This Is What Happens When Your Killstreak Is Too High In Halo 4

Hearing the announcer in a first-person shooter boom a proud “killing spree” is standard fare. But what happens when your killstreak is so damn high that the announcer himself can barely keep up with you? TheWarpZone and an Anthony Burch (from Gearbox) look alike have that answer for you. And now I can’t stop laughing.

Skulls of the Shogun—Microsoft Surface’s Best Hope for a Good Video Game—Comes Out January 30th

If you’ve got a device with a Microsoft logo on it, you’ll be able to play 17-Bit’s action/strategy title, Skulls of the Shogun. The long-brewing game—playable on Xbox 360, PC, Surface and Windows Phone, complete with asynchronous turns—will be out at the end of the month. Come for the great music and fun character designs.…

FarmVille 2 Yogurt Creamery: Everything You Need to Know

Land is hard to come by in FarmVille 2, but if you’ve got a few extra acres to spare, you can now build the Yogurt Creamery to give your dairy animals much more important status on the farm. The Yogurt Creamery will take advantage of your (hopefully many) goats and cows, as you work to…

Afternoon reading: this fantastic profile of BioShock creator Ken Levine, written by Polygon’s Chris Plante.

The Actor Who Voices Lee in The Walking Dead Is Answering Your Questions Live

Exciting news, everyone! David Fennoy, the voice actor behind the wonderful The Walking Dead‘s Lee, is going to answer your questions live, right here. Let him introduce this latest live Kotaku Q&A for you in the video above. (Which was stolen from yesterday’s piece, so don’t worry! When he says “tomorrow” it means today.) Dave…

CNET reports that a web version of the PlayStation Store that lets you buy content in a browser will launch this month.

This Is One Of The Best Spartan Cosplays I’ve Seen Recently

According to DerpWY, the owner of this smooth-looking custom Spartan Armor set, it takes at least two months of non-stop work and 5-700 bucks to build something as good-looking and detailed as his creation. Should you decide to get into it, you might want to dig through this massive manual of the Halo Costuming Community.…

Watch This Guy Swim His Way Into A Helicopter Mid-Air In DayZ

Above, YouTube user OneHitKi11 describes an incident where, due to a random disconnection, he found himself swimming in the air after ejecting from a helicopter while playing DayZ DayZ Namalsk – What Happens When You Eject From a Chopper While in Desync [YouTube]

Joe Danger‘s Most Impressive Stunt is How Good His Mobile Game Turned Out

When I first caught wind of Hello Games bringing their stunt-racing hero Joe Danger to iOS, I imagined a straight port of the original PlayStation Network release, complete with a screen cluttered with virtual controls. Instead they’ve delivered a game that fully embraces the touch-based platform, one that’s as refreshing to play as it was…

All Four of Golf’s Major Tournaments Will Finally Appear in a Video Game

All four major tournaments of men’s golf—The Masters Tournament, The United States Open Championship, The Open Championship and the PGA Championship—will appear in Tiger Woods PGA Tour 14, a detail practically lost among other features announced for the game, such as nighttime golf and the debut of the LPGA Tour. While the career mode of…

See How a Karaoke Bug Made Sleeping Dogs Hilariously Unplayable for One Guy

Some glitches are annoying. Some are downright infuriating. Still, they can (and do!) serve as the foundations of hilarious internet videos. The one above is a prime example—all YouTube user Cr1TiKaL wanted to do was to enjoy a little bit of Sleeping Dogs. What he got instead was a bug-fueled journey of absurdity and frustration…

This is Exactly Why I Traded My iPhone for a Galaxy Note II

Last month I officially migrated from Apple’s phone to Samsung’s latest device, breaking a four-year streak of iPhone exclusivity. Next Media Animation‘s latest animated report explains how the winds have shifted for the two mobile giants. It did feel a little bit like sawing off my foot at the ankle, now that I think about…

Let This Fan-Made The Walking Dead Trailer Show You How Emotional The Game Is

Man, Luke Ritson keeps killing it with these alternative launch trailers. It might be because The Walking Dead was my personal favorite game of last year, but this trailer of Ritson’s is the best yet. Be careful about spoilers, though, because this trailer spans a few episodes of the adventure series. Fortunately it doesn’t spoil…

If you thought 2K might sell MLB 2K13 at a discount, nope, it’s $59.99 and its feature set reads a lot like last year’s.

Cats Live Like Humans and Dinosaurs Make Great Pets in This Week’s Nintendo Download

You like to live on the edge of urban animal husbandry. No domesticated felines or canines for you. It’s all ferrets, dingoes and boa constrictors in your often-raided abode. But even those species of barely tame fauna aren’t enough. You want to laugh in extinction’s face. You need… dinosaurs. One of the weirder games in…

Six Things More Online Shooters Should Do

I play lots of online shooters—from esoteric indie ones like Waiting For Horus to popular ones like like Call of Duty. This means I have (possibly crackpot) ideas on how online shooters could improve. While it’s important that different franchises retain what makes them special, there are some things that I think nearly every shooter…

The Most Terrifying Skiing Video Game Ever Arrives on iOS

SkiFree is a simple little skiiing game that was first released in 1991 as part of the Microsoft Windows Entertainment Pack. I got a copy free with a ten-pack of Verbatim 3.5″ floppy disks. It was all good fun until the abominable snowmen started showing up. The primitive pixel monsters in SkiFree were a complete…

The Board Game Inspired By Video Games

There are plenty of video games based on board games. And board games based on video game properties. But a board game genuinely inspired by video games? Please, Rivet Wars, continue. Perhaps unsurprisingly, given this pitch, the game is the brainchild of Ted Terranova, a former developer at Big Huge Games (Rise of Nations) who…

Here’s What (Some) Japanese Developers Are Looking Forward To In 2013

And so this is 2013, and what have we done? Another year over, and a new one’s just begun… Holiday songs aside, 2013 is upon us, and that means reflecting on the past year and looking forward to things to come. This week, Weekly Famitsu asked several Japanese game developers about their plans for 2013.…

The Titles Pokémon X/Y Were Predicted in 2008. Maybe as a Joke.

Think back to 2008. That September, Pokémon Platinum, an enhanced version of Pokémon Diamond/Pearl, hit shops in Japan. Yet, people online made one sort of accurate prediction—and one very accurate prediction. People? Sorry, I meant soothsayers. On Yahoo! Japan’s questions section, someone asked what people thought the next Pocket Monster installment would be titled. Then,…