Battle For Azeroth Blood Lust Fades Quickly

When World of Warcraft’s seventh expansion pack went live on Monday, Blizzard’s dramatic pre-launch events had whipped me into an anti-Horde frenzy. Three days later, I just want to hang with these snake critters. War’s over, everybody go home. My first few hours with the expansion were filled with the same story-based, single-player questing I’ve…

The Diablo III Switch Port Took Nine Months

It’s official: Diablo III is coming to Switch. Later this year, you’ll be able to cosplay as Ganondorf from Legend of Zelda and kick the crap out of Diablo from Diablo. It’s the first Blizzard game on a Nintendo platform in 15 years, but fortunately, Blizzard had help. During a meeting in San Francisco earlier…

I Put A Big Air Cooler In My PC And It’s Working Pretty Great

Last week, I documentedthe constant low-level anxiety I had been feeling about cooling the CPU in my gaming PC. I’d spent a couple of years wrestling with all-in-one liquid coolers and had never found something that worked like I wanted. Well, good news: I’ve finally found something that does. Last Thursday I replaced my Corsair…

Conflicting Reports Emerge About Game Developer’s Arrest After Filming Police [Updated]

Game developer Patricia Pizer was arrested in Rock Hill, South Carolina yesterday on charges that she assaulted a police officer while filming the officers with her phone. According to The Herald, the Rock Hill police department’s report states that Pizer assaulted an officer. Pizer’s husband, who says he has seen a surveillance video of the…

GTA Online‘s Newest Truck Is Really Helpful (And Pretty Expensive) 

GTA Online’s latest free expansion, After Hours, has been focused primarily on nightclubs, drinkingand music. But the expansion’s latest update adds some new and dangerous toys to GTA Online: a powerful little drone, an armored and highly-advanced truck and the already feared jet bike, the Oppressor Mk. II. While it might not be the most…

Max Payne Still Holds Up

Last night, I started playing through Max Payne on Kotaku’s Twitch channel. Returning to the 2001 game after so many years reveals a smart and surprisingly funny game full of experimentation. And, of course, kickass bullet-time gunfights. I first played Max Payne in junior high when my friend Dan brought the CD-ROMs over to my…

Japan Has More Than Just Square Watermelons

A few years back, there was a report that wealthy people in Russia were paying over $800 for Japanese square watermelons. In Russia, that’s supposedly 300 times the price of a regular watermelon. But why square Japanese watermelons? That’s so passé! Watermelon is a popular summer fruit in Japan. People give watermelons as gifts and…

Demon Gods From Fate/Grand Order Spawn In Taiwan

Demon gods from Fate/Grand Order are popping up in Taipei to mark the release of the free-to-play game’s latest chapter. In the clip below, you can see how the Demon God Barbatos appears in-game (jump ahead to around the 40-second mark) Barbatos has been joined by other Demon Gods for this installation. Fate/Grand Order has…

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Hit A Rock, Get To The Top Of Hyrule Castle, Easy

18 months on and people are still finding crazy stuff to do in Breath of the Wild: here’s Zantssmacking a rock a few times and ending up on top of Hyrule Castle To save you asking “how the hell did he do that”, here’s an explanation on how the hell he did that:

Australian Military Cuts Ties With YouTubers Over Tweets, Rape Jokes

A report by Sydney newspaper the Daily Telegraph has resulted in the Australian Defence Force cutting ties with two prominent Australian YouTubers, Elliott “Muselk” Watkins (pictured above, a member of Australia’s Overwatch World Cup Team in 2017) and Alen “ChampChong” Catak. This story originally appeared on Kotaku Australia. According to the cover story, which was…