Watch The First Three Minutes Of The Last of Us: Left Behind

Hope you haven’t unhooked your PS3 yet; 2013’s Kotaku Game of the Year is getting a new story on February 14, and you can watch the cinematic intro here. (Don’t worry—it’s not as traumatizing as the first few minutes of The Last of Us.) I am totally ready to dive back into the world of…

Jimmy Fallon Makes Fun Of Nintendo’s Money Troubles

Jimmy Fallon can’t pass up a good zinger, and on last night’s Late Night, he let into Nintendo for their recent money problems. Check it out in the video above. Clip via Late Night with Jimmy Fallon

Instagram Ruins Pokémon Snap

Back in the days of the original Pokémon Snap, there were no filters to toy with. But if there was a modern Pokémon Snap game? Chances are, it would have a few Instagram-y options for all the Pokémon pictures we take, like in this video by The Warp Zone I’d be okay with that, personally.…

How To Stop Your Valve Games From Bugging Out On Steam

If you booted up Steam today to try to play a Valve game—like Dota 2 or Team Fortress 2—you may have noticed something funky. Maybe Steam tried to boot up something different from what you picked. Heck, maybe you don’t even own the game it tries to boot up at all. Such is the case…

Things Get Retro With An NES-Style Xbox One Controller

There’s something that’s just incredibly classy about the NES controller—so it should be no surprise that its color scheme meshes well with an Xbox One controller, too. It goes well with everything! This gorgeous paint job comes from Reddit user alechere, and it just further proves that the Xbox One controller would look great in…

The SSD Your PS4 Deserves, PSN Update, Cheap Speakers [Deals]

Your system deserves a better class of storage. We covered upgrading your Playstation 4 to a bigger and/or faster drive a few months ago, and today, the 1TB model of the best SSD you can buy is down to $480, $120 less than it was when we last covered it. [eBay] We’ve utilized more than…

Founder of Ultra-Arcade Cabinet Company Gets Two-Year Prison Term

The founder of the Ultracade, a MAME-type arcade cabinet that once was a status item among video game connoisseurs, will spend the next two years in a federal prison for secretly copying and selling video games and code whose rights he had sold to another company. The sentencing of David R. Foley concludes a legal…

​Crap, We’re Going to Have to Go Down That Tunnel, Aren’t We?

Clumps of probably-sentient, probably-murderous super-fungus. A vent that looks to have been violently wrenched open. A space suit with some kind of tentacles growing out of its head-place. And a dead body off in the distance. Yup, that’s where you’re supposed to go. The screen above is from Soma, the sci-fi horror title coming from…

A Nice Assassin’s Creed IV Moment That I Didn’t Expect

As I continued my new year’s tradition of playing the rest of the previous year’s Assassin’s Creed, I finally played the PS3/PS4/PC-only missions of ACIV. Good timing, if I dare say so. The missions star Aveline, the assassin who also stars in AC: Liberation, the HD version of which I just played right before trying…

New Gameplay Changes Will Make Super Smash Bros Wii U A Lot Harder

One of the well-known techniques of Smash Bros, “edge-hogging,” will be revamped for Super Smash Bros Wii U, as a recently released screenshot and comment from Masahiro Sakurai shows. Edge-hogging, or edge-grabbing is one of the more advanced (and funny) techniques in Smash Bros where you hold onto a ledge so that the other player,…

Candy Crush Makers Say They’re Going After Copycats, Not Banner Saga

The makers of Candy Crush Saga, who have filed for a trademark on video games with the name “candy,” and are opposing the trademark application of The Banner Saga, (pictured) say they are “not trying to stop Banner Saga from using its name,” but are compelled to defend their position under trademark law. “We do…

Why StarCraft Pros Apparently Make Good Poker Players

Listen up. If you are world-class StarCraft player, then you’d probably make an excellent poker pro. So says Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier (pictured), a former StarCraft pro-gamer who’s gone on to make over US$11 million as a poker pro With the news that former StarCraft player BoxeR was turning to poker, Grospellier told website PokerListings why…

“Virtual reality really is going to take over the world… it was better than real life—people will get lost in this and not want to leave.” Indie developer Lee Vermeulen, in a blog post about his experience with Valve’s Virtual Reality tech at Steam Dev Days.

You Don’t Want To Live Next to China’s “Bacon Apartment”

Some people hang clothes on their balcony. This resident, it seems, hangs meat. Lots of it. Online in China, photos of what looks to be a butcher working out of an apartment have popped up online. If this resident is not a butcher, then he or she certainly has an interesting hobby. Large amounts of…

Next-Gen Historical RPG Gets “Surprise” Kickstarter Campaign

For the past week or so, Warhorse Studios has been teasing some new information about their upcominghistorically-inclined RPG, Kingdom Come: Deliverance, on their website. There was a big countdown clock and everything. And now, the cat’s out of the bag: Kingdom Come will be crowdfunded! Surprise! Now, from our standpoint, there are advantages to this,…