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Graphics Card Battle 2015: Nvidia Versus AMD At Every Price Point

You might say 2015 hasn’t been the most exciting year for graphics cards, though in many ways it was more eventful than 2014. The only big highlight last year was the arrival high-end Maxwell GPUs in the form of the GeForce GTX 980 and 970. Then this year Maxwell did what many thought was impossible:…

By Steven Walton Published October 31, 2015

Esports

SKT Recovers From Terrible Game To Win League Of Legends World Championship

God, SKT. You really scared us for a minute there! The top Korean League of Legends team SKT Telecom defeated the not-quite-top Korean challenger KOO Tigers today after a bitterly contested four matches. SKT is widely considered to be the strongest League team in the World (and in history), so the end result of today’s…

By Yannick LeJacq Published October 31, 2015

Esports

Amazing Turnaround Saves League Of Legends Team’s Winning Streak, But Not For Long

UPDATE (10:57 am): Well so much for that! SKT’s dream of a perfect run at Worlds is officially over, as KOO just trounced them in the third finals match. Did anyone really see that coming? Original story follows: For a nail-biting 35 minutes this morning, it seemed like SKT might actually lose a game in…

By Yannick LeJacq Published October 31, 2015

Culture

This Week In The Business: Kinect Is Totally Not Dead

QUOTE | “We are also continuing to invest in Kinect, and are looking forward to launching the Cortana personal assistant on Xbox One in 2016.” – Microsoft’s Larry “Major Nelson” Hryb, stressing that Kinect isn’t dead even as Microsoft lets first-party software support sink to Vita-like levels and discounts the hardware in all its forms…

Brendan Sinclair Published October 31, 2015

Esports

Suits? You Don’t Need Suits For League Of Legends

Despite being in Europe, today’s League of Legends World Championships finals are between two Korean teams. Riot analyst Christopher “MonteCristo” Mykles celebrated the country’s League dominance with a piece of traditional “Hanbok” attire. It’s sparked some bemused and confused reactions. League of Legends Twitter, which is already an almost incomprehensible hype-train during the lead-up to…

By Yannick LeJacq Published October 31, 2015

Culture

Undertale: The Kotaku Review

People don’t just like Undertale; they love it. This game is personal for them. It’s personal for me, too. Undertale is a JRPG-inspired game (think Earthbound, more than Final Fantasy) where you don’t have to hurt anybody, unless you want to. You play as a kid who’s fallen into a world of monsters, and their…

By Nathan Grayson Published October 30, 2015

Esports

Everything You Need To Know About The League of Legends World Championships

If you’ve been on the gaming parts of the internet over the past month, you’ve probably seen or heard something about the League of Legends World Championship. Having trouble grasping what’s going on right now with the most popular video game in the world? Fear not, I’m here to help you understand. NOTE: I will…

By Yannick LeJacq Published October 30, 2015

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The Only Reed Richards in the New Marvel Universe Is A Bad Guy

Reed Richards is one of the most important characters in Marvel’s history. He’s the father figure of the Fantastic Four, the first superhero series that began turning a then-unremarkable publisher into a cultural powerhouse. There used to be dozens of versions of Reed but now there’s only one. And he’s not here to save the…

By Evan Narcisse Published October 30, 2015

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A Cool-Looking Xbox Caveman Game That Never Happened

One of the earliest games shown for the original Xbox was BC. Dinosaurs! Cave men! I was so hyped for this game, and then it was cancelled. Games are canned all the time, but it happens quietly and without much fanfare. It’s not like the developers suddenly release the incomplete game into the wild, so…

By Patrick Klepek Published October 30, 2015

Tips & Guides

Tips For Playing Assassin’s Creed Syndicate

We’ve been pleasantly surprised by Assassin’s Creed Syndicate ‘round these parts. In the ever-unfolding tapestry that is the Assassin’s Creed franchise, Syndicate is one of the good ones Stephen, Chris and I have been playing the game a lot over the last week, and between us we’ve assembled some tips to help y’all get the…

