Mario Maker’s Newest Impossible Level Has A Great Joke At The End

Anyone who manages to beat this hellish Mario Maker will be treated to a funny callback. Wanna see? The level, which is called U-Break, took around 50 hours to build and beat. PangaeaPanga, the level creator, estimates that he experienced around 20,000 Mario deaths before successfully clearing the level from start to finish. The result…

PSA: Here’s How To Turn Off Voice Chat In Halo 5

You just got home from a long day at work. Hoping to unwind, you hop into a match of Warzone in Halo 5. Suddenly, you hear it: the piercing, unforgettable sound of an eight-year-old bragging about his K/D ratio. Don’t worry—we’re here to help. In-game voice chat is enabled by default in the latest Halo…

The Great Board Game Pandemic Is Even Better With The Risk Legacy Treatment

Pandemic Legacy is an excellent new board game that physically changes every time you play. It’s partially the modern classic Pandemic, a cooperative game released in 2007, where players are trying to save the world from four deadly diseases, sort of like the digital game Plague Inc but with player roles being reversed. It’s partially…

New Tool Lets You Build A Fallout 4 Character’s Stats Early

For me, going into an RPG like Fallout always means spending hours agonizing over every single stat. Thanks to the wonders of the internet, however, I can now start that meticulous process before the game is actually in my hands. Introducing RPG Gaming’s Fallout 4 Build Planner.It’s a fan website that lets you allocate SPECIAL…

Destiny Player Loses Key Match In The Worst Way Possible

There’s failure, and then there’s failure that will haunt you for the rest of your life. The setting: Redditor NoSleeves12 is playing Destiny’s competitive player vs. player gauntlet, Trials of Osiris, with two of his buddies. His team has hit 8-0, which means they’re a single win away from getting a flawless victory and heading…

Some People Shouldn’t Be Allowed To Customize Their Need For Speed Cars

This is why we can’t have nice things. Despite the stuttering issue which is still occurring for me and many other Xbox One players the day after launch, I continue to play the new Need for Speed, largely due to my children loving cars. I love them to, though you wouldn’t know it from what…

6 Games We Saw in Action That Never Came Out

It’s frankly ridiculous how close some games are to finished when they are cancelled – or, conversely, how vaporous they can be when they’re first shown. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK, on April 21, 2015. At trade shows, you see maybe 50 games in the space of 4 or 5 days, and a…

A Star Wars Prequel Trilogy Trailer, In The Style of The Force Awakens

Here’s proof from YouTuber Max Nicholson that some good music and editing can even make Episode I, II and III look good. One thing that always bugged me about the prequels — including the marketing — was how they gave away the big twist from Empire. So, I decided to make a video that reinforced…

Students Remake Metal Gear Solid’s Heliport in Unreal Engine 4

A nine-week class project carried out by four people, resulting in some cool Metal Gear Solid fanart. The heliport was one of the first areas Snake entered on Shadow Moses Island in MGS. It’s also revisited much later, in a dream sequence, during MGS4. As far as Metal Gear locations go, it’s fairly iconic—which is…

Like Horror Games? Here’s a Creepy One for PlayStation VR

This is Whiteday. And if you’re into scares, this might be for you. As Destructoid points out, this looks to be a remake of the 2001 survival horror game White Day: A Labyrinth Named School Whiteday will be out in 2016 for PlayStation VR in South Korea. It’s also apprently coming to iOS and Android.…

New Dragon Ball Z Figures Look Cel-Shaded 

Damn, it’s like he stepped right out of the Dragon Ball Z anime. According to website Non Solo Hobby, these Master Stars Piece Manga Dimension DBZ figures were revealed at this year’s Lucca Comics & Games in Italy. [Photo: Non Solo Hobby] Let’s get a closer look. [Photo: Non Solo Hobby] [Photo: Non Solo Hobby]…

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Final Fantasy, You Sure Look Different

WAIT THIS ISN’T A “DISNEY PRINCESSES AS TKTK” POST. Nor is it a Kingdom Hearts post, so sorry. I think it’s something cooler than either of those things. These illustrations are by David Adhinarya Lojaya, an artist from Indonesia who works in games, film, animation and books. They take Final Fantasy characters from across the…

Sony Releasing Fancy New PS4 Headset

The good news: these headphones look neat! The bad news: if you’re in North America, you’re not getting them (yet, anyway). Announced overnight by Sony Europe, the “In-ear Stereo Headset for PS4” are basically a fancy set of in-ear headphones, with a “woven fabric cable” and a noise-reducing mode called “AudioShield”. Because they plug into…