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CultureDark Souls Players Nuke Invader Death Star Style
Today on Highlight Reel we have vaporized invaders, powerful kicks, rocket punches and much more! Watch the video above or on our Youtube Page, then talk about your favorite highlight in the comments below. Be sure to check out, like, and share the original videos via the links below Dying Light – “you monsters are…
By Chris Person Published April 28, 2016 - Uncategorized
One Overwatch Character Has Been Around For More Than A Decade
Overwatch was announced at BlizzCon in 2014. It rose from the ashes of a longtime Blizzard MMO project called Titan, which had been in development for years and years only to meet the reaping scythe of cancellation. But Overwatch character Soldier 76 even predates that. Soldier 76 is Overwatch’s trusty Shoot Man. He’s a gruff…
By Nathan Grayson Published April 28, 2016 - Uncategorized
What We Like (And Don’t Like) About The Second Hitman Episode
This week IO Interactive released the second episode for their new Hitman game, full title Hitman 6: So You Want To Be A Hitman? After some costume changes and a few grisly murders, we decided to put our heads together to talk it out. This new mission takes place in the Italian coastal villa Sapienza…
By Kirk Hamilton Published April 28, 2016 -
UncategorizedFinal Fantasy: The Kotaku Retrospective
Here’s a theory: Final Fantasy is defined by how it sounds. No, I don’t mean the music—although Nobuo Uematsu’s stirring soundtrack is as pivotal to Final Fantasy’s success as anything else—I’m talking about how it sounds. The chime of a menu cursor. The squeal of an NPC’s dialogue box. The thunderous jolt of a random…
By Jason Schreier Published April 28, 2016 -
UncategorizedSevered Is A Great Reminder Of How Good PlayStation Vita Games Can Feel
You can shut off your brain with some touchscreen games, tapping and swiping mindlessly until something else distracts you. Severed is not one of those games. Lose focus in this new Vita release and you’ll die real quick. Developed by Drinkbox Sudios, who previously released Guacamelee in 2013, Severed centers on a girl named Sasha.…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 28, 2016 - Uncategorized
Dark Souls 3 PC Has A Massive Cheating Problem
Dark Souls 3 is excellent on PC, but it’s a haven for cheaters. From Software’s solution seems to be blaming the fans who love their game. A number of players found this upon loading Dark Souls 3 last week: The game didn’t explain what it meant by “invalid game data,” but in the past, this…
By Patrick Klepek Published April 28, 2016 -
CultureYou can make chickens in Counter-Strike follow you now. Just walk up to them and press the “use” key. Players like de_nerd have taken it to an extremely logical conclusion. By which I mean chicken parades. Bonus: this video from Dman is certainly… something!
By Nathan Grayson Published April 28, 2016 - Uncategorized
YouTube’s Content ID System Gets One Much-Needed Fix
YouTube’s system for dealing with copyright claims is famed for giving users huge headaches. But things are about to change, big time. YouTube uses something known as “Content ID,” a framework that grants uploads a unique digital fingerprint. If a YouTube channel uploads a video, and the automated system flags it with a digital fingerprint…
By Patricia Hernandez Published April 28, 2016 -
UncategorizedOh Yeah, A New Deus Ex Is Coming Out Soon
Here is your reminder that in addition to Uncharted 4, Overwatch, No Man’s Sky, Star Ocean 5, Zero Time Dilemma, Final Fantasy XV, Mafia III, Danganronpa 3, Gears of War 4, Mirror’s Edge Catalyst, Doom, and all of the other cool-looking games scheduled for the next few months, not to mention all the stuff that’ll…
By Jason Schreier Published April 28, 2016 -
UncategorizedDead Star’s Escape Mode Let Us Relive The Best Episode Of Battlestar Galactica
You can invade people’s games in the Souls games, Dying Light, and Watch Dogs, but, until last week, Mike Fahey and I had never done an invasion quite like the Battlestar Galactica-inspired one we did in Dead Star With the help of the game’s developers at Armature, we dove into the Escape Run mode in…
By Stephen Totilo Published April 28, 2016 - Uncategorized
Sony Never Released This 1970s Console Prototype
If you thought the first video game console Sony made was the PlayStation, nope. It was just the first video game console Sony released Yes, before the PlayStation, before even Sony’s ill-fated collaboration with Nintendo, came this beauty. I’ll be honest, I’d never seen it until yesterday, when art/history site Video Games Densetsu posted a…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 28, 2016 -
UncategorizedSquare Is Releasing A 23-Year Old Super Famicom Game In English For The First Time
To those of you out there who have been holding your breath since 1993 waiting for a western release of Romancing SaGa 2, it’s time to exhale. After 23 years, Square’s finally bringing it here. Even if you’re not familiar with Square’s off-beat SaGa series, you’ve probably heard the name. It’s best described as “alt-JRPG,”…
By Jason Schreier Published April 28, 2016 -
UncategorizedNew DOOM Includes Awesome Secret For Old School Fans
If you’re paying close attention to every level of the new DOOM, you might stumble upon something very cool. Spoilers ahead, obviously! Again, if you don’t want to have this DOOM secret spoiled ahead of release, stop reading. Anyway. Bethesda Softworks and id Software have finally started showing off the singleplayer portion of next month’s…
By Patrick Klepek Published April 28, 2016 -
UncategorizedDark Souls 3 Player Trolls Everyone By Playing As Shrek
Poor Shrek. He just wanted some peace and quiet, but some jerks just won’t stop trespassing over his swamp! This won’t do at all. Watch as Iron Pineapple defends a Dark Souls 3 swamp area while playing as Shrek. Naturally, Shrek is accompanied by Puss in Boots and Donkey, and together they gang up on…
By Patricia Hernandez Published April 28, 2016 - Culture
Just Another Day At The Office For Samus Aran
Jonathan Hamers is a freelance artist from France. You can see more of Jonathan’s work at his Facebookand ArtStationpages. To see the larger pics in all their glory (or, if they’re big enough, so you can save them as wallpaper), click on the “expand” button in the top-left corner. Fine Art is a celebration of…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 28, 2016 -
EsportsGuy Performs Free Jazz To Competitive Smash Bros.
Here’s Caleb, doing a stunning drum performance. And it’s not just random drumming. All the different hits are in sync with all the Smash Bros. moves. You can hear light cymbal hits for Fox’s short hop lasers, for example. He basically replaced all the game’s sounds with drum hits, and it works perfectly, giving the…
By Gergo Vas Published April 28, 2016 -
UncategorizedGTA V Player Pulls Off Absurd Stunts With A Vespa Bike
The Enduro bike isn’t the only suitable vehicle in GTA V for wild custom stunt maps. The Vespa bike might be sluggish, but when handled correctly it’s a good choice for parkour maps as well. This is Dark Stunter, showing his skills and sliding through a pretty technical scooter trial, in record time. To contact…
By Gergo Vas Published April 28, 2016 - Uncategorized
If Future Link Gets Sick of Navi, He Can Just Remove Her Batteries
In the far future depicted in this fan art, Link likely has an easier time dealing with Navi’s nagging. Who is now a robot. That can most likely be turned off. Isn’t the future great? Drone Navi and Future Link are the products of the imagination of Magnus Norén, an artist from Sweden. Here they…
By András Neltz Published April 28, 2016 -
Kotaku EastFirst Look at the Gantz CGI Movie
As reported last fall, a CG Gantz anime film is coming out this year in Japan. Here’s the first, very short teaser trailer. The Gantz manga debuted in the year 2000. It has spawned an anime and two live-action films. Titled Gantz:O, the movie is based on the Osaka chapters, and it will hit Japanese…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 28, 2016