It Takes Three Hours To Watch Every NES ‘Start’ Screen

I hope you have some time set aside and have made yourself comfortable, because if you wanna watch every single NES ‘start’ screen, you’re gonna need a few hours. If you’re looking for a particular game, note that the games featured in video above by NicksplosionFX are in alphabetical order. Got any particular favorite ones?…

Four Easy Ways To Prank Your Friends

Not all pranks are created equal; some pranks require a ton of setup and expensive props. Surely there are also easy ways to prank your friends? Turns out yup, there are. This helpful video from Buzzfeed Video explains four easy and cost-effective ways to make your friends hate you. That first one, though… I guess…

Dragon Ball Z Is Best When It Doesn’t Take Itself Seriously

A live action Dragon Ball Z sounds silly, doesn’t it? Maybe that’s why this depiction of Dragon Ball Z, which is completely absurd and ridiculous, works so well. It embraces the inherent silliness of a Dragon Ball Z that involves modern day people. Heck, there’s even a crack about hashtags in this parody of Dragon…

A Childhood Spent With Computers: Writer/Kotaku contributor Leigh Alexander has published an ebook titled Breathing Machine: A Memoir of Computers. It’s all about growing up alongside the computers of the 1980s and 90s, and it’s good! You can get it at Amazon or a bunch of other places, and read an excerpt here

​Violin And Cosplay Bring A Classic Zelda Tune To Life

I’d be hard-pressed to name my favorite piece of Zelda music, but “Gerudo Valley” from Ocarina of Time would certainly be near the top of any list I’d make. In the above music video, violinist Taylor Davis brings the beloved anthem to life in an exuberantly geeky way. We’ve featured Davis’ work on two of…

I Don’t Remember Text Adventures Being This Hard

A few game developers decided that for some reason, Unity, the 3D game engine, is the perfect medium for a text adventure. Amazingly, it turns out that they were right. I’m not going to explain why, you should either play the game yourself (It took me about 7 minutes) or watch the four minute videoversion…

Part of What Makes DayZ Great Is That It Isn’t Finished

Usually, nothing is worse than playing a game that comes out into the world with random bugs, rough-hewn ideas and a lack of polish. But those same things have arguably made DayZ a chart-topping success story—more than a million copies sold in a month— ever since its standalone alpha version hit Steam a month ago.…

Sketchy Xbox One YouTube Promo Plan Now Requires Full Disclosure [UPDATE]

Yesterday, video network Machinima took a whole lot of heat for a cash-for-coverage plan that allowed their members to make extra money in exchange for making videos about the Xbox One. YouTubers picked to participate in the promotion could make an extra $3 per 1,000 views on every video covering Microsoft’s newest console. A few…

Six Types of Board Gamers You’ve Probably Had To Deal With

Just like video games have types of gamers we’re likely to come across, board games totally have certain archetypes and characters we all encounter while playing. Some of these folks are pleasant and harmless to play with. And some of these people are kind of terrifying to play with. All of these types of people…

The Hearthstone open beta is live. If you’d like to take Blizzard’s new card game out for a spin, now’s your chance—download the free open beta here, and find more info here

One Steam Machine Can’t Be Upgraded, Is Basically A Steam Console

The whole point of Valve’s Steam Machine idea is that it bridges the gap between consoles and PCs. All the benefits of the PC in a simpler case. One company, however, is slanting a little too heavily towards the console side of the gap. Alienware’s flagship Steam Machine, one of the standouts from the early…

​Fan-Made Command & Conquer Shooter Is Looking Good, Coming Soon

As I played Command & Conquer back in the day, I always did wonder what it would be like to be one of the little men on the ground, doing the bidding of the all-seeing powers in the sky. Soon we’ll all get a taste of that. This video is the latest trailer for Renegade…

How You Know You’re Old: Super Smash Bros. Is 15 Today

There are, probably, very few people who have a living memory of Mario kneecapping Yoshi in this advertisement and who are not old enough to vote. It’s the famous spot for Super Smash Bros., which 15 years ago today released as a Japan-only novelty and exploded into one of Nintendo’s best-loved series. Super Smash Bros.…

Prepare For Dead Rising 3‘s 13 GB Patch With An Hourlong Video

In what has to be one of their more…creative jokes, Mega64 takes on the controversial and whopping 13GB Dead Rising 3 patch. Wanna put that number into perspective? Sit through their video.

StarCraft II‘s Custom Maps Are Now Totally Free For Everyone

StarCraft II just took one large step closer to free-to-play. Patch 2.1, the latest update for Blizzard’s real-time strategy game, expands StarCraft II‘s free Starter Edition to three races and opens up all custom games to absolutely anyone. So if someone uses StarCraft II‘s map editor to make the next DOTA—which itself was originally a…

Watch These People Swap Genders Using Virtual Reality

A lot of the most interesting applications of VR have less to do with gaming, and more to do with perceptions of self. What’s it like to see outside of your own subjective experience of body and self? NSFW warning on the video below. Enter The Machine To Be Another, an art installation that uses…