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The First Five Minutes Of Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game

With thefourth numbered installment on the way it’s the perfect time to take a short trip into the past, to an era when Fallout games needed lengthy explainer sub-titles and a man could proudly kill a rat by shooting it in the crotch. Putting the First Five concept to the test, 300 seconds is barely…

By Mike Fahey Published June 6, 2015

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Diablo Invades Heroes Of The Storm With A New Map And More Characters

Ahhhhh. Fresh meat! Exciting news for the Diablo fans out there who’ve been sinking their teeth into Blizzard’s excellent new MOBA Heroes of the Storm. During a live-streamed launch event for Heroes today, the developer revealed a months-long campaign it’s kicking off later this month called “Eternal Conflict” that will add a new battleground to…

By Yannick LeJacq Published June 6, 2015

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Think Twice Before Entering Dirty Words In Video Game Text Fields

Earlier this week, while playing Square Enix’s Chaos Rings III on the iPad, I was asked to name my favorite food via text field. I am not proud of what happened next. Warning: I am a horrible dirty potty mouth. I am milking my time with Chaos Rings III, a choice of words that will…

By Mike Fahey Published June 6, 2015

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Nvidia Makes Batman: Arkham Knight Look All Fancy

Interactive smoke and fog, dollar bills that flutter across the floor, enhanced rain that beads off Batman’s cape—that’s right, it’s Nvidia’s obligatory “look-how-good-Batman-looks-on-our-hardware” video for Arkham Knight! While I’ve never caught myself playing an Arkham game on a console or AMD-powered PC and lamenting the lack of fluttering debris, I am a big fan of…

By Mike Fahey Published June 6, 2015

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When Secret Wars Ends A New Era Of Iron Man Begins

Tony Stark’s Iron Man is easily one the most popular character in the Marvel movie-verse. Once the Secret Wars smoke clears, Brian Michael Bendis and David Marquez are tasked with making him just as popular on the comic page. It’s not going to be easy. Before Secret Wars mixed up the Marvel Universe, Tony Stark’s…

By Mike Fahey Published June 6, 2015

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Disney Infinity 3.0 is Actually a Pretty Interesting Star Wars Game

The original Disney Infinity was a wonderful celebration of some iconic Disney worlds (Pirates of the Caribbean, Monsters Inc, Cars…), but the second Marvel-themed Disney Infinity 2.0 didn’t seem to have as much creativity or, I suspect, as much passion in its design. I hugely enjoyed going through the original play sets, even the slightly…

Keza MacDonald Published June 6, 2015

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Bandai Namco Reveals Tales Of Berseria And Its Lone Female Protagonist

Main entries in the Tales series of role-playing games have traditionally featured male and female leads backed up by the supporting cast. Announced today for PlayStations 3 and 4, Tales of Berseria has one hero, and you’re looking at her. Her name is Velvet, which is exactly the sort of name you give a character…

By Mike Fahey Published June 6, 2015

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This Week In The Business: Buying Broken Games

QUOTE | “At that point, we’re asking people to part with their money, and they should not be getting a broken product.” – Tripwire VP Alan Wilson, explaining why he thinks Steam’s Early Access program is being abused by some developers Elsewhere in the business of gaming this week… QUOTE | “Optimization never stops. You…

By Steve Peterson Published June 6, 2015

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New Super Saiyan Goku, Golden Frieza Coming To Dragon Ball Xenoverse

Why settle for watching the new Dragon Ball Z stuff in a movie, when you can play it all in a game? Siliconera reports that Dragon Ball Xenoverse is bringing in characters from the new DBZ movie, Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection F. As you may know, the movie includes two new things. One, there’s the…

By Patricia Hernandez Published June 5, 2015

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Juggernaut, Dr. Doom and Spider-Man all show up in this deeper glimpse at the Marvel Comics fighting game that was cancelled by EA years ago. Again, it’s a glimpse of a rough prototype but shows some of the features that the dev studio was aiming for. Contact the author at [email protected]

By Evan Narcisse Published June 5, 2015

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Some League Of Legends Players Think Riot’s Overdoing It With Champions

