Dark Souls 3: The Kotaku Review

Including Bloodborne, Dark Souls 3 marks the third Souls game in as many years. Dark Souls 2 was disappointing, so is Dark Souls 3 a return to form? Mostly. Playing From Software’s Souls games used to feel like joining a private club. Now, nearly seven years after Demon’s Souls, the games are played by millions.…

AVADirect Avant P870DM-G Laptop Review: What A Difference A Desktop GPU Makes

Gaming on a laptop normally requires a sacrifice of graphics power for form factor. AVADirect’s Avant P870DM-G gaming laptop houses a Nvidia Geforce GTX 980 desktop GPU, and it makes a hell of a difference. While the Avant is on the thicker and heavier side of the gaming laptop spectrum, weighing more than 10 pounds…

My Quest To Kidnap Every Guard In Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes

My parents didn’t like video games; I was forbidden from playing them when I was growing up. So, most of the “games” I played as a kid were demos. I learned to get a lot out of those abbreviated pieces of video games, developing a taste for playing the same content over and over again,…

Players Keep Finding Secret New Fatalities in Mortal Kombat X

Fighting game enthusiasts have been going over Mortal Kombat X with a fine-toothed comb ever since the game’s first iteration almost a year ago. Tons of secrets and easter eggs have been discovered but fresh ones keep popping up. It’s been one big gory treasure hunt. NetherRealm have pumped out a bunch of periodic updates…

World of Warcraft Is Getting New Challenge Modes, Similar To Diablo‘s

A new, revamped Challenge Mode is coming to dungeons in World of Warcraft: Legion, with multiple difficulty levels and some really nasty affixes. It’s something similar to Diablo III’s Greater Rifts. Right now players can run 5-man dungeons on Normal, Heroic and Mythic difficulties. These are all relatively easy once you have the gear and…

Ratchet & Clank Strikes A Perfect Balance Between Old And New

In the middle of my second play through of Ratchet & Clank I realized the re-imagined version had begun to infect my memories of the original, and I was okay with that. The realization actually began on my second trip to Planet Veldin, where the Lombax with dreams of high adventure first encounters the reject…

Tetris, Running On A Tiny LCD

Besides Doom, Tetris is one game that gets all kinds of silly ports all the time. Enthusiast Numeric compressed the game into a 10×16 frame and made it work on a very tiny character display. A number of these displays let users upload custom characters, and if someone’s into coding in C, and has an…

Codemasters Acquires Recently Shut Down Driveclub Studio

Codemasters, the British publisher and developer behind the F1 and Dirt racing series, among a long list of other games, is joining forces with DriveClub’s recently shut down developer, Evolution Studios. In addition to Codemasters taking on “most” of the studios’ staff, former Evolution Group Director Mike Hocking will also become the company’s new VP…

Minecraft Times Square Is Way Less Crowded

And, since the Minecraft version of Times Square is not an absolute clustereff of pedestrians, you get to hang around and enjoy the sights. Yay! Built by PlanetMinecraft’s qq1394236817 for a larger city map, this recreation needs a little bit of tweaking to run on your copy Minecraft. By default, when you download the map,…

Gears Of War 4: The First Trailer

It’s time for Gears of War: Son Of Marcus Fenix Sorry Mike, no more statues of Marcus in this debut trailer for the game. But we do get a continuation of the series’ penchant for covers (complete with bad timing), so there’s…that. To refresh, some gameplay was shown off at E3 last year Gears of…

Remember, Gal Gadot isn’t the only Wonder Woman around. This is cosplay superstar Meagan Marie, and while the outfit isn’t new (it’s a spotlight feature in *PLUG* our cosplay book*END PLUG*), this is still a great new image from Kayhettin

The Fix Is A Comic Book About The World’s Worst Criminals

The Fix starts with a great high-concept opening: the march of technology has made reliable, old-school, brute force law-breaking obsolete. So, how can a thug indiscriminately shoot and rob people and get away with it nowadays? The Fix answers this conundrum in a way that makes it the most hilarious comic of 2016. Originally posted…

A 3D-Printed Xbox One Controller, Made Of Wood

I did not know you could 3D print with wood. Now I do, and given my fetish for the stuff when it comes to video games, I am very interested in mods like this. Adam Griesermade the controller by taking some replacement Xbox One controller shell models from Thingiverse and running wood through a 3D…

Over the weekend Hasbro was at Botcon 2016 showing off new toys. LEGO builder Joe Perez prefers the classics, like this transformable LEGO Soundwave compete with cassette companions. Check out his Flickr for the whole set (via The Brothers Brick.)