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A Giant MMO Made Entirely Inside Minecraft

This is Wynncraft, a gorgeous fantasy MMO that you can play on a Minecraft server. It’s a full and proper MMO: Wynncraft has everything from quests to levelling to guilds to bosses, and takes place on an enormous map that’s around 4000 x 5500 blocks in size (you can view a zoomable map of the…

The Legend Of Zelda: Mechanized Combat Armored Division

Reader Khris Ramirez, who last year made those awesome Pokemon x Gundam models, is back with a new one based on Zelda It combines an SD Neo Zeong model kit with a Nendoroid Link, then paints the whole thing in a very appropriate Hylian colour scheme. You can see more of Khris’ work at his…

SpongeBob Speedrunner Won’t Rest Until Battle For Bikini Bottom Gets The Respect It Deserves

You’ve probably never given any of the SpongeBob games a second thought, but one speedrunner is playing thousands of hours of SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom in order to change that. Released in 2003, the game arrived a year after the first Ratchet and Clank and was several more removed from the glory days…

How A Man Born Without Eyes Plays Video Games

Toby Ott is 27 years old. He’s been playing video games since he was five, when he first tried out Mortal Kombat in an arcade. Which sounds like a fairly common gaming past, until you learn that Toby has bilateral anophthalmia, a rare condition which means he was born without eyeballs. While this obviously presents…

The Week In Games: A Rime For All Seasons

It’s been nearly four years since the game that looked like if Wind Waker had a baby with Ico was announced. How time flies! Development woes and the mounting pressure of creating a game that keeps getting described in terms of two all time greats aside, Rime (or RiME if you’re so inclined) remains as…

Reigning League Champs SKT Scrape Past Challengers To Win Mid-Season Invitational

SKT T1 has long been the most dominant force in League of Legends, winning three Worlds championships. Given the results of today’s Mid-Season Invitational finals, it doesn’t look like that’s changing anytime soon, as SKT T1 beat G2 for the MSI title, 3-1. The South Korean team as the top seed from their region, after…

Injustice 2 Comeback “Worse Than Golden State Blowing A 3-1 Lead”

It can often seem like you’re out of your league in online games like Injustice 2. With their back against the wall and a sliver of health left, Flash player Honey Bee CMNDR looked all but out of it, until they flipped the switch and ran it all the way back on a very unsuspecting…

DIY Modders Are Using 3DS Cases To Carry Their Nintendo Switches Around

If you have a Nintendo Switch you probably love it. Just the right size and weight with a screen that’s sharp and bright, one of the only issues is keeping it safe. Kotaku’s own Stephen Totilo put his in a sock, but there are other solutions out there, including retrofitting 3DS pouches using a bunch…

Overwatch Player Drops Genji’s Dragon Blade Ultimate Within 15 Seconds Of The Match Starting

Dragon Blade is Genji’s ultimate. It grants the cyborg ninja 1.17 swings per second, 120 damage per swing, an eight meter per second movement speed and lasts just six seconds. Player KingFluffy was able to fill up the ultimate meter in scarcely twice that time to unleash a brutal onslaught that left the other team…

Price Of WoW Tokens Jumps To All Time High Following Destiny 2 Reveal

The in-game value of WoW Tokens jumped to a record high this past week after Activision announced that Destiny 2 would be available on PC exclusively through Blizzard’s game client. The news meant a lot of things. PC players would be able to chat with Destiny 2 players while in a Hearthstone or Heroes of…

Smash Pro Wins Tournament Just In Time To Make His Flight

Yesterday’s single-day Greninja Saga Super Smash Bros. For Wii U tournament ran late, leaving one pro in a predicament after qualifying for the finals. Elliot Bastien “Ally” Carroza-Oyarce was leaving on a jet plane at 11:45 p.m., and the tournament kept going later and later. Ally had scheduled his flight in advance, as any savvy…

Podcast: How Prey‘s Best Characters Came To Life

One of Prey’s biggest strengths is how it realizes the inhabitants of the space station Talos-1, and on today’s Kotaku Splitscreen, we talk to the man responsible for many of them: Chris Avellone. First, Kirk and I talk a bit about Nier: Automata (6:55) and the Nintendo Switch (11:15) before jumping into this week’s news:…

Sunday Comics: Nothing Personal 

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 May 17. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published May 8. Read more…

Jury To Decide Whether Valve Actually Owns Dota 2

It probably does, but that hasn’t stopped a federal court from taking a closer look at the question. Two mobile developers, Lilith Games and uCool, have tried to make clones of Dota 2 for smartphones and been sued by Valve as a result. Their games, Dota Legends and Heroes Charge respectively, are slimmed down MOBAs…