I Bought An Expensive-Ass PC Gaming Monitor And It’s Really Good

Look, sometimes you spend $709 on a gaming monitor and wind up really happy with your purchase. I’m not saying it happens every time, but it happened this time. After months of hemming, hawing, and talking myself out of it, last week I went ahead and dropped a bunch of bucks on a newfangled G-Sync…

Valve Says 77,000 Steam Accounts Get Hijacked Per Month

Lately, Valve’s been putting a big focus on beefing up Steam’s security—sometimes with measures that players find annoying or limiting. As part of a new security measure’s roll-out, they explained why. Valve began by pointing out that current security measures absolutely aren’t enough to keep precious, precious accounts under lock and key. In a post…

The Ultimates Just Became Marvel’s Best New Superhero Team

How do you solve a problem like Galactus? By finding something from the beginning of the universe. It’s only two issues in, but The Ultimates is already the most exciting book in Marvel’s new All-New, All-Different line-wide relaunch. That’s because they’re confronting Galactus, one of the most implacable characters in the publisher’s fictional universe. Last…

Tips For Playing Fallout 4 [Updated!]

It’s a harsh wasteland out there, fellow vault dwellers. Horrors can be found in every corner of the Commonwealth. Making it through Fallout 4 in one piece can be tough—especially at first. Thankfully, we’re here to help. A few of us here at Kotaku have been playing the game non-stop for the last week, and…

Nine More Successful Gaming Kickstarters That Didn’t Deliver

The most important thing to look for in a Kickstarter isn’t a cool pitch video or an impressive roster of talent. It’s someone who knows how to manage money. Here, following our look earlier this year at 12 Kickstarter projects that were funded but never came to fruition, are nine more crowdfunded projects that took…

Thanks For The Nightmares, Riot

The old “Lollipoppy” skin was, hands-down, the creepiest thing that Riot ever made for League of Legends. The new enhanced version of Lollipoppy that launched yesterday with the champion’s massive overhaul carries on that fine tradition of haunting your dreams. Thanks to the League of Legends news site Lolking, we’re able to see Lollipoppy’s triumphant…

The Witcher 3 Riddle That Players Couldn’t Quite Solve

Gaunter O’Dimm, one of the stars of The Witcher 3’s expansion Hearts of Stone, is a mysterious dude. Turns out he’s also a sneaky one, hidden so well in the background of the game that even its biggest fans couldn’t find him. In October, developers CD Projekt Red ran a competition asking fans to “find…

Diablo‘s Treasure Goblins Are Coming To World of Warcraft: Legion

Legion will introduce a new type of creature to World of Warcraft that might be familiar from Diablo III. It’s the Treasure Goblin, or as he’s known here, Treasure Demon. People playing the alpha build of the expansion bumped into the rare fella, who looks like a little annoying demon with a huge backpack. And…

Undertale, You’ve Changed

Talented artist Orioto redrew a great scene from the wonderful JRPG-inspired game Undertale The game’s unique color palette remained the same, but the pixelated look has changed: To contact the author of this post, write to: [email protected]

Multiplayer-Only Games Shouldn’t Cost $60

Lately I’ve been playing a lot of Rainbow Six Siege. It’s really good, but I’m not feeling very optimistic about its long-term prospects. Siege, like any multiplayer game, will only thrive if it can form a lasting community of players. My pessimism regarding its chances to do so is the same pessimism that was eventually…

Make Everything Smell Like Cat Head with This Japanese Spray

If you own a cat, you probably know this: the back of their heads smells so damn good. One Japanese company researched that scent, recreated it, and is now bottling and selling it. Okay, not all cats smell good (some smell terrible), but according to Naver Matome, the Japanese owners of ones that do, described…

Dreamfall Chapters: Book Four Takes You to Magical Lands

Up until this point, Dreamfall Chapters has taken place almost entirely in two sprawling cities, one in a fantasy world and one in a sci-fi world. In Book Four: Revelations we finally leave the cities and see some of the stunning locales the fantasy world has to offer. When we last left our heroine Zoë,…

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