re going to show the next Xbox during…

It’s like Limbo, but with magnets! Magnetic by Nature looks pretty neat, especially for a student project. Check out the Kickstarter if you’re interested.

Three Casual Gran Turismo 6 Questions, Answered Casually

You may love Gran Turismo. I don’t play them. Just not my thing. But when I see Gran Turismo 6 running in the corner of a Sony PlayStation event in Santa Monica, I ask the only GT-related questions I can think of. Are you guys rendering the bottoms of cars in greater detail? I ask…

If The Zombies Learn Parkour, We’re All Screwed

Slow zombies may be a cliche, but I’d take them any day over having to figure out how to survive against super agile, parkour zombies—like the ones in this video by ronniestreetstunts Though maybe they’d be too busy showing off their flippy moves to actually pose a threat? Hmm. Zombie Parkour – The Flipping Dead…

Here Are A Bunch Of GIFs People Have Been Going Crazy Over This Week

The Internet is a funny place. Do pretty much anything, and someone, somewhere is going to turn it into an animated GIF. Because there is a law written somewhere that pretty much legally binds us all to this rule. This week, crafty Internet surfers seemed inspired by the news on Pokémon X and Pokémon Y,…