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Valve Will Start Patching Dota 2 Way More Often [UPDATE]

IceFrog, Dota’s head developer, tweeted late last night that the publisher will take a different approach to how the game is updated going forward. Instead of a few dramatic patches peppered throughout the year, Dota 2 will now get smaller updates every two weeks. “We want to try taking a different approach to how gameplay…

GOG has changed its mind and decided to accept Opus Magnum after all. The brilliant little puzzle game was originally denied a place in the store for unclear reasons, but GOG recently tweeted that it would now be added thanks it part to community feedback

Slay The Spire Is A Roguelike Card Game, And I’m Hooked

Slay the Spire, a roguelike where you try to deckbuild your way out of brutal dungeons, went into Early Access on Steam last November and has since been slowly winning over unsuspecting players who go into it with low expectations. I am one of those recent converts. Developed by Mega Crit Games, Slay the Spire…

Trump’s State Of The Union Donation Stunt Feels Straight Out Of Twitch

Prior to last night’s State of the Union speech, Donald Trump’s re-election campaign contacted the President’s supporters to ask them for small donations. Unlike in the past, however, anyone who donated the day before the speech would get their name added to a ticker running at the bottom of the campaign’s livestream of the event.…

Gwent‘s Latest Card Art Continues To Look Beautiful

A new open PTR (Public Test Realm) has gone live for Gwent, CD Projekt Red’s card game based on The Witcher. Players have already collected some beautiful new artwork for potential cards from it. Gwent has some amazing artists working on it, and the latest batch of files culled from the PTR bear that out.…

The Week In Games: Final Fantasy Fighters Unite 

Square Enix’s fighting game joins the mix this week but not much else. There was a time when I would have bought anything I could get my hands on that sported the words “Final Fantasy.” Ten years ago the prospect of a Square fighting game that wasn’t Ehrgeiz would have made my jaw drop. And…

GTA V‘s North Yankton Is Beautifully Incomplete 

Ludendorff, North Yankton is where the prologue of Grand Theft Auto V takes place. You’re there to steal some cash and then things go sideways, setting in motion the game’s main events nine years later. The town is sort of an after thought, in other words, with lots of low-res textures and missing stuff. That’s…

Track: Real. Now. Love. | Artist: Jerry Paper | Album: Big Pop  Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Monster Hunter: World Matchmaking On Xbox One Is Currently Busted [UPDATE]

Monster Hunter: World is a multiplayer game meant to be played online with other people. Unfortunately, matchmaking on Xbox One isn’t yet working as intended. [Update- 7:00pm, 2/1/2018] Capcom patched the game today to fix matchmaking on the Xbox One. While many players have reported it’s now working for them and they’re able to search…

PlayStation Network is currently experiencing some problems. A note on the service’s status page reads: “You may have some difficulty launching games, applications, or online features. Our engineers are working to resolve the issue as soon as possible, and we thank you for your patience.”

A Super Mario Sunshine World Record Years In The Making

AverageTrey first got into speedrunning Super Mario Sunshine back in 2013. He’d always loved the game as a kid and thought the records in the 120 Shines category still had plenty of room for improvement. Five years later he’s finally cracked the three hour barrier in one of speedrunning’s most popular games. “It’s truly been…

Sunday Comics: Boat Words

Welcome to Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics that usually occurs on Sunday except when it doesn’t. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira. Published January 26. Read more of Nerf NOW!!  Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published January 22. Read more…

The latest update for They Are Billions adds waypoints, new housing styles, and towers out in the map that can be repaired. It also adds a bunch more languages and some new music for when the zombie hordes come knocking, but the waypoints are especially nice, letting players make more complex patrol routes.

YouTuber SWEGTA’s latest dump of Bully content that didn’t make it from the beta into the final game is a super eerie song that was intended to play during Mr. Hattrick’s math classes. By way of Polgyon, the song is pretty good though and will help tide you over until Bully gets remastered.

3D printed wolf Amiibo are pretty adorable. BurninCoco made them using a filament with a high percentage of wood (yes you can 3D print things with what amounts to saw dust) and although they don’t actually serve any purpose, they’re still pretty cool looking. You can see a few more pictures of them over on…

Xenogears‘ Amazing Soundtrack Is Getting Remastered 

The PS1-era JRPG has remained a classic for a number of reasons, but chief among them was the beautiful score by composer Yasunori Mitsuda. According to a recent Facebook post, an “Original Soundtrack Revival Disc” for Xenogears is coming out in April. It’ll be on Blu-Ray and include work from ANÚNA, an Irish choral Mitsuda…

The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II will come to PC on February 14. The game released on PS3 and Vita in 2016. Most notably, the PC version will have 50 percent more lines of English voice-over. If you haven’t kept up on the Trails series you’re missing out

The Weekend In Esports: Boston Counter-Strike Party

ELEAGUE’s Boston Major is almost over with only a few teams left while the Overwatch League continues to dish out some stellar matches. In addition, LCS continues into its second week of the 2018 spring season while DreamHack plays out in Europe, a Gears of War tournament continues in Mexico, and Dota 2 crowns a…

If Halo Weapons Found Their Way Into Destiny 

This is the Focus Rifle from Halo: Reach remade as a Destiny exotic and it looks right at home in elegant interface of Bungie’s loot shooter. The mashup was created by Reddit user LordTutTut who’s a fan of both games and, like many of us, wanted to see the glory of Bungie’s first sci-fi series…

Players Are Having Fun With Monster Hunter: World’s Character Creator

Monster Hunter: World’s character creator isn’t the most realistic or complex one out there, but that hasn’t stopped players from making all kinds of weird avatars. Using a combination of the game’s anime-looking facial presets and its rich shading system, players have made lookalikes of their favorite celebrities, video game characters, and even avatars that…