Mario fan and glitch hunter extraordinaire Pannenkoek2012 has a contract for you, Witcher: if you can recreate and record a weird hiccup he recently saw on Twitch, he’ll give you $1000. Streamer DOTA_TeaBag caught the glitch, seemingly by accident, in a video taken during a run of Super Mario 64’s Tick Tock Clock stage. As…
Football Manager, a time-consuming game about running a football team, is very hands-on. It does, however, have a mode that lets you simulate seasons in case you want to skip a few. This is the tale of Lorf_Yimzo, who skipped a lot more than a few. Using Football Manager 15, he set the game on…
Usually when Riot tweaks stuff in League of Legends, they do so strictly because of balance considerations. Maybe a character is too weak in one area, or too strong in another. Today the developer took a surprising approach, saying that it’s reworking four middling champs because they aren’t interesting The four specific champions being changed…
Blackwake is a multiplayer FPS game all about naval battles. You have a crew, and you have a captain. The question is: can you come together and work as a team? Really, you just gotta watch this trailer. It’s the best Kickstarter pitch I’ve seen in ages: So, to recap: You and your crew are…
Let’s be real: Five Nights at Freddy’s games are not pretty. That’s part of the charm. Still, it’s something else to gaze upon a version of FNAF that shows us what the games could have looked like with modern graphics. Behold: Five Nights at Freddy’s, remade in Unreal 4 by Redditor Adam‘Sklarlight’ Sklar “I decided…
Today Riot revealed a buttload of changes it’s making to defensive items in League of Legends, starting with the upcoming 5.16 patch. That’s far enough off that we can’t say for sure how the tweaks will affect the game, but it looks like a lot of core pieces of armor are getting nerfed. So long…
Rocket League is the surprise hit of the summer, one that has plenty thinking “why didn’t anyone think of this before?” The developers of Rocket League did. They released Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars way back in 2008, but it went mostly ignored. Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars was a footnote in the history of PlayStation Network…
The second day of the biggest DOTA 2 tournament around, The International, was at a standstill for three hours today, thanks to an intense DDoS attack. The matches have since resumed. Up until a few minutes ago, not a single round in The International’s second day had been completed. Various Internet-related issues have plagued The…
World of Warcraft has hit its lowest subscriber total in ages. As part of a quarterly financial statement, Blizzard announced that WoW hit a recent-years low of 5.6 million subscribers. In a follow-up financial call, the blue giant was jollier than you might expect, given that Diablo, Hearthstone, and Heroes of the Storm upped their…
Track: How Soon Is Now? | Artist: The Smiths | Album: Meat Is Murder (and others) Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.
Destiny, a yearlong beta for a video game that will be released this September. Destiny, a psychostimulant cosplaying as a video game. Destiny, a video game named after a Calvin Klein fragrance. Destiny, a video game in which players must travel the galaxy fighting against powerful adversaries like the Fallen, the Vex, and Bungie. Destiny,…
A young woman steers a boat through old ruins, young boy in tow. She pulls up to the remains of a watchtower, hoping to find refuge. She carries her brother inside, and lays him down. He has a gash on his stomach. He might not make it. Submerged is a new action adventure game by…
I must confess, it’s hard not to be excited about the future of Destiny, a video game in which players must travel through space fighting enemies, getting loot, and beta-testing Destiny. On September 15, with the launch of the upcoming expansion The Taken King, Destiny is entering what Bungie’s calling Year Two. We first saw…
Even if they’re a level behind, you might think that two of the best characters in Heroes of the Storm could take out the notoriously easy-to-kill frog thing Murky. Think again. That pufferfish attack, paired with his hero-ensnaring-beating-over-the-head-with-a-large-fish ult! Amazing positioning. Or terrible positioning, depending on who you’re talking to. My guess is that the…
Thanks to the release of Rare Replay today, Xbox One owners will now be able to play seven Nintendo 64 classics on Microsoft’s console. Nintendo’s current console, the Wii U, only sells people the chance to play six. While there is an asterisk to this—Wii U owners can buy and play 15 more N64 games…
Microsoft confirmed the names of a few more Xbox 360 games that will soon be functional on Xbox One through the newer console’s backwards compatibility feature, but they also showed a reel that hinted at lots more. Let’s enhance and see what we can see. The first one is unknowable. After that, we’ve got: Trials…
For a long time now, the world has laughed at Peter Dinklage’s voice acting in Destiny, a video game about the slow, inevitable progression of death. Soon, that voice acting is going to change. One might even say it’s going to become legend. Bungie is recasting the role of Ghost, replacing current voice actor Dinklage…
In the 2013 reboot of Tomb Raider, Lara Croft was a plucky young adventurer who wasn’t all that comfortable bashing peoples’ heads in. Not anymore! In an extended gameplay preview shown today at Microsoft’s Gamescom press conference, we got to see Lara Croft in action in Rise of the Tomb Raider, the upcoming sequel to…
Did anyone really expect a sequel to Halo Wars?! It’s coming fall 2016 from Creative Assembly, and based on what Kotaku has heard, it’s going to be episodic, too. Plus, it’s for both Xbox One and Windows 10. Contact the author at [email protected]
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