An Animated Storybook Is The Best Way To Learn Dark Souls Lore
I’m a sucker for Dark Souls lore, and Dark Souls retold as a fairy tale storybook is one of the best ways to get that lore communicated in an easy, simple way.
Saturday's Best Deals: Fossil Accessories, Cheap SSD, Solar Battery, and More
Happy Saturday! Kick off your weekend with discounted massagers, a surprisingly affordable graphics card, Fossil’s semi-annual sale, and the rest of the best deals from around the web.
If Streaming Is the Future of Console Gaming, It Might Be Screwed
News of the next generation of consoles has slowly trickled out over the last couple of weeks. None of the news gives us a clear view of either Sony or Microsoft’s consoles—instead we’ve only gotten teases of each. And those teases have had wildly different focuses. On one hand, you have rumors of what Sony’s hardware…
Carry Around Your Stuff In This $30 Canvas and Leather Backpack
Canvas and leather is always a winning combo. There’s enough space inside this backpack for a 17" laptop, plus it has a ton of pockets, and even nice touches like magnetic snaps and a leather side handle. Get it for $30 today with promo code 6PHRSQOQ.
Four Job Fiesta, the Final Fantasy V challenge run event, is happening through August 31st. It’s all about beating the game with randomly assigned jobs. Read up on the event at the official site and check out some Twitch streams of runners doing their thing.
PUBG's Mannequins Are Scary As Hell
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds’ Sanhok map is now available to all players on PC after a few months of testing, and it has mannequins. They’re terrifying.
Finally, A Chart Explaining What Is In Each Assassin's Creed Game
I count myself as a fan of the Assassin’s Creed franchise, but even I get a little confused about which game has what kind of stuff in it. Now there’s a chart that clears up any confusion.
We’re playing Metal Gear Solid live now on Twitch until we finish! Expect wolves, ketchup, gunfights, and sunglasses. If you think you’re up to it, come and join the chat, rookie.
Amazon Leaked the Date For Prime Day 2018 - Here's Everything You Need to Know
Amazon just accidentally let slip that its fourth annual Prime Day event will seemingly last 36 hours, starting at noon on Monday, July 16, and running all the way through Tuesday the 17th, as first spotted by TechRadar. That’s a bit later than in previous years, and still nearly a month off, but you can go ahead and…
'Shop Contest: Even More Smash Bros., Winners!
Smash Bros. is a fan favorite, and one of the reasons it is so successful is that it brings all of our favorite characters together to absolutely wreck house all over each other. I asked you to add more characters. You delivered.
This Week In The Business: Down On The Sickness
QUOTE | “Gaming disorder is characterized by a pattern of persistent or recurrent gaming behaviour, which may be online or offline, manifested by: 1) impaired control over gaming (e.g., onset, frequency, intensity, duration, termination, context); 2) increasing priority given to gaming to the extent that gaming takes…
Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku’s reader-run community: Star Wars Stories That Would Make Great Films • Speedrunning Marathons You May Not Be Aware Of • Thoughts On Battletech 1.1 Patch • My Favorite Recent Multi-player Games • A Few Words On Final Fantasy XV • Dev Journal: Day 9, Day 10 & Day 11
This Mid-Range Graphics Card Is Reasonably Priced, At Least By 2018 Standards
If you have a small PC case and/or a small budget, but still want to play new PC games at reasonably good settings, the NVIDIA GTX 1060 is the graphics card for you. Get EVGA’s 3GB version for $230 right now, which is the best price we’ve seen all year, though it was cheaper last year before the great crypto-shortage…
Japanese worker fined for starting lunch 3 minutes early
Japanese work culture is so stringent that some workers have actually died from karoshi, or chronic overwork. These workers die from heart failure or even suicide, in a culture that can see 100-hour workweeks with very little time off or vacation. While Japan is reportedly trying to loosen that culture to be less…
Popular Twitch Streamers Temporarily Banned For Playing Copyrighted Music
Today, more than 10 popular Twitch streamers tried to kick off their streams, only to find a nasty surprise waiting for them: they’d been kicked off Twitch for 24 hours. The reason? They played copyrighted music during their streams.
Nintendo Still Has Not Announced Animal Crossing For Switch
Will Nintendo ever release a 3D platform game starring Isabelle from Animal Crossing? How tall is Isabelle? Will someone please make a film in which Isabelle is 500 feet tall and King Kong dies when he looks at her? Will Square Enix announce a release date for the Final Fantasy VII remake? All these E3 2019…
One Rule For The Dragon Ball FighterZ Championship Is The Most Dragon Ball Thing Ever
A world championship tour for Dragon Ball Fighter Z will see qualifying competitions in seven different countries, each with its own Dragon Ball as a prize. But what if one competitor wins all seven?
What Are You Playing This Weekend?
The weekend is for actually cleaning the house this time, not like last weekend when you said you would and then just lay on the couch thinking, “Boy, this house is a mess!” It’s also for playing video games.
