Very Cool Box Art. Maybe The Coolest.

I am an aficionadoof fine box art, it is known. And this is an ever-growing collection of damn fine box art. Cool Box Art is a Twitter account run by @TheSonicMole and @87th, which collects the finest examples of packaging art (and posters) in video game history and dumps them back onto the internet a…

New Skyrim Mod Is Basically A Skyrim Expansion

Skyrim mods, they’re the gift that keeps on giving. Years after the fantasy RPG kingpin came out, we’re seeing stuff that’s practically professional-quality. The Forgotten City could be mistaken for a full-on Bethesda-made expansion. It’s not quite on Enderal’s level, but there’s still a lot to be cautiously optimistic about. Check it out: The mod…

The Injuries That Are Ending eSports Careers

They may be sat behind a desk instead of being out on a field or court smashing into other humans, but that doesn’t mean esports players are immune from career-threatening injuries. Motherboard has a great interview up with Dr. Levi Harrison, a hand and arm surgeon based in Los Angeles. Harrison—who specialises in athlete injuries—tells…

Guild Overcomes World Of Warcraft‘s Hardest Raid Yet After 472 Tries

“13/13,” Method’s Scott McMillan tweeted. And just like that, the World of Warcraft community went nuts. McMillan was referring to the fact that his guild defeated all 13 bosses in WoW’s latest top tier raid, Hellfire Citadel, on Mythic difficulty. And they only wiped 472 times before pulling it off. (For some perspective, they wiped…

Ganging Up On A League Of Legends Pro Is Never A Good Idea  

Oh man. I bet these two League of Legends players thought they were being so clever, teaming up at the very beginning of the match to jump into top lane and surprise their opponent who was all alone up there. The would-be ambushers should have checked the in-game handle of their target more carefully, because…

You Can Now Play DOOM Inside DOOM

I’m starting to feel a little dizzy. We have YouTube user TheZombieKiller to thank for this ridiculousness. Of course, this isn’t the only weird place you can run DOOM. How about an inkjet printer? You can reach the author of this post at [email protected] or on Twitter at @patrickklepek

Tetris: The Kotaku Review

Like the delightful and oppressive mobile-game galaxy that it summoned, Tetris is both seductive and dispiriting. Alexey Pajitnov’s falling-block puzzler captures the pleasure and the vacuousness of virtual labor. Each game of Tetris contains an interactive “Ozymandias,” a fruitless quest to build something that will outlast the lone and level sands. Look on my tetrominoes,…

StarCraft II‘s New Campaign Is Short But Sweet

You might be wondering if the new StarCraft II prologue, Whispers of Oblivion, is any good. I am here to tell you that yes, sure. It’s good! Short and sweet. The bigger question—and one I’m still not sure about—is whether you should pre-order Legacy of the Void to get it. Let me explain. Yesterday, Blizzard…

The Big Things That Change When Someone Else Becomes Batman

Batman is Bruce Wayne. Except, of course, when he isn’t. Other folks have worn the pointy ears of Gotham City’s shadowy superhero over the years, too, and every new Batman brings a few changes with them as well. In the comics these days, we’ve got a cop in a robot suit as the Dark Knight.…

Ask Dr. Nerdlove: How Do I Save This Relationship?

Hello, Internet! Welcome to Ask Dr. NerdLove, the only dating column that believes in UFOs, astral projections, mental telepathy, ESP, clairvoyance, spirit photography, telekinetic movement, full trance mediums, the Loch Ness monster and the theory of Atlantis. This week, we’re talking about how to handle the end of a relationship, whether you’re watching things fall…

Riot Says It’s Fixing League Of Legends’ Crippling Teleportation Bug

League of Legends took a big hit last night thanks to a bug affecting a standard teleporting move that every playable character regularly uses. While Riot still hasn’t gotten its hugely popular multiplayer game back up to full speed quite yet, the developer said that it’s now found a fix. The bug was first discovered…

A Horror Game That Stops Working When Too Many People Die

There aren’t usually “endings” for mulitplayer games—it keeps going until people stop being interested. But the developers behind multiplayer horror game The Flock have different plans. The community has a finite number of lives burn through, and when they’re gone, it’s all over. Here’s the game’s setup: Set in the year 3000, an unrecognizable Earth…

There’s DLC coming for Never Alone, the touching indie adventure produced by an Alaskan Native community. The Foxtales add-onis due on July 28 and will feature all-new springtime environments for Nuna and Fox to romp through. In addition to the DLC, Never Alone is also coming to PS3 and Vita too. Contact the author at…

Satoru Iwata Memorial At The Nintendo World Store In NYC

This was the scene just inside the Nintendo World Store near Rockefeller Center in Manhattan on Wednesday afternoon. A touching tribute—especially those bananas—to the passing of the Nintendo’s well-regarded president: While the big line of Nintendo fans outside was for Amiibos, there were several people inside waiting to write messages honoring Nintendo’s late president and…