Ezio, Your next Target Is…Tyrion Lannister

This snap, taken at the London Film and Comic Con last week, is just…well, it’s just the best. The whole show sounds like it was the best, actually. For a convention that’s not the San Diego Comic Con, that’s one hell of a lineup For further proof of how awesome Tyrion’s actor Peter Dinklage is,…

3DS Update Adds Rabbit Who Sells You Stuff In the Most Nintendo Way [UPDATE]

A new 3DS update in America (the rest of North America, too?) is triggering a major overhaul to the system’s Mii StreetPass Plaza. And, in the process, Nintendo adds a rabbit to the system who wants to sell you stuff. The video above shows you this rabbit salesman (salesrabbit) in action. It’s quite a sight…

The (Many) Things The Godzilla Remake Got Wrong

It’s certainly no coincidence that on the week Pacific Rim comes out, Cinema Sins chose to turn their Spotlight of Pedantry upon Godzilla, Roland Emmerich’s 1998 remake of the classic Japanese monster movie. I haven’t seen this movie since it came out in ’98, but man, I remember disliking it even then. Now I’m asking…

Tarantula Versus Scorpion. Bets On Who Wins?

With Animal Crossing: New Leaf, it’s all in the little details. You can blow a dandelion, for example….or, you can watch a tarantula and a scorpion duke it out. Amazingly, when you donate both a tarantula and a scorpion to your museum, this happens. Who wins? Since this is Animal Crossing, it’s a tie. Maybe…

Right Now You Might Be Able To Buy Metro: Last Light For One Penny [UPDATE]

UPDATE: the site now says it’s “sold out online.” Original article: Looks like someone might’ve made a mistake…but here’sMetro: Last Light for a single penny on Best Buy. By the time you read this it might be gone, so get on that! Looks like it’s legit, though—here’s a picture from an anonymous tipster: Hopefully they…

Amazing Human Slingshot ‘Game’ Will Help You Injure Your Friends, Puke

I don’t even know where to begin. Here’s “The Human Slingshot,” a game from Vat19 that looks like a lawsuit waiting to happen. Or at least, a chipped tooth or twelve. It involves standing inside a giant rubber band with your friends, then hurling yourselves past one another. That’s it! That’s the game! I’ll stick…

This Hilarious Show Is Like Adventure Time Meets Studio Ghibli

This cartoon by Natasha Allegri—character designer and storyboard artist for Adventure Time—is truly something else. In fact, I’m having a hard time saying anything about this that isn’t just “amazing” and “OH MY GOSH CUTE.” Here’s a description from YouTube, although it’s like trying to explain an episode of Adventure Time…words kind of fail. Bee,…

The Coolest Exclusive Goodies Of Comic-Con 2013

Completely arbitrary headline alert! This is a list of what I think are the hottest, mostly video game-themed toys and books of next week’s San Diego Comic-Con, based on years spent developing tastes and whims specifically geared towards making me spend entirely too much money on colorful pieces of plastic. There are so many excellent…

This great article over at Tested goes on an epic journey to find the best CRT monitor for playing retro games.

This Mom Has 60 Seconds To Hug Her Child, But She’s Trapped In A Mech

Where Is The Button For Love? gives you a very simple goal: Hug your daughter. The only problem is that while you were working on your mech, the retro-turboencabulator malfunctioned, and now you’re trapped inside. This MechaMom adventure was an an entry to this year’s Molyjam, the game jam originally based on the tweets of…

The Original Starter Pokemon, Bickering Over Being Chosen

If (most) Pokemon could talk, I imagine that the start of all games would go down a little like this video by Shippiddge. Lobbying, arguing, childish fights, silliness—all so that you’ll pick one specific Pokemon over the other one. Charmander all the way, FYI. I’m a fire Pokemon kind of woman. The rock gym is…

The Galaxy Is Saved! Now Clean Up All The Leftover Gore.

If you’ve played a “gritty” or “mature” video game over the last ten years, chance are you’ve splattered some blood and viscera all over the insides of a spaceship or two. In the words of your mom: Who is going to clean this mess up? You are, as it turns out. In the newly released…

‘It’s basically the Dark Souls of heist games.’

This has got to be the year of the heist video game. See Monaco. See the new Sly Cooper. See the Big New Focus of Grand Theft Auto V. See the fascinating, upcoming Payday 2. Yes, fascinating. I saw Payday 2 nearly a month ago, back at E3. It probably shouldn’t have taken me a…

The Kickstarted game Wasteland 2 now has a publisher—Deep Silver, who will distribute the game but concede all creative control to the developers at inXile, according to inXile

Does Animal Crossing ‘Promote Otaku Citizenship?’

That’s the question explored in this week’s PBS Idea Channel video. Now, I’ve been writing on the internet long enough to know that otaku is Internet Dynamite. Like “dubstep” and “roguelike,” it’s a word that you can’t even say without making hundreds of people break their keyboards typing apoplectic comments. That said, I thought this…

The Moneysaver: Infinite $24, Tomb Raider $15, Humble Weekly

Far from the madding and expensive crowd. Yes, today is in fact the Steam Summer Sale, and you can click right here for our coverage. That out of the way, we’ve got lots of great deals for you in today’s post, including a new Humble Weekly Sale, $24 Bioshock Infinite, and $15 Tomb Raider. Enjoy…

By the way! I still haven’t unlocked the QR reader in the game (I can sense I’m almost there; they’re being very friendly to me in the pattern shop), but if you have, here’s a QR code for the Kotaku logo. Which I fully plan to make my town flag, or at least to hang…

Let’s Be Real About Our Unplayed Steam Games

Look, I know how easy it is to buy something on sale. There’s probably nothing I can say that will stop you from indulging in the yearly Steam summer sale. Still, I find that sale time is a good time to reflect on my PC gaming library—specifically, the tons of games I haven’t played yet.…

Anonymous Person Posts $500k Bail For Jailed League of Legends Player

An “anonymous good Samaritan” has donated $500,000 to the family of jailed League of Legends player Justin Carter in order to help them post bail, reports MSNBC Carter, who was arrested for a Facebook comment in which he said he would “shoot up a kindergarten,” has been in jail for almost four months. “Oh yeah,…

If The Last Of Us Was A Live-Action Movie, This Would Be Its Trailer

We’ve all played with the idea of imagining Naughty Dog’s terrific The Last of Us as a feature film. YouTuber bloodrunsclear ran with the idea and edited scenes from dozens of movies together into a very emotional trailer. The result is actually really close to the real The Last of Us experience. Watch carefully, because…