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EsportsEverything 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 - Uncategorized
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 -
UncategorizedA 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 -
UncategorizedHeroes 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 - Uncategorized
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 -
UncategorizedThe 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 -
UncategorizedDota 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 -
UncategorizedPlanetary 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 - Uncategorized
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 - Uncategorized
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 -
CultureSplitscreenWhat 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 -
UncategorizedBadass 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 - Uncategorized
What the New Assassin’s Creed Gets Wrong (and Right), According to a Historian
Bob Whitaker, a historian of modern Britain at Louisiana Tech and the host of the YouTube series History Respawned, recommends Assassin’s CreedSyndicate, the entertaining new Ubisoft game set in Victorian London. He likes the way it successfully captures the feel of the British capital in the 19th century, and he particularly likes the way the…
By Chris Suellentrop Published October 30, 2015 -
UncategorizedStreet Fighter EX Character Gets A Badass Tribute Video
It’s an awesome combo video with a twist: Street Fighter veteran Desk used Street Fighter IV’s Mexican luchador El Fuerte and one of the game’s new horror costumes to recreate the goofy fan favorite from the EX series. He even remixed Skullomania’s theme to make it perfect. To contact the author of this post, write…
By Gergo Vas Published October 30, 2015 -
UncategorizedReal-Life First-Person Shooter, Controlled Through Chatroulette
RealmPictures’ concept was to build an immersive first person shooter level, and let unsuspecting people on Chatroulette take control of the protagonist. They had to make it perfect for it to be immersive, but it’s safe to say they succeeded. Their first level took place in a garden, so this second one is a huge…
By Gergo Vas Published October 30, 2015 - Uncategorized
Mario Sure Likes To Play Dress-up
This piece of fanart illustrates just twelve of Mario’s many, many outfits. Here’s the artwork itself: Called “A Fashionable Plumber,” it was drawn by Dave Bardin, a freelance illustrator, over the course of several months. It would make a cool poster. There’s a sampling of Bardin’s other works below. You can find more, mostly comic-related,…
By András Neltz Published October 30, 2015 -
Kotaku EastThink Pixar, But Japanese
This is the closest I’ve seen to a Japanese-made Pixar-style animated short. So, I’m guessing it’ll be the closest you’ve seen, too. This is Tokyo Cosmo. It’s an independent animation made by a small Japanese team. It was entered in Digicon 6 Asia, a short movie contest. I quite like it. Maybe you will also.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 30, 2015 - Kotaku East
Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth: the Kotaku Import Preview
Digimon. Digital Monsters. Digimon are the champions. Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth follows a young teen (in my case, a girl named Ami) and her adventures in both the real world and the virtual reality world of EDEN. One day, she and her two friends, Nokia and Arata, are given the hacker ability to capture and…
By Richard Eisenbeis Published October 30, 2015