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UncategorizedDestiny’s Microtransaction Store Is Now Open
Destiny, a video game in which players travel through space doing the Carlton on as many planets as possible, will now let you spend real money on dances. Finally As of this afternoon, the Eververse Trading Company is open for business in Destiny’s Tower. And as you’ll see through a series of annoying prompts that…
By Jason Schreier Published October 13, 2015 -
UncategorizedHere Is A Silly Sex Scene That Happens In The Witcher 3 Expansion
And now for a ridiculous moment you can experience within the new Witcher 3 expansion, Hearts of Stone. NSFW spoilers below! Hearts of Stone isn’t just about defeating powerful monsters or stopping an immortal bandit captain. There’s romance, too! It is a Witcher game, after all. If you play your cards right in the DLC,…
By Patricia Hernandez Published October 13, 2015 -
UncategorizedHeroes Come For The Soda, Stay For The Adventure In Soda Dungeon
Why risk life and limb searching the depths of a dark and dangerous dungeon for treasure when you can get a group of soda addicts to do it for you? In Armor Games’ Soda Dungeon, out now for iTunes and coming in early November to Android, you play the part of a sort of dungeoneering…
By Mike Fahey Published October 13, 2015 -
UncategorizedZilean’s New Passive In League Of Legends Will Let Him Level Up His Teammates
Well this is bound to be interesting. In it’s never-ending attempts to balance and re-balance its obscenely popular online multiplayer game League of Legends, developer Riot Games just revealed plans to rework aspects of Zilean, an old geezer who uses clock and time-based spells in battle to do stuff like: slow down his opponents, speed…
By Yannick LeJacq Published October 13, 2015 -
UncategorizedA Video Game Version of Chess That Changes the Rules Every Time You Play
Look at that glorious mess up there. “That’s not chess,” you say. Damn right, it’s chess on drugs. Get this game another hit of the good stuff, because it’s clearly working. Chesh gives one of the world’s oldest board games 271 pulls off a bong, takes it out back through an alley, explodes it up…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 13, 2015 -
UncategorizedFriday the 13th Game Needs $700,000 To Become A Reality
There’s never been a good video game based on Friday the 13th, but the folks at Gun Media are hopingyou’ll let them give it another shot Friday the 13th: The Game just went live on Kickstarter, proposing a 1-on-7 multiplayer game where one person gets to prowl around as Jason and everyone else plays the…
By Patrick Klepek Published October 13, 2015 -
UncategorizedMinecraft: Story Mode Works Surprisingly Well
The reveal of Minecraft: Story Mode was met with a lot of internet skepticism in 2014—could a narrative-driven take even work for such an open-ended exploration game? I’ve played through the first episode of the new series, and can say with confidence that yes, actually, a story fits Minecraft pretty damn well. Minecraft: Story Mode…
By Patricia Hernandez Published October 13, 2015 - Uncategorized
I Wish I Liked Legend of Legacy More
Legend of Legacy, a terribly titled new video game that’s out for the 3DS today, is as close as we’ve gotten to a new SaGa game in a very long time. I really wish it was better. Alas, it’s too grindy and boring for me to recommend to anyone. Legend of Legacy starts with a…
By Jason Schreier Published October 13, 2015 - Uncategorized
A new update that lets Arkham Knight players choose the characters they want to tackle AR challenges with is going live today. It also overhauls the blue walls that hemmed players in during these fights. The update is part of the six-month rollout of underwhelming add-onspromised for this summer’s very good Batman game. Contact the…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 13, 2015 - Uncategorized
Fan Proposes Alternate Gummy Bear Skin For League Of Legends’ Tahm Kench
This is “Gummy King Tahm Kench” by RexSadio. It’s one of the many champion skin concepts that League of Legends fans love to post on the game’s official forums. It’s also a wonderful idea. That’s pretty much all I have to say about it. For comparison’s sake, here’s what the standard in-game Tahm Kench looks…
By Yannick LeJacq Published October 13, 2015 -
UncategorizedA Surprise First Look At The New Homeworld Game
Shipbreakers, the first new game in the Homeworld series since the year 2000, has barely been seen since it was first unveiled back in 2011. So it’s both neat—and a little surprising—to finally see some footage of the project. Neat because Homeworld is great! Surprising because we’re not seeing it in a big trailer or…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 13, 2015 - Uncategorized
Someone Made A Kendrick Lamar Super Mario Bros. Mash-Up
Made by an Australian Soundcloud user victorylaptop, it’s the lyrics of Kendrick Lamar’s “King Kunta”, mixed up with the classic 8-bit theme of Super Mario Bros., and it just works perfectly. It’s not a proper mash-up without a pun, so the track is called… Kendrick Lamario Bros. To contact the author of this post, write…
By Gergo Vas Published October 13, 2015 -
UncategorizedBattlecruiser (PC Case) Operational
Quite an amazing custom PC case. It’s a Behemoth-class Battlecruiser from StarCraft, turned into a giant PC case by German enthusiasts over at Random Design Looks like a huge prop at first, but the water cooling on top reveals that there’s more. There’s plenty of space inside for all the goodies, as you can see…
By Gergo Vas Published October 13, 2015 -
UncategorizedStar Wars: Battlefront Looks Incredible With Some Screenshot Magic
Star Wars: Battlefront is a very pretty video game, but while everyone else has been running around the beta sticking wangs on Luke Skywalker’s head, Berdu has been working hard to make it look even prettier A screenshot artist, Berdu has created some images of the game that look absolutely stunning. Remember, these aren’t elaborate,…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 13, 2015 - Uncategorized
Minecraft Player’s Pretty Good at Castles
This looks way way way better than my castles, which are basically stone blocks with teeth. It’s why I mostly stick to the tried-and-true Crappy Wooden Rectangle™ houses nowadays. Anyway, this pretty castle. It was built by Xidus933, who’s submitted several castles to r/minecraft in the past—this being the most recent and most well-received. Xidus…
By András Neltz Published October 13, 2015 - Kotaku East
Superheroes Provide Insight into the Future and Flaws of Our Society
I’ve seen superheroes fight a lot of things, but Gatchaman Crowds Insight takes them out of their element—instead of superheroes battling blatant villains, we see how they deal with sweeping social changes. [This review contains spoilers for both Gatchaman Crowds and Gatchaman Crowds Insight. For a non-spoiler look at the series, check out our review…
By Richard Eisenbeis Published October 13, 2015 -
Kotaku EastInside the Nintendo Building Few Outsiders Ever See
Eight years ago, Kotaku reader Daniel sent us a YouTube clip where he waltzes right into Nintendo’s original Kyoto headquarters. Even now, it’s a fascinating peek into a historic building that isn’t open to the general public. Since YouTube took the original clip down because it had a “Stephen Colbert” tag (Daniel used to tag…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 13, 2015 -
Kotaku EastPersona 4: Dancing All Night is Just as Fun at the Arcade
I really enjoyed Persona 4: Dancing All Night. And so did Fahey. But as fun as it was on the Vita, there’s something special about playing it on a giant arcade cabinet. When playing Persona 4: Dancing All Night a few months back, something struck me as very familiar—namely the interface. After all, if you…
By Richard Eisenbeis Published October 13, 2015