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Players Report The Division Is Wiping Characters On Xbox One [Update]
There are multiple reports popping up this evening that the latest patch for Ubisoft’s The Division has, for an unlucky few on Xbox One, resulted in the demise of their character. All the reports are similar; some players on Xbox One (PS4 and PC seem unaffected) log into the game following the update only to…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 12, 2016 - Culture
Valve Blocks Competitor From Putting App On Steam
The great litmus test of Valve’s tolerance for potential competitors in their midst is over. The verdict? Sorry, but nope. Despite Valve’s general openness to a lot of stuff major video game companies like Sony and Microsoft would categorically fire out of a catapult and into the ocean (players making entire games with their IP/characters,…
By Nathan Grayson Published April 12, 2016 -
Tips & GuidesTips For Playing Dark Souls 3
The land of Lothric is a deadly place, and Dark Souls 3 doesn’t go out of its way to lend a hand. I’m here to help. What follows is a combination of tips for people who are new to Dark Souls—i.e. watch out for mimics!!—and things that are specific to Dark Souls 3. I’ll be…
By Patrick Klepek Published April 12, 2016 - CultureCosplay
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Captain America, by Mike Dee. Photos by Gamilia
By Luke Plunkett Published April 12, 2016 - CultureCosplay
Halo ODST Cosplay Is Born To Kill
Dutch Props is a prop builder and cosplayer from (wait for it) the Netherlands. He’s also a member of the Stony Cosplay group, who specialise in Halo cosplay gear, and whose stuff is so good they’ve worked directly with Microsoft on ads and videos. This is his ODST cosplay gear. Love the cigarette packet, nice…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 12, 2016 - Culture
Enter The Gungeon Secret Lets You Play As A Bullet Who Shoots Bullets At Bullets
Enter The Gungeon is a roguelite dungeon crawler that’s taking Steam by storm. As players are discovering, it’s riddled with secrets, like it’s been shot in the head a bunch of times by a gun that fires secrets. Case in point: the mysterious “Case Closed” achievement. (Minor Enter The Gungeon spoilers ahead.) If you go…
By Nathan Grayson Published April 12, 2016 - Uncategorized
Last Minute Ratchet & Clank Patch Stops Streamers From Spoiling The Movie
Today’s new Ratchet & Clank game is a re-imagining of the first game in the series, but it’s also a tie-in with an animated movie that doesn’t hit theaters until April 29. Sony disabled sharing late game movie cinematics just in the nick of time. Sony deployed patch 1.02 to Ratchet & Clank at around…
By Mike Fahey Published April 12, 2016 -
UncategorizedCatching A Deathclaw In Fallout 4’s New Wasteland Workshop DLC
With the right tools, you can capture some of Fallout 4′s most fearsome foes and use them for your amusement in the Wasteland Workshop DLC, out today for $4.99. Almost anything can be captured, too. Looking through the available cages, I saw options for things like cats, Raiders, Yao Guais, and everything in between. Putting…
By Patricia Hernandez Published April 12, 2016 -
UncategorizedDestiny‘s Spring Update Is Live And Full Of Cool Swords
Today marks 2016’s first major update in Destiny, a video game in which players travel through space watching their weapons get nerfed. For the first time in a long time, there’s new stuff for PVE players to do. Also, there’s a Taken sword, which you can get by beating the main quest in this update…
By Jason Schreier Published April 12, 2016 -
ReviewsStories: The Path of Destinies: The Kotaku Review
“It was time to choose,” says a chunk of opening text from Stories: Path of Destinies says. You’ll be choosing and dying a lot in this action RPG. It never stops feeling good. Even the dying. Stories opens at a crossroads: roguish fox pirate Reynardo has been helping a resistance movement fight an oppressive space…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 12, 2016 - Uncategorized
It’s 2016 And I’m Starting World Of Warcraft
Before this weekend, I hadn’t played World of Warcraft since a Saturday afternoon in late 2005. That was the only day of my life I spent playing one of history’s most successful video games. A WoW-free decade later and with an archaeological curiosity, I’m giving it a fresh try. I’ve merely put my toe in…
By Stephen Totilo Published April 12, 2016 - Uncategorized
Custom Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts Amiibo Are Terrific
Nintendo have released a lot of Amiibo by now, but they’ll never make everyone happy with their character selections. Which is why there’ll always be room for custom builders like GandaKris. We featured her Detective Pikachu a while back, but some of her latest work is so good that it’s worth looking at her whole…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 12, 2016 -
UncategorizedVR Game At A Glance: Adventuring Through Call Of The Starseed
Valve and HTC’s Vive is the most impressive VR experience out there, but the majority of its games feel like glorified tech demos. Mystery adventure The Gallery—Episode 1: Call of the Starseed is a bit meatier. Here’s a video of me playing the game: What it is: The Gallery—Episode 1: Call of the Starseed is…
By Nathan Grayson Published April 12, 2016 - Uncategorized
GTA Producer Leslie Benzies Embroiled In $150 Million Lawsuit With Rockstar
The “sabbatical” that former Rockstar North president Leslie Benzies was on has proven to be far more complicated than it first appeared. When Kotaku reported that Benzies had left Rockstar North back in January, the company told us he’d been on a sabbatical for several months and had “decided not to return to work for…
By Patrick Klepek Published April 12, 2016 -
UncategorizedThe Last Minutes Of World of Warcraft‘s Shuttered Fan Server
On Sunday night, thousands of World of Warcraft players gathered to say goodbye to Nostalrius, the fan-run server that hosted a vanilla version of the iconic MMORPG until Blizzard shut it down. Nostalrius, which we profiled last year, used World of Warcraft v1.12, otherwise known as the game’s latest incarnation before 2006’s Burning Crusade expansion.…
By Jason Schreier Published April 12, 2016 - Uncategorized
Growing Up On The Seedy Underbelly Of The Internet
“It’s funny, I remember loading Zelda.com, and Zelda.com was definitely a porn website,” Merritt Kopas, author of Internet Murder Revenge Fantasy, recalled. “This was like, early 90’s, so I’m sure Nintendo bought it back, but [it used to be] a porn site.” It’s different in 2016, of course. Nowadays, Zelda.com dutifully tells you about all…
By Patricia Hernandez Published April 12, 2016 -
UncategorizedDark Souls 3 PC Has Crashing Issues, But There’s A Temporary Fix
Dark Souls 3 is already difficult, but on the PC, some users have been hit with an additional frustration: it keeps crashing at the start of the game. After scouring various sources—Twitter, reddit, NeoGAF, Steam—the consensus points to crashes as early as the first bonfire. For the record, I didn’t encounter this problem during my…
By Patrick Klepek Published April 12, 2016 -
UncategorizedUnchained χ Is A Pleasant Little Slice Of Kingdom Hearts
It may be a free-to-play mobile port of a browser-based game, but Kingdom Hearts Unchained χ crams a lot of what series fans love into a tiny space. Prounounced Kingdom Hearts Unchained Chi (Key), the newly-released in North America Android and iOS originated as a Japanese browser game in 2013. Richard Eisenbeis called it “More…
By Mike Fahey Published April 12, 2016 - Uncategorized
Bravely Second‘s Got Jedi Mind Tricks
In 2014’s Bravely Default, there was no real explanation for the random encounter slider, a toggle you could use to reduce or amplify the rate of invisible enemy attacks. It just kind of existed. The sequel, Bravely Second, does things a bit differently. Early in the 3DS role-playing game, which comes out on Friday, there’s…
By Jason Schreier Published April 12, 2016