Arkham Knight’s New DLC Superbly Spotlights Batman’s Saddest Enemy

Driven to break the law to extend the frozen life of his fatally ill wife, Mr. Freeze arguably has the most poignant backstory of all Batman’s archfoes. This week, the video game version of the frozen-hearted felon gets some ice-cold closure. Spoilers follow. Victor Fries returns to the Bat-game franchise as one of the featured…

Which Video Game Console Should You Buy?

Last week, I got an e-mail from a reader with a simple yet challenging question: Which video game console should they buy? It’s a question we often discuss but have never quite answered definitively here on Kotaku. As we enter 2016, there are six main gaming machines—four stationary, two portable—that compete for our time and…

Finding Good Levels In Super Mario Maker Is Way Easier Now

Super Mario Maker is a wonderful game filled with a nearly endless supply of inventive Mario levels to play. The problem, unfortunately, is finding them. Nintendo launched a website yesterday to try and fix that. Here’s how it works. The website’s called Super Mario Maker Bookmark, and while it doesn’t completely solve the game’s issues,…

People Are Worried About Hackers Taking Down Xbox Live And PSN Again

As many of us get excited to find brand new games under our trees this weekend, it’s worth looking back at what happened last year, when some jerks tried to ruin Christmas for everyone. Many of you might recall the mess that transpired around Christmas 2014, when online services hosting Xbox Live and the PlayStation…

The Controversy Over A Video Game’s Suggestion Of A Crime

Games are usually straightforward. What you think happened is what actually happened. The Beginner’s Guide is different, cloaked in ambiguity. It’s led some people, albeit a small group, to theorize it literally represents a criminal act: stolen property. It’s a grave accusation, one that lives on because its designer remains silent. Over the weekend, parts…

The Most Popular Fallout 4 Mod Right Now Is For…Extreme Weather

For some, weather might just seem like a small detail within Fallout 4. But for PC gamers, this environmental element is pretty damn important. Over at the Nexus Fallout 4 mod portal, “True Storms” by fadingsignal has been the most popular mod for Fallout 4 over the last two weeks. The cool thing about True…

Uncharted 4 Delayed Another Month

Two days before Christmas, Naughty Dog’s dropping a bit of coal in our stockings: they’re delaying Uncharted 4 to April 26, 2016. “This is our largest Uncharted game to date, and the team has been working incredibly hard to meet the challenge of closing out the game’s development in a timely manner,” directors Neil Druckmann…

On The Case With Aviary Attorney

When you’re an innocent anthropomorphic animal accused of murder in 1840s France it doesn’t matter if your defense attorney has an insatiable hunger for worms, as long as he also has a thirst . . . for justice. Developer Sketchy Logic’s successful Aviary Attorney Kickstarter proved that what adventure game fans craved was something like…

Fan Builds Huge 3-Foot Tall Star Wars Ewok Village

Quite a surprising choice for a Star Wars-themed LEGO build. But KW Vauban’s Ewok village is so amazing it almost makes the little furry bastards of Endor lovable. Here are some close-ups (more pics over here), showing memorable moments from Return of the Jedi and some familiar faces hiding under the trees. To contact the…

Dota 2‘s Robust Hero Gets The One-Punch Man Treatment

If there’s one Dota hero that could wear Saitama’s super hero suit, it’s Tusk, the icy warrior with a giant fist and a “Walrus PUNCH” ultimate. So MrPounder’s One-Punch Man intro is spot on. He brilliantly replaced everything with Dota scenes and Tusk as Saitama. To contact the author of this post, write to: [email protected]

The Ten Best Game Expansions

Whether it’s a good old-fashioned expansion pack or modern DLC, spinning additional content for already-released games has been a standard practice in the industry for decades. But the best expansions do more than simply add a few extra hours of the same game for you to play. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK, on…

Just Cause 3 Gun Mod Fires Air, Destruction

Batshit disaster factory masquerading as a (sometimes disappointing) video game Just Cause 3 is starting to get player-made mods. No one is safe. Case in point: here is a gun that fires air. Air that kills Tristan Miller’s Typhoon Air Gun mod adds a weapon to Just Cause 3 that blows away all the others.…

Not content with Valve’s own timetable for rolling out special events, a bunch of Team Fortress 2 fans have joined forces to make their own, called Workshop Wonderland. It’s pretty neat, but the highlight for me is this glorious Heavy x Gabe Newell pic.

After Years Of Sadness, I’m Digging A Total War Game Again

There was a good chunk of time there when the Total War series was one of the best things on the PC. Its combination of real-time battles and turn-based planning made it a lot of people’s—mine included—perfect strategy game. Then along came Total War: Rome II It wasn’t a bad game by any means. But…

Arkham Knight Gives Players Something Special For 240% Completion

The newest unlockable Batman costume in Arkham Knight doesn’t want your money. It wants your time, Caped Crusader. You don’t just have to complete the game to get it. You have to complete it at 240%. The latest game for DC Comics’ nocturnal crimefighter is positively silly with alternate Batman costumes. Players can don variants…

Counter-Strike Player Takes Out Four Enemies With A Single Shot

Single-file lines. The world teaches us to stand in them, almost without thinking about it. Counter-Strike proposes an alternative: you really, really should just never do that. Counter-Strike player ggHushHush posted a highlight in which they took a Scout sniper shot at what appeared to be one enemy player emerging from a smoke grenade haze.…