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UncategorizedLEGO Is As Close As We’ve Got To An Actual Destiny Weapon
This is Destiny’s MIDA Multi-tool Scout Rifle. Elliott Feldman spent a few months building it, and he’s done a hell of a job. I like two things in particular: the small details (like a removable clip and sliding trigger mechanism) and the fact he laughed at the notion of doing the normal LEGO builder thing…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 22, 2015 -
CultureSteam Fighting Game Takes Risks That Super Smash Bros Won’t
Confession: despite being mostly a PC guy, I adore Super Smash Bros. Now my lack of a Nintendo console isn’t much of an issue. Rivals of Aether—which just launched on Steam and rocketed straight into the service’s top ten best sellers—is not shy about its primary influence. It may not be wearing Mario’s trademark hat…
By Nathan Grayson Published September 22, 2015 -
UncategorizedMan Learns To Drive On PlayStation, Arrested After Police Chase
Englishman Adam Jones, 24, doesn’t have a driver’s license. He’s never even sat a license exam. So when he was arrested last week by police for driving at over 100mph through the town of Grantham, his excuse was that he had “learned to drive on his Playstation.” As ITV reports (via Boing-Boing), Jones was arrested…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 22, 2015 -
UncategorizedApple Rejects Virtual Ferguson App, Because of Course They Did
Dan Archer’s Ferguson Firsthand is an educational app about the shooting of Michael Brown. Though it’s not violent, Apple denied it a spot on the App Store. This shouldn’t be a surprise; Apple has treated apps—and, by extension, games—differently for a long time. Ferguson Firsthand isn’t a realistic depiction of a tragedy but a new…
By Patrick Klepek Published September 22, 2015 -
UncategorizedDota 2 Mod Turns Game Into Nonstop Co-Op Boss Fight
Dota 2 got a major update recently that, among many other things, made it much easier for players to create and share custom games with one another. One of the best (and certainly the silliest) of the new player-made modes turns Valve’s into a PvE game that’s fittingly known as “Epic Boss Fight.” Like all…
By Yannick LeJacq Published September 22, 2015 -
UncategorizedPanoramical Is A Trippy Journey Of Light and Sound
The goal in Panoramical is to find yourself in a series of fantastical works of audiovisual art. It’s a personal journey. Here’s a bit of mine. Some call it a game. Others a tool. I call it a trip, a mental and perhaps spiritual journey through realms of sound and light. Developer Fernando Ramallo, composer…
By Mike Fahey Published September 22, 2015 -
UncategorizedThe Creator Of The ‘Hardest Super Mario World Level Ever’ Is At It Again
Right now, there’s a course titled “Pit of Panga: P-Break” floating around in Super Mario Maker. Thousands of people have tried this level. Not a single person has beaten it yet. The creator is calling it the “hardest Super Mario Maker level ever made,” and when you see how grueling it is, you’ll understand why.…
By Patricia Hernandez Published September 22, 2015 - Uncategorized
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By Evan Narcisse Published September 22, 2015 -
UncategorizedHow Until Dawn Ended Up With A 10,000-Page Script
When Graham Reznick and Larry Fessenden landed the gig to write Until Dawn in 2011, it seemed easy enough: write some dialogue! Known for working on horror films like House of the Devil and The Innkeepers, the writers had taken on a bigger task than they thought—they were signing on to write two games in…
By Patrick Klepek Published September 22, 2015 - Uncategorized
The Only 1TB PlayStation 4 Is Ugly As Sin
If you get it, just put this mega-capacity PS4 behind something else, m’kay? Sony just unveiled a Call of Duty-themed PS4 that boasts 1 TB of internal storage. It is also damn difficult to look at. The orange piping and highlights are already questionable choices. But the Call of Duty: Black Ops III symbols and…
By Evan Narcisse Published September 22, 2015 -
ReviewsSOMA: The Kotaku Review
When the credits rolled on SOMA, my head fell into my hands. I felt relief that the harrowing journey was over, and was reeling at what my character had sacrificed along the way. SOMA is not just a horror game, it’s a nightmarish commentary on the possible future of humanity. SOMA is the latest scarefest…
By Patrick Klepek Published September 22, 2015 - Uncategorized
Destiny‘s Leveling System Is Finally Fixed
For the past week, I’ve done very little but play Destiny, a video game in which you travel through space lamenting that Destiny has gotten way harder to make fun of in the first lines of Kotaku posts because it’s so friggin’ good now. This is not much of a change—I’ve been a Destiny addict…
By Jason Schreier Published September 22, 2015 - Uncategorized
Ta-Nehisi Coates Will Write Marvel’s New Black Panther Comic
Was anybody expecting this? The Black Panther is arguably Marvel Comics’ most important black superhero, a king who’s never been mired in the kinds of stereotype-heavy portrayals that have dogged other characters. And news has just hit that the Wakandan monarch’s next ongoing comics series will be written by Ta-Nehisi Coates, a national correspondent for…
By Evan Narcisse Published September 22, 2015 -
UncategorizedThe New League Of Legends Champion Is Seriously Creepy
Last week, Riot unveiled “Kindred,” the newest champion for its wildly popular online game League of Legends. It’s far too early to say anything definitive about Kindred’s gameplay qualities, but one thing is already clear: the champ’s production values are amazing Kindred is relatively rare in League of Legends for not actually being a single…
By Yannick LeJacq Published September 22, 2015 - Uncategorized
The Sorry State of Arkham Knight’s DLC
Today, new DLC is coming to Batman: Arkham Knight. Usually, this is when players pop a disc back in and rekindle a relationship with the game. But, the responses to Arkham Knight’s DLC have been harsh and it’s going to take a lot of work to make the owners of the newest Bat-game feel like…
By Evan Narcisse Published September 22, 2015 -
UncategorizedFive Dangerously Australian Minutes With Ty The Tasmanian Tiger 4
“Enough Australian lingo to choke a dingo” is something I’m not proud of saying in the opening moments of the first Ty the Tasmanian Tiger game in almost a decade. Can you believe it’s been nearly ten years since the last Ty the Tasmanian Tiger game? Makes me mad as a cut snake it does.…
By Mike Fahey Published September 22, 2015 - Uncategorized
Square Enix has delayed Hitman from December to March 2016. “These few extra months will mean we can add more to the launch content of the game, more than we had originally planned, and then follow with a tighter frequency of updates, which ultimately will create a better game for everyone.” Read more on their…
By Jason Schreier Published September 22, 2015
