Yannick LeJacq

Track: Left, Right | Artist: YG, DJ Mustard | Album: My Krazy Life Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

Tips For Playing Dying Light

Hello there, fellow zombie hunters. Dying Light is upon us. Is the intense difficulty curve getting to you too? Here are the best techniques I’ve found to help get me through the night in the undead wasteland of Harran. Maybe even survive the whole next day, too! But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. I’ve…

One Of StarCraft’s Biggest Players Is Leaving For Dota 2

One of StarCraft II’s most accomplished and well-known esports players is retiring from the game after two and half years at the very top of its competitive scene. Sasha Hostyn, or “Scarlett” to her many fans, recently revealed that she’s stepping away to try playing Dota 2 instead. Scarlett explained her decision to step away…

Assassin’s Creed Rogue is coming to PC on March 10th, Ubisoft announced today. We really liked the console version, so we’re excited. Woo!

Secret Super Mario Level Found In Dying Light [UPDATE: More Secrets]

The latest Dying Light easter egg that’s been uncovered transports players to a Super Mario-esque stage, only with a lot more zombies inside. YouTuber Arekkz Gaming discovered the secret portal to zombie goomba (zomgoomba? goomzombie?) killing goodness, and was kind enough to show us all where to find it: As he explains in the video,…

How To Make Dying Light More Difficult

Dying Light has only been out for a week, but many players are already itching for bigger and better challenges than those in the base game. Since there isn’t a “hardcore mode” or anything like that yet, the best way to turn up the difficulty dial is imposing your own custom rules. Here are some…

The system requirements for Mortal Kombat X recently popped up on the game’s Steam page, giving us all a better sense of what it’ll take to render all that spine-ripping in gloriously hyperbolic detail. Thankfully, it won’t take all that much by modern high-end PC gaming standards. Huzzah!

Guy Beat Dying Light With No Weapons

It was only a matter of time before some brave soul tried to make it through the terrifying zombie survival game Dying Light using only protagonist Kyle Crane’s hands and feet. Hats off to YouTuber BOYvsVIDEOGAME for providing extensive documentation showing just how it’s done. In the “No weapons, fists & kicks only playthrough” that…

Dying Light’s latest patch removed a popular weapon-duplicating exploit, but don’t worry: there’s already a workaround. It only took players like Reddit’s BillSavage a few hours to find a new way to break the game’s loot system wide open. Learn how to do so in the video tutorial above. Text-instructions included below. Here’s how another…

Have A Nice TRIP

See, it’s just like pulling a prank on a friend in real life, only instead of helping him up afterwards you split his skull open with a pickaxe. I cannot get enough of this game.

The Sims 4’s First Expansion Pack Sounds Cool, Super Expensive

The Sims 4 is getting its first full-blown expansion pack in April, developer EA announced today. Known as “Get To Work,” the pack adds new jobs with full-blown workplace locations you can actually visit and play around in. That’s pretty darn exciting. Less thrilling is the $40 price tag. The Sims has long been known…

Dying Light: The Kotaku Review

I was almost ten hours into Dying Light before I got my hands on a gun. It was an assault rifle, and I had to kill a man for it. Doing so wasn’t pretty, nor was it easy. You begin Dying Light in a nearly identical position to the one you’re in at the beginning…

Are you playing Dying Light? Are you playing online, in co-op or in “Be The Zombie” mode, on a PC or either console? If it’s running well for you, let us know. If you’re running into bugs or other problems, let us know that, too! We want to get a sense of how the game…

Super Smash Bros. for Wii U just got a new update that makes 15 more stages available in 8-player form. As is often the case when Nintendo updates stuff, other, bigger changes might have just snuck their way into Smash as well. If you see anything interesting, let us know! Full stage list below. The…

How To Trick Dying Light Into Giving You Loads Of Money [UPDATE]

Dying Light is a game with a lot of loot and a lot of grinding. If you’re looking for an easy way around its loot grind to maximize your time spent killing zombies for fun and fun alone, fear not: players have uncovered a handy exploit to do just that. UPDATE: Techland keeps patching this…

My First Few Hours With Dying Light

I wasn’t sure what to expect from Dying Light, a new open-world zombie game from a studio known for making the regrettable open-world zombie series Dead Island. Imagine my pleasant surprise, then, when I discovered some cool ideas during my first five hours with the game. Maybe you can teach an old zombie new tricks.…

Chill Out To This League of Legends Video. Wait, What? 

You heard me.

Smash Bros. Players Rally In Defense Of Diddy Kong

Diddy Kong has become the most divisive character in the new Super Smash Bros. ever since competitive players picked up on the primate’s formidable fighting strength. His reign as the fighter to beat sparked a newly heated debate this week when one pro Smasher blamed the game’s community for the whole Diddy upset. The argument…

What’s Your Favorite MOBA?

MOBAs are all the rage these days. But the hybrid part-action, part-RTS, part-turret defense genre is also so new still that there haven’t been that many great ones yet. So which is your favorite? Are you a League of Legends loyalist? Have you been won over by Smite already? Do you prefer Awesomenauts, the wild…

A Classy Way To Settle A Dispute In League Of Legends

Figuring out who’s going to do what before a League of Legends battle officially begins is as crucial a process as it is a rushed one. Tensions can run very high as a result. Three players had a wonderful way to pre-empt any name-calling when a potential conflict suddenly reared its head recently: with rock,…