Dick move, camptrigg22. But also… bravo. The Steam Community Showcase is a regular look at the cream of the Steam community’s boundless crop. Art, videos, guides—whatever. Each installment highlights a specific piece or person. If you find anything cool on Steam or would like to have your work featured, drop me a line. To contact…

My Little Pony Fighter Makers Return With Something Less Litigious 

When a fan group making a fighting game based on My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic received a cease and desist letter from Hasbro back in 2013, show creator Lauren Faust stepped in to help them develop an original game—Them’s Fightin’ Herds. Developer Mane6 didn’t get a chance to make a free fighting game starring…

Rust‘s Anti-Stream Sniping Mode Exists Because of Cheaters

Stream sniping is when someone watches your stream to get an upper hand—to essentially cheat—against you in a game. It sucks. Rust developer Facepunch is, to my knowledge, the first game developer to build a preventative measure against it into their game. They call it Streamer Mode. Here’s how it works, per a post by…

New Heroes Of The Storm Skins (And Mounts) Are Super Sexy

Fresh off Heroes of the Storm’s Americas Championship games that went down this past weekend, Blizzard teased out some fresh MEAT content coming into the MOBA. Seems to me like the developer has really stepped up its game for alternate character skins lately. First they gave a sneak peek at the next two upcoming heroes—Artanis,…

Something’s Weird With Destiny’s Exotic Loot Drops

It was an interesting weekend for Destiny. Thanks to a new exploit, players got a closer-than-usual look at how the game’s loot system works. What we’ve found is that there’s something weird going on with exotic drops. Here’s a story: On Friday, Destiny’s weekend vendor Xur turned up for his first appearance since The Taken…

Metal Gear Solid V’s Stealth Is Flawless

They don’t call Big Boss a legend for nothing, you know. While there are many different ways of infiltrating a base in Metal Gear Solid V, my favorite so far is this ridiculous strategy developed by Venom C. You can do it too! Step one: get a jeep. Step two: throw a smoke grenade into…

Counter-Strike Player Pulls Off Incredible Ace

Damn. Just… damn. The Counter-Strike community’s been freaking out about an economy round ace pulled off by EnvyUS player Happy—and with good reason. It’s completely ridiculous. First, just watch. It will make your eyeballs explode out of your head no matter how familiar you are with the game: Happy downed the entire opposing team in…

It Took 11,000 Tries To Beat This Brilliantly Evil Mario Maker Level

I didn’t even know you could use Super Mario World bombs in all these different ways. Wow! The creator of the “hardest Super Mario World level ever,” PangaeaPanga, is taking his hellish designs to Mario Maker—and the results are intimidating. Take this course, titled Bomb Voyage, for example. It took around 11 thousand attempts before…

Final Fantasy XV Needs To Chill With The Marketing Dripfeed

Have you heard the news? Final Fantasy XV has chocobos! And also there might be airships. Or maybe there won’t. There’s definitely fishing! Here’s a new, revised version of the trailer you saw a month ago! Over the past few months, perhaps to overcompensate for a decade of development hell, the people behind Final Fantasy…

Kotaku‘ Shop Contest: Pumpkin Spice Armageddon: Winners! 

Last week’s ‘Shop Contestwas a call-to-arms against the seasonal pumpkin spice craze. Our readers answered that call with both brutality and heavenly softness. The idea, stolen from every science fiction show ever, was that if we could not defeat the pumpkin spice-craving masses through normal means we would assault them with ridiculous products until they…

Twitch Plays Fallout 3 Is Off to a Terrible Start [UPDATE]

They haven’t even made it out of the Vault yet. Fallout 3 is a complex and challenging game when you play it the “normal” way. But, apparently when you have a bunch of people trying to feed Bethesda’s open-world action-RPG hybrid commands through chat, it’s enough to break the game. The live, bot-controlled playthrough of…

Plague Inc. Makes Killing Billions of People Feel Educational

The stunningly enduring iPhone sensation Plague Inc. may be the video game with the highest body count in the long history of the medium. I’m trying to think of another game that made me feel inadequate for laying waste to a mere 1.75 billion people. We like to pretend that Grand Theft Auto invented the…

Hearthstone Effects In Slow Motion Are Hypnotic

Playing Hearthstone in slow mo would be the most masochistic thing ever known to man, and Legend Stuff’s clip is luckily not about that. It’s compilation of some of the coolest in-game animations with their speed lowered a bit, and it really shows how easy it is to overlook things like this in the middle…