You Can Upgrade the Un-Upgradable Steam Machine. But it’s Not Easy.

Alienware, purveyor of pre-built PCs of all shapes and sizes, has recently revealed their plan to introduceyearly upgrades to their model of Valve’s PC-slash-console-hybrid Steam Machine, justifying the decision by saying that their machines will not be upgradable. Turns out, that’s not quite the case. “We’ve purposefully designed the Alienware Steam Machine to be smaller…

Shovel Knight hits PC, Wii U, and 3DS on March 31, which should be good news if you’ve been itching for some high quality retro-platformin’ action. Also, there’s a lovely new trailer for you to watch above. Enjoy!

Japanese Developers on the PS4’s Strengths and Weaknesses

The PlayStation 4 comes out in Japan in one month. The privileged who got to pick up theirs out west have been enjoying it for over two months now, but over in Japan gamers and developers alike are anxiously awaiting its release. This week, Weekly Famitsu gathered the opinions of some notable Japanese game developers…

“There is a lot of power in [Xbox One and PS4], and I don’t want to say we’re using them to their capacity, but we’re fairly close to doing so. On [Xbox 360 and PS3] we probably would have had to sacrifice nearly half of our vision.” CD Projekt RED founder Marcin Iwiński, in an…

Adam West: Batman, Mayor, Star Of Terrible Video Games

The real joy of seeing Adam West do anything on the screen is that, even at his worst, he can make the most dreadful thing fun. Because he is Adam West. From the 60s Batman series to Family Guy, that’s been the rule, and it applies also to Golden Nugget, a game which might sound…

Own A Vita? Go Play OlliOlli, Right Now

Looks like myexcitement for OlliOlli was justified. This game is the bees kneepads. Out now on PlayStation Vita, OlliOlli is a skateboarding game that takes after the Tony Hawk series in its love of combos and scores, but strips almost everything away except the tricks. So you play it in 2D. There’s a handful of…

A Guide To American Football For “Liberals, Ladies & Limeys”

The Super Bowl is coming up. It’s one of the biggest sporting events in the world. Weirdly, this is in spite of the majority of people on this planet not knowing how the hell American Football is actually played. This video is here to help. The name is a joke; it’s actually a damn fine…

Fire Glass: take a look at how one firefighter is using Google Glass to help him kick ass and be a hero. It’s amazing.

Let’s Take A Trip Back To The 90s With Pokémon

I can’t decide if these old (and edited?) Pokemon videos found by Everything Is Terrible are amazing, embarrassing, or both. I’m sure we’ll look back on current ads and feel the same way about them too—that’s just how it is. But for now, we can laugh and cringe at these old ads freely. And in…

Attack On Titan Cosplay Is Getting Out Of Control

Some cosplayers really know how to take it to the next level, let me tell ya. Last year, we had an amazing Japanese cosplay group that went all out with their Attack on Titan cosplay. This year, we’ve got a German cosplay group that filmed an elaborate cosplay video over the course of four months…

Judge Dredd Is The Jerk Cop Future-Los Angeles Needs

You know Dredd. Big, beefy, never takes off the helmet. Kind of a jerk, isn’t he? Why do we like him again? Maybe you know him from the excellent 2012 movie starring Karl Urban or the less-good 1995 feature film where Sylvester Stallone played him. Or it could be you’re either a fan of the…

​Steal Money In This Game, Get Actual Money In Real Life

“Earn cash and win prizes just by playing video games!” We’ve seen that type of empty promise on dozens of fake-out ads all over the internet. But thanks to one creative indie developer, this weekend it’ll really be possible to do just that. The game in question is Jason Rohrer’s The Castle Doctrine, a multiplayer…

IndieStatik founder Josh Mattingly has stepped down from his position “for the immediate future” following his apology earlier this week for sending crude sexual comments to a female game developer

The creators of the Banner Saga are fighting to keep the game’s name. In a statement sent to Kotaku, Stoic Studios say: Two years ago, the three of us at Stoic set out to make an epic viking game: The Banner Saga. We did, and people loved it, so we’re making another one. We won’t…