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I’m Off To A Slow Start In Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns
I’ve been spending the early days of Guild Wars 2’s Heart of Thorns expansion pack trying to remember how to play Guild Wars 2. So far it’s not going well. For example, after I took the screenshot at the top of this article I tabbed out to begin writing, then tabbed back to this. Not…
By Mike Fahey Published October 25, 2015 -
CultureHaving Way Too Much Fun With Disney’s PlayMation
There is a good chance I am having more fun pretending to be Iron Man with Disney’s PlayMation toys than any child ever could. One of the hottest toys going heading into the holiday season, Disney’s Marvel-themed PlayMation gear and toys is an interactive electronic way to run about the house or yard pretending you’re…
By Mike Fahey Published October 25, 2015 - Esports
Europe’s Best League Of Legends Teams Bulldozed Out Of Worlds
Europe’s Fnatic and Origen have been two of the very best League of Legends teams at the World Championships this year, so fans went into this weekend with high expectations for their semifinals games. Neither team managed to live up to them, as both went 0-3 in their matches against Korean rivals. Yesterday’s Origen games…
By Yannick LeJacq Published October 25, 2015 -
UncategorizedRaynor Was So Close To Saving The Day In This Heroes Of The Storm Match Until He Wasn’t
This is hard to watch. It’s just so freaking close. A Heroes of the Storm player walked into one of the situations in-game that fans dream of. Four heroes from the enemy team were all clumped together, dangerously low on health, and focusing on killing on the computer-controlled boss monsters. He was playing as theStarCraft…
By Yannick LeJacq Published October 25, 2015 -
EsportsLeague Pro Runs Face-First Into Wall Trying To Escape Opponent At Worlds
We’ve shown you a lot of great plays from the League of Legends World Championship games this month. There are certainly a lot of them. But what about the not great ones? Witness, my friends, the glory of professional eSports stars making the same clumsy mistakes the rest of us do. In game two of…
By Yannick LeJacq Published October 25, 2015 - Uncategorized
Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: It Could Be Worse, Luke Skywalker: Winners!
Two weeks ago I asked our readers to picture worse places for Luke Skywalker to be than being teabagged by Imperials in Star Wars: Battlefront. What I got back was a photo tour of Skywalker nightmares. This week’s winner not only picked one of the most nightmarish Star Wars scenarios ever—inside the Star Wars Kinect…
By Mike Fahey Published October 25, 2015 - Culture
Sunday Comics: Unfounded Rumors
Welcome to Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your pretty much weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira. Published October 23. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published October 19. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry…
By Mike Fahey Published October 25, 2015 -
UncategorizedBeing Eaten Alive By Rats In Warhammer: Vermintide Is So Good
Holy shit that’s a lot of rats. I do not use “holy shit” lightly kids, so when I say “Holy shit that’s a lot of rats,” I mean there are enough rats to fill a high school auditorium. Enough rats to make an entire fall fashion line. Enough rats to craft 100 horses made entirely…
By Mike Fahey Published October 24, 2015 - Uncategorized
Batman: Arkham Knight Gets Re-Released On PC October 28
Four months after being pulled from sale due to poor performance, bugs and various other inadequacies, the PC version of Batman: Arkham Knight goes back on sale next week, along with all the DLC early PC players have missed. Warner Bros. promised the end of this month, and here we are. The game goes back…
By Mike Fahey Published October 24, 2015 -
EsportsTop Korean League Of Legends Team SKT Still Hasn’t Lost A Single Game At Worlds
The powerhouse Korean League of Legends team SKT had already set a new record before today’s semifinals games against European challenger Origen, with their perfect 9-0 winning streak at the World Championships. Today, the question for eSports fans was: can Origen somehow interrupt that? Once again, SKT said nope. Today’s semifinals match-up was very clearly…
By Yannick LeJacq Published October 24, 2015 -
EsportsEuropean League Pro Outmaneuvers Strongest Team At Worlds With Incredible Juke
The newly formed European League of Legends team Origen is widely expected to lose its match-up against the legendary Korean squad SKT. Their first game of today’s World Championship semifinals didn’t change that. But an amazing series of fake-outs did show that Origen isn’t going down easy. Barely five minutes into the game, two SKT…
By Yannick LeJacq Published October 24, 2015 -
EsportsThe League of Legends World Championship semifinals kick off in ten minutes. Today’s game is reigning Korean heavyweights SKT against newly-minted (but still powerful) European team Origen. This one’s gonna be goooood. Watch on YouTube, Twitch, or Azubu
By Yannick LeJacq Published October 24, 2015 -
UncategorizedThat Time Call of Duty Let You Shoot Up An Airport
Few games give you the option to skip over a mission before you play it, but Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2’s controversial “No Russian” mission is one of them. Even today, the stage that made players a terrorist remains shocking. Yes, that actually happened. Here’s the image greeting players before the single-player campaign started:…
By Patrick Klepek Published October 23, 2015 - Uncategorized
Watch Us Get Wrecked By Hard Mode In Destiny’s King’s Fall Raid [Stream Over]
Today, Destiny’s King’s Fall raid got a little (or maybe a lot) harder. Hard Mode is live, meaning that those of us who’ve beaten King’s Fall a dozen times can fail at it all over again. I figured some of you might want to watch that. Update: We came, we saw, we… kinda conquered. We…
By Kirk Hamilton Published October 23, 2015 -
UncategorizedThree Minutes of Fighting Over a Half-Naked Man in Assassin’s Creed Syndicate
Where is a guy supposed to dump a body around here? Here is a three-minute video—taken from a late-game mission but devoid of spoilers—from Assassin’s Creed Syndicate, a game I quite like. The setup: Jacob Frye, the assassin I’m controlling, has just knocked out a British royal guardsman and stolen his uniform. Next, he’s (we’re?)…
By Chris Suellentrop Published October 23, 2015 - Uncategorized
I’m streaming a few Heroes of the Storm games to test out the cool-looking new Protoss warrior Artanis. Watch along on Kotaku’s Twitch channel! UPDATE: And we’re done. Sorry for the lag in the second game. I’m going to have to make sure I have a better/more stable internet connection before streaming again!
By Yannick LeJacq Published October 23, 2015
