See Sesame Street Take on Mario, Guitar Hero and…Final Fantasy?

There’s a new Sesame Street DVD out that is, according to whichever Muppet writes their press releases, “full of fun video game spoofs”. It appears they are telling the truth. Going a little beyond your clichéd Space Invaders and Pac-Man, there’s a bunch of more contemporary games being reappropriated for the purposes of education, like…

Find Out How a Blind Man Can Play in Mortal Kombat Tournaments

Mortal Kombat can be hard enough at the best of times, but could you play it with your eyes closed? Course you couldn’t. And even then, you at least know what the stage and characters look like when you open your eyes again. James, blind from birth, does not. Which is what makes his story…

Valve Has Been Teasing a Secret Robot Army For Over Two Years Now

Valve’s announcement of a new “Mann vs Machine” game mode for Team Fortress 2 didn’t just come out of the blue. It didn’t even have its hat tipped over the weekend No, the studio that does crowd-teasing like no other has been building up to this moment for over two years The history of the…

“Cans! It Was Only Cans!”

As long as we’re posting dialogue bits that we enjoy, I thought that this fine Monday evening I’d share my favorite line from Speed. Which is saying something! I don’t know why, but my sister, friends and I would repeat this line—Cans! It was cans!—over and over and over again, laughing and laughing. Evidently we…

Could You Record a Song Every Single Day of the Year on Your PSP? This Guy Just Did.

Last year, Kotaku reader Chris Sands went through a bit of a rough patch. Undergoing complex brain surgery to help alleviate a bizarre hiccupping condition (which got him on the BBC as the star of a documentary!), he made PSP game Beaterator an integral part of his rehabilitation. An avid musician, putting beats together on…

Cave Story: Also Known As The Best Rhythm Dance Game Ever

Calm down, calm down. It’s a joke, Internet. But seriously, how DARE that woman take the puppy away. Or back. Or whatever.

The Greatest Sharks In Video Games, Just In Time For Shark Week

Did you feel slightly on edge when you got out of bed this morning? Like your world was just a little bit more dangerous? As you went about your day, did you have the sense that you were… hunted? Well, that might be because IT’S MOTHER EFFIN SHARK WEEK, YO. Shark Week is the Discovery…

Americans Are the Best Pokemon Video Game Players in the World. We Just Suck at Cards.

Just as the U.S. dominated the medal count at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, our boys brought home the golden Pikachu cup in all three divisions of the 2012 Pokémon World Video Game Championships in Hawaii this weekend. The trading card game? Not so much. As expected, 2010 and 2011 World Champion Ray Rizzo…

Team Fortress 2 Now Has a Third Team: Robots. Also, Co-op!

Team Fortress 2 now has a co-operative “horde” mode of its own, allowing five players to team up and take on waves and waves of…angry robots. As expected, Valve’s “Gray” teases have indeed led us to the dawn of the franchise’s war against robotics. The robots are modelled after each of the existing game’s iconic…

This Fantasy Cartoon Webseries Should Really Be On TV

After watching just a single episode of the new webseries Doraleous and Associates I’m already head over heels. Give me more. Hope you’re watching, Comedy Central.

CBS has an interview with “the most famous video game developer in the world”. It’s (probably) not who you think

Hybrid: The Kotaku Review

“Innovative” is a word marketers and developers try to sell us often, but it’s rare to find a game—particularly within the shooter genre—which deserves the label. Hybrid is an exception, but it takes more than a novel idea to craft an engaging, worthwhile experience. Hybrid is a third person cover-based shooter developed by 5th Cell,…

Get A Load Of Catwoman Clawing It Up In Injustice: Gods Among Us

Here now, the new Gamescom trailer for Injustice: Gods Among Us, featuring a ton of but-whipping (geddit?) by the one and only Catwoman. Dang, girl! Those are some serious claws you’ve got there. (Via Ed Boon)

Hey Look, It’s The First Level Of System Shock 2 In Valve’s Source Engine

Before you get all super excited about “OMG System Shock 2 remake,” well… this isn’t one. What it is is a fun way to imagine what one of the greatest games of all time would look like with a more current engine. Inspired by those images depicting what BioShock would look like in Crytek’s CryEngine…

Fewer People Finished Mass Effect 3 Than Mass Effect 2

I don’t know about you, but I couldn’t wait to finish Mass Effect 3. Sure, I wanted to close out the battle against the Reapers, but I played to complete the campaign in BioWare’s threequel to see where all the characters I’d grown to know wound up. Oddly, many other people who bought Mass Effect…

It’s Okay To Steal That Old Lady’s Seat If You’re Using It To Play Video Games

There’s a YouTube series called Subway Thoughts that I, as a veteran subway user, love. In the most recent Subway Thoughts, Kurttoons considers swiping a seat from an old lady to play Angry Birds or, you know, the thousands of other games we all click to buy and then forget about.

Snacktaku Flavor Battle Royale: Wheat Thins

Wheat claims more farmland than any other crop cultivated by mankind. It’s the most traded grain on the planet, with upwards of 700 million tons harvested on a yearly basis to meet the needs of the Earth’s ever-growing population. It’s the “amber waves of grain” in the “America the Beautiful”. It’s not particularly tasty. In…

The Dorkly Weekly: Vote President Evil for Devouring Your Brain

So the president is dead. That doesn’t make him any more or less effective than any other leader of the free world since James K. Polk. Have you seen James K. Polk? No, not lately, I mean the older photos. Even when he had skin he looked like the kind of guy that wouldn’t mind…

Fake Gamer Of The Week: My Supah Glahsses Make Me Supah Fantastich At Video Games

Ya, hello little boys and girls. How aah you today. Are you good? I am good. Are you? Ich heisse Hans, and I am very, very good-looking and also a male model and also very good at PC gaming, ya! You puny little dogs don’t even rate for me, I am so good at killing…

New Professor Layton Trailer Is A Wonderful Tease

Today Nintendo announced that Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask will be out on 3DS October 28. We also get this wonderful trailer. It makes me mad that I’m not playing Professor Layton right now.