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There’s A Pretty Great ‘Cheers’ Easter Egg In Fallout 4

The new post-apocalyptic video game Fallout 4 takes place in Boston. You know what else took place in Boston? The beloved 1980s sitcom Cheers Hi! This post reveals a cool thing I found in Fallout 4. If you want to find it on your own, maybe stop reading. While wandering the Boston wastes last night,…

Nintendo Explains Microtransactions In The Most Nintendo Way Possible

Nintendo’s “free” crane game for the 3DS requires a dollar for every five tries with the crane. Some companies would just tell you to pay and leave it at that. Not Nintendo. They’ve got a cartoon rabbit ready to explain to you why Nintendo needs to do this. All screenshots here are from the game/app/3DS-decorating…

With more than two days to go, Friday the 13th: The Game has reached its crowdfunding goal of $700,000. At $716,000 and counting, it’s possible they might hit some of the stretch goals, too. The single-player challenge mode at $1.6 million seems like it won’t happen, but who knows? Contact the author at [email protected]

More Games, Please Do This

Many video games give players the chance to invert the Y-axis, but too many of them force the Y-inverters among us to start the game, then pause it, then invert. Not the new Tomb Raider. Rise of the Tomb Raider gives players to invert on the same screen where we can adjust our screen brightness.…

Tristana’s New League Of Legends Skin Turns Her Rocket Launcher Into A Baby Dragon

Gamers might not know this, but League of Legends developer Riot Games is one of the very best purveyors of cute things in video games. Yup, right up there with Nintendo. Don’t believe me? EXHIBIT A: Tristana’s adorable new baby dragon that’s disguised as a cannon. Tristana, in case you don’t know, is one of…

JJ Abrams is making a video game with Chair, the studio behind Shadow Complex. It’s called “Spyjinx”—lol—and we don’t know anything about it, but here’s the website. They say it’ll be out next year. Presumably that Abrams/Gabe Newell crossover is never gonna happen.

Watch Us Take on Rise of the Tomb Raider’s New Tombs

Almost everyone who played it said there weren’t enough tombs in the 2013 reboot of Tomb Raider. Its sequel is out this week and Rise of the Tomb Raider definitely doesn’t have this problem. Take a look at two of the hidden environments in Lara Croft’s new adventure below. Spoilers follow for the locations and…

Stephen Colbert Explains The ‘Real’ Reason Activision Bought Candy Crush

5.9 billion, spent on a company that’s known for making a match-3 game.Wild, isn’t it? That’s more than Disney spent on Star Wars! How do you explain such a thing? Stephen Colbert has a theory. It’s a pretty silly theory, but you know what? Maybe he’s onto something. The best/worst part about this skit, is…

How To Get One Of Fallout 4’s Best Guns At The Start Of The Game

When you first leave the vault in Fallout 4, you’ll notice there’s a locked container at the end of the level. It has a gun; a really good gun, by the looks of it. One problem: there’s no way to actually open the container so early in the game. Unless, of course, you know of…

Weeks Later, SOMA‘s Haunting Ending Still Has Players Debating What Happened

I spent a few minutes staring at the screen when SOMA ended. It’s messed up, and even though you can see it coming, it’s still heartbreaking and shocking. At the heart of SOMA’s conclusion is something called the “coin flip” theory, which hardcore fans have been going back and forth on. Warning: There are major…

Wolf Link from Twilight Princess Makes a Badass Statue

Link’s Twilight form, immortalized in statue… form. It took the artist several long weeks, but I’d say it was worth it. Said artist is VIIStar, sculptor and illustrator, and Wolf Link is a commission piece based on First 4 Figures’ Midna and Wolf Link statue from 2011. Here’s a couple photos of it: Of course,…

Professional Stuntman Recreates Tekken Moves in Real Life

This is Eric Jacobus. His workouts might be a little different from yours. Real-life Tekken! Via Event Hubs, we see Jacobus showing off all of Hwoarang’s attacks from what seems to be Tekken Tag Tournament 2. To contact the author of this post, write to bashcraftATkotaku.com or find him on Twitter@Brian_Ashcraft

YouTuber Makes Cool Anime Emblems For Call of Duty: Black Ops 3

For many Call of Duty players, many of the first 5 hours of play time are spent in the emblem creator. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK YouTuber PrimalLIQUID has been putting together some great anime-themed icons to rock on the battlefield, including the Pikachu above. If you’ve ever spent more than 5 minutes…

Video Game Characters Read Mean Tweets

Twitter is mean. Take it easy on Sonic, guys. He’s had a tough couple of years. This is a pretty awesome skewering of all those celebrities read mean tweets videos. Link’s one is good, but I’m gonna say Liara’s one takes the cake. This post originally appeared on Kotaku Australia, where Mark Serrels is the…

100 Fallout 4 Enemies Battle To The Death

Remember when Skyrim launched, and one of the first things people did was build huge battles between the game’s AI enemies? Yeah, same story with Fallout 4 Here, Tyrannicon (who made some of the best Skyrim vids) has set 50 Raiders up against 50 Synths. It is as gory as it is glorious.

Touring Boston’s Freedom Trail in Fallout 4

Approaching Fallout 4 like a tourist isn’t easy. There aren’t as many Bostonians around as there are in present-day Massachusetts, and there are more Super Mutants and feral dogs. (I’m not saying it’s worse in the 23rd century.) Still, there is a sightseeing tour. A version of Boston’s red-brick Freedom Trail is in the game,…

Fallout 4 Is Having Shipping Issues [Update]

You probably haven’t heard, but Fallout 4 is out. After months of eager expectation, countless fans are tearing into it. Some, however, still don’t have their copies, and they’re not sure why. Today was supposed to be the big day. Fallout 4 fans of all shapes and power armor sizes planned to “call in sick”…

For Two Months, All I Played Was Destiny. I’m Taking A Step Back

Over the last two months, I played a lot of Destiny. Too much, if I’m being honest. I have few regrets: It was fun, it was challenging, it was rewarding and ridiculous. I’ve finally run out of things to do in the game, so I’ve decided to reclaim some hours of my life. Destiny’s The…

Pokémon Theme Becomes Late Night Drinking Companion

Twenty years from now we’ll finda scruffy Ash Ketchum in a dimly-lit bar, nursing a bottle of scotch while this song plays in the background. Last yearScott Bradlee’sPostmodern Jukebox did a pretty good rendition of the classic Pokemon theme song as an R&B slow jam. Today’s jazz arrangement, featuring the powerful and sultry voice of…

StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void Starts With A Bang

In July of 2010, Blizzard released StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty with promises that the next two parts of the trilogy would be out soon. Five and a half years later, “soon” has finally arrived. The release of StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void might have been overshadowed by Fallout 4 and Tomb Raider—seriously, why…