Come Hang Out With Kotaku At PAX

Will you be in Seattle on August 31? Want to hang out with four Kotaku staffers as we regale you with tales from the battlefield? Come to our PAX Prime panel—Story Time With Kotaku–-on Sunday, August 31 at 2:30pm in the Sphinx Theater. Tina, Kirk, Evan and I will take questions, tell stories, and generally…

​Scientist Explains The Hulk And Captain America

Most superheroes aren’t scientifically accurate. That said, that doesn’t mean that we can’t let a biologist try to speculate how they might work in the real world. Watch as Stanford biologist Sebastian Alvarado tries to unravel the biological secrets behind two of Marvel’s top heroes — Captain America and the Hulk. Again, this is just…

Report: Famed Pokémon Journalist Slanders Bulbasaur

This is very shocking. Read the full details below. The implications for this are huge, Kotaku readers:

PlayStation 4s Sold and That Matters More Than You Think Stamping out any doubt that the PS4 is selling, Sony announced today that 10 million consoles have new homes. That figure is from the tail end of July, putting the PS4 only slightly behind where the Wii was nine months in and well ahead of…

Let’s Talk About Lunar: Eternal Blue

Welcome to the Summer of Old JRPGs, where we’re playing classic role-playing games and talking about them every week. Check out the full schedule here I feel like we don’t spend enough time talking about fonts. Seriously. Fonts. For a long time I’ve believed that a good font can change the entire tone of a…

Mario Was Such a Jerk to Yoshi

We love to think that Mario and Yoshi were the best of chums, but when you examine the evidence in Super Mario World, it’s pretty clear that Mario was a really awful friend. Just look at the singalong video above, from the good folks at Fox ADHD. What kind of friend would ride you around,…

Disney Infinity 2.0 Start Set Featuring Merida And Stitch

Don’t like Marvel heroes? Looks like there’s going to be an alternate starter pack featuring Merida, Stitch, and Merida and Stitch discs. Via Vinylmation Kingdom You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

Team Fortress 2 Could’ve Been A Pretty Different Game

Over the years, Valve has added an almost mind-boggling amount of Stuff (TM) to multiplayer shooter phenom Team Fortress 2. Even more interesting, however, are the things that didn’t make the cut. The video digs deep into TF2‘s lengthy history and unearths all sorts of weird, wonderful relics. The opening bit about how things changed…

Highlight Reel: High Speed Captain Falcon Knockout

We’ve rounded up some of the best highlights from the past few days in the gaming world and put them all in one place for you. Today, the most brutal Falcon Punch, an incredibly lucky League of Legends play, and more! Link any of your favorite highlights in the comments below, and be sure to…

Destiny is going to take you to Mars. And, just like on the Moon, it looks like you’ll be fighting new enemies there, too.

Warlords of Draenor Collector’s Edition, Temple of Osiris [Deals]

Warlords of Draenor hits November 13. Preorder the Collector’s Edition today, which includes soundtrack, artbook, and “epic” in-game content. [Warlords of Draenor CE] Get these deals and more, and earlier on Deals.Kinja. Connect with us on Twitter and Facebook to never miss a deal, check out our Gaming and Movie/TV release calendars to plan your…

‘World of Warcraft II’ Is Actually A Thing That Could Happen

Here at Kotaku, we try to avoid writing stories based on vague statements from developers about things they’ve got planned in the future, but this is too interesting not to share: turns out Blizzard is constantly thinking about the idea of World of Warcraft II Strange thought, right? A sequel to an ever-evolving online game…