I Bet You Can’t Name All 50 Of These Famous Bills

No, not the kind of Bill that sits on Capitol Hill. The OTHER kind of Bill. People named Bill. This humorous free game at Newgrounds challenges you to name all of the proper Bills before time runs out. Remember: William and “Will” are fair game, so don’t be surprised to se some goofy versions of…

Guild Wars 2‘s Most Impressive Feet

Characters in Guild Wars 2 are good at lots of things: Fighting, spellcasting, animal-summoning. But they’re also really good at standing still. No, seriously! (Disclaimer: That groaner of a headline is the work of one Mr. S. Totilo. I wash my hands of it. Just kidding, I laughed.) The great standing animations are something that…

League of Legends Pro Gamers Stripped of Winnings for Scheming on the Side

The Major League Gaming (MLG) summer championship events took place this past weekend, in Raleigh, North Carolina. Teams competed in several games, including StarCraft II, Mortal Kombat, and Soul Calibur V. But the biggest upset happened in the League of Legends tournament, which found both the first and second place winning teams disqualified and the…

More OnLive turbulence. Controversial founder Steve Perlman is out; working on other projects. Gary Lauder takes over.

Blending Into A Real-Life Crowd Is Not As Easy As Assassin’s Creed Makes It Seem

This guy is also an impressive shot with a rubber band bow and…rubber band. Assassin’s Creed 3 in REAL LIFE (Public Trolling) [YouTube via Reddit]

Guild Wars 2 Arrives Tonight. Here’s Everything You Need To Know.

Guild Wars 2 has been a long time coming. Years of previews, discussions, developer diaries, demos, betas and a head-start weekend have led to this point: Guild Wars 2 finally unlocks for everyone tonight. You’re all set to play the game. You have some energy drinks/green tea/yerba mate/coffe/other caffinated drink ready. You’ve called in sick…

Why Do People Hate Shopping at GameStop Again? Oh Yeah.

It’s still Speak Up on Kotaku, we’re just taking the posts from TAY now, like God Hand BrynnFlynn‘s story about why a trip to GameStop is so damn entertaining. Alright, so I know there are plenty of “OMG I HATEZ GAMESTOP” stories out there, but my experience this weekend was truly… exemplar. I was in…

Oh Holy Crap It’s A Freaky Screenshot From The Next Episode Of The Walking Dead

Aah! Holy crap! Look out Lee! It’s a motorcycle (okay fine) helicopter pilot zombie! Um… mash the “A” button really hard! You’ll be okay I promise! This screenshot was just tweeted by Telltale Games, who are promising that Episode Three of their excellent Walking Dead series will be available “VERY soon.” While you wait, check…

Unlikely Fan Fiction Crossover Presents: My Little Portal

Off-Kilter’s Unlikely Crossover Fan Fiction Battles feature has traditionally involved written fan fiction, but today we have something completely different, and slightly wonderful. It’s episodes one and two of My Little Portal, where friendship is science. It’s the battle of the all-powerful sentient AI robot things, as CELesTIA does battle against DISCoRD, a twisted sequel…

The Dorkly Weekly: Chrono Trigger‘s Robo Gets the ‘Girl’

What would you do if a powerful magician could make exact doll duplicates of everyone you know? Yeah, that’s what I thought, so don’t go looking down your nose at Robo for this little indiscretion. Man, someone at Dorkly loves role-playing games, don’t they? Between last week’s Earthbound video and this week’s Chrono Trigger (oops),…

Little Debbie Swiss Cake Rolls: The Snacktaku Review

Hostess has the name. Tastykake has the heritage. Those two giants in the snack cake game have dominated the hearts and mouths of preservative-infused baked goods since the invention of “creme”. But, as the dead Jedi says, there is another. Forged in the heart of Chattanooga, Tennessee, Little Debbie is a Southern tradition, as sacred…

The World Ends With You Is Actually A Pretty Good Port

Look, nothing justifies what Square Enix did. Setting up a weekly countdown that everyone giddily expects will be a sequel to beloved DS game The World Ends With You only to reveal that it’s actually a $20 iOS port? Indefensible. But I bought the iPad port of The World Ends With You today, and after…

The History Of Tyria Is Written Into Every Square Inch Of Guild Wars 2

I jumped into Guild Wars 2 on Saturday afternoon, re-creating for myself the Human thief I’d been missing since the first beta weekend back in May. But then I remembered my earlier promise to myself: I needed to step outside of my comfort zone. That’s where the Asura engineer came from. Engineers aren’t too far…

In the Guitar Hero That Never Got Made, People Can’t Even Remember Rock ‘n’ Roll

Quick question: does anyone remember the plot of Guitar Hero III? Does anyone remember if it had one? You might remember that Slash, Axl Rose and Bret Michaels showed up in the threequel, which was the first game in the franchise after it moved to Activision. But that’s about all that was memorable about Guitar…

Source: Gaming Accessory-Maker Says Nintendo Will Launch the Wii U on November 18 [UPDATE 4]

The official release date for the Wii U may have just leaked today during a presentation by gaming accessory-maker PDP at a GameStop managers’ conference in Texas. A rep for PDP was showing the company’s fall line-up at the conference and wrapped their presentation by saying the peripherals would be available just ahead of the…

Rock Band Blitz: The Kotaku Review

Let’s say there’s a spectrum. On the one end, hunched in a leather jacket and stubbing out a cigarette on its boot heel, is Music. On the other end, peering over its sunglasses at a strobe-lit LCD, sits Video Games. All music games exist somewhere on that spectrum. It has been fascinating, inspiring, and a…

Sometimes Fan-Made Trailers Are Even Better Than The Official Ones

Well, at the very least, this fan-made The Secret World trailer is impressive in and of itself. But this isn’t the first time we’ve seen a fan take content from a game and create a fantastically appropriate trailer, sometimes to greater success than the game’s own developers. I’m on the fence about whether or not…

EVE Online and Dust 514 are now linked together via EVE‘s Singularity test server. Watch out for the ISK black hole!

Somebody Has Already Hit Level 80 In Guild Wars 2

According to a report at MMO Culture, a French gamer named Surfeuze has already hit the Guild Wars 2 level cap of 80. (See the lower-left of the screenshot above.) Yep: Someone has maxed out a character before the game has even been officially released. Surfeuze pulled off this feat largely through crafting, using guild-provided…

We Certainly Didn’t Expect To Get A Super Nintendo Cartridge In The Mail Last Week

That Super Nintendo box isn’t real. Neither is the cartridge. I can see how you might be confused: when we got this package in the mail last week, it looked more than authentic enough to trigger some emotional reactions from those of us at Team Kotaku who spent our formative years with Nintendo’s 16-bit gaming…