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With Voice Chat Coming, Heroes Of The Storm Players Brace For Harassment
In the near future, Blizzard is adding built-in voice chat to Heroes of the Storm. Announced at BlizzCon last year, it’s been a long time coming to a game that’s been out since 2015. Some players, however, are worried that voice chat will cause more problems than it’ll solve. For months, HOTS streamer FerociouslySteph has…
By Nathan Grayson Published February 7, 2018 -
UncategorizedYou Can Now Pilot D.Va’s Mech (And Use Other Overwatch Weapons) In Doom
Hairy arms and all. This wonderful little mod by MyNameIs adds stuff like D.Va’s mech from Overwatch to Doom (well, GZDoom, the modern platform for it). It’s more than a quick little joke: once summoned, you can stomp around the map shooting stuff to your heart’s content. The mod, called OverDOOM, also introduces a bunch…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 7, 2018 -
UncategorizedRare Dragon Ball FighterZ Glitch Makes Tien’s Opponents Invisible
Tien’s a dude with three eyes whose best friend is a ghost child and maybe a vampire. That’s pretty weird on its own. It turns out he can turn people invisible too, by way of a recently discovered glitch in Dragon Ball FighterZ A Player who goes by RZampa demonstrated how it works, or at…
By Ethan Gach Published February 7, 2018 - Uncategorized
Billy Mitchell Breaks Silence About Donkey Kong High Score Controversy
Last week, a popular Donkey Kong website announced that it would be removing former champion Billy Mitchell’s scores from its list after an analysis that it said showed his playthroughs of the game were achieved on the emulator MAME and not on original arcade hardware. Yesterday, Mitchell made what is so far his only response…
By Heather Alexandra Published February 7, 2018 - ReviewsPC
Civilization VI: Rise and Fall: The Kotaku Review
It took Civilization V two full expansions to become the classic it’s regarded as today. Civilization VI is halfway there. While my 2016 review of Civ VI was glowing, it did come with the historical reservation that Civilization games are so big, and their design process so ever-evolving, that they’re rarely a masterpiece from the…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 7, 2018 - Uncategorized
Blizzard Bans Overwatch Griefer Who’s Ruined Games For ‘Thousands’ Of Players
“I don’t want to stream the game, because I literally get stream sniped every day,” said popular streamer TimTheTatMan of a particular griefer who kept interfering with his matches. Now Blizzard’s announced that it has banned the griefer, but only after discovering that they were using multiple accounts and “systematically ruining Overwatch games for thousands…
By Nathan Grayson Published February 7, 2018 - Uncategorized
How To Organize Your Cords
I bet you own a few cords. You might have so many cords that they burst out behind your TV stand or below your desk. Play video games for any length of time and you’ll acquire all sorts of cords you don’t know what to do with. For just a few bucks you can rein…
By Ethan Gach Published February 7, 2018 -
OpinionIf You Like Metroid, Play Dandara
Dandara is an action game where you can’t run. Your character leaps from wall to wall across massive maps while battling bosses and collecting power ups. It takes the exploration of Metroid and adds a ton of style. Created by Brazilian developer Long Hat House, Dandara tells the story of a warrior who must save…
By Heather Alexandra Published February 7, 2018 - Esports
Scarlett’s StarCraft II Victory Shows How Esports Could Work For The Olympics
Sasha “Scarlett” Hostyn made history for both women and non-Korean StarCraft pros last night by placing first in a premier tournament, IEM Pyeongchang 2018. The Canadian defeated two-time world champion Kim “sOs” Yoo Jin playing as the Zerg, her old standby, in a 4-1 victory. She’s the second North American pro to ever place first…
By Maddy Myers Published February 7, 2018 - Uncategorized
Deepfakes, the subreddit where people were making fake porn using AI tech (some of which involved video game characters) has been shut down. Reddit found it to be in violation of its policy against “involuntary pornography.” Despite rules that prohibit “any person in a state of nudity or engaged in any act of sexual conduct…
By Nathan Grayson Published February 7, 2018 - Uncategorized
Monster Hunter: World Shows How Destiny 2‘s Grind Could Improve
At a first glance, it may seem like Destiny 2 and Monster Hunter: World don’t have much common. But there are several clear reasons why people like me are switching from Bungie’s first-person shooter to Capcom’s third-person monster-fighter. The biggest one, in my view, comes down to grinding and loot. “Grind,” in a video game,…
By Kirk Hamilton Published February 7, 2018 -
UncategorizedWatch Us Play The Next Game From Former Plants vs. Zombies Developers
When the original Plants vs Zombies came out close to eight years ago, I got a little obsessed with it. Some former developers of that game have made a new game called Octogeddon, in which you play as a giant octopus. Octogeddon tasks you with being a trespassing octopus with tentacles designed to swat and…
By Paul Tamayo Published February 7, 2018 -
UncategorizedShadow Of The Colossus Players Try To Solve The Mystery Of The Golden Coins
Shadow of the Colossus’ remake does more than spruce up the game’s graphics, it also adds an entirely new collectible for players to find. Players hunting down these hidden trinkets believe they are on the path to a new secret but there’s a hurdle in their path—they don’t know how many exist or what will…
By Heather Alexandra Published February 7, 2018 - Uncategorized
Sims 4 Update Makes It Easier To Have Black Sims, But There’s A Catch
The Sims 4’s newest update added ten new, darker skin tones, as well as a new curly hair, to a game that had had not previously reflected the range of skin tones that black people and other people of color have. The new skin and hair options are welcome, but they’ve arrived very late in…
By Gita Jackson Published February 7, 2018 - Uncategorized
The Surge 2 is happening and aiming for release on PC and consoles sometime in 2019. Deck13, the game’s developer, is touting the sequel’s expanded world and limb targeting system. That’s good news as the first game’s levels were a bit claustrophobic. Still, the robot dismemberment system was pretty great
By Ethan Gach Published February 7, 2018 -
UncategorizedOur First Look At Injustice 2‘s Ninja Turtles In Action
Cowabunga, dudes. By far the oddest addition to the Injustice 2 roster, all four Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles will soon join the super-powered fights, leaping in and out of battle to support one another, as ninja brothers do. Check out the first footage of the foursome in action. Players will select which turtle they want…
By Mike Fahey Published February 7, 2018 - Uncategorized
Massive Book About History Of PC RPGs Is Out Now For Free
For the past four years, writer Felipe Pepe has been compiling a book about computer role-playing games, enlisting developers and journalists from across the globe to write about everything from Ultima to Fallout 4. The book is out now—and you can get it for free. “Across its 528 pages you’ll find information about over 400…
By Jason Schreier Published February 7, 2018 - Culture
The Newest Taco Bell In China Sure Looks Swanky
A couple new Taco Bells have recently opened in China, and boy does this one look nice. The new eateries are also serving China-only meals, including beef kebab nachos and a ribeye steak and mushroom taco. Check out the new Taco Bell in Feng Shen Li. Fancy, huh? Yannick Boucher, a game dev in Shanghai,…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 7, 2018 - Kotaku East
CG? Japanese TV News Doesn’t Need CG
While the stereotype might be that Japan is hi-tech, some of its biggest news broadcasters use low-tech dioramas and models to explain current events. While respected Japanese network NHK has a full CG department, able to churn out impressive computer graphics, it still uses models made by its stable of master prop makers. NHK’s prop…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 7, 2018
