Let's Share Live-Streaming Setups
With so many people either streaming live video game play to the web or consuming it, trying to determine the best equipment for your broadcasting needs can be daunting and confusing. What we need are examples.
How To Sort Through The Crap And Find Good Mario Maker Courses
Believe it or not, Super Mario Maker has a ton of great courses floating around. Here is the system I used to find these elusive levels.
Kotaku' Shop Contest: Pumpkin Spice Armageddon
To my knowledge Pumpkin Spice Spam is not a real product, but it very well could be. Nothing is safe. No one is safe. Especially not for this week’s ‘Shop Contest.
How Ingress, Google's Real-World Smartphone Game, Got Me Out of My Shell
Getting out of the house and meeting new people is hard. For a long time, I let inertia limit me to the same neighborhood and daily routine—until I started playing a mobile, augmented-reality game from Google called Ingress. In just a few months, I’ve explored places I’d never seen before, met tons of new and…
Like Twitch Plays Pokémon, Only With More Confused Naked People
Omegle is a random web chat service often used to find partners for cybersex encounters. GoodguyGastly is using it to help him defeat the Elite Four in Pokémon Omega Ruby. He’s a very brave man.
There is a RoboCop mod for contemplative Steam puzzler The Talos Principle. Because of course there is, right?
Dad Says He's Mourning His Son; WoW Community Rushes To Help
Everyone deals with death in different ways. For one man, the best way to navigate a son's death was to try to dive into his son's interests.
Top 10 Harshest Lessons That 2014 Has Taught The Entertainment Industry
This was a tough year for movies and television — we had the weakest box office summer in years, and TV ratings were anemic. Tons of huge, vaunted projects stumbled, and some underdogs thrived. Here are the top 10 lessons we hope the entertainment industry has learned this year.
When Players Help Make Games... But Don't Get Paid For It
Recently game studio Red Thread ran a competition to include fan-made music in revered adventure revival Dreamfall Chapters. Or at least, they tried to.
Community Revived For Sixth Season By Yahoo
Greendale lives on. The folks behind Community announced today that they'll be making a sixth season with Yahoo, following their TV cancellation earlier this year.
The Community G.I. Joe Action Figures In Packaging
This week's episode of Community featured a the cast as G.I. Joe characters, including a faux commercial for their action figures. Castle Geek-Skull created authentic looking packaging for the figures:
Watch The G.I. Joe Community Episode Right Here
Here's last night's G.I. Jeff episode of Community, including convincing toy commercials.
Watch A Game Evolve 60 Times In 80 Seconds
Please Be Nice is a crazy idea that some Dutch students came up with last week. The idea: make a game that gets changed by the players. Only a week in, they've already made over 60 versions, and we've got a video of the results.
The Best and Worst Television Moments of 2013
This year's science fiction and fantasy television delivered amazing highs and terrible lows. But what were the most brilliant scenes, and what were the most horrific? We've rounded them up the year's best moments, along with some of the absolute worst. Spoilers ahead...
It's Time For Star Citizen To Get Organized
A massive number of space sim fans have generated nearly $34 million in crowdfunding for Chris Roberts' Star Citizen. Now they're all just milling about, waiting for the game to be finished. Soon they'll be able to mill about in large groups, thanks to the impending launch of the game's Organization System.
Xbox One's Reputation System Sounds Crazy But It Just Might Work
Placing the responsibility for policing a community into the hands of the members of said community is a lovely idea that rarely works as expected. The new Xbox Live reputation system launching with the Xbox One gives players the power to promote the polite over the pestiferous, with (hopefully) enough safeguards in…
How Video Game Fans Mourn the Death of One of their Own, Slain in Libyan Attacks
Grief, in an online community, can be a shockingly intimate thing. People who have known each other as a collection of digital avatars and assumed names gather together to mourn the genuinely painful loss of one of their own. The best and most generous parts of a community's nature often show when tragedy strikes it.
And Now, Annie From Community Will Gasp Over And Over And Over
It's been a banner week for TV supercuts, so let's close it out with this montage of Annie from Community doing her "oh!" gasp over and over and over again.
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