Patrick Klepek's posts

patrickklepek
Patrick Klepek
patrickklepek
Senior reporter at Kotaku, streaming Mario deaths at youtube.com/patrickklepek
Now playing

Harmonix has announced the final slate of songs for next month’s Rock Band 4, including Mumford & Son’s “The Wolf,” R.E.M.’s “The One I Love,” Gin Blossoms’ “Follow You Down,” Imagine Dragon’s “I Bet My Life,” and more. The whole tracklist list is available right here.

Battle Chasers: Nightwar, a new collaboration by a bunch of ex-Darksiders creatives, is on Kickstarter right now. The JRPG-inspired game looks terrific, and is already well on its way to meeting its $500,000 goal after a single day. Read more

Now playing

The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth, a massive expansion for Edmund McMillen’s twisted roguelike, finally arrives on October 30. Afterbirth adds new game modes—one focused on “greed,” another with daily seeded runs—and tons of new items, endings, and other secrets for players to discover.

Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio recently praised Minecraft. “If you play Minecraft, you’re basically writing code when you’re converting a hammer into a pickax,” said Rubio, according to the AP. “Kids might not realize they’re coding, but that’s going to be almost a basic proficiency just because of the Read more

Borderlands has joined the growing list of Xbox 360 games compatible with Xbox One, Microsoft announced today. It’s already available for Xbox One preview members, while everyone else joins the party in November. Read more

Rocket League’s next big patch is coming in a few weeks, and it’ll let you immediately play another ranked game when a match is over (finally!), filter out PS4 players while on PC, fix the endemic of ******** usernames, kick off the game’s first competitive season, and more. Read more