Civilization V: The Kotaku Re-Review

A retrospective look back at one of the all-time great strategy games

A Children’s Bedtime Story, Courtesy of Fallout 4

Have you heard of a tale called “The New Squirrel”? It’s a good one! Most Fallout 4 holotapes contain diaries, notes, or chronicles of past events. The New Squirrel is not like most holotapes, however, because it seems directed entirely at children. While I never found these tapes in my own playthrough, listening to them…

11 Years Later, GTA San Andreas Is Still Being Modded

Looks like the HD version of GTA San Andreas has been blown out of the water. Thanks, mods! What you’re looking at above is a screenshot of 2004’s San Andreas, tweaked for better graphical output. Over at the GTA Forums, a few players have shared screenshots of the ways they are keeping this classic alive…

The Division’s ‘Dark Zone’ Is Definitely A Work In Progress [UPDATE]

The new online shooter The Division is meant to be played for months if not years. Just days after release, however, it’s drawing heated criticism for how its endgame works, and the developers are already making changes. The Division emulates the likes of Destiny and Diablo—your first time through the game is really an appetizer…

That Time The Postal Service Sued The Developers of Postal

If people remember 1997’s overhead shooter Postal for anything, it’s the controversies that always seemed to surrounded it. Postal was at the heart of a huge debate over violent video games in the 90s. The game might look quaint in 2016, but at the time, it was raising lots questions about whether the increasingly realistic…

The Surprising Success Of Xavier Woods, The WWE’s Ultimate Gamer

WWE tag team champion Xavier Woods does not fit people’s stereotypical preconceptions of what a professional wrestler is. He’s got a Master’s degree in psychology and is currently working towards earning his PhD. He’s really into comic books and cosplay. And he spends hours playing video games on the road, in hotel rooms and at…

A Real Martial Artist’s Take On Video Game Fighting Moves

Sometimes you see a cool fight scene in a game and think, “I could do that.” Let’s be honest: you probably couldn’t. But thanks to YouTube, you can at least learn about some badass moves from someone who can. Martial Gameris a YouTuber who reenacts and analyzes martial arts moves from video games. Inspired by…

Popcap’s Latest Game Is Plants Vs. Zombies Vs. Hearthstone

Popcap is taking Plants Vs. Zombies back to its roots with a new mobile strategy game, Plants. Vs. Zombies Heroes: The Lawn of a New Battle, only this time it’s turn-based and plays a lot like Hearthstone. Watch me play. Instead of gathering sunshine from the field as an ever-advancing horde of zombies closes on…

Genital Jousting Is A Multiplayer Game About Dick Penetration

And now a contender for funniest game of 2016: Genital Jousting, an experience that lets you play as a literal dick butt. I’m serious. NSFW warning, obviously. The goal is simple: get the dick into a butt. Up to 8 players can participate, and anytime penetration occurs, everybody involved gets points. Genital Jousting may be…

A Few Hours With Adrift, The Astronaut Survival Game Born From Trauma

“Everyone has done something and disappointed someone–or hurt someone–whether it’s a small thing or a big thing,” the game designer Adam Orth was telling me a couple of Fridays ago, after I played a few hours of his newest game. “And recovering from that, everyone has had that. It’s a universal truth. It’s a universal…

My PC Upgraded To Windows 10 Without Asking, Then Immediately Broke

I was on a much-needed staycation last week, a chance to recharge my batteries. What I didn’t anticipate was spending half a day trying to figure out how Windows 10 got installed on my PC and why it broke everything. I’ve been putzing around on Windows 7 for years now, dodging the Windows 8 bullet…

No One Can Handle Six Pies At Once, Even On Pi Day

It’s March 14, 2016, also known as Rounded Pi Day. Chances of me ever eating six pies for a Snacktaku video again are incredibly slim, so here’s a replay of last year’s Ultimate Pi Day celebration for your dining pleasure. Originally posted 3/14/15 It’s March 14, 2015, the last day the U.S. date will align…

The Best Final Fantasy Summoning Animations

Since Final Fantasy III fans of Square’s storied role-playing series have been calling forth primal forces to do their often devastating bidding. Some are more impressive than others. While I appreciate earlier entries in the series for granting fans the power to summon creatures from mythology and beyond to add some extra power to our…

Even Square Enix Has Given Up On Vita In The West

This morning, Square Enix announced some new information for the western release of I Am Setsuna, the gorgeous RPG they announced last year at E3. The good news: it’ll be out this summer. The bad news: no Vita. Setsuna, which came out last month for PS4 and Vita in Japan, is a Chrono Trigger-inspired role-playing…

Fallout 4‘s First DLC Is Full Of Giant Robot Battles

Fallout 4‘s first downloadable content pack, Automatron, is basically post-apocalyptic Battlebots. You’ll be able to build and customize your own robots and pit them against the less friendly machines built by the nasty Mechanist—who might sound familiar to anyone who’s done the Silver Shroud sidequest (or The Superhuman Gambit in Fallout 3). The DLC will…

Custom Batmobile Is A PC Case In Disguise

No free space for seats in this mini Batmobile. It’s a PC case and every inch is needed for the motherboard, CPU, memory and cooling. Thechoozen and his friends’ entry for a Batman v Superman casemod challenge on the MSI forums was a little bit more than just a Bat-signal carved into a PC case.…

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