Take The Time To Appreciate A Game’s…Buttons And Menus

This Destiny video is unlike any other you’ve probably seen about the game, because it’s all about…the user interface. Which, as you may have noticed during the alpha, is really really good. It’s not in visuals or sound that the really expensive games, the ones made by hundreds of experienced developers, can stand apart from…

Panzer Corps: The Kotaku Review

Panzer Corps is not a new game. It’s been out since 2011, and is a faithful remake (in all but name) of a game first released twenty years ago. None of which matters. In 2014, it’s still one of the best strategy games you can get on the PC. Despite being a huge Panzer General…

What 1200 Pounds Of Nintendo Games Looks Like

This large cardboard box measures around 48″x 48″x 48″. It is full of Nintendo DS and 3DS games. Around 1200 pounds of them Redditor HxCurt, who works at an e-cycling plant, says most of them are Activision’s dreadful iCarly 2 on DS, which will never find a home, not at any price. Hence their arrival…

Son of a Glitch: check out this comprehensive video on the many funny and useful glitches you can find in The Last of Us—you’ll even learn how to do most of em. My fave would have to be Joel and Ellie standing on top of their horses. So goofy.(By A+Start)

Hey Suikoden fans: series creator Yoshitaka Murayama has given an interview to the Suikoden Revival Movement, and while he’s no longer involved with Konami or the series he built, he still has some interesting things to say. “I believe Kickstarter’s notion of ‘by the fans, for the fans’ may very well be the solution to…

Good News, Vault Dwellers: The classic PC role-playing games Fallout, Fallout 2, and Fallout Tactics are once again available on Steam. All three games were pulled from online stores earlier this year after Bethesda obtained rights to the series from Interplay. No word yet on whether they’ll be back on GOG as well, but we’ve…

Watch Dogs Patch Promises Fixes for PlayStation, Xbox, PC Players

Watch Dogs ‘ first major patch is coming soon, says publisher Ubisoft. As soon as next week, players on various platforms will see improvements in the way the hit game looks and plays. Details on the patch appeared the company’s support forums today, listing fixes for players on PlayStation, Xbox and PC platforms. The update…

One iPhone Game That’s Worse With An Xbox Controller

When it comes to mobile gaming, there’s one complaint that has bubbled up for years now, and never seems to go away: touchscreen controls are a pain in the ass. See, for a lot of games, those touch-based controls are just straight-up inferior to buttons and joysticks, and to many gamers, recent iOS ports like…

The Amazing Story Of A Game That Took 13 Years To Make

Adam Butcher has spent half his life making a single game. Today, you can finally play it—and this is the inspiring story of why it took so long for Butcher to finish. The game, which is called Tobias and the Dark Scepters, might not seem impressive when you play it—it’s definitely a relic of the…

You have an extra week to play the beta of Battlefield Hardline The preview test of EA’s upcoming cops-vs-robbers FPS was supposed to end this Thursday but the publisher just announced that they’re extending it it until June 26.

The PS4 Now Supports Pre-Loading

You’ll now be able to download and install many digital PS4 games before they come out—like you can on the PC—thanks to a new pre-loading plan that Sony just announced You won’t be able to play those games until their release dates, of course. But if you know you’re going to buy a game, and…

Guy Turns Nintendo 64 Into Hot Pink Barbie Corvette

Your boring old grey console is totally lame compared to this hot pink Barbie Corvette that craftsman Robin Graves turned into an actual working N64. I met Graves, who asked that we not use his real name, at E3 last week, where he told me about this project and promised to send over some photos.…

Meet Far Cry 4’s Handsome Star

This is Ajay Ghale—aka who you’ll play as when you’re off exploding elephants or whatever it is you choose to do in Far Cry 4.

Goat Simulator Would Be Pure Chaos In Real Life

What if the absurdity and destruction of Goat Simulator bleed into real life? If this video is anything to go by, it would be kind of amazing. Stefman398 went ahead and made a live-action version of Goat Simulator, and the results are wonderful. This depiction even has some of the real achievements you can get…