Star Trek‘s Commander Riker Was Amazing At Sitting Down

You walk into a room. You’re standing up, feeling pretty good. You’re master of all you survey. But now it’s time to sit down. How to sit while maintaining ownership of the room? Try Commander Riker’s tried-and-true technique. It’s amazing. We all know I prefer to stand up, all things considered. But now that I’ve…

The Moneysaver: Mass Effect Trilogy, Blu-ray Steelbooks, Double Fine

It’s the end of the world as Shepard knows it, but you’ll feel fine with these deals. Today we bring you Mass Effect Trilogy on the consoles for $40, along with a new Humble Bundle, and some sweet Blu-ray Steelbooks from Amazon. We’ve also got four previous deals of the day still going directly below.…

This Isn’t the Box Art of the Next Game from the Creator of Braid

That’s because The Witness probably won’t have a box. Jonathan Blow’s next game will probably be a digital download, just like Braid, the acclaimed indie title that made him a super-successful developer. But the upcoming PS4 title is still going to need some sort of eye-catching visual promotion. Blow shared these runner-up poster designs in…

Our Gears of War: Judgment review has been updated with a multiplayer segment as well as an overall verdict on the game (finally). To sum: you might have a better time picking up Gears of War 3 instead.

Whistleblower on MLB 2K Cheating Scandal at Last Finds Perfect Justice

Yesterday I mentioned that some familiar faces cashed $25,000 checks in MLB 2K13‘s Million Dollar Challenge, including a guy accused of cheating in last year’s contest. But I missed another important name: The man who blew the whistle on the scandal. Scott Young, edged out of a shot at a million-dollar prize last year by…

Show Us Your Best Wallpaper

I’m rocking the Portal wallpaper you see here on my home computer. On the work desktop I’ve got some Calvin and Hobbes, which has remained one of my favorite pieces for some time now. And here’s a full version of the fancy Portal wallpaper. The artist’s name escapes me, unfortunately. If you know who it…

Now Hiring for Kotaku: A Video-Minded Video Game Expert

Do you love video games? More importantly, are you able to communicate your love of video games through the 21st-century medium of online video? Then we should talk. Kotaku is looking for more New York City-based video editors—people who can capture, edit and narrate interesting video-game-related clips. It’d be like being a popular video game…

A Zombie Game Where You’re The Zombie

Lots of games feature zombies. Not many games let you play as them. Maybe that’s why I’ve taken an interest in Ray’s The Dead, a new Kickstarter project that promises to be a zombie game unlike any others, mostly because the zombies are the stars. This is an “action-stealth-puzzler” where you play as a zombie…

This Amazing GIF Will Show You Why Ray Harryhausen Was So Awesome

Ray Harryhausen passed away yesterday and, with him gone, we lost somebody would could bring fantastical creatures to life with his fingertips. Spotted on Twitter, this amazing GIF—pulled from British documentary Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan—shows the master making a skeleton move. It’s freakin’ magic. Magic, I tell you.

Wolfenstein: The New Order, unveiled yesterday, will not feature any multiplayer mode, publisher Bethesda tells GameSpot

Some of the Best & Worst One-Liners in Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon

Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon, came out last week. If you played it, you may notice that its main character, Rex “Power” Colt, is an unstoppable, one-liner army. In the supercut above, I assembled some of Rex’s funniest, stupidest and most groan-worthy zingers. See how long you can go without cringing, giggling or saying “I…

Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: A pair of reader reviews covers recent downloadable titles. Contributor Viexi talks about budgeting your time when you’ve got to juggle video games and everyday life. And E1Salvador confesses to a secret shame related to Nintendo’s Mario games. And you can always go join the…

Remember, We’ve Got a Lot More than Los Santos to Discover in GTA V

At first I thought we were getting a subtle glimpse of San Fierro in Grand Theft Auto V, but now I’m not so sure. The bridge in this shot, one of a dozen screens Rockstar released yesterday, doesn’t bear enough of a resemblance and the location is out of whack. Hell, I was hoping that…

Infinite Crisis—the free-to-play MOBA that takes place across the DC Comics multiverse—goes into closed beta today. If you haven’t signed up already, you can do so here

In Case You Missed Last Night’s Live Stream, Here’s The Best Part

Last night, as part of my review of the AverMedia Live Gamer Portable, I streamed random Steam games from my PC for nearly an hour and a half. I took requests. I chatted with readers in the Twitch.tv chat box. I hid in a tunnel and amused myself. Gearbox has gotten a lot of flak…

Valve Engineer Wants To Go To Mars. No, Really.

If you think Valve Time is bad now, wait until their engineers are on another planet. Meet Jeep Barnett. He’s a programmer at Valve, a former student at DigiPen, and one of the original creators of Narbacular Drop, the 3D puzzle game that let you navigate the world using a pair of connected portals. He…

3,000 Players Celebrate 10 Years Of EVE Online In One Epic Battle

In a testament to the player-driven nature of EVE Online, special events developer CCP introduced to celebrate the space MMO’s 10th anniversary paled before the spectacle of 3,000 players forming an impromptu shipswarm to take down one of the biggest ships in the game. We’ve seen epic space battles in EVE Online before, but this…

LucasArts Characters Are Hilarious In This Butt Kicking Tribute

LucasArts might be gone, but the characters from its classic adventure games live on. In YouTube user Felipe Machado‘s video, the worlds of Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Indiana Jones and almost everything else LucasArts did in the 90s collide for terrific a mini-adventure. And their adventure has a rather unexpected cameo at the…

Rumor: Bug Makes Gay Marriage Possible in Nintendo Game [Update]

Tomodachi Collection is Nintendo’s take on The Sims. But unlike The Sims, same-sex marriages have apparently not been allowed. Until now. In the recently released Tomodachi Collection: New Life, players are reporting a “bug” that allows male Mii characters to marry each other. It does not appear to allow female characters to do the same.…

Cube World Keeps Getting Better and Better. This New Video Proves it.

A world without Cube World is a sad world. At least we have a new gameplay video to tide us over The five-minute video, in addition to giving us the usual procedurally generated cuboid RPG-goodness we’re used to, showcases a whole lot of stuff we didn’t get to see before. These are, in developer Wollay’s…