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By Luke Plunkett Published October 30, 2016 - Uncategorized
Steam Runs Out of Keys For A Game, Keeps Selling It Anyway
The Splinter Cell series for PC went on sale this weekend on Steam. Every game was discounted at 75% off, including Splinter Cell: Blacklist, the most recent game which Kirk Hamilton called in his review a sort of “greatest hits” collection borrowing the most successful parts from each previous game. There’s only one problem. Apparently…
By Ethan Gach Published October 30, 2016 - Uncategorized
Steins;Gate 0 will finally release in North America on November 29. The visual novel will be available next month on PS4 and Vita according to a post on the PlayStation blog by localization lead, Adam Lensenmayer. The game is a sequel to Steins;Gate. You can read our review of the imported Japanese version here
By Ethan Gach Published October 30, 2016 - Esports
Perfect Rocky Moment Makes League Finals That Much Better
Samsung Galaxy fought great, but SK Telecom T1 was hands-down the better fighter. And after adding a third championship to their name in just four years, it’s safe to say they are the best team in League of Legends history. That outcome seemed just as inevitable before last night’s finals as after them. Of course…
By Ethan Gach Published October 30, 2016 - Uncategorized
EA Blocks Entire Country From Playing Games On Origin, Says They Plan To Fix It
Electronic Arts says they’re working to fix Origin in Myanmar in the wake of recent news that players could not access their EA PC games in the Southeast Asian country. The ban, widely reported on Reddit (and emailed quite a bit to Kotaku’s tips line today), prevents Origin users in Myanmar from playing any of…
By Jason Schreier Published October 30, 2016 - Uncategorized
Resident Evil Taught Players How To Love Survival Horror
My love for survival horror games began with the first Resident Evil. As a kid I hated everything related to horror, but, after Resident Evil, I came to love and even seek out horror games. I didn’t know anything about the game and had no idea what to expect. The opening, with its live-action footage,…
By Peter Tieryas Published October 30, 2016 - Esports
Pro Overwatch Player Demolishes Opponent In Three Simple Steps
Ana is everybody’s favorite Overwatch sniper mom, and what better way to show off those motherly instincts than by telling Genji to gtfo when the ninja pops in uninvited. In yesterday’s Sweden vs. Brazil group stage match for the Overwatch World Cup, Sebastian “chipshajen” Widlund did just that against a very outmatched James “soulive” Luigi.…
By Ethan Gach Published October 30, 2016 -
UncategorizedSome Skyrim: Special Edition Improvements You Might Have Missed
Whenever a game gets remastered or upgraded, it’s not always immediately obvious what makes the new version so much better. While a couple side-by-side screenshot comparisons can show surface level improvements in lighting and textures, more nuanced improvements can usually take a while to pick out. That’s especially true for a game as massive as…
By Ethan Gach Published October 30, 2016 - Culture
Sunday Comics: You’ve Got Titans
Welcome to Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira. Published October 26. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published October 24. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…
By Ethan Gach Published October 30, 2016 - Esports
The League Finals Are Playing Out On Top Of A Giant Projection
The Staples Center in L.A. is home to the Lakers, Kings, and a number of other teams. It’s also where the championship finals for League of Legends are being held this year. Even though the game plays out on a digital map stored in cyberspace, the organizers behind the event clearly felt the teams needed…
By Ethan Gach Published October 29, 2016 - Esports
The League of Legends 2016 World Championship Finals Are Tonight, Here’s What You Need To Know
Tonight, one team, SK Telecom T1, chases its third-ever League of Legends World Championship win, while another, Samsung Galaxy, shows us if it has any tricks left up its sleeve to prevent that from happening. Matches will begin at approximately 7:30PM EDT, held in the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. You can watch them…
By Ethan Gach Published October 29, 2016 -
CultureToy Time Plays With Cozmo, The Little Robot With A Big Brain
Anki, the makers of Anki Drive, graduate from robotic cars to full-blown robot buddies with Cozmo. He might be tiny, but he’s hiding some powerful tech behind those baby blue box eyes of his. Cozmo is not a pretend robot. He is not a plastic action figure. He is a learning machine powered by a…
By Mike Fahey Published October 29, 2016 - Uncategorized
You can download a free, ad-supported version of Sonic CD from the App Store for a limited time. That’s according to a tweet from Sonic himself. A $1.99 IAP will remove ads, which apparently were showing up even for people who had already purchased the game after a recent update. This problem now seems to…
By Ethan Gach Published October 29, 2016 - Esports
The Overwatch World Cup Is Going On Right Now
Everyone has been waiting for Blizzard to sponsor a large-scale Overwatch tournament in the mold of League of Legend’s Worlds or Dota 2’s The International. So there was some disappointment when the company explained its plans to host a World Cup-style tournament for its new competitive shooter at this year’s BlizzCon. But Blizzard has also…
By Ethan Gach Published October 29, 2016 - Uncategorized
Bethesda Says It’s Going To Fix Skyrim: Special Edition‘s Audio Problems
If you’ve been playing Skyrim: Special Edition on PC or Xbox One, you might have been a little surprised by what you heard in the game. According to a Reddit user by the name of LasurArkinshade, that’s because the audio files for these new versions of the game use a compressed format that makes them…
By Ethan Gach Published October 29, 2016 - Esports
The Weekend In Esports: End Of The Worlds
This weekend is jam-packed. Not only do the 2016 League of Legends World Championships wrap-up later tonight, but with BlizzCon just around the corner, the best and brightest from around the world will be competing in everything from Overwatch to World of Warcraft: Arena, with group play in many of them taking place this weekend.…
By Ethan Gach Published October 29, 2016 - Culture
This Week In The Business: Don’t Give The Market What It Wants
QUOTE | “I would love to make a game that everyone loves, but at the same time I wouldn’t want to compromise and just give the market what it wants. We could all make first-person shooters, but we have a much more exciting industry with people exploring different routes.” – Quantic Dream’s David Cage accepts…
James Brightman Published October 29, 2016 -
UncategorizedElite Dangerous Player Uncovers Biggest Alien Secret Yet
Somewhere in Elite Dangerous’ gargantuan (and, some might say, dangerous) universe, there are aliens. Or there were. Nobody’s entirely sure yet. But players keep finding clues, and the latest discovery—or at least, the way it occurred—even shocked the game’s developers. A played named xdeath (not to be confused with Elon Musk’s character, Spacexdeath) discovered a…
By Nathan Grayson Published October 28, 2016 -
Culture16 Years Later, Fans Find Secret Messages Hidden In Paper Mario
Sometimes, developers put stuff inside of a game that players are never supposed to see. Such was the case with the original Paper Mario, which apparently had a bunch of dialogue that was not discovered until very recently. As Paper Mario expert Stryder7x explains in the video below, if you go out of bounds using…
By Patricia Hernandez Published October 28, 2016