Ironside Malphite Skin Turns League Of Legends’ Rock Monster Into A Pirate Ship

League of Legends’ stone golem creature Malphite is known as a rock monster, an animate mountain, and an “earth elemental.” Now with the power of premium skins, he’s become what looks like a Transformer that can turn into…a pirate ship? Well, he can’t actually switch back and forth between pirate ship and anthropomorphized autobot-esque warrior.…

That Time Final Fantasy Ditched Nintendo For Sony

Final Fantasy shows up on every platform under the sun these days, making it hard to remember the RPG juggernaut used to be one of gaming’s biggest exclusives. But over the course of Final Fantasy’s more than 30 years of video games, it’s twice shifted alliances in ways that had huge rippling effects. That Actually…

Steam Users Form ‘Scam Report’ To Watch For Shady Games

Steam is kind of a minefield. Sometimes mid-development projects get abandoned. Other times, developers try to bury legitimate questions or criticism. The majority of the time, those things do not happen. Games launch, they’re either solid or shitty, and life goes on. But there have been enough instances of sketchy games and abrasive developers on…

Ask Dr. NerdLove: I Can’t Get Off

Hello, Internet! Welcome to Ask Dr. NerdLove, the only dating column to be stranded on a hellish island with only one goal—to improve social skills. This week we’re talking about habits, and how to get used to doing the things we need to do. One reader has trained his body to only respond to certain…

A Horror Game About Losing Your Kid In A Haunted Theme Park

Here’s a horror game that wants to tap into every parent’s worst nightmare: losing a child. It’s called The Park, and it’s a psychological horror game about a mother who has lost her kid in a theme park. In some ways, it seems like almost a large-scale Five Nights at Freddys: carnival-like entertainment gone wrong.…

What Happens When You Hate The Thing You’ve Made

The weekend is almost here. You’ve got this. I’ve got this. We’ve got this. Before Friday rolls to an end, here’s another installment in Worth Reading, our weekly guide to some of the best writing about games happening on this ol’ Internet. Hey, You Should Read These As further evidenced by Everybody’s Gone to the…

Game Studio Co-Founder’s Farewell Is A Tough, Sobering Read

Composer Jessica Curry, who most recently worked on Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture, has announced she’s (sort of) leaving The Chinese Room. There’s more on her mind, though. In a blog post, Curry pulled no punches when talking about her negative experiences working with Sony, how the industry devalues the contributions of women, and more.…

The KFC Superhero Comic Is One of the Weirdest Things You’ll Read All Week

So, I think the man responsible for hawking fried chicken to millions of people worldwide is, like, a reserve member of the Justice League now. This week, DC Comics put out a free KFC promo comic called The Colonel of Two Worlds. As you’d expect, it’s pretty bizarre. The book’s title comes from the classic…

Goodbye, Kotaku

Kotaku has been like a family to me for almost four years now. From the outside looking in, you’ve probably known me as several things. The deputy editor. The Borderlands nut who incidentally matches names (and even nicknames) with one of the series’ most favored characters. The editor who used to share amusing pictures on…

The New PS4 Uncharted Collection Shows How Much The PS3 Evolved

If you asked a bunch of people to list the most influential games of the last console generation, there’s a solid chance most of them would include the PS3’s Uncharted series. Four or five years ago, when we needed to show a friend how visually impressive video games had become, we often reached for one…

Doctor Doom’s Lies Are Being Exposed in Secret Wars

In Marvel’s Secret Wars series, Victor Von Doom now has the omnipotence of a god. But it’s beginning to look like having the power to rebuild the universe hasn’t saved him from being a deeply flawed man. The core conceit of Secret Wars—that Doom became strong enough to snatch slivers of a dying multiverse’s alternate…

Funny-Looking Headset Increases The Range Of Vision Around Us

There’s a reason why the PolyEyes 2.0, an augmented reality project by the Interactive Architecture Lab, looks like a helmet of an alien invader. Thanks to a couple of Raspberry Pi Camera Modules built into the headset and spinning around, there’s no need to do complex eye tricks to see everything around us. Their video…

Now That’s A Great Zombie Prop For Halloween

Replace the fridge at home with Roy Mueller’s zombie containment unit and you’ll scare off pretty much everyone. It’s a nice combination of various effects and it really looks like an actual zombie’s trying to escape from its chamber. To contact the author of this post, write to: [email protected]

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All 240 Digimon in Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth

Wondering if your favorite Digimon is in the new game, Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth? Well, with 240 of them in the game, I’m going to go with: Yes. Kuramon, Bubbmon Punimon, Botamon Poyomon, Koromon Tanemon, Tunomon Tsumemon, Tokomon Nyaromon, Pagumon Pyocomon, Pukamon Mochimon, Wanyamon Agumon, Agumon (Black) Armadimon, Impmon Elecmon, Otamamon Gaomon, Gazimon Gabumon, Gabumon…

Manga Fans Sure Can Be Demanding

Just as we’re reminded of the insane hours One Piece creator Eiichiro Oda keeps, we forget about another famed manga creator who has been taking time off. Japanese site Netallica pointed out the concern Oda’s schedule has caused among fans, with people saying he should not overdue it and should take it easy. What about…

Words Can Hurt Far More Than Sticks and Stones

Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day is one ofthe most depressing and yet ultimately uplifting anime series out there. And now its creators are back to tell you a story about how hurtful words can be in the modern-day fairy tale Anthem of the Heart At its most basic level, Anthem of the Heart…