By Kirk Hamilton Published October 30, 2015

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Heroes Of The Storm’s New Protoss Warrior Is A Teleporting, Death Ray-Shooting Badass

The Protoss have always been the coolest race in StarCraft. Proud but adaptable, aggressive yet agile, the ornate alien species embodies what’s great about the real-time strategy and MOBA games they inhabit. This week has been exciting in Heroes of the Storm thanks to the introduction of their fearless leader Artanis. Artanis is a melee…

By Yannick LeJacq Published October 30, 2015

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Shocktober, Week Four: Paranormal Activity Is Dead

October, we hardly knew ye. I’ve been watching a glut of horror movies every week as part of Shocktober, and it’s been an especially fruitful year. It’s a genre best known for jump scares, but that’s selling good horror short—done right, it’s deeply thought provoking. Every week, I’ve been filing reports from the field. So…

By Patrick Klepek Published October 30, 2015

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The Truth About Ninjas

If you do anything for Halloween this weekend, chances are pretty good you might see a child (or an adult) trick-or-treating (or partying) dressed as a ninja. Maybe it’ll be a generic ninja, or maybe a specific one, like a Naruto character or a Ninja Turtle. Today, ninjas are all around us. They’re in our…

Matthew S. Burns Published October 30, 2015

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Dota 2 Turns Into A Haunted House For Halloween

Dota 2 has always led the MOBA pack in rad game modes and fun seasonal Halloween content, but they managed to outdo even themselves this year with “Haunted Colosseum.” It’s a new custom game mode that makes Dota much more…haunted. More in a ridiculous slap-stick way than a creepy one. As the name implies, “Haunted…

By Yannick LeJacq Published October 30, 2015

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Planetary Physicist Tries To Work Out The Science Behind Halo

The temperature is dropping and it’s threatening to snow, so why not cozy up with Worth Reading, your weekly guide to the best in games writing? C’mon. Hey, You Should Read These “Halo Science 101” by Kevin Grazier This is an old piece, but I love stuff like this. Kevin Grazier takes the ridiculous fiction…

By Patrick Klepek Published October 30, 2015

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Sony’s announced its PlayStation Plus lineup for November, which includes The Walking Dead: Season Two and Magika 2 on PS4. PS3 owners are getting Mass Effect 2 and Beyond Good & Evil; it’s Dragon Fin Soup and Invizimals on Vita. Contact the author at [email protected]

By Patrick Klepek Published October 30, 2015

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Festival South By Southwest has reinstated the two cancelled gaming panels, and announced an all-day seminar. One panel was about harassment; the other, GamerGate-leaning panel focused on ethics and politics. Both return, though SXSW will work with them to “to develop the most productive focus for their appearances.”

By Patrick Klepek Published October 30, 2015

CultureSplitscreen

What It’s Really Like To Work At Kotaku

Ever wondered what a day in the life of a Kotaku editor is like? Curious about what it’s really like to work here? We’ve got just the podcast for you. Today on Kotaku Splitscreen, we take a behind-the-scenes look at the well-known Destiny fan-site Kotaku. We also talk about our ideal Nintendo mobile games (hint:…

By Jason Schreier Published October 30, 2015

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Badass Player Makes GTA Online Look Like A Horror Movie

Wow. GTA Online can be damn terrifying! Yesterday, GTA Online got a special holiday update that included a new “Slasher Adversary” mode. Seven people get flashlights. One person gets a shotgun. If the prey can survive for three minutes, they get a chance to be a slasher. Obviously, this is pretty seasonally appropriate given that…

By Patricia Hernandez Published October 30, 2015

Reviews

Halo 5: Guardians: The Kotaku Review

Halo 5: Guardians is the first time I haven’t loved a Halo game. Though, thankfully, the latest chapter in the sci-fi shooter universe has a few things going for it. Development studio 343’s second Halo game since taking on the mantle of responsibility from Bungie three years ago tries to tell the story of a…

By Tina Amini Published October 30, 2015