Leisure Suit Larry may not have exactly stood the test of time in terms of sheer staying power, but the series of famously salacious adventure games will always be remembered fondly for being some of the first major titles to broach topics like sex and human intimacy on their own sloppy terms. Norwegian DJ Todd Terje…
Earlier this year I read about Loren 'Sparky' Schmidt and Anna Anthropy's game, Drink, and I immediately became fascinated. Get this: in Drink, you play a drinking game against a computer opponent. Yes, a computer opponent. It sounds kind of absurd, to try to out-drink a computer, I know. But, if nothing else, it's a…
College was good for debauchery, "experimenting," and surprisingly, video games. I guess I learned some things too, but, eh. Academics was the least interesting part of college for me.
Commenter Alexdmk recently discovered how much fun you can phave playing online multiplayer games when you're so soused you don't give a flying fig about your score. It's time for Drink Up on Kotaku!
The Mass Effect trilogy features a galaxy's worth of exotic, alien-inhabited locations... with a bar in nearly every port ready and waiting to serve the Commander and her intrepid crew the finest of the milky way's brain-draining beverages.
Now you, too, can pull up an emergency induction port—I mean, a straw—and…
When League of Legends characters aren't flinging crackling balls of energy at one another on the battlefield you'll probably find them working on their bartending license. Those energy balls can also be turned into a lovely looking drink, proved by the images up top—taken from Nimhain's blog AlcoLol.
In this alcohol-soaked edition of Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Ducce wonders how many of you break out the booze when it's time to get your game on.
This is Mike. He makes drinks. Game drinks. He's interested in possibly making a book of his game-themed cocktails. I'd rather watch him on YouTube. This is fascinating.
Two teenagers in California were found dead in a vacant apartment with an empty can of Four Loko, the banned alcohol and caffeine concoction, and other evidence of drug use. There goes any hope of a brand revival.
Dead Rising 2: Case 0 hits the Xbox 360 tomorrow with a robust taste of what the full Dead Rising 2 has in store for gamers. Just don't blame me if that taste is tainted with a bit of bile.
When I returned from Germany after covering Gamescom, the last thing I was expecting to be waiting for me in a UPS box was a bottle of Dream Day Wedding-labeled Merlot.
What small furry rodent do scientists turn to when they need to study the effects of alcohol abuse on humans? That would be the prairie vole: nature's frat boy.
A Meridian, Idaho man has been charged with malicious injury to property after allegedly causing $3,000 to an arcade machine at a local bar by punching it. The goal of the game? To punch it as hard as you can.
> A schizophrenic teenager who killed a grandmother with an axe during a drunken rampage after a FIFA losing streak went on trial this week.
Ooohh, we endorse this. Drinks inspired by games. And not fruity, healthy drinks to heal or soothe you. Stern, adult drinks, to punish and harm you. This one's called "The Triforce".
Following on from the GTA DUI controversy, Drunk-driving in gaming rears its ugly, pie-eyed head again. This time, though, the bottle is in the other hand. Or the beer is in the other dashboard cup holder. Or something.
Back in my days as a teen, my parents weren't afraid of anything as far as I was concerned, but not all 15-year-olds are 6'6" with a goatee. Today's parents have plenty to worry about in fact, though a recent survey performed at the family-focused consumer game site What They Play seems to indicate their priorities…
