Fighting Games Community Raising Money for Colleague Who Died Suddenly [Updated]

A well liked member of the fighting game community died two days before Christmas. His colleagues are paying tribute and holding a fund raiser to help his grandmother pay for funeral costs. Nelson Reyes, 28, better known as EMP_Remix (above at left), died on Dec. 23. His passing was confirmed by his sponsor, Empire Arcadia.…

World of Tanks Wishes Happy 2014 With A Lovely YouTube Mini-Game

Turn on the notifications on the video (for once), choose a tank, and march through the various World of Tanks YouTube videos to reach Wargaming.net’s shiny Christmas Tree and their presents. It’s not that easy to get there on the first try. The snowy forest is full of enemy tanks, obstacles, and there’s also a…

Tourists Face Off Against Museum Guards in a Great-Looking Party Game

It’s an epic duel of wits between the curious photographer and the protective museum guard, decided using camera flashbangs and banana peels. No Photos, Please! popped up recently on Steam’s Greenlight, promising an entertaining party game with local (and planned online) two-player multiplayer. It’s a stealth game taking place in a museum, basically. Take a…

Our primary goal was to [recreate the experience of playing Diablo 2 online], rather than to make a game that everyone in the world could play. Grinding Gear Games CEO Chris Wilson, answering a fan question about the complex and somewhat casual gamer-unfriendly systems behind Path of Exile. Give a listen above.

Track: The Usher | Album: More Constant Than The Gods | Artist: SubRosa Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

The World’s Biggest RC Helicopter Could Carry A Kid. Or Cat.

This is the second model of a giant remote-controlled Cobra attack helicopter, built by enthusiast Josef Schmirl. The previous one was 11.5 feet long, and weighed 52 pounds. This one is bigger The animatronic pilots are the best. Worlds largest RC Heli – New!!! Version RED BULL Cobra [YouTube, via Laughing Squid]

Who Do I Have To Kill For This Famicom Nintendo 3DS?

I have a weakness for the Famicom colour scheme. That bold crimson, the slightly tacky gold, it’s an 80s Chinese restaurant, bad hotel lobby and classic Nintendo console, all rolled into two tones. And that’s just seeing the shades on the internet! Put them on a 3DS – like James Montagna has done here –…

Kinect Can Turn You Into A Tiny Action Figure

A company called Shapify is, through the magic of Kinect and 3D printing, allowing Microsoft’s peripheral to serve as your gateway to tiny narcissistic action figures. You’ll need a Kinect, a PC and Shapify’s software. With all that, the camera can take a complete 3D image of you – in a pose, if necessary –…

You Can Buy Lemonparty For $450,000

If you’ve got a spare $450,000 lying around, and a penchant for ancient internet jokes, you could be the proud owner of Lemonparty’s still active, still-NSFW domain. The site’s owner is a Mr. Eric Johnson, who The Daily Dot perfectly describeas “a purposefully vague twenty-something freelance Web marketer who started buying strange URLs after he…

Microsoft’s Games with Gold program goes all Square Enix-y in January with Sleeping Dogs and Lara Croft. Xbox 360 gamers with a Gold Xbox Live subscription will be able to download Sleeping Dogs for free January 1 through 15, with Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light free from January 16 to the 31.

Do we need a good pro wrestling game on iOS? One in which you’re the promoter, not the wrestler? Wrestling fan and game creator Brian Papa thinks so. Check out his Kickstarter for a game called Ringmaster. Looks cool.

TIME Looks at the History of Consoles—Including the 5th-Gen ‘S–tshow’

The launch of the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 this year rounds out the eighth console generation, as good a time as any to look back on the seven preceding it, in this three part video series by TIME. Some familiar faces offer their insights on the overcrowded “shitshow” that was the fifth console generation.…