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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Famed Astrophysicist, Total Gravity Buzzkill

If you recently watched Alfonso Cuaron’s marvelous outer-space odyssey Gravity, you probably walked out of the theater with your mind just a little bit blown. Or, if you’re renowned astrophysicist and science distributor Neil deGrasse Tyson, you came out and decided to kill everyone’s buzz by nitpicking the film. Heads up, some of these tweets…

No, It’s Not Official Pokemon X & Y Art. But It Could Be.

Mark Avila may not be able to play Pokemon X & Y until later this week, but that hasn’t stopped him from drawing a bunch of kickass art of the new Pokemon in the meantime. It’s so excellent, you could almost mistake it for the official art. Like the recently-revealed Mega Charizard X, pictured above.…

The Splendor Of Deep Space Starships

EVE Online is a big, big game about big, big ships. The ships are bigger than even the biggest competing sci-fi starships. But still, it’s not all that common to see them looking this nice. Thanks to Dead End Thrills, we can take a moment to appreciate these massive space-cruisers in all their high-res glory.…

Cafe Girl With Fake Superpowers Freaks New Yorkers Out

Have you ever had someone spill a drink on your laptop? It happened to me once, and I got pretty angry. If only I’d had telekinetic powers… This whole thing might just be a big promotional stunt for the new Carrie movie, but it’s still pretty fun to watch. (Via Matt Zoller Seitz, who makes…

What Is Disgaea? A Beginner’s Guide To Tactical Role-Playing Bliss

Years after everyone has caught all the latest Pokemon and the credits roll on Ellen Page, people will still be playing tone of this week’s more low-profile release — Disgaea D2: A Brighter Darkness. What is Disgaea, you ask? Let me explain. If you’re unfamiliar with Nippon Ichi Software’s ten-year-old PlayStation-centric series, don’t feel too…

Breaking Bad As A Zork-Style Text Adventure Game

We’ve spent plenty of time imagining what a Breaking Bad video game would look like. And heck, if you customize your character right, you can make GTA V into one… kinda. But what if the type of game best suited to Heisenberg’s odyssey is the kind with no graphics at all? The folks at Vulture…

Lost Planet 3 Needed More Crazy “Capcom-Style” Moments, Says Developer

Lost Planet 3 wasn’t perfect. But, despite being an overly familiar shooter, the story it told and the main character that players controlled manage to feel more meaningful than most other action-centric games out there. It felt like the cast’s relationships to each other and their own feelings were at stake. It also felt like…

Five Next-Gen Multiplayer Games You Should Keep An Eye On

While we’re still a month away from shifting into new consoles, already we can tell a few key things about what next gen will be all about. There will, for example, be lots of pretty weather effects. We will probably shoot lots of people in the face. Oh, and we’ll probably play a ton games…

The Ball’s in Your Court, NBA Live

The next six weeks will shine a bright light on a four-year question mark in sports video gaming: NBA Live. Every other team sport due for release this year has launched but this one. Like it or not, EA Sports will have the next month mostly to itself, and what it doesn’t say will speak…

Oh, So That’s How The Wii Keeps Running

Turns out every time you waggled a remote to play tennis or swing Link’s sword, there was a Goomba pulling the strings. Who would’ve thought? JUST KIDDING. This is actually a homemade case mod, designed by Kotaku reader lyberty5. Your Wii does not have a Goomba infestation. “To pull off this mod I had to…

Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: PyramidHeadcrab pinpoints the place where last-gen gaming went wrong for him. Spacegar wonders what we look for in a game. And JJTheTexan offers up some thoughts on the Best Video Game Weapon of All Time And you can always go join the voices talking about…

You Won’t Believe One Person Created This Whole Game

Universum: War Front is an incredibly ambitious game. It’s a combination of real-time strategy, MOBA, role-playing game and third-person shooter, set in a wholly original universe. Impressive, moreso when you realize everything you see and hear in the video is the work of one guy. Cyril Megem has spent the past year and a half…

Batman Should Never Try To Get A Driver’s License, Clearly

If Batman ever tried getting a driver’s license…well, according to this video by Animation Domination High-Def, he probably shouldn’t, cause he’d be crap at taking the test. But it’s okay. His failed attempts would make for hilarious stories. And like he says, Batman can always fly! So screw having a license, really. BATMAN: DRIVER’S TEST…

We Know More About Valve’s Steam Machines Than You May Think

When Valve officially announced their Steam Machines two weeks ago, they skimped a bit on the details—we know that there will be a wide variety of living-room-centric PCs, and we know they’ll run the Linux-based SteamOS operating system, but we don’t know much about specs, or prices, or options. OR DO WE. Let’s travel back…

Get ready to go back to Hong Kong. United Front Games—the dev studio behind last year’s Sleeping Dogs—has announced Triad Wars, another game set in the universe of the open-world undercover cop drama. All right, who wants to lay odds that it’s a mobile tie-in or a free-to-play multiplayer title?

The Latest Pokémon Anime Really Nails Pokémon Red And Blue

How closely does the Pokémon Origins anime mirror the events of Pokémon Red and Blue? See for yourself in these 24 awesome animted GIFs shared by Pokémon fan Robin on his Tumblr. Minor spoilers and childhood memories ahead! Pokémon Red vs. Pokémon: The Origin [Rabalogy, Tumblr] To contact the author of this post, write to:…

Here’s a new gameplay demo of The Long Dark, a chilly post-apocalyptic survival game that’s currently on Kickstarter. The game, which will be released episodically on PC, is being made by a collection of talented developers. It sounds (and now, looks) pretty interesting.

Buggy penis physics: check out Eurogamer’s story on Mount Your Friends,the competitive climbing game where your character’s genitals spin like windmills. Apparently, this is a feature that was not actually originally intended. Thank god for bugs!

Today’s Deals: LIVE Gold, Razer Naga Hex, Tomb Raider Collection

Grab Razer’s MMO mouse, a top contender in our gaming mouse voting, for its lowest price ever today in “wash yourself in the blood of your enemies’ red.” A great choice of accent color for the discerning adventurer. Razer Naga Hex | $58 LIVE Gold 1 Year | $40 Games PC Mac PS3 Borderlands 2…

How To Survive Driving Into The Ocean In GTA V (And Other Fun Facts)

Speaking of the little details that make GTA V so great, here’s a video that answers questions I didn’t even know I had. Like, does a helmet actually do anything to protect your head? Can a car run out of gas? Can a car that’s run out of gas still explode? If a tree falls…