When Your Job Involves “Painting Exposed Buttocks To Look Covered By Latex”

The video game industry isn’t all fast cars and trips to Japan. For every studio head basking in the glow of media attention there are 100 developers lower down the food chain whose job can be a little more mundane. Like the guy/guys/gals who had to paint some butts for a trailer. Speaking with GI.biz,…

The Great Mass Effect & Dragon Age Crossover Project

Artist Andrew Ryan has been working on this crossover for a while now, but today he let us know that he’s done. Finished. The worlds of Dragon Age and Mass Effect are now one. In the epic image below, you’ll see just about every major character from the Mass Effect series dressed up as a…

Man Threatens Cops With Wii Remote, Gets Jail Time

An unnamed Dutch man has been sentenced to six months’ prison for threatening police officers with a heavily-modified Wii controller back in May. Dutch news outlet De Volksrant says the man, 29, had transformed the remote into a “sniper rifle”; whether it was a custom job or he was simply using an off-the-shelf accessory is…

The Most Romantic Organ-Donation Story I’ve Seen All Day

Who knew that heart transplant surgery could be so romantic? I did not. And yet this video for “I Have Your Heart,” by artist Molly Crabapple, musician Kim Boekbinder and animator Jim Batt, is one of the most delightfully romantic things I’ve seen in a while. The whole project was funded by a Kickstarter campaign,…

The Wii U “Has A Horrible, Slow CPU” According to These Developers

4A Games’ Metro: Last Light is coming to the 360, PS3 and PC. It won’t, however, be coming to the Wii U, because its developers say they are far from impressed with the new console. Speaking with NowGamer, 4A’s Oles Shishkovtsov explains the reason pretty bluntly, saying “[The] Wii U has a horrible, slow CPU.”…

Disney Wants Empire, Jedi’s Writer To Pen A New Star Wars Movie

Oh boy Deadline is reporting that Disney has approached both Lawrence Kasdan and Simon Kinberg to see if they’re interested in writing subsequent Star Wars sequels (Michael Arndt is handling Episode VII). Kinberg’s written X-Men and Sherlock Holmes movies, which is fine, but Kasdan wrote (well, finished) Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.…

Hitman: Absolution‘s Overheard Dialogue Is Goofy, Great

Far be it from me to only harp on Hitman: Absolution’s less admirable qualities. The game is also frequently funny, and often very well-written. The overheard dialogue is often worth sticking around and listening to, and the crowd chatter is among the most convincing I’ve ever heard in a game. (The game itself is a…

Dear Esther not funny enough for you? Try Dear Esteban instead (via Eurogamer).

Holiday Gift Guide: What Do You Get The Gamer That Has Everything?

You know the friend. The one that has bought and seemingly played every game before you can even launch Steam to purchase that new title. You know the one. That exciting new one. But there are certainly some untouched surfaces of the gaming realm to explore for the perfect gift for this person in your…

Here’s Microsoft’s Black Friday sales list for Xbox Live. Yes, Games on Demand games are still too damn expensive.

Kick Criminal Butt With These Custom Arkham City Sneaks

There aren’t many custom Converse Chuck Taylors I’d wear, but if I were going to, I’d consider putting on these ones. The folks over at Comics Alliance hopped onto the Converse Design Your Own DC Comics Chuck Taylors and came up with their own custom Arkham City kicks. So, if you want to design your…

Survey: Kids Want Wii U More Than iPhones

Kids! They are crazy. We all know this. But what do they want for Christmas? Children are asking their parents for computers, iPads, and the Wii U, according to a new survey conducted by the folks at Nielsen Check out the charts: Possible conclusions we can draw here: 1. Kids want the Wii U more…

Holiday Gift Guide: What Do You Buy The Xbox Gamer?

We’ve shared some PC gift suggestions—from keyboards to games—and gifts that will cost you under $25. But today we want to suggest games and accessories to match an Xbox 360. Our editors are chiming in below, but feel free to post suggestions. Pretty controllers are totally acceptable! And hey, don’t knock the battery charging station.…

Grab A Ton Of Great Video Game Music For Almost No Money

It’s almost Thanksgiving break, which means that a lot of you will be doing some traveling. And what better time to listen to delightful music than when on a plane or in the car? The game music bundle has got you covered, with a typically great collection of soundtracks all available for as little as…

Steelseries Free Mobile Controller: The Kotaku Review

Nothing this small should work as well as the SteelSeries Free Mobile Controller does. Years of development have resulted in a tiny, pocket-sized controller that had me overlooking its small stature the moment I started playing a compatible game. Finding a compatible game? Not nearly as enjoyable. My experience with the SteelSeries Free controller at…

Forget Two Screens. Listen to the Wii U’s Dual Audio Trick.

We’ve got something for you to listen to. So grab some headphones. Ready? OK. Listen to the first clip. Watch it as you listen. Then let me explain: One of the weirdest innovations of the Nintendo Wii was the inclusion of a speaker in the system’s controller. It could crudely play sound effects or even…

The Brooklyn Nets’ Brook Lopez talks about his love for Sega Genesis games and Sonic the Hedgehog

Blizzard Black Friday Begins Now: StarCraft II For $20; Diablo III For $40

Here’s Blizzard’s Black Friday sale, which starts not on Black Friday, but RIGHT NOW. StarCraft II for $20, Diablo III for $40. (With the amount of content in StarCraft II, by the way, that first one is pretty much a steal—I’ve probably sent several hundred hours playing SC2 online over the past two years.) If…

The Nasty Jokes Hitman: Absolution Didn’t Have To Make

Hitman: Absolution is a game that requires a lot of sneaking around, and like most sneaking games, you’ll find yourself regularly incapacitating guards and stashing their bodies. Every time you stash a guard in closet, his body will slump standing up over to the left side of the enclosure. Every closet can hold two bodies,…

Six Comics to Be Thankful For This Week

If you’re here in the Panel Discussion programming block, you might be a lapsed comics reader, trying to find a way back to the JLA Satellite. Or you might someone killing time until you pick up your weekly Wednesday pull list. Or maybe you’ve said goodbye to dozens of longboxes to embrace the promise of…