The Steam Stream Plays Hard West, Aka Wild West XCOM [Update: Finished]

An XCOM-style strategy game set in an occult Wild West? Hard West is trying to do a lot of things. Is it good, though? Let’s find out. Watch me play it right now. I have high hopes for this one, given that it combines many things I love (XCOM-like tactical gameplay, saloons, pentagrams), but that…

Fallout 4 Player Has Fantastic Bowling Form

Today on Highlight Reel we have bowling, NPCs with eye issues, Star Wars Karma, and much more! Watch the video above, then talk about your favorite highlight in the comments below. Be sure to check out, like, and share the original videos via the links below. CoD:AW – Sit trip – submitted by BloodRazer17 CoD:BO3…

Batman: Europa Is Finally Published Ten Years Late, Isn’t Half Bad

Back in 2004, DC Comics announced Batman: Europa, a miniseries with art by pencil god Jim Lee that would take the Dark Knight and the Joker out of Gotham and across the Atlantic. Years went by. Children were born that learned to walk and talk. Twitter was invented. The book never came out. Now it’s…

Clever girl. Hittin’ Switches (EF58-0000-00ED-419E ) is a pretty fun Mario Maker stage that asks you to perform some tricky maneuvers to keep moving.

Ask Dr. NerdLove: My Girlfriend Hates That I Watch Porn

Hello, Internet! Welcome to Ask Dr. NerdLove, the only dating column with a graduate degree from the Unseen University. This week, we’re untangling tricky emotional issues. One reader wants to know whether his porn habit and his girlfriend are mutually incompatible. Another wants to know how to rebuild himself as a caring, honest individual after…

Ark: Survival Evolved Mod Lets You Play As A Dinosaur

When I was young, I always hoped against hope that I would grow up to be a dinosaur. This is probably as close as I’m going to get. FinntasticGames “Play as a dino” mod is exactly what it sounds like: it lets you be a dinosaur in Ark, a game about punching trees and pooping…

Bloodborne Used To Wreck Me. Now, I’m Wrecking Bloodborne. 

Once more unto the breach, dear hunters. Bloodborne’s DLC expansion hits next week, and while I can’t talk about The Old Hunters yet, its impending arrival prompted a return to From Software’s bloody action game. Specifically, I dove into New Game Plus mode. You know what? This game’s still frickin’ amazing. New Game Plus brings…

The Problem With The Newest Version of Superman

2015 has been a hell of a year for the Man of Steel, bringing the biggest changes that the character’s seen in decades. And, while I mostly like how the current Superman reads after getting his powers reduced and secret identity outed, his monthly adventures feel like they’re losing steam to me. DC Comics shook…

YouTube’s Finally Starting To Change Their Disastrous Copyright System

If you publish videos on YouTube, it’s a chance to share creations with an enormous audience. But thanks to a legal system stacked in favor of corporations, it’s also a treacherous landscape where a copyright takedown notice can result in your channel getting deleted. Now, YouTube is fighting back. In short, YouTube wants to defend…

Heroes Of The Storm’s New Two-Player Hero Is Whacky, Clumsy Fun

Playing as Cho’Gall in Heroes of the Storm is one of the most entertaining things I’ve experienced in a MOBA. It’s also one of the clumsiest things I’ve ever done in any video game. I suppose when you and another teammate are simultaneously playing as single hero, clumsiness is the point. What does it feel…

Fallout 4: The Kotaku Review

In the late 20th century, people hoped that the new millennium would usher in an age of promise: hoverboards, flying cars, personal robots, and the like. That future, the one that everyone predicted, never quite came to pass. Not in the way we thought it would, anyway. Yes, living in 2015 has its perks. We…

Eve Online Ships, Compared To The Real World

Here are some excellent comparisons, by tonymyre311, of all the ship models (and other objects) from EVE Online, dropped onto Google Earth landscapes and edited so they look like they’re part of the map. It’s a huge gallery, starting from the smallest ship trying to find its place on the street and ends with giant…

A LEGO Halo Ship That Took Three Years To Build

That’s almost as long as it took to make Halo 5. Finding all the necessary LEGO elements takes time. The blue lights and the sophisticated design makes Cody Fowler’s (via Brothers Brick) U.N.S.C. Infinity look awesome. And that micro city on the ground is just as brilliant as the ship itself. From another angle: To…

2015’s Best Cartoons Made Using Valve’s Games

Remember when Valve made Team Fortress movies, and they were the best damn videos in video games? Now they just get their fans to make ‘em, and they’re…not bad. Valve announced the winners of this year’s Saxxy Awards today, designed to honour the best clips made using the company’s Source Filmmaker.The vast majority were made…