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Stories: The Path of Destinies: The Kotaku Review

“It was time to choose,” says a chunk of opening text from Stories: Path of Destinies says. You’ll be choosing and dying a lot in this action RPG. It never stops feeling good. Even the dying. Stories opens at a crossroads: roguish fox pirate Reynardo has been helping a resistance movement fight an oppressive space…

Modders Take Ark: Survival Evolved To The Moon

Part of what’s made Ark: Survival Evolved such a big hit is the blend of Stone Age tropes and resource gathering. Players feel like they’re surviving by their wits. Would the same mechanics feel as good on the moon? A new mod aims to give players the chance. Ark: Moon Survival is a conversion mod…

Severed, the next game from the creators of Guacamelee will be coming to PlayStation Vita on April 26.

Players Keep Finding Secret New Fatalities in Mortal Kombat X

Fighting game enthusiasts have been going over Mortal Kombat X with a fine-toothed comb ever since the game’s first iteration almost a year ago. Tons of secrets and easter eggs have been discovered but fresh ones keep popping up. It’s been one big gory treasure hunt. NetherRealm have pumped out a bunch of periodic updates…

The Fix Is A Comic Book About The World’s Worst Criminals

The Fix starts with a great high-concept opening: the march of technology has made reliable, old-school, brute force law-breaking obsolete. So, how can a thug indiscriminately shoot and rob people and get away with it nowadays? The Fix answers this conundrum in a way that makes it the most hilarious comic of 2016. Originally posted…

Ta-Nehisi Coates Is Trying To Do Right By Marvel Comics’ First Black Superhero

It’s 2 A.M. on March 20 in France and Ta-Nehisi Coates is not sleeping. “I’m up learning to make maps so I can make one of Wakanda, believe it or not.” Originally posted 4/6/16 The award-winning writer who’s steering the future of one of Marvel’s most important characters is taking his job very seriously. “I’ve…

Metal Gear’s Original Snake Voice Actor Returns For A Car Commercial

Think Konami’s gonna shut this down? Three years ago, fans were shocked to learn that David Hayter, the longtime English language voice of Metal Gear lead character Snake, wouldn’t be returning to his most famous role. Hayter’s lobbed a few darts at publisher Konami and Snake’s creator Hideo Kojima since it all went down. So…

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First-Person Action Movie Hardcore Henry Is a Great Idea That Might Make You Sick

Hardcore Henry is the dream of 1990s video games come to life. It’s a movie that fully realizes some video game makers’ horny pursuit of the hyperreal, only to invert that desire with viscerally cartoonish results. In this action movie, the real world operates on video game logic. You’ll probably wish you had a gamepad…

Nintendo’s asked the makers of that lovely 3D Legend of Zelda tribute game to pull it down. Over on their Facebook page, the developers say that they’re pulling any copyrighted material from the release and making the code available for folks to learn from.

Shut-Down Metal Gear Solid Fan Remake Reborn as Virtual Museum 

Lots of Solid Snake fans got sad when the folks making the Shadow Moses HD re-make of Metal Gear Solid suddenly announced that they were stopping development last month. It turns out that all of that work isn’t just evaporating into thin air. You’ll be able to walk around the environments of what could have…

Naked giant-killing simulator get! Attack on Titan: Wings of Freedom will be coming to the West on August 28. The Koei Tecmo game will land on Xbox One, Steam and last-gen and current PlayStation platforms. You can read about the Japanese version of the game here and here

All of Street Fighter V‘s Costumes So Far, In Every Color

Street Fighter V’s online shop just opened last week, a month after the game’s launch. Here’s all the clothes you can get for your favorite World Warrior. As first spotted on Reddit, one intrepid PC user has thrown up images of every color and clothing option for the current roster of Street Fighter V. Looking…

Spoiler Space: More from Ta-Nehisi Coates on Black Panther

I had a long, entertaining chat with Ta-Nehisi Coates two weeks before the first issue of the new Black Panther series came out. It was so fun that I’m putting the majority of our talk here. Warning: it’s long and has spoilers Kotaku: Tell me about the maps and why you’re pissed off about the…

Gears of War 4 Comes Out on October 11

The next chapter in the Xbox-exclusive shooter series will be hitting this fall, and players will have to opportunity to sample a multiplayer beta on April 18. First shown at last year’s E3, Gears of War 4 introduces a crop of new characters to the planet of Sera. Folks who’ve played the Gears of War:…

Steph Curry, Shaking That Ass Just Like An NBA Dancer

Sport video game modders, you’ve finally gone too far. To be frank, I’m not all that mad at the mod that overlays the bodies of NBA all-star players onto the animations of a league dance team. It’s hilarious watching Steph Curry, Lebron James and other hoop greats getting loose at halfourt. But the disturbing part…

1979 Revolution: Black Friday: The Kotaku Review

1979 Revolution: Black Friday is a game conceived by people who might not ever be able to go back to their native Iran, because they’re daring to create a document from its history. Despite the fact that game-maker Navid Khonsari is suspected of spying by the Iranian government, the primary takeaway from playing 1979 Revolution…

Marvel’s New Poe Dameron Comic Expands The Star Wars Universe

Marvel’s Star Wars comics have been pretty damn good so far. But the creators on these titles have had it easy: they’ve been working with characters who have been popular and well-loved for decades. The team doing this week’s Poe Dameron comic has a tougher job: keeping the momentum going from one of the biggest…

I Think You Mean “Loss,” Street Fighter V

Kingdom Hearts Unchained χ, the mobile version of the game that first appeared on browsers in 2013, will be heading to North America on April 7 It’ll be available for iOS and Android devices.