The girl playing circles knew how to play,

Nice list. I would’ve included Clive Barker’s Undying and American McGee’s Alice somewhere.

To make things a little more clear: on NES Tetris, pieces almost instantly get stuck to the stack. You don’t have the long grace period of more recent Tetris games that allow you to slide the piece around on the stack. Also, the horizontal speed of the pieces when you hold a direction is very poor compared to the…

Why is everyone calling this the “October Update” when it’s a fucking “Upgrade”

“I have some quibbles with Rowling’s world building—how does magic work, exactly?”

How fitting, but this isn’t the Marble Madness sequel I was expecting.

Speaking as a Japanese dude: the real cultural force at work here is the Japanaese concept of “Meiwaku” (causing trouble to others).

Driving instructor here. Brake fade is real. We have some instructors who have rested their foot on the extra brake pedal in the passenger side so the brakes are engaged while the student is driving. They heat up and glaze over, no more brakes. It doesn’t end well.

like this comment if you want to see a Kotaku Dot Com Chop Championship Tournament streamed live on YouTube next week

That dude under a CRT screen is asking for serious trouble.

I’m going to state this up front: they’re E. For Everyone.

I won’t take this seriously if the players are not obliged to yell

Top 15 cars people buy because their kids destroy everything, I mean everything.

To all posting, take a couple minutes, follow the link in Jason’s article and add your name to the petition. Call your senators and congress stooges. Donate.

There is so much about this:

If you already played the game it will feel short.

A billion dollar company with a negative billion dollar cash flow.

I use it sparingly on the Wii U/3DS for pulling up FAQs (but like, I used it a ton when I was playing Earthbound since Nintendo uploaded the player’s guide to their site).

I worked in a shop that was really pretty good about compensation and work/life balance, but I was forever butting heads with my director over a particular phrase in our mission statement or values declaration or whatever it was: “bias toward action.” I took that to mean, “If you see something wrong, take the…

Thats the hard part about building a PC on a budget. there are so many “if i just spend 10$ more dollars!” moments, and you have to pick and choose which ones to go with.