At First I Didn’t Succeed, So I Tried 45 More Times

On a rooftop in Gotham City in the video game Batman Arkham Knight, I had to beat up six ninjas without getting hit. It took me 46 attempts, one after the other, during one frustrating hour. This article originally appeared in October, 2015. It wasn’t the easiest thing I’ve done in video games, nor was…

Years Later, Blizzard Releases a New Diablo II Patch

Diablo II just got its first patch since 2011 (October 27, to be exact). It’s not a content patch, but it helps ensure that the game can run on current platforms. How cool is that? Here’s Blizzardon Diablo II’s 1.14a patch: This update focuses on system glitches introduced by modern operating systems. In related news,…

Diablo Boss Azmodan Returns To Heroes of the Storm With Basketballs

Well, that’s certainly a skin that wouldn’t work in Diablo III, but is completely fine in the casual environment of Heroes of the Storm. Act III’s “Lord of Sin” from Diablo III now has a slam dunk-ready alternate, called… Azmodunk! Because of its original name and its ability animations, Azmodunk was something players have been…

Capcom Offers New Info on Street Fighter V March Update

The publisher of Street Fighter V offered up new details for the first big update to their newest fighting game. Capcom mentions specifics about SFV’s first DLC character and inbound game modes, but is still mum on a permanent fix for rage-quitting. A blog on Capcom Unity runs down major features of the moveset for…

Forging in Minecraft Sure Looks Fun

This is a voxel-style Minecraft model, created by redditor samasaurus6 for a dungeon crawler map and shared on r/minecraft here. It’s a clever build based on custom block models, with the smoke particles being generated by a pressure plate-activated Command Block hidden under the bellows. Dayshot is an image-based feature showcasing some of the prettiest,…

New Pokémon Game, New Fake Magazine Scans

Whenever there is a new Pokémon game, you can count on two things: Excitement and phoney magazine scans of the new Trainers and the three Starters. Pokémon Sun and Moon will be no exception. There are numerous examples of this in the past (hereand here, for example), but as Japanese site Hachima Kikou points out,…

Beat This Mario Maker Course, And I’ll Send You Whisky, Man Says

Late last year, Jim from Scotland promised GameCenter CX host Shinya Arino a bottle of whisky if he cleared the Super Mario Maker level he made. The course was submitted as part of a challenge that pitted Arino against a slew of courses. In the most recent GameCenter CX, Arino showed the bottle of Johnnie…

Marvel Collection Store Opens in South Korea

Figure collectors, hold onto your wallets! This is the Marvel Collection Store. According to Hot Toys (via tipster Sang), it’s the first of its kind in the world. Located at Enter6 Park Avenue, a shopping center in Seoul, the shop is packed with Hot Toys figures, Cosbaby collectibles, and Artist Mix Bobble-Heads. Outside and in,…

Chureito Pagoda. Fujiyoshida, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan. By Jeroen Danckers. JPGs is a photo peek into wherever gamers might find interesting. If you’re a photographer and have images you want to share, drop us a line!

Conan Can Take More of Conor McGregor’s Abuse 

While Conor McGregor might’ve neededto lose last Saturday, he didn’t need to beat up Conan this bad in UFC 2 No. Wait. Maybe he did. To contact the author of this post, write to bashcraftATkotaku.com or find him on Twitter@Brian_Ashcraft

The People, Guns & Graffiti Of XCOM 2

While we’ve already taken a look at some of the concept art behind XCOM 2, a number of the game’s artists have—with the game now out—been able to share a lot more of they stuff they worked on. They’ve dumped a ton of it in this Polycout thread, which you should check out if you…

Block’hood: A Very Quaint SimCity 

Block’hood is a city-building game for people who don’t want to build entire cities. Billed instead as a “neighborhood-building simulator”, it’s all about constructing stuff out of blocks, with an emphasis not just on building functional habitats, but on balancing your environment and ecology. It’s out now on Early Access

Baseball Team Turning Players Into Walking Game Boys

These days most professional sports teams, regardless of where they are in the world, tend to dabble in limited/variant jerseys. But few go as nuts for the ideas as minor-league American teams. I’ve posted about the weird union between video games and sports jerseys before, but most of those cases were relatively straight-up commercial agreements.…

Kinect Involved In Ancient Egypt Kerfuffle 

Last year, a pair of German artists claimed to have “stolen” scans of a priceless bust of Queen Nefertiti—housed in Berlin’s Neues Museum—using nothing but a Kinect. Now, experts are lining up to call bullshit. The artists, Nora al-Badri and Jan Nikolai Nelles, say they used “a modified version” of the Kinect to take the…

Metal Gear Guard Gracefully Accepts Brutal Nut Punch

Today in Highlight Reel we have dogged interviews in Fallout 4, nut punches that will make your head spin, The Division shenanigans, Uncharted 4 selfies 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…

Stardew Valley Mod Fills The Game With Pokémon

I’ve always wanted to play a Pokémon game where, instead of being a ten-year-old warmonger, I got to settle down and participate in other aspects of the Pokéconomy. Now, with the help of a Stardew Valley mod, I can. Pokedew Valley is an ongoing effort to collect every Pokémon-themed Stardew Valley mod under the sun…

It Took A Lot Of Work To Make Destiny‘s Guns Sound Cool

It’s clear that the developers at Bungie put an insane amount of work into the sound effects in Destiny, a video game in which players travel through the solar system waiting for announcements of announcements of announcements of new content. This 15-minute mini-documentary, posted by Bungie today, illustrates just what that work looked like. It’s…