Classic Rivals In A “Best Of The Rest” Battle In North American League of Legends

With Cloud9 and Counter Logic Gaming tied and Team SoloMid just one game behind them, this would be a dream season of League of Legends, if only it were still 2014. In 2016, it’s still pretty great, but it’s also bittersweet watching the big three of NA LCS playing their guts out for a (very)…

The Many, Many Faces Of Nathan Fillion

Brad Shortt is a Senior Character Artist at 343 Industries, the (current) developers of the Halo series. For Halo 5, Brad got to play around with Nathan Fillion’s (slightly improved) video game face. A lot And everyone else’s face too, mind. But they’re not quite as interesting as seeing the Firefly star look like he’s…

Dad Hacks Zelda So Link Can Be Anyone, Not Just A Boy

Reader Tony has a young daughter who, fingers crossed, will soon grow up to play the classics. And when she moves onto The Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past, he’s got a little surprise waiting for her. Aware that as a young boy he got to play through his favourite Zelda games as…a…

Chewbacca, Screaming Like A Girl

Amazing the difference a single edit can make to a scene. The vid’s creator, Tal Prints, has more of this kind of stuffif it’s your thing:

The Week In Games: Enter The Beastmaster

Thog love kitty. Kitty Thog friend. Thog and kitty always together. Thog name kitty Phsteven. Good Phsteven. Games come. Thog fear games. Games scare Thog. Phsteven keep Thog safe. Thog want to play Agatha Christie. Tuesday, February 23 Far Cry Primal — PS4, Xbox One Agatha Christie: The ABC Murders — PS4, Xbox One, PC…

Today marks the 15th anniversary of the release of Clive Barker’s Undying. Let’s celebrate by sharing our favorite Undying stories orlooking up the game on Wikipedia to remember which one it is. It was great, if I recall correctly.

One Final Twilight Princess HD Comparison Vid Before Our Memories Get Muddled

With the high definition remaster of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess less than two weeks away, Nintendo UK releases a final comparison between Gamecube and Wii U before the jaggy lines go all blurry in our heads. One good thing about Nintendo’s baby-stepping graphics hardware upgrades over the past few consoles is that HD…

The Legend Of Zelda Was Born 30 Years Ago Today On An Ugly Little Floppy Disk

On February 21, 1986, Japan got its first taste of the magical land of Hyrule, though not on the famous gold cartridge Western gamers are familiar with. In early 1986, while gamers in the U.S. were getting acquainted with the Western version of Nintendo’s Family Computer (Famicom), the Japanese original got an upgrade in the…

Sunday Comics: Snake Sex

Welcome to Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira. Published February 19. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published February 15. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…

Two Top League Of Legends Players Duel With The Game On The Line

In a League of Legends match full of moments that were both ridiculous and amazing, Cloud9’s Hai and Team SoloMid’s Bjergsen may have taken the cake with this incredible nail-biter of a brawl. I’ll have lots more to say about this second-place match between TSM and Cloud9, which was the League of Legends equivalent of…

LEGO Gaming PC Runs Much Cooler Than It Looks

Building a gaming PC out of standard hardware and LEGO bricks is pretty impressive. Integrating an all new method of air-based graphics card cooling that delivers water cooling performance, Mike Schropp’s LEGO Gaming PC is a mechanical marvel. Constructed of around 2,280 LEGO pieces, Schropp’s distinctive X-shaped gaming system consists of three different sections. In…

Marvel’s Best Superhero Friendship Comes Back This Week

A big black ex-con with unbreakable skin. A rich white kung-fu master who can punch things really hard. 30 years ago, they starred in Power Man and Iron Fist, one of the unlikeliest creative successes Marvel ever published. Today, they’re back. Thank God. Originally published 2/18/16 A few months ago, Marvel announced a new Power…

Smite‘s God Battles Spill Over Onto The PlayStation 4

Now that last month’s Smite World Championship presented by Xbox One is good and done, it’s time for Hi-Rez Studios to bring its god-based third-person MOBA to not-so-greener game consoles. Closed beta for the PS4 version of Smite kicks off next month. While many higher level PC players turn up their noses at the console…

Playing Street Fighter IV And V At The Same Time With One Controller

The folks at Eurogamer’s Digital Foundry hooked up Street Fighter V and its predecessor to the same game controller and started playing. The sync is mesmerizing at first, but then it all starts to fall apart. As explained in the Eurogamer article, Digital Foundry’s “dual wielding” system of controller syncing only goes so far while…

This Week In The Business: Casual Casualties

QUOTE | “[O]ur games for core audiences did extremely well, but the casual audience has not yet emerged on next gen consoles.” – An Activision Blizzard representative explaining why the company laid off developers after disappointing debuts for Skylanders SuperChargers and Guitar Hero Live. Elsewhere in the business of gaming this week… QUOTE | “Up…

Devil Daggers Keeps Kicking My Ass, And It’s Great

My first play session with Devil Daggers, a new ‘90s-inspired shooter on Steam, lasted five seconds. When I’m playing Devil Daggers, my face pretty much always looks like this: Because of this: Devil Daggers is not what I would call a kind game. Everything about it is leering, hostile, agonized. The game’s sole room is…