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Man Busted With Pot-Stuffed Pac-Man Machine

Luis Tyler, a small businessman from Orangeburg, South Carolina, needed a creative shipping solution for acquiring 25kg of a common agricultural product. So he asked that his vendor stuff it inside a Pac-Man arcade cabinet, which the cops knew all about, of course.


Cops Say Dad, Visiting Badly Burned Son, Stole Three Consoles From A Hospital

A five-year-old boy playing with a cigarette lighter set his shirt on fire and went to the hospital with serious burns on Wednesday. Cops allege that his father went to the hospital’s family waiting room, and consoled himself by raiding a supply closet and stuffing three game consoles and some controllers into a garbage bag, presumably to bring home.


Of Course Penn State Is Leading NCAA Football 14′s Cover Vote

Ostensibly put up to a series of fan-voted Facebook polls, NCAA Football 14‘s cover also will be influenced by other, as yet unexplained, social media forces. A field of all 126 Division I-A Football Bowl Subdivision teams was supposed to have been thinned to 32 candidates after Monday, but we don’t yet know who the finalists are.


EA Sports Practically Begging For South Alabama’s Forgiveness Now

Whoever screwed up — whether EA Sports or some paper-pusher at the NCAA — the University of South Alabama will not be in NCAA Football 13 during the school’s debut year in major college football.


Excuuuuse Me, Princess, Would You Like To Fulfill Link’s Freaky Fantasy?

OK, let’s get something straight first. Many of you know I live in the Oregon area. Longtime readers remember I got bored and trolled the Craigslist personals in this 2009 post. But I swear to crap I am not the weirdo who posted this.


Is It A Dead Ball Situation When MLB 2K12′s ‘Zombie Player’ Walks On The Field?

If this is the end of MLB 2K12, I suppose we couldn’t say goodbye to the series without one final, terribly embarrassing glitch. Everyone, say hello to the zombie player, thanks to this video by YouTube user bobtrain. Zombie player walks to his position in the middle of play when you pull a double switch, and you’ll only see it if the path the player takes to his position can be seen from the pitching view. Obviously, swapping the catcher delivers the most hilarious results, seen here.


OK, Now We’re Just Being Trolled About Fez

How long has Fez been in development? I can remember my pal Sander going all OMFG showing me this video of the thing while we were goofing off at work. That was before I worked here.


This Probably Isn’t What EA Sports Had In Mind For SSX

In my demo impressions, I suggested that you lay off the stick because the physics lends itself (themselves?) to oversteer. Some dudes in Europe took that advice to the extreme and this what they got: You can finish a race without touching the controller.


Club Nintendo Calendar Invents A New Month

Announced this summer, Club Nintendo’s gifts were customarily dumped on, then turned out to be not that bad. For the platinum level, anyway. Elite level members had to settle for a desk calendar. And one containing a new month, between October and December, named “Nobember.”


I Am Alive Creator Insists He’s Not Opposed To PC Port

Yesterday, Stanislas Mettra was quoted by IncGamers as saying some, well, very inflammatory things about why I Am Alive, the upcoming downloadable title for Xbox 360 and PS3, didn’t have a PC port. Mettra’s now written us — not to give the usual misquoted, or out-of-context dodge — but that if his words sound a little extreme, it’s because he is not a native English speaker.


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