Where The Hell Was This LEGO Cleaner When I Was A Kid?

There are two sides to every LEGO play session. The ecstacy (the playing!) and the agony (the cleanup). All those tiny pieces, all the ways they could get lost, or stuck in the carpet, ungh. So this LEGO scooper invention deserves as many design awards as its creator’s shelves can hold. It’s so simple. Just…

You Can Buy BioShock Infinite’s Vigor, But It’ll Cost You. A Lot.

Not that it works. You wouldn’t be reading about that kind of breakthrough on a mostly-video-games website. But the bottles of Undertow Vigor being sold on Irrational’s site sure look nice, and more importantly, authentic. Only 500 have been made, each standing 10″ tall and with some amazing detail on both the bottle and the…

Track: Hive | Artist: Earl Sweatshirt feat. Vince Staples & Casey Veggies | Album: Doris Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

The Story Of How Notch Turned Down A Job At Valve

Minecraft is one of the biggest games on the planet. Valve is perhaps the most beloved video game developer around. Imagine, for a moment, if the two had somehow joined forces. Finished? OK, now remember: it could actually have happened. All Things D is running an excerpt from Minecraft: The Unlikely Tale of Markus ‘Notch’…

DOTA 2 Forgets Halloween, Remembers Christmas

Valve works in mysterious ways. Last year, they held a big DOTA 2 event for Halloween, then didn’t do it this year. People got angry. Last year, they didn’t do anything for Christmas, because Christmas got stolen. This year, they are. Go figure! What it means is that DOTA 2 players are in for a…

College Players Can Get a PS4 From a Bowl Game, But They Can’t Be Paid

The Military Bowl is no one’s idea of a major college football bowl game. It’s a shitty bowl, in fact, inviting five-loss teams to stage background-noise football two days after Christmas. Despite that, every player from Maryland and Marshall will receive a PlayStation 4 for showing up this year. Sports Business Journal looked at the…

The Most Surprising Mii That I Ever Met

I StreetPassed with this person some time in the last two days. I’ve never met a Mii this… creative. Meet any unusual Miis? Share below, please! To contact the author of this post, write to [email protected] or find him on Twitter @stephentotilo.

A Link To The Future: what if A Link To The Past had the wall-merging mechanic that appears in the newer Zelda, A Link Between Worlds? Well, then it might look a little like this awesome GIF by johanvinet. (Via Tiny Cartridge)

Lego Mecha Pokémon. LEGO. MECHA. POKEMON.

What would be cooler than commanding fierce beasts to battle against other beasts, as you do in Pokémon? Easy. If the beasts were lego mechs instead—mechs which can be piloted. Does anything else need to be said, really? Check out these “Poke-Mecha” of the final evolutions of the original three starters Stormbringer, originally posted on…

Watch GTA V’s Trevor Try To Dispose of A Dead Body In Real Life

However deranged Trevor might be, he’s just a fictional character. But if he wasn’t? What if he was a real person that roamed our streets? It would be kind of amazing. And by amazing I mean slightly horrifying. Check out these series of pranks by Nathan Barnatt, where he pretends to be a Trevor. Trevor,…

Podcast: Fallout 4, Phoenix Wright, Zelda: Link Between Worlds

Is The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds really all that amazing? When will we actually see a Fallout 4 announcement? Are we suffering from a glut of lawyer simulators? It’s been a long three months since our last podcast, but Kirk and I are back for a quick talk about what we’ve been…

2013 Was A Very Good Year For Facebook Gaming

Facebook gaming is far from dead — it’s just getting started. 2013 saw impressive growth in both audience numbers and diversity of Facebook game developer, making for one exciting year for free browser-based entertainment. According to Facebook’s AJ Glasser (that name sounds familiar), the lists here were compliled (baring the Staff Favorites) based on a…

Nothing Stops The GTA V Train. Not Even 10 Dump Trucks.

What better way to demonstrate the brute power of GTA V’s unstoppable train than to line up 10 of the largest dump trucks in a row and see what happens? YouTuber omenz321‘s video shows that it’s not easy to carry out such a thing, but at least the devastation scenery completely makes up for the…

Fez has sold one million copies, across all platforms, developing studio Polytron said today in a thank-you messageto everyone who bought, stole, or said they were boycotting it.

Pay Attention, Steam: You Can Now Return These Digital Games

The convenience of digital downloads comes with a price: you might not have to deal with physical media, but you normally can’t return the stuff you purchase on major distribution platforms like Steam either. But increasingly, other smaller services are willing to treat digital games a bit more like physical ones. Today, DRM-free distribution service…