Biff Tannen Gives You All of March Madness’ Winners—and Biggest Losers

What’s up buttheads. Need some help picking your bracket? Stop agonizing over useless statistics and half-assed talking head analysis. I have every single winner in the NCAA Tournament right here, so just do what I say and you can start spending that money right now. Note: Information presented for entertainment purposes only. If you consult…

Video Game Box Typos Are Now Officially a Fad

This is the back of the box for Konami’s latest survival horror game, Silent Hill: Downpour, which came out yesterday for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. The Spanish translation reads: “¿quien puede parar la luvia?” This means: “Who can stop the rain?” Except it’s not “luvia.” It’s lluvia. Two Ls. Like Capcom before it, Konami…

Notch Says He Doesn’t Just Change Minecraft Because He Feels Like It

Markus Persson thinks of himself as more of a programmer than a game designer. “I don’t spend a lot of time on mechanics,” the creator of the hit sandbox/adventure hybrid says. ” I play [Minecraft] more than I write it, because I want to make sure the things you can do in the game can…

Mass Effect Portrait Art Is As Menacing As It Is Beautiful

Website Unreality Magazine has uncovered some beautiful portrait drawings of some of our favorite Mass Effect characters. The artist behind the series of portrait drawings—deviantART user Arkis—appears to have a strong taste for the popular BioWare sci-fi franchise, as one look at the gallery will tell you. I’m not saying that these portraits are perfect…

Christian Allen Wants Your Money To Make A Great, Old-School Shooter That Publishers Don’t Think You Want

Christian Allen has a video game Kickstarter, too. And he hopes he isn’t doing it wrong. Tim Schafer did it right. That guy just raised a few million for an old-school adventure game on Kickstarter. But Christian Allen knows he is no Tim Schafer, no big-name game developer with legions of fans who love him.…

The Hip Hop Gamer Raps About Prototype 2 For Prototype 2 [UPDATE]

If you were a video game reporter in New York, you’d know who the Hip Hop Gamer is. He’s the guy who walks around with a WWE Championship belt—except, he makes his interviewees wear the belt while he’s talking to them. (Hey, I’ve done it! I’ve just declined his offers to rap with him!) The…

A 14-Button Motion-Sensing Steering Wheel Only a PC Gamer Could Love (Or Use)

For any PC racing enthusiast that’s ever craved a high-end steering wheel setup but lacked the money / motivation / room to set one up, SteelSeries’ Simraceway SRW-S1 Steering Wheel is the answer to all of your problems, and the cause of a couple new ones. Traditional PC steering wheel setups require, at the very…

Show Me Your Gaming Rig and I’ll Show You Mine

Every week Kotaku‘s PC Gaming Lives block shows off some of the finest custom-made enclosures in our Case Mod of the Week segment. But not all computers are pretty. There’s mine, for instance. Now show us yours. Don’t let the small size fool you, my Maingear X-Cube is a powerful little machine for what little…

Tera‘s Reign of MMO-FO Terror Reaches America’s LAN Centers

After a brief pause to terrorize a poor actor in his kitchen set, Tera spokes-maniac Bas Rutten takes the message of action MMO combat on the road. What surprises me most about this latest entry in the MMO-FO series of viral advertisements for En Masse Entertainment’s upcoming MMO release? I didn’t realize people in North…

World of Warcraft Monopoly Puts a Fresh Face on Fake Currency

Monopoly gets a World of Warcraft makeover this spring, and when the biggest name in board games meets the biggest name in massively multiplayer PC games, no simple reskinning will suffice. Blizzard has worked closely with Hasbro’s USAopoly artists to create a true Azerothian real estate adventure, and it shows in the colorful numbered pieces…

$10,000 Worth of Wasteland 2 is Brought to You by Razer

Peripheral (and recently PC) maker Razer’s CEO, Min-Liang Tan, is passionate about gaming. So are we, but we don’t have $10,000 to donate to the Wasteland 2 Kickstarter project. He does, and he did. Razer PR pointed me towards a post on Min-Liang Tan’s personal Facebook page, where he talked about becoming one of five…

One Gorgeous Built-In Desk PC, Courtesy of Ikea

Ikea is known for its low-cost, low-quality, do-it-yourself furniture. That, and its meatballs. Since meatballs make lousy computer enclosures, Overclock.net community member Kaxtos went with a Galant unit for the basis of his gorgeous desk-built PC. I’d say it was a wise choice. Nothing quite this beautiful has ever seen the inside of an Ikea.…

Which PC Hardware Best Contributes to Mass Effect 3‘s War Effort?

As you’ve undoubtedly heard, the third installment of BioWare’s Mass Effect trilogy hit shelves last Tuesday. Being one of the year’s most anticipated launches, it’s no surprise to see it with an aggregate review score of over 90. However, in what has become common among high-profile PC game releases, tons of unsatisfied users have slapped…

Total PC Gaming Domination Begins Now

It was a time of great PC gaming, an era that stretched as far as the eye could see, at least every Wednesday from 2PM to 4PM Eastern.

Creator of Unreal Engine Says Consoles Have a Good Six to Eight Years Left In Them Yet

Is the age of the home game console as we know it drawing to a close? There are those who say it is. But when, realistically, can the consumer expect the technology gap between the box they plug into their TV and the tablet they hold in their hand to close? In an interview with…

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Finally, The Amazing Spider-Man Game Swings Back to the Gorgeous Open-World Action You’ve Been Waiting For

Spider-Man had run out of web-fluid. That’s what most people thought after playing the last web-slinging game from Activision. Spider-Man: Edge of Time met with harsh reviews and felt like a rushed, muddled time-traveling mess. Where was all the freedom, fans asked? And what about the speed? The evils of annualization dealt Marvel Comics’ most…

Fallout: New Vegas Dev Lays Off 20-30 Staff

Obsidian has let go approximately 20-30 people, Joystiq reports. Kotaku has also heard from multiple sources about the layoffs, which affect both an unannounced project and the developer’s upcoming South Park RPG. [Joystiq]

WTPT: Let These Breathtaking Journey Visuals Soothe Your Soul

You’ve seen the screenshots, the trailers, and the words written about it. It’s not hard to see that Journey is a beautiful game. That’s why our video extraordinaire, Chris Person, put together this time-lapse of some of the most beautiful sunsets and scenery in the game. The two red-robed players look so peaceful against the…

Clearing Out Goldeneye 007 With a Steering Wheel

Using a Nintendo 64 emulator and a Logitech DFGT steering wheel, YouTube user welovelordtaco has beaten Goldeneye 007‘s Facility level in spectacular fashion. I don’t know why anyone would ever consider using a steering wheel to play a first-person shooter, but hey, we all have our hobbies. Goldeneye 007 Facility Challenge With A Steering Wheel…