Fans Building New Halo Game On PC

A group of over 30 Halo fans from around the world, fed up with the limited options available to them on the PC, have decided to make their own multiplayer Halo experience. It’s called Installation 01, and their goal is “to recreate the multiplayer experience of the Halo games, and for gamers to enjoy an…

PSA: Don’t Buy A PlayStation 4 Right Now

The PlayStation 4 is an excellent console, one that I’d recommend to anyone who’s looking for a new video game system. Also, you should definitely not buy one. Patrick Redford, a writer for the Bleacher Report fan website Deadspin, has been asking me for the past month whether or not he should buy a PlayStation…

Twitch Will Highlight Disabled Gamers This Week

Right now, I’m watching speedrunner HalfCoordinated blast through Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight on “Insane difficulty” using just one hand. HalfCoordinated has hemiparesis, so the whole right half of his body is severely weak, a disability that hasn’t stopped him from speedruning Momodora: RUtM in under 25 minutes. Today, HalfCoordinated is on the front page…

Hitman‘s Bangkok Episode Is A Colorful Return To Form

Hitman’s latest episode, Bangkok, returns to the ostentatious locations of the series’ previous installments. While Marrakesh was largely brown and yellow straightforward stealth, Episode 4’s Himmapan Hotel is bursting with color, alternate paths, interesting guests, and creative ways to take out your targets. This mission is of a much more personal nature than we’ve seen…

Beloved Destiny Community Member Dies At 33

Allen Carr Mackey, best known in the Destiny community as ‘DrDrizzay101,’ died on Friday from carbon monoxide poisoning, according to one of his friends. Mackey was 33. Mackey was well-known to other players—particularly on the Destiny NeoGAF community—as a kind, considerate, always-helpful Destiny addict with a seemingly endless amount of patience. He helped guide friends…

It’s A Very Good Time To Level A World Of Warcraft Character

This is Raccoon, my new World of Warcraft rogue, looking dapper at level 24. This screenshot was taken on Friday afternoon, the day after he was created. As of this morning he’s level 91. He’ll hit the level 100 cap this evening. He’s been working out, with demons. Now any power-leveler can get a character…

Swapping Overwatch Character Animations Is A Good Time

A new set of animation tools released last week have made it a lot easier for people to import Overwatch’s characters into Source Filmmaker and mess around with stuff. Like swapping player animations. Created by speeder99123, there are already some cool clips being made: Not every character or animation is working right now (some, like…

Indie Zelda-Like Oceanhorn Is Getting A Sequel

With Oceanhorn: Monster of Uncharted Seas soon spreading its Windwaker vibe to the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, indie developer Cornfox & Bros. reveals its next project, Oceanhorn 2: Knights of the Lost Realm, taking the series from top-down to third-person action RPG. The first Oceanhorn arrives on current generation consoles on September 7, completing…

Giant Snorlax Cushions Are A Bad Idea

Make that, owning a giant Snorlax cushion is a terrible notion. The concept of them is fine. The reality is not. As Kotaku previously posted, Bandai Namco is releasing a huge Snorlax cushion that measures 130cm (4.2 feet) across and 150cm (4.9 feet) tall. It seems like a good idea. And hey, what’s 52,000 yen…

The Tokyo Olympics Could Be The Geekiest Olympics Yet

As reported earlier, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe appeared at the 2016 Rio Olympics’ closing ceremony as Mario. But that wasn’t the only Japanese pop culture cameo. Other iconic characters from gaming and anime popped up in a Tokyo Olympics promotional clip shown during this year’s closing ceremony, Such as Pac-Man. Captain Tsubasa from the…

Official Look At Super Saiyan Rose In Dragon Ball Super

Previously, Kotaku reported that leaks could indicate a pink-hair Super Saiyan was a thing. Now, we can confirm that for sure. Meet Super Saiyan Rose. The official reveal was in a teaser for next week’s Dragon Ball Super. The on-screen text reads and “Black Goku Rematch! Super Saiyan Rose Appears!!” and corresponds to the previously…

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Mario Stars In Olympics Closing Ceremony

With the Rio Olympics drawing to a close, Tokyo is up next in 2020. And to mark the occasion, Mario made a surprise appearance at the closing ceremony tonight, warp-piping from Japan to Brazil and transforming into…a cosplaying Japanese Prime Miniter Shinzo Abe. Really. Here’s footage of the Rio-to-Tokyo handover show, which begins with a…

Look At This Mechanical Keyboard

I’m in love. Sadly, this isn’t a commercial product. It’s a custom job by Will_26, who took an old QFR keyboard, got some custom keys then hydro dipped the housing the get that woodgrain look. (If you don’t know what hydro dipping is, it’s essentially magic) This is the second such job he’s done this…

After Nine Years Of Work, Fez Gets Its Last Update

Perspective-shifting platformer Fez came out all the way back in 2012. It was first announced in 2007. Last week, a patch was released for it that brings nearly a decade’s worth of development on the title to a close. Programmer Renaud Bédard, with help from Ethan Lee and a group of testers (many of them…

The Week In Games: Come Together

Mankind may stand divided this week but next week, Hatsune Miku will bring us back together through the power of song and dance. Let’s all stay strong until then. Other ways in which this week is all for the lovers fighters: King of Fighters XIV, Worms WMD, Madden, and every single one of those Nintendo…