Alien Isolation‘s Artificial Intelligence Was Good…Too Good

I stayed perfectly still after they chased me into the air vent. I hadn’t heard anything for several minutes. Surely they’d left by now. Crawling out of my hiding spot, I found myself face to face with one of my pursuers. He hadn’t moved. He started shouting, but he remained locked in place, unable to…

Rocket League‘s New Basketball-Themed Mode Is Goofy Fun

It’s been months since I played Rocket League, a game about cars playing soccer. The game’s newest game mode switches sports, and it’s really fun! My Rocket League addiction was deep for a few months in 2015. Though I was never particularly good, it was the kind of game I could play while waiting for…

Probably The Most Satisfying Thing I’ve Ever Done In A Video Game

Sure, it’s satisfying to beat a tough Dark Souls boss. It’s just as satisfying to roll through a bunch of stuff. If you found the sorcerer Orbeck of Vinheim near the Crystal Sage bonfire in Dark Souls 3, you’ve probably noticed his lovely workshop. So many scrolls, stacked so carefully! It’d be a shame if…

Fallout 4 Console Mods Releasing In The Next Two Months

Here’s your first look at Fallout 4’s in-game modding tools. Soon, everyone will be able to enjoy the wonders of a wasteland full of Thomas The Tank Engines and naked vault dwellers. Hooray. According to Bethesda, console players will be able to enjoy mods on Xbox One in May and PlayStation 4 in June—which is…

The Walking Dead: Michonne Ends With a Terrible, Meaningful Choice

Over the course of three episodes, The Walking Dead: Michonne video game miniseries has homed in on the theme of regret. We live our lives haunted by old ones and try to make choices that won’t create new ones. But no matter what you do, it ultimately tells us, you can’t lock pain out of…

We Ran The Rooftops In The Mirror’s Edge Catalyst Beta

I played a few hours of the Mirror’s Edge Catalyst closed beta over the weekend, and it was a lot of fun! You can watch me jump around like a parkour ninja— as well as smack into a few walls— in the video above. Catalyst brings some changes to the Mirror’s Edge formula. I enjoyed…

Flinthook, a beautiful and fast-paced action game built around a grappling hook, was my favorite game at PAX East last week. It only took a few moments before I was whipping around the room and collecting treasure. There’s no release date or platforms yet, but I’m already anxious.

Looks Like The New Call Of Duty Is Called ‘Infinite Warfare‘

Discovered via Reddit and confirmed via in-house PlayStation 4s, the trending section of the PlayStation Store features a listing for Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare. There’s no text in the listing beside the name, but it certainly fits the conventions. It’s got warfare in it, and it is Infinity Ward’s turn in Activision’s three-year, three-developer…

The Huntsman: Winter’s Curse Is Quite Nice If You Don’t Mind A Little Cousin Killing

In the beginning of first episode of The Huntsman: Winter’s Curse, a kindly shopkeeper convinces young heroine Elisabeth to take on his cousin as a traveling companion. It seemed like a good idea at the time. Available now on Steam and coming later this year to PlayStation 4, Desert Owl Games’ The Huntsman: Winter’s Curse…

The New Standard In Breakfast Cereal Ranking

Social psychologistErika D. Price put no thought into and indeed does not stand by the cereal ranking system she’s devised. Here at Snacktaku we think she’s onto something, though Smorz needs to be higher on the list. Choice of breakfast cereal is a deeply personal thing of course, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t need…

Blizzard Says They Had To Shut Down World of Warcraft Fan Server Nostalrius

This morning, Blizzard’s executives finally spoke out about their decision to shut down the World of Warcraft fan server Nostalrius, writing that there was “no clear legal path” to both protect their intellectual property and allow an unofficial server to keep running. “Why not just let Nostalrius continue the way it was?” wrote World of…

Sunset Riders

Dominik Mayer is an artist from Germany at Pipedream Media, a studio that has worked with everything from games studios to Adidas to the Bundeswehr You can see more of Dominik’s work at his ArtStation page, while Pipedream’s site is here To see the larger pics in all their glory (or, if they’re big enough,…

Star Fox Fan Animation Is A Love Letter To Classic Cartoons

The official Star Fox anime isn’t the only animated short that came out recently. Animator and voice actor Matthew Gafford and his team of enthusiasts spent more than six years establishing their fan project, set in the Star Fox universe, called A Fox in Space. The first, 13-minute long episode is now completed, and it’s…

Dark Souls As A 1996 PlayStation Game

The graphics would be simpler, but the aesthetics, boss tactics and the overall experience would be similarly painful. Or at least that’s what Veselekov and his friends imagined, if Dark Souls III was released back in 1996, after the first PlayStation’s launch. To contact the author of this post, write to: [email protected]

It’s 2016 and Japanese People Are Lining Up for an Arcade Game

Not just any game at that, but the Kantai Collection arcade game. Awesome! Kantai Collection, or KanColle, features anime girls that represent warships. It started out as a free to play game and turned into a phenomena, spawning manga, an anime series, a PS Vita game, and an upcoming animated movie. As Kotaku previously reported…

Diablo III’s Skeleton King is Ready to Pound You Into the Floor

His Majesty King Leoric of Khanduras was already a decently badass-looking boss in Diablo III, especially considering his lowly status as the game’s first unique boss. Well, here, he’s on a whole other level. This piece of 3D fan art was done using… Zbrush for modeling, maya for retopology and rigging, substance painter for textures…

The biggest change in World of Warcraft: Legion? No, it’s not the redesigned PvP system. There’ll be a new gold cap, increased from 999,999 gold to 9,999,999. That applies to guild banks and AH transactions as well. Good news for everyone sitting on 11 characters already and not-so-good news for people trying to bid on…

College Students Punished with Emoticons

A professor in China apparently made his late students write out 1,000 emoticons by hand after being late to class. ┐(‘～`；)┌ As reported on The Straits Times, CNBeta and ShanghaiIst, this went down at the University of Electronic Science and Technology in Chengdu, where one rather strict professor thought this was the best way to…

The Original Yu-Gi-Oh! Crew Returns for One Last Ride

Yugi and his friends’ story may have ended a decade ago, but there is still one last chapter to be told in the new animated film Yu-Gi-Oh! The Dark Side of Dimensions. Back in my early college days, it’s safe to say I was into Yu-Gi-Oh! I had the cards, played in tournaments, and even…