Patrick Klepek

Overlord Is Finally Coming Back, But I Have Concerns

It’s been six years since Codemasters released an Overlord, but I’ve gotta admit Overlord: Fellowship of Evil is not the sequel I was expecting. They seem to have turned it into Diablo. What made Overlord so interesting and unique was both its sense of humor (you play as the quasi bad guy, after all) and…

Play GTA V As A Deer In Rainy Los Santos Using A New PC Mod

It’s finally possible to embrace your inner animal and become a chimp, deer, fish, or countless other things in Grand Theft Auto V, thanks to the quick advances of the modding community. If we ever had any doubts GTA V would become moddable on PC, they’re now gone. Modder Alexander Blade has released Script Hook,…

It’s Always A Good Time For Smash Bros x Space Jam

DJ Slammeister loves two things: Smash Bros. and Space Jam. (Me too!) Normally, one has to enjoy them separately, but that’s no longer the case, thanks to the Super Slam Bros. IV album. What’s more remarkable is realizing this isn’t the first album mashing up these two things. The Super Slam Bros. Melee EP was…

A Game That Keeps Going Even If You Kill Everyone

No matter who you kill in Westerado, the story keeps going. Even if you kill a main character. You might have heard of Westerado before. It was released as a browser game on Adult Swim’s website in 2013, but it’s been reworked and enhanced as Westerado: Double Barreled on Steam. The open world adventure game…

The Best Video Game Rumors From The Early 90s

Electronic Gaming Monthly used to be my bible. Every month, I’d flip through the pages, and dream of the future. Quartermann was EGM’s rumormonger, and I hung on his every word. Rumors have been part of video games forever, and it’s no different in 2015 than it was in 1993. The difference between then and…

The Total War series is getting an infusion of orcs and magic with the long-rumored Total War: Warhammer Creative Assembly’s latest strategy game has been confirmed, though we don’t have a release date (or even year) quite yet. Here’s how Sega and Creative Assembly are currently describing the game: “Our rules have changed, and with…

Watch A Super Mario Bros. Aquarium Get Built From Scratch

If I ever decide to buy fish, I’ll have to consider this incredible aquarium by Kelsey Kronmiller. “I started in about a year ago, after my good friend showed me a similar tank and challenged me to make one….so I did,” said Kronmiller to me over email. “I originally wanted to go with the underwater…

The Lies Adults Used To Tell Me About Mortal Kombat

Mortal Kombat was the reason I’d beg my parents to drop me off at the arcade, and for good reason: my local hangouts were granted access to early versions of the bloody fighting game. What I remember most from that era was knowing I’d get to play the newest version of Mortal Kombat before anyone…

Check Out This Treasure Trove Of Japanese Game Interviews

Shmuplations might sound like a website designed solely for hardcore shoot ‘em up fans, but it’s actually an incredible repository of old, translated interviews with Japanese game designers. The publication has been raising money on Patreon for a little while now, and we’re finally seeing it pay off with a series of insightful and candid…

BioWare’s Star Wars Games Are Not Official Star Wars Canon

With the new Star Wars movies, Disney basically tossed out everything in the Extended Universe. At last week’s fan convention, someone asked what it meant for BioWare’s games. What “canon” means for Star Wars has changed in the last few years. While Disney is reigning in what is and isn’t considered “official,” it’s still open…

Mod Turns Dota 2 Into A Third-Person Shooter

You know, I might actually play Dota 2 if it became a third-person shooter. We probably shouldn’t expect Valve to ever sign off on dropping Dota 2 into a completely new genre, but modder BMD_ has done it for them. BMD_ even pulled it off by using the actual Dota 2 tools and game engine,…

Worth Reading: Game Downloads Are Getting Out Of Control

It’s Friday, buddy! Relax, and enjoy a slice of insightful gaming writing from the week that was. Hey, You Should Read These “The Problem With Growing Download Sizes” by Daniel Sims I couldn’t stop laughing when fellow Kotaku writer Patricia Hernandez tweeted her estimated download time for Grand Theft Auto V on PC: more than…

GamerGate Booth Kicked Out Of Canadian Comic Expo [UPDATED]

The Honey Badger Brigade, a group of men and women sympathetic to men’s rights activism and calling itself a collective in favor of artistic expression, had its booth removed from the ongoing Calgary Expo today for reportedly disrupting panels and associating with GamerGate. Update (7:18 P.M.): Calgary Expo has released an official statement, and Xenospora…

Long Ignored Dark Souls 2 Glitch Is Finally Getting Fixed

From Software has been ignoring a durability bug in Dark Souls II for the past year, but it’s getting addressed in an upcoming patch. Here’s the gist: when you swing weapons, they begin to degrade. That’s natural, and it’s easy to fix them at a local blacksmith. However, anyone running the game at 60 frames-per-second…

Someone’s Made A Good Friday The 13th-Style Video Game

Given that I recently spent weeks rewatching every Friday the 13th movie so I could rank them, it’s hardly a surprise Lakeview Cabin Collection is right up my alley. Lakeview Cabin Collection is an episodic horror game in which players try to defeat a series of seemingly unstoppable monsters who want nothing more than to…

A Horror Game That Looks Straight Out Of 1995

We’ve seen plenty of games filled to the brim with pixels, but what about crappy polygons? Back In 1995 promises to be “just like PlayStation or Sega Saturn in 1995.” Thanks to Rely On Horror, one of the better horror gaming sites around, for pointing this out! Back In 1995 has loading screens with flipping…

App Lets You Leave Cryptic Bloodborne Messages In Real Life

If you love leaving weird messages for friends and strangers in Dark Souls and Bloodborne, perhaps you’d like to extend your services to the real-world, too. While the Souls games take place in dangerous lands, you’re not alone. While exploring (and dying), you often come across messages from other players. The messages are typically vague…

There Are Several Promising PC Mods For GTA V Already

Rockstar Games isn’t officially supporting mods for Grand Theft Auto V, but that’s not stopping clever players. The game is slowly being opened up, and chances are, this is only the beginning. GameSpot asked Rockstar about modding last week, and it didn’t paint a welcoming picture. Modding took off for GTA IV PC. What are…

Annoying Dark Souls 2 Glitch Has Gone Unfixed For Nearly A Year

Dark Souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin runs at a terrific frame rate, and it’s great! Unfortunately, that introduces a glitch that degrades your weapons really fast, and From Software doesn’t seem to care. Weapon degradation is not new to the Souls games. It’s possible to induce degradation by hitting dead bodies or striking…

Battlefield Heroes and several other games are shutting down on July 14, according to a post by Electronic Arts The free-to-play take on Battlefield never really caught on, and the company admits it’s “an older title that is not as popular as it once was.” You can reach the author of this post at [email protected]…