Oftentimes when a new champion comes into League of Legends, the game’s many players feels he or she is overpowered. Since the time-bending assassin Ekko warped his way into the game last week, I’ve seen a more particular criticism from his naysayers: that he’s “overloaded.” I keep seeing this word, or similar descriptors, pop up…

By Yannick LeJacq Published June 5, 2015

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NES Horror Legend Is Turning Into A Real Game

In 2011, a guy using the handle Cosbydaf wrote a story on the web about a Godzilla game he decided to revisit when he was a kid. It was a creepypasta—in other words, an internet tall tale intended to scare the hell out of anyone reading it. The story was a curious one: Cosbydaf claimed…

By Patricia Hernandez Published June 5, 2015

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YouTube Channel Claims To Have First Dark Souls 3 Screens, Details

Are we going to see a third Dark Souls game at E3? Though nothing’s official yet, there are enough rumors floating around to make it seem like a real possibility. A few days ago, the video game website VG247 reported that Dark Souls 3 will be unveiled at E3. Today, popular YouTube channel The Know…

By Patrick Klepek Published June 5, 2015

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Ace Battlefield 4 Player’s RPG Got To The Chopper

On today’s episode of Highlight Reel we have rocket shots, teabag revenge, peek-a-boo headshots and much, much more. Watch the video above, then link any of your favorite highlights in the comments, and be sure to check out, like and subscribe the original videos via the links below. Dying Light – nopezombie.avi – buttsecks Destiny…

By Chris Person Published June 5, 2015

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Fallout: New Vegas Beaten In 24 Minutes, A New World Record

For most Fallout players, going straight to the New Vegas strip seems impossible—the path there looks like it is gated by cazadores and other baddies. But for speedrunners like rydou, blazing through New Vegas in record speeds is no problem. In this video, you can watch rydou not only take control of the strip, but…

By Patricia Hernandez Published June 5, 2015

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PS4’s Newest MMO Is Hilariously Broken

Wander is an MMO that doesn’t feature any combat. That sounds pretty interesting, right? Too bad it seems completely busted right now. Update (4:08 p.m.): I’m not an MMO player, so I didn’t realize /stuck was a common term in MMO games! That bit has been removed. That’s totally my fault. Wander is still messed…

By Patrick Klepek Published June 5, 2015

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Steam Finally Has A Good Dinosaur Game

Should I care about Ark: Survival Evolved? Yes. If you’re into dinosaurs and survival games, you really can’t go wrong here. Word of warning, though: it’s definitely not finished yet. What’s it about? Surviving and hunting/taming dinosaurs. Think DayZ or Rust, except with better graphics, more immediately intuitive progression, and—oh, right—prehistoric ultra-lizards (and turtles) who…

By Nathan Grayson Published June 5, 2015

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The Wrong Pac-Man Just Got Into the Video Game Hall of Fame

There’s a World Video Game Hall of Fame now, and the first class of inductees was announced yesterday. Pong, Pac-Man, Super Mario Bros., Tetris, Doom, and World of Warcraft are to video games what Ty Cobb, Walter Johnson, Christy Mathewson, Babe Ruth, and Honus Wagner are to baseball Canonball—the process of assembling a canon—is one…

By Chris Suellentrop Published June 5, 2015

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Witcher 3 Fixes Money Exploit By Adding Cow Army

It used to be easy to earn money in The Witcher 3 by killing cows over and over again. The game’s most recent patch, however, has a clever way of stopping you from exploiting the world’s bovine. Patch 1.05, which just went live for PC players, brings with it many important changes, including a bigger…

By Patrick Klepek Published June 5, 2015

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Kotaku Asks: SpyParty Designer Chris Hecker [Q&A Over]

Game designer Chris Hecker, best known for his long-in-development game SpyParty and for his consistently insightful comments on the video game industry, is here to answer your questions. Hecker has worked for various game companies over the years, including Maxis, where he developed a great deal of the animation tech for the simulation game Spore.…

By Jason Schreier Published June 5, 2015