You Can Now Get StarCraft For Free

In preparation for the upcoming remastered version of StarCraft: Brood War, which is scheduled for this summer, Blizzard has made the original versions of StarCraft and its expansion free. Totally free. On both PC and Mac. There’s no catch. You can get the game here

Last weekend I recorded this cover of my favorite song from Undertale. It was a fun process that gave me a new appreciation for people who make videos like this. Hope you like it! If I ever make another one, I promise it’ll have better lighting.

Overwatch, But Also With Cats

Overwatch is good with dogs. Thus it is written, it is also good with cats. These are all the work of Alice Bissonnet, an artist and animator from France who is a graduate ofthe famous Goeblins school The images were all drawn last year as part of a charity drive, with the proceeds of each…

Esports Will Become A Medal Event At The 2022 Asian Games

Competitive video games will become a medal sport for the first time ever at the 2022 Asian Games, the Olympic Council of Asia announced. They will appear as a demonstration event at the 2018 edition of the next Asian Games, held in Indonesia, as part of the run-up to esports’ official inclusion as a medal…

Tekken 7 Competitor Trash Talks His Way To Tournament Victory

Trash talking is a time-honored tradition in the fighting game community, and few are better at it than Bronson Tran. Known as “the mouth of NorCal,” this veteran has been a threat at Tekken events for over a decade, and made his return to competitive play this past weekend at the fifteenth installment of the…

Blizzard Gives Overwatch Car Wheels, Ruins Game Forever

Overwatch just broke one of its big design rules: Every car is a flying car. And in response, fans are deeming the game “unplayable.” In a 2015 interviewwith the L.A. Times, Overwatch game director Jeff Kaplan explained that the rule came out of Titan, Blizzard’s never-released MMORPG project. Titan’s dev team had hard-banned flying cars.…

First 100% Zelda: Breath Of The Wild Speedrun Takes 49 Hours

The fastest speedruns in Breath of the Wild are slightly over forty minutes. Link wakes up, rushes to Ganon, and saves the world in the blink of an eye. But the game is full of treasures to find and other tasks to complete. A new speedrun to collect everything takes over two days to fully…

Flinthook Is A Tough But Fair Game About A Space Pirate

There are several bosses in Flinthook, a 2D platforming roguelike (roguelike-like? A game with roguelike elements? ANYWAY) by Tribute Games that is out today for computers and consoles. Seven hours in I haven’t beaten the first boss, but I’m having a great time anyway. You play as the eponymous tiny masked pirate, boarding a series…

Pop Star YouTuber Captures The Hell That Is Being Online

One YouTube pop star has created a catalogue of every single YouTube video possible, and now you never have to go online again. That Poppy is a project created by director Titanic Sinclair. That Poppy is a pop star and a YouTuber with a channel deliberately unlike other singers of her genre. Instead of saccharine,…

Tips For Playing Overwatch

Of all the games with tens of colorful heroes and millions of people playing incessantly, Overwatch is the least overwhelming. Still, it’s not like anything else out there. It’s not a typical shooter, nor a MOBA, nor even a heartwarming point-and-click adventure starring a gorilla in glasses. Here are some tips to help you wrap…

Telltale’s Guardians Of The Galaxy Series Starts Strong

I feel like I’ve just spent two hours poring over the first issue of a Guardians of the Galaxy limited series while listening to classic rock. It’s a good feeling. After sharpening its comic book storytelling technique with The Walking Dead, Fables and Batman, Telltale Games sets its sights on Marvel’s motley crew of spacefaring…

Skyrim and Fallout Fans Are Making Killer Mods On PS4 Despite Limitations

On PC, mods are the lifeblood of games like Skyrim and Fallout. Console owners eventually got mods too, but it’s not the same: the PS4 version of the game is severely limited by small file sizes and the inability to use external file assets. The joy of watching Thomas the Tank Engine careen across the…

Snacking Near Your Keyboard: A Guide To What (Not) To Do

The other day, our intrepid snack and gaming hardware reporter Mike Fahey picked up KFC for lunch. He brought it home and returned to his office, where, at the most recent count, he keeps 11 mechanical keyboards. Collecting them is his new hobby. And he’s taking it very seriously. He refused to eat anything anywhere…

A Spoiler-Packed Chat About Horizon Zero Dawn‘s Excellent Story

Three Kotaku staffers have finished the new PlayStation 4 game Horizon Zero Dawn, so it feels like time to talk it all. Join me, Kirk, and Patricia for some SPOILERY talk about Aloy’s wild robot adventures. Jason Schreier: Alright, let’s talk about Horizon Zero Dawn. Now that the game has been out for nearly two…

The Disney Afternoon Collection’s Rewind Button Makes A Big Difference

Capcom’s Disney Afternoon Collection drops this week on Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC, bundling together six classic NES games based shows from the heyday of Disney television animation. They’re just like you remember them, only now you can rewind. Watch us play. We streamed brief plays of all six games in the collection over…

A Japanese Snack Food Commercial For Metal Gear Solid Fans

If you’ve played Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, you might remember the Calorie Mate energy supplement snacks. Fast forward to 2017 as Snake’s Japanese voice actor Akio Otsuka is now lending his talents to Calorie Mate’s latest ad campaign. Make sense, because in Metal Gear Solid 3, there are extended conversations about Calorie Mate.…

Blade Runner Pistol Is Being Turned Into…A Water Gun

Blade Runner’s blaster already has a number of expensive replicas. This summer, it’s getting a water gun. Japanese gun model maker Ryosuke Takagi previously did his version of Deckard’s PKD Blaster from Blade Runner As these Zospec photos show, it’s an impressive piece, costing around $600—or more. That replica is the basis of an upcoming…