Treehouse of horrors: check out this Guillermo del Toro-directed couch gag for this Sunday’s Halloween special episode of The Simpsons—it’s pretty freakin’ rad. How many references do you catch? (Via Wired)

Which Graphics Card Do You Use, Nvidia or AMD?

If you play games on PC, there’s a good chance you use a graphics processing unit (GPU) built around technology from one of two companies: Nvidia or AMD. The question is: Which? I’ve used both brands off and on for a while now—both Nvidia’s GTX line and AMD (formerly ATI)’s Radeon cards have their own…

Actually, Breaking Bad’s Jesse Didn’t Say “B**ch” THAT Many Times

Based on popular Breaking Bad memes, you’d think that the entirety of Aaron Paul’s performance as Jesse Pinkman revolved around a script with a single word in it: “bitch.” I mean. You probably even read the word in Pinkman’s voice, didn’t you? The way he says it is practically iconic! Still, it turns out that…

Upcoming 3DS And Wii U Games You Probably Don’t Know About

There are Marios, and there are Zeldas, and then there are the little games for 3DS and Wii U—the indies that might not sell systems, but will help bolster libraries and offer up experiences you can’t get elsewhere. Nintendo today released a list of all the indie games they’ll be showing off at the IndieCade…

Choose Lindsay Weir’s Fate In Freaks and Geeks: The Game

It’s 1980. You’re a student at William McKinley high school in Chippewa, Michigan. You’re wearing your favorite Army jacket, and it’s time to hang out with the Freaks outside, where they’re smoking cigarettes. What do you do next? At first, I thought this video from The Fine Bros was just going to be another retro…

2013’s Best, Worst Store-Bought Halloween Costumes

Our friends at io9 have concluded their annual quest to find the “best, sluttiest and weirdest store-bought Halloween costumes” of the year. Naturally, their discoveries included Chun-Li, Sonic and an oh-so-sexy Pac-Man ghost.

Boy’s Tombstone Shows Him Playing…Pokémon

This is, sadly, the tombstone of a five year-old boy, located in a cemetery in Lund, Sweden. A boy who obviously loved his Pokémon so much it’s become a big part of his memorial. Peek over his shoulder and you’ll see that the artist responsible for the tombstone has depicted him with his Game Boy…

The Marvel Game I’ve Dreamt Of For Six Years, Almost

The Marvel Trading Card Game for PSP was released in February of 2007. Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords dropped in March of that year. I’ve been dreaming of a combination of the two ever since. Now it’s finally here, and it’s everything I wanted, only free-to-play. I wanted Marvel Comics characters facing off against…

Console Gaming Is Dead (In This Simpsons Gag)

Today’s Halloween-themed update to The Simpsons: Tapped Out has a new loading screen filled with some excellent gags, including a special shout-out to console gaming. If you can’t read the screenshot up there, here’s a higher-res version (click expand): Particularly poignant when you consider how many kazillions of dollars Simpsons: Tapped Out is bringing in…

GTA Online Day Three: Still Not Really Working [UPDATE]

Two days have passed since the online version of Los Santos opened up for millions of players all over the world. It’s not been smooth sailing for the debut of Grand Theft Auto Online, as it’s been plagued with technical issues and server problems. But there are signs that some things are getting better. And…

“When I saw the rise of Zynga and tried out some of their games on Facebook, I noticed some of the same design patterns that we use in slot machines.” Kotaku reader SpiffyPirate works with slot machines and talks about the similarities he sees between design ideas in that industry and in Zynga’s games

Finally, A Super Mario Game We Can All Be Excited About

It’s been a while since a new Super Mario Bros. game looked amazing. Agree? We all respect the New Super Mario Bros. games, right? They’re classic… like Nintendo just baked a great new loaf of bread. Refined… like Nintendo just wrote a new sonnet. But exciting? Not really. That’s where November’s new Mario comes in.…

Top Microsoft Exec Says ‘Xbone’ Nickname Didn’t Even Occur To Him

It’s hard to believe they didn’t see it. And yet Microsoft’s Phil Spencer says he didn’t anticipate that their new console, the Xbox One, would immediately be dubbed the “Xbone” by fans and detractors alike. “At first, I guess the thing that bugged me the most is I didn’t see it,” Spencer told Gamespot in…

Deals: XCOM: Enemy Within, Howl’s Moving Castle, Vita Memory Card

If you’ve been waiting for the right deal to enlist in the XCOM series, wait no longer. Amazon has declassified a couple excellent bundles to bring you up to speed. Even better, we’ve got a great pre-order deal on XCOM: Enemy Within. Remember, we will be watching you save money. XCOM: Enemy Within [Steam] ($21.50)…

Internet Don’t Need No Warcraft Movie Trailers, Internet Makes Its Own

Using only the sparse information provided so far by Blizzard and Legendary Pictures and a whole slew of fantasy movie clips, YouTube editor BloodRunsClear delivers his vision of what 2015’s World of Warcraft movie might look like. Not a bad fake trailer, given the source material, which ranges from a commercial for a medieval festival…

You Won’t Believe How Many Little Changes Are In Zelda: Wind Waker HD

It’s fascinating, picking up The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker for the first time. You get something like culture shock—holy crap, everything’s so bright! The faces are so goofy. Is that really what Link’s grandma looks like? And then… after 10 or 15 minutes, you start to get it. Ah, yes. Here’s why this is…

Sega: Paying For Extra Lives ‘Will never be a thing in a Sonic game.’

Sega would like you to know that they do not plan to nickel-and-dime you and start charging for free lives in Sonic games. Nor do they have plans to imbalance their Sonic games by letting you buy free lives. Why is this is a thing? Well, our very own Jason Schreier sounded an alarm earlier…

Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: What exactly should we be calling a hardcore game? Voltaire Crescent talks about getting drunk (kind of) in Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn. DrZaius shares a video of filmmaker/critic Rob Ager taking on the first-person shooter genre. And Stormborn gets back to his Smash…

iOS 7 Giving You Vertigo And Nausea? Here’s An Idea.

The motion of iOS 7’s redesigned icons has many iPhone users complaining of motion sickness and vertigo. Jimmy Kimmel’s solution is the only guaranteed cure. Stop Looking at Your F***ing Phone Every 5 Seconds! [Youtube]

Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn: The Kotaku Review

Final Fantasy XIV Online, massively multiplayer online role-playing game — an MMO barely alive. Square Enix rebuilt it. They had the technology. They had the capability to build the world’s first relaunched FF title. A Realm Reborn is that game. Better than it was before. Better, stronger, faster. Unlike 1970’s action heroes, video games don’t…