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24 Great Video Game Victories, As Told By Players

Earlier this week, I asked you guys to share your most memorable video game victories. The only thing more impressive than the wealth of victories you collectively brought is just how many of those victories were landed. You all shared stories spanning everything from competitive, group and singleplayer play. I’ve collected my favorites, but you…

What’s Your Most Memorable Video Game Victory?

Your whole team’s dead. The clock is ticking and the pressure is on. It’s up to you to secure the win, and maybe you’re even hobbling along on minimal life. Did you make it? Surely you all have memorable victories or comeback stories. Maybe they were unlikely. Maybe you made it by the skin of…

Borderlands: The Handsome Collection: The Kotaku Collection

You can play Borderlands 2 and its associated DLC and Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel and its DLC today, just like you could yesterday. But this time, it’s all packaged together for the new-gen consoles in a definitive collection with some new features, like four-player splitscreen. In celebration—or, really, mostly for pure research sake if you’re looking…

25 World of Warcraft Players Tell Their Best Stories

World of Warcraft lives up to its name in that it is a vast world of its own. There’s so much more to do than just grind your way up to the latest level cap. You guys shared some fascinating stories involving everything from friendships to deaths to glitches. Here are the best ones, in…

What’s Your Favorite World of Warcraft Moment?

Don’t say Leroy Jenkins. Personally? The first time I picked up World of Warcraft about six or so years ago, I ended up spending hours with two friends leveling our characters up to 10 in one sitting. We were stuck—addicted to the grind and to seeing what new abilities we could learn and what new…

What Invader Zim Showed Me About Bullying

If you’re told something repeatedly, it’s hard not to get it stuck in your head. It’s hard not to believe the most awful things people say about you, simply because they’ve said it enough times. And that’s the trickiest thing about bullying. I’ve been rewatching the 14-year-old cartoon Invader Zim, and somewhere in the early…

Tell Us Your PAX Love Stories

Walk around a PAX convention and you’ll see more than just video games: you’ll see tons of bonding. Cosplayers gather together for pictures, developers visit each other’s booths, and, sometimes, even new love blooms. There are plenty of opportunities—both orchestrated and serendipitous—to meet new friends and new loves. Did you meet any new romantic interests…

​Evolve: The Kotaku Review

I’ve been playing a lot of Evolve over the last week and the questions I hear are all the same: Are you tired of this game yet? Is it really repetitive? The answer to each is, simply, no and yes, respectively. Some of you will hate this game. You’ll think its rote nature too boring…

Tips For Playing Evolve

When you start playing Evolve, you’ll probably suck. Even as you get better, you’ll still run into players who also suck. It can be frustrating. So, let’s skip the learning through trial by (sometimes literal) fire, and get ahead of the curve. Tips For Playing A Hunter Play To Your Class If Battlefield is about…

PSA: Don’t Use Your Evolve Account On Multiple Consoles

Some Evolve players’ progress is being wiped when they attempt to try to access their game’s data from a second console, myself included. It’s not clear why yet, but you should probably avoid playing between consoles if you value your time. It’s happened to me consistently now, as I switch back and forth between my…

What Buying Evolve Gets You

If you’re planning on grabbing Evolve when it launches tomorrow, you’ll pretty much be getting a multiplayer experience similar in concept to Left 4 Dead where you can take on one of three monsters as one of 12 hunters (or vice versa). But it’s a bit more complicated than that. Single Versus Multiplayer Evolve is…

Evolve Impressions: ‘Just One More Round’

Evolve can be simplified in many ways, and you’ve probably heard them all before. It’s a first-person shooter. It’s like Left 4 Dead, four players banding together, but you’re up against a Tank—played by a fifth player—each round. It’s one big boss battle, over and over. But the details that go into the new game,…

2/2/2015: Pikachu Will Make You Happy

I’ve had a really terrible week, but Pikachu waving excitedly at me makes me happy. Thank you, jagzilla You can browse our best stuff from over this week over on Kotaku Selects. Have a good weekend, all. To contact the author of this post, write to [email protected] or find her on Twitter at @tinaamini

1/26/2015: Say Hello To All Of Team Kotaku

Well, almost every full-time employee, anyway. Our friend András couldn’t make it from Budapest to join, but this is basically your whole Kotaku team saying hello from our New York headquarters. Sadly the team all flew back to their respective cities and continents, but we had a good week hanging out with each other IRL.…

1/19/2015: A Terrible Realization

Poor Luigi. I mean… What would you do if you saw doodles of yourself placed in seemingly random places? I’d be pretty freaked out, too, as Completely Serious Comics shows here. You can browse our best stuff from this week over on Kotaku Selects as usual. To contact the author of this post, write to…

It Took 27 Minutes To Beat Destiny‘s Crota’s End On Hard Mode

The newest update to Destiny— that introduces a hard mode to the Crota’s End raid—has only been out for about two hours at the time of this writing, but a team of players has already beaten it. It doesn’t look like Invigorate—the team that was the first to complete the Vault of Glass raid on…

1/12/2014: When You See It…

Just an adorable, sleepy puppy? Golden Idol seems to see something else in this Diamond Dog. Let’s flip that image and zoom in: Do you see it yet? How about now: Alright, back to the normal weekend routine where you can browse our best stuff over at Kotaku Selects To contact the author of this…

Our friends at Kotaku UK have compared all four 3DS models, including the New 3DS.

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