Game Of Thrones‘ Most Enduring Fan Theory, Explained

Some fan theories wilt and die while others linger and persist. One Game of Thrones theory—you probably already know which one—just seems too good not to be true. Warning: This theory contains spoilers for both the TV show and books, and possibly for some things that haven’t even happened yet in the books, so don’t…

Mario Kart 8 Hack Launches Luigi Into Space

This is a video of a ghost version of Luigi riding around Mario Kart 8’s Rainbow Road. But don’t worry: this doesn’t mean he’s come back to haunt us all with a new, supernatural death stare Rather, the footage above shows a ghost driver pulled from a play-through of Mario Kart 8’s revamped version of…

Business Cat Has Some Alarming News

“I’m going to need you to play the Destiny beta all day Caturday for work.”

Jason is in San Francisco right now, he just visited IGN to say hi. I’m explaining to him where I used to live and it’s making me miss sf

The July round-up of Kotaku reviews in today’s New York Times. Via @enMTW

I’m searching for a good GIF-making program for Mac. Gawker uses GIF Brewery. Any other recommendations are welcome!

Highlight Reel: Don’t Mess With Grunts

Today’s gaming highlights: The longest professional League of Legends game ever, some lucky knife throws, and a Counter-Strike terrorist who just can’t be bothered to watch the bomb. League of Legends This week, during the League Championship Series, Complexity faced off against Curse in what resulted in the longest match of professional League of Legends…

​Five Years Later, Demon’s Souls Is Still Pretty Funny

I’ve said it before: The Souls games don’t get enough credit for their sense of humor. Sure, they’re stressful and challenging, but they can also be good for a laugh. The latest video from videogamedunkey takes a whirlwind tour through the game that started it all: 2009’s Demon’s Souls. He makes a very good point…

League of Legends didn’t like my new PC

I have a shiny new PC and I’ve been downloading MOBAs (okay, dota) to it since they’re interesting and relevant, etc, and I tried downloading LoL last night and it just… I pointed it to a folder I made but it started installing files in the directory above that, and then it just kinda started…

How I Learned Link’s ‘Real’ Name

“Link isn’t even his real name,” a friend told me recently. We were talking about Zelda, and the way people reacted to the new trailer for the next big game in the series My friend is more of a Zelda veteran than I. But still, his comment seemed heretical. This is Link we’re talking about!…

Deals: Cheap 4K, Cheap Solid State, FTL Advanced, Ground Zeroes

Samsung’s 4K monitor is the early winner in the 4K monitor wars, and this price is unprecedented. Considering a 4K display has the same number of pixels as four 1080p monitors, this is actually an insanely reasonable price-per-pixel. [Samsung 4K Monitor, $530] 1TB SSDs are just starting to creep towards affordability, and the excellent Samsung…

There’s Good News And Bad News About Pinball FX2 For The Xbox One

The good news — the world’s premiere digital pinball platform is coming to the Xbox One on July 31. The bad news — players will have to repurchase all of the Pinball FX2 tables they’ve already bought for the Xbox 360. The PlayStation 4 version of Pinball FX2, the pinball platform that features both original…

I started playing Hearthstone finally

I had screwed around in the tutorial but that was it. But I finally played a few matches yesterday and now I’m…well, not hooked, but I get it now. Where can I find some basic strategies about deck building though? I still have no idea.

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