Rainbow Six: Siege Revamping Competitive Play, Deemphasizing Pesky Microtransactions

In a new dev diary, Ubisoft Montreal outlined changes for Rainbow Six: Siege’s second year. Alongside plans to revamp the roster of operators, competitive leagues will be restructured and cash-free loot provided to all players. Years in Siege have four seasons that add eight new operators and at least four new maps. However, some of…

The Mods That Are Keeping Quake Alive In 2017

Not only is Quake alive and well in 2017, its modding scene is making a comeback. For the uninitiated, Quake is a faster, twitchier experience than most modern shooters. While Quake’s protagonist isn’t as inhumanly fast as the protagonist in Doom, your agility allows for bunnyhopping and rocket-jumping tricks that still awe crowds at regular…

You Can’t Kill A Good Star Wars Game

Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy, known by regular humans just as Jedi Academy, is a shooter that was released back in 2003. Part of a series that originated with the best Star Wars game of all time, it’s being kept alive by mods like Movie Battles, which “lets players play and fight in the…

Koei Tecmo’s VR Cabinet Has Touch And Smell Functions 

Meet “VR Sense.” This is a Koei Tecmo’s dedicated VR arcade cabinet. It won’t only have VR headsets, but is equipped to respond to all five senses, including smell and touch. According to Game Watch Impress and Famitsu, three games were announced for the cabinet at its debut earlier today. There is Dynasty Warriors, GI…

Final Fantasy VII Remade As A Huge Snow Sculpture 

TheSapporo Snow Festival is now underway in Japan’s northern most prefecture Hokkaido. One of this year’s main sculptures is Final Fantasy VII themed, featuring Cloud and Sephiroth. Impressive, no? Each year, theJapanese military moves all this snow to make these huge sculptures.  Lots of detail if you get closer. These TV news images might give…

Realistic Chocolate Shoes On Sale In Japan 

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, the Rihga Royal Hotel in Osaka has nine pairs of edible men’s shoes. They come in three different shades of leather (er, chocolate) and look like real shoes. Just check out the stitching. Incredible. According to With News, these delicious brogues are size 26cm, which would be a size…

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Report: Denuvo Website Leaks Private, Company Emails

Theft protection company Denuvo is not having a good week. First Resident Evil 7, which employs Denuvo’s once-unassailable anti-tamper tech, was cracked in just five days. Now folks have discovered a bunch of unprotected content on the company’s website, including what are reportedly emails from companies like Capcom and Google. TorrentFreak reports that the company…

Star Wars: Battlefront III Lives On In Battlefront II Mod 

While we wait forthe full fan-made remake of the cancelled Star Wars: Battlefront III, another team is already releasing betas for a similar project. Only theirs is about modding Battlefront II and adding in a bunch of Battlefront III stuff in over the top of it. Star Wars Battlefront III Legacy is a mod for…

Making Minecraft Maps Beautiful

Minecraft may be practical, but its simple visuals can also be, for some folks, a bit gross. Which is why things like Chunkyexist, to help make blocky maps beautiful. Here’s what a “realistic” map looks like in vanilla Minecraft: It looks like Civilization II with the UI turned off. Here, though, Darastlix has shared an…

Another Game Based On An Old WarCraft III Mod

DOTA might be the most high profile WarCraft III mod to be turned into an actual video game, but it’s not the only one. There’s also Ruin, a “top-down arcade style arena brawler” based on apopular old WCIII mod called Warlock Brawl It’s kind of like DOTA (as you’d expect, given their shared lineage), only…

The Week In Games: The Samurai Man Cometh

Samurai Dark Souls is finally here. And not much else. I say “finally” because Nioh, a game that felt like a samurai take on Souls, and in fact turned out to be basically exactly that, actually began its journey over a decade ago back in 2004. The game is based on an abandoned script by…

Real Life Operators Bring Some Gravitas To Competitive Gaming By Standing Awkwardly On Stage

The Rainbow Six Invitational is a tournament going on right now for the latest Tom Clancy military shooter. So of course the event needed to have real life operators on stage to drill home just how bad ass the whole thing totally was. The event’s host, Matt Andrews, was really pumped about the whole thing.…

The Director Of Dissidia Final Fantasy Thinks It Could Be An Esport

Dissidia Final Fantasy came out over a year ago in Japan as an arcade game, but a console version is apparently still in the works. In a recent interview with Weekly Famitsu the game’s producer, Ichirou Hazama, and director, Takeo Kujiraoka, said that the only reason a console version of Dissidia Final Fantasy wasn’t shown…

Mod Builds An Entire Pokemon Game In Minecraft

Pokémon Cobalt and Amethyst is a new Minecraft mod that takes the intersection of the two gaming worlds to an entirely new level. If a game allows mods, you can be sure a fair share of them will be Pokémon-inspired. And while there are no shortage of similar projects created using Minecraft, Cobalt and Amethyst…

Sunday Comics: You Need To Hide That

Welcome to Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics that usually occurs on Sunday except when it doesn’t. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira. Published February 3. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published January 30. Read more…