​Guy Skypes In For Job Interview, Gets Mercilessly Pranked

It’s awkward enough doing a job interview over Skype. So it’s gotta be about 500% worse when it turns out whole thing is an elaborate prank. This latest joke, from Black Box TV, is awfully tricky—they’re lucky the patsy didn’t get more violent at the end, because I know I would’ve. (via VVV)

How To Find The Secret Venom-X Weapon In Call Of Duty: Ghosts

YouTubers OutsideXbox bring a quick guide to finding the secret Venom X weapon in the Devastation DLC for Call Of Duty: Ghosts. If you can’t watch the video, here’s how to unlock the secret weapon. On the “Unearthed” map, there’s a large crane with three grey supports on it. Using a grenade and grenade launcher,…

Eleven Things You Might Not Know About Game of Thrones

With the new season of Game of Thrones around the corner, it seems like a good time to look back on some fun facts about the show, no? This collection of trivia by BuzzFeedVideo spans both the show and the books, and includes stuff like: Where George R.R. Martin got the idea for the books…

A PC Game That Combines Magic‘s Strategy With Skylander‘s Toys

This probably goes without saying, but one of the things I love about video games is that they give me a (somewhat) grown-up excuse to play with toys. That might help explain why Skylanders is one of my favorite games in recent memory. It’s also why I’m so excited for Prodigy, a tactical RPG currently…

The iPad Version Of Hearthstone Is Live (In Canada, Australia)

Blizzard’s free-to-play competitive card game was made to be played on a tablet, and now iPad owners in Canada, Australia and New Zealand can do just that. Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft for the iPad is live there, and coming soon everywhere else. I’ve downloaded the game from my fake Australian account (Luke vouched for me),…

Happy 20th Birthday, Final Fantasy VI

Twenty years ago, an RPG called Final Fantasy VI came out in Japan, and really, it’s all just been downhill for video games since then. Square’s seminal RPG for the Super Nintendo was filled with issues: buggy skills; weird translations; way too many fights that were way too easy. But somehow, against all odds, the…

Watch Someone Getting 1536 In Threes

Ben Weiss recorded part of his game of Threes, and watching him get a 1536 actually made me tense, wondering what his next move was going to be. Terrence! via @AsherVo

Airtight Studios will be working with a few less hands on deck. The Seattle-based development studio behind upcoming ghost mystery game Murdered: Soul Suspect has issued a statement saying they’ve laid off 14 people, saying “this restructuring is part of the normal ebb and flow of game production.” This news comes on the heels of…

Watch The Father Of The Playstation Pretending To Be A Villain

The guys at Mega64 have released a 20-minute video showing how they made the hilarious GDC tribute to Ken Kutaragi. It’s fun to watch, but the best part is the former Sony CEO’s outtakes while performing as the “last boss” of the video. Kutaragi’s outtakes start at 11:40, you can jump to it here KOUNTDOWN…

Amazon Hires Portal‘s Kim Swift, Far Cry 2‘s Clint Hocking

Amazon is bolstering up talent in their video game development studio, and they’ve got two new high-profile snags: Portal designer Kim Swift and Far Cry 2 designer Clint Hocking have both joined Amazon Game Studios, Kotaku has learned. Swift, best known for helping create Portal, most recently worked at Airtight Games on the Ouya-exclusive Soul…

Maybe you’ve heard of 2048? The folks at Grantland have, including the popular smartphone game in a new list of media recommendations while almost entirely glossing over the fact that 2048 is a derivation of a clone of the well-liked game Threes. Well, Threes does get to be an oblique punchline at the end of…

Somehow, Dead Island Became A Fun DOTA-Style Game

I got a beta code for Dead Island:Epidemic. I didn’t love Dead Island. I couldn’t get into DOTA 2. So I didn’t expect to enjoy this game at all, but it’s actually a very accessible version of the biggest competitive games in the world. Around the time I started at Kotaku, I actually spent a…