Here’s the latest from Kotaku‘s official reader-written blog, Talk Amongst Yourselves: Monster Girl Quest: The Review • Tales of Numbers: A Love Letter • “We must make the games we wish to play in the world” TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

Resident Evil 4 PC Looks So Much Better In HD

Announced earlier this week, the Steam version of Resident Evil 4 is atonement for the god-awful Windows port released in 2007. Capcom’s released some comparison shots showing off how much better the game looks when the textures don’t look like they were painted with mud. According to a post on Capcom’s Unity blog, the SD…

DayZ Bandits Cruelly Force Victims to Sing Their National Anthem

We’ve seen numerous examples of bandit brutality in DayZ, but this concept really surpasses everything. If you get caught by this group of YouTubers, you have to choose between singing your country’s national anthem or being shot. It’s pretty simple. The singing starts around the 0:45 mark. Even though these guys play it nice and…

Why Final Fantasy X-2 Holds Such a Special Place in My Heart

Late last month, Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster was released on the PS3 and Vita in Japan and I have been dying to play it—not the remastered FFX, but the remastered FFX-2. But, to understand why Final Fantasy X-2 holds such a place in my heart, you need to know why I play video games.…

Four Awesomely Hilarious People Play Starbound

Starbound is actually barely discussed in this one. Not that it matters. It’s utterly brilliant either way. Note: Don’t look at this at work. It’ll make you chuckle loudly. Also, it’s moderately NSFW It’s a longer vid at fifteen minutes, but I’d recommend hanging around at least until they start talking about superheroes. That’s the…

Well, that didn’t take long. Kingdom Come: Deliverance, the historical sandbox RPG, reached its funding goal in 36 hours. That’s half a million dollars over a one-and-a-half day period. Damn

BlazBlue is Getting a Live-Action Stage Play

BlazBlue, the popular fighting game series by Arc System Works, is coming to the stage as Live Act BlazBlue ~Continuum Shift~. BlazBlue is far from the first stage adaptation of a popular video game to come out in Japan; Ace Attorney, Persona 4, Steins;Gate, and several others have had their time in the spotlight over…

Petition: “We Want More Sega Games (Like Bayonetta) on PC”

Bayonetta. Virtua Fighter 5. Vanquish. These are all Sega games that must receive PC ports, according to a petition born out of a Twitter campaign from last December. But why those three games, specifically? As the creator of the petition explains, they’ve been chosen because they fulfill three criteria: 1. Do we feel the PC…

Square Enix Is Releasing a Life-Sized JRPG Sword

This is Erdrick’s Sword. A powerful sword, the blade appeared in the first three Dragon Quest games, earning its spot as an iconic video game weapon. And this spring, you can buy one. Square Enix is releasing a one-to-one scale Erdrick’s Sword for 21,000 yen or US$238. The sword measures over three and a half…

​Ten Computer Glitches That Caused Mayhem And Cost Millions

I remember Y2K. You remember Y2K. Everyone remembers Y2K. But do you remember the time a California courtroom computer accidentally summoned 1,200 people to jury duty, causing a huge traffic jam? Or the time Google accidentally caused browsers to read their own site as malware? I learned a thing or two about several disastrous viruses…

Marshmallow Crispy And Cookie Dough Oreos: The Snacktaku Review

Is there any greater event in the snacking world than the introduction of a new limited edition flavor of Oreo cookie? How about two new flavors? I have tasted Marshmallow Crispy and Cookie Dough Oreos, and my findings may surprise you. Nabisco sent along these two new flavors in advance of Sunday’s Grammy Awards broadcast,…

NBA 2K14 Mod Replaces Everyone With Superheroes

Marvel and DC superheroes in a modded NBA 2k14… just what basketball needed! A modder named MGX has done just that with the PC version of the game, adding 25 well-known heroes to the roster. Here’s the changed roster. I’m not sure about that Iron Man, but Beast (in the lower-right) is looking mighty good:…