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​Find Out How Much Time You Waste on League of Legends

You’ve asked yourself the question: just how much am I playing this damn game? Is it months? Years? Decades, even? If you’re been burning daylight playing League of Legends, you can finally get an answer. Lots of people play LoL, with 7.5 million jumping on daily during peak play hours. That’s a lot of man-hours…

Dark Souls II Seems Like The Kind of Game Werner Herzog Would Love

A video game where a brutal, indifferent cosmology smacks players around. A director obsessed with the darker parts of man’s nature. A match made in purgatory! Now we don’t have to imagine what the acclaimed filmmaker would think of Dark Souls II. We can hear that tremulous voice praise the sun right now. This tongue-in-cheek…

​Catch A Glimpse of Titanfall‘s Expensive Live-Action Series

Usually, you have to wait months, years or decades before someone decides to pour blood, sweat and tears to make a filmed adaptation of a video game. Not with Titanfall. Work’s already underway on an effect-heavy series set in the world of Respawn’s mech-happy future. Looks pretty damn spiffy, if you ask me. This Free…

​A Brutally Honest Trailer for Mario Kart

“Witness the incremental evolution of franchise-based go-kart combat racing!” Yup, that’s Mario Kart in a nutshell. This fake advertising clip from Smosh Games for Nintendo’s long-running vehicular competitive game throws down some rough truths about the stuff we love to hate in Mario Kart. Raise your hands if you liked two-man karts. Keep ’em up…

​Sony Wants You To Know That They Have A Next-Gen Shooter, Too

There’s going to be a metric ton of Titanfall chatter this week: how awesome it is/isn’t, whether the online functionality is a triumph/failure, and tips for playing it. That’s all well and good for Xbox One and PC players. But what about PS4 owners? Well, Sony would like to remind its faithful that a high-profile,…

The reason for Titanfall‘s unusual 792p resolution and more technical tidbits about this week’s big release from Respawn Entertainment get discussed in a Digital Foundry interview over at Eurogamer

​Costume Quest—the Cutest Halloween Game Ever—Gets a Sequel

Kotaku called it “the best game that Double Fine has ever made.” Lots of people loved it, too. And now Double Fine is making a sequel. Indie publishing Midnight City just announced that they’ll be partnering with Double Fine to release Costume Quest 2 for PC and consoles next year. From the press release: In…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Mass Effect Postmortem: Has the Wound Been Closed? • Why You Should be More Excited for New Mario Golf • Amnesia Fortnight 2014: Part 1 – Steed TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

​Coming Soon (Maybe) to Your Xbox Dashboard: Political Ads

Video games can be great place to escape the drudgery of the real world. No need to think about tax rates, paying utility bills or contractor rates when you’re in a Halo multiplayer match. But the dirtiest competition in the real world—jockeying for elected office—might be landing up on an Xbox near you, if Microsoft…

​Let’s Hope These Nintendo Mobile Games Never Happen

Donkey Kong, re-imagined as a riff on Angry Birds. Duck Hunt, where you dispatch waterfowl with a slash of a fingertip. Flappy Mario. Please, God, no. Nintendo’s said that they’re not “releasing Mario on smart devices.” One investor in the company really wants them to. So, of course, the folks at Red Bull’s video game…

Unpredictable anime-inspired space combat in the palm of your hands. That’s what you’ll get when the indie-developed Galak-Z—already slated for release on PS4 and PC— hits Vita later this year.

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Lords of Shadow 2—the latest variation in Konami’s long-running Castlevania series—let you play as Dracula. Its upcoming add-on will keeps it in the family, making the alpha vampire’s albino spawn playable in the Revelations DLC. Set during the period where Dracula lay dormant for 1,000 years, Revelations will be a story-centric prequel to the events…

Someone who’s helped get a lot of great video games in your hands needs your help now. Brandon Boyer—the chairman of the Independent Game Festival and a relentlessly exuberant champion of all sorts of video game creativity—fought off cancer last year. But the expenses of his medical care came out to a whopping six-figure sum…

​A Future Where the Worst Nightmares About Video Games Are True

You hear the scare-logic all the time from folks who want to blame video games for bad stuff: they’re just training simulations for how to hurt people. A new sci-fi film project riffs on that premise and places it in a future where all you need to do to play an online game is stick…

​The World’s Biggest Digital Comics Retailer Got Hacked

Comixology—the digital comics storefront that pushes hundreds of thousands of comics to millions of readers all over the world—just informed users that they suffered a security breach. Okay, True Believers, you should know the drill by now: time to pick a new password. Here’s an excerpt from an e-mail sent to Comixology users this morning:…

​Batman’s Next Game Won’t Revolve Around His Greatest Enemy

The story for Batman: Arkham Knight picks up one year after the events of the preceding game, 2011’s Arkham City. A whole lot has changed in Bruce Wayne’s hometown, including the fact that crime is at an all-time low. Part of it is because someone pretty central to Gotham’s criminal ecosystem is laying very low.…

​Sam & Max Is Video Games’ True Detective

You all about that hit show True Detective on HBO, right? They solve crimes. They talk all the time and get on each other’s nerves. They meet some weird folks. They’re a dog and a rabbitty thing. No, wait… Dorkly brings us a vision of the pulpy, philosophical drama that swaps Matthew McConaughey’s Rust Coehle…

​Sequel to Game That Let You Kill Hitler Lets You Kill Him Again

Two years ago, a bonus mission in Sniper Elite V2 lets players intercept a Berlin-bound train and put a bullet in Hitler’s head, deviating from the real world event where the Third Reich leader killed himself in an underground bunker. Apparently, that headshot from Sniper Elite V2 didn’t take. When Sniper Elite 3 comes out…

Superman Is One Of The Reasons We Have a Video Game Ratings System

Remember the Superman game on the Atari 2600? That slightly obtuse piece of superhero wish fulfillment is part of a chain of careers and events that resulted in the formation of the ESRB. What does the big, red S have to do with the folks who put the letters E, T and M on video…

Anti-Candy Crush Game ‘Trademarks’ All Of Your Words

Remember the drama when the makers of Candy Crush Saga tried to trademark the word “candy?” And then they wanted to put a claim on “saga,” too. Of course, trademarking a name isn’t the same as owning it. Regardless, a new game shows you what it would be like to have everyday words become verboten…