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Tell Us Your Best Toxic MOBA Player Stories

Toxicity is a fact of life in popular MOBA games like League of Legends, Heroes of the Storm, and Dota 2. No two toxic players are exactly the same, though. Encountering toxicity can even lead to genuinely heartfelt moments between people who’ve never met before. What’s your most memorable run-in with MOBA toxicity? These can…

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…

Five Nights At Freddy’s, Meet Minecraft

If you can’t beat ’em, hit them in the face repeatedly with a pick axe while weeping and then build a giant wall to make sure they never get close to you ever, ever again. Steam user Maximum Player offers a pretty spot-on rendition of what I (or any of you) would do if we…

Choose Your RPG Class Wisely…

Nurzhan Bekkaliev is a freelance concept artist and illustrator from Kazakhstan who has some of the most incredible character design skills I’ve ever seen. If any of these were made into a video game, or comic, or cartoon series, I would get them. And their action figures. On the spot, no questions asked, no matter…

Valve Requires New Public Disclosures From All Steam Users

Talking about a game in a Steam review, broadcast, curation, Greenlight upvote, or even forum post? If it’s a compensated promotion of any sort, all Steam users—yourself included—are now required to publicly disclose that info. Gamasutra came across the new Steam Subscriber Agreement wrinkle after a recent update. It covers promotions paid for in cash…

The Man Who Does The Impossible in Super Mario 64

Before the world knew him as Mario, Nintendo’s iconic plumber had a simpler name: Jumpman. That name makes sense, when you think about it: Mario is defined by his ability to jump. But lately, I’ve become fascinated by the people who play—and beat—Super Mario 64 without jumping a single time. Heck, sometimes they don’t even…

Twilight Princess’ Midna. Cosplay by Jinglebooboo, photo by Torremitsu

Jupiter Ascending, What Are You Doing

I haven’t seen Jupiter Ascending. I’ve only seen its concept art. I’m guessing it’s a movie about “holy shit what is happening there are space things and what”. We’ve seen some art from the movie before, but today we’re looking at the contributions of Adam Kuczek, an artist who has also worked on stuff like…

Survival Games Have Gotten A Bit… Predictable

Alternate headline: “Every PC Game Released In The Year 2015.” This video by Crazy Boris Productions imagines a survival game (think DayZ and H1Z1 and Minecraft and Stranded Deep and Reign of Kings and The Forest and The Long Dark and Don’t Starve and) that combines every other survival game. It’s one of those things…

The Biggest Counter-Strike Event Yet

Over the weekend, all eyes were on Counter-Strike. Well, maybe not all eyes, but more than a million pairs of them—at once, no less. This year’s Counter-Strike: Global Offensive ESL One Katowice event managed to smash previous CS eSports records, topping out at more than a million concurrent viewers—700,000 on Twitch and heaps more in-game.…

Silly GTA V Jet, This Isn’t Tony Hawk

Today on Highlight Reel we have jet drifting, invisible bikes, air sniping, over enthusiastic orcs boats in cities skylines and more! Watch the video above, then link any of your favorite highlights in the comments, and be sure to check out, like and subscribe the original videos via the links below. Battlefield Hardline – Invisible…

A Cosplayer Might Be One Of The First People On Mars

American cosplayer Maggie Duckworth has a chance at being one of the first human beings to set foot on Mars. And, when that’s done, be the first human being to cosplay on Mars. As one of the finalists in the Mars 100 competition, Duckworth was picked from over two hundred thousand applicants. You might think…

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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…

Zelda Was A Badass In This Classic Nintendo Comic

There was a Zelda animated series, and it was terrible. Let’s not dwell on it. But if you ever wondered what would happen if the same art style ditched the excuuuuuuuuuuuse me’s and played things a little straighter, you should know that such a thing actually exists. It’s The Legend of Zelda comic, released in…

Dude Builds Civ Wonder In Front Of Actual Wonder

When Peripatet was in Jordan visiting the ancient wonder of Petra, he had only one thing on his mind

The Secret Behind Terrific Cosplay: Big Arms

This is Yasemin Arslan—who does not have big arms—doing a hell of a job cosplaying as Overwatch’s Tracer. You may notice, though, that she’s kinda floating in the air. Like magic. How’d she pull this off? “PhotoShop, duh” is only half the answer. The other half is the way Arslan and photographer Beethystaged the shot.…

The Week In Games: Episode Duscae

This isn’t the Week in Games you wanted but fear not, there’s a demo for the Week in Games you wanted included in this Week in Games. How many people with absolutely no interest in Final Fantasy Typo will be picking up the game this week just to get their hands on the demo for…

Sunday Comics: You’re Useless

Welcome to Kotaku‘s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira. Published March 12. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published March 9. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…

This Week In The Business: A Young Man’s Game

QUOTE | “It has become harder and harder for me to find jobs, and particularly after I got past 50 years old.” – 59-year-old designer David Mullich, talking with other game industry veterans about the pervasive age prejudice in the game industry Elsewhere in the business of video games this past week … QUOTE |…