We can hone our bodies and minds until they’re razor sharp—perfect tools of fistic destruction—but in the end we all fall to the same foe: mobile game microtransactions. Just because you spend 8-10 grueling hours every day training to punch other dudes in the face for a living, that doesn’t mean you can’t also find…
Talk about a devilish prank. Watch as Corps Peau Rate tricks a ton of people into being thrown into a trap in the Nightmare Frontier portion of Bloodborne. First, he gets people to trust him. Then, he deceives them into being pushed off a cliff by Patches the Spider. Below, unexpected terrors await all these…
Pretty much everybody knows what Batman looks like: pointy ears, menacing cowl, voluminous cape and big bat symbol on his chest. But the Dark Knight’s been around for more than 75 years, with hundreds—maybe even thousands—of people drawing the iconic superhero through the decades. So let’s round up some of the people who’ve been behind…
The weekend is close, which means it’s time for another installment in Worth Reading, our weekly round up of the best games writing from the past week. Update (4:50 p.m.): Hey, everyone! The headline for Worth Reading has been changed. How come? Previously, it was written as “Some Kickstarters Are Lying About Game Budgets,” which…
Sometimes, you have no choice but to fight fire with fire. That is essentially what a man called Rev Drucifer has been telling me over the last couple of days. Drucifer only plays one game: Grand Theft Auto. Specifically, GTA Online, the multiplayer version of the extremely popular GTA V. He really loves the game;…
Meet the Celestial Nighthawk, one of Destiny’s newest helmets and perhaps the most lethal boss-killing device in the game. Nighthawk, an exotic hunter helmet that was added to the game with the House of Wolves expansion earlier this week, offers one very interesting unique perk: BIG GAME: Golden Gun fires one shot, delivering 6x damage,…
As promised, the League of Legends players who are fed up with Riot’s overpriced skin recolorings known as “Chroma Packs” have launched a database for custom fan-made chromas. You can download the custom content, which change the color of a champion’s outfit in-game, here.
Oh, what a lovely day. Let’s thank the cinematic genius sundbergkr for YouTubing what we were all thinking: that a Mad Max: Fury Road version of Mario Kart would be spectacular. Still need convincing? Watch the trailer for Mario Kart: Fury Road and try telling me it’s not the greatest thing ever: I hope Nintendo’s…
The people at YouTube have given us a list of their top 10 trending games from April 2015—that is, the games that saw the best improvements in number of videos uploaded and increase in watchtime. Some are upcoming games. You won’t guess the last one. Here’s the “trending” top 10 for April: Mortal Kombat X…
If you’re playing The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt on Xbox One, you should watch out for this. Players are reporting a couple of ways save games are becoming corrupted. For some, it happens out of nowhere, after dying. Others are convinced it’s related to a specific mission. But for most, it happens after leaving The…
Well this is embarrassing. Earlier this week, Cloud9 Maelstrom and compLexity—two of the top teams in Heroes of the Storm’s nascent eSports scene—faced off as part of Blizzard’s ongoing “Road To Blizzcon” tournament. As The Daily Dot reported, compLexity was “hungry for a win” as they’d only just barely secured themselves a spot in the…
This is a Nintendo Mii killing zombies by… making them do math in school. The deadliest maneuver! The dreaded “cram session” is just one of the terrific special attacks in Battleground Z, Nintendo’s zombie game. You knew that Nintendo has a zombie game, right? It’s published by Nintendo, developed by Good-Feel (Wario Land: Shake It,…
This series sure has come a long way since this early prototype from 2002. Remember, this is what The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, which launched this week, looks like. (I love the sunsets in this game!) We’re only learning about the series’ origins because former project lead Ryszard Chojnowski has started publishing videos on YouTube…
Ultra Street Fighter IV will support PlayStation 3 fight sticks, as Sony’s going to include the backwards compatibility drivers created by Skullgirls developer Lab Zero. The game launches next week, on May 26. You can reach the author of this post at [email protected] or on Twitter at @patrickklepek
Oh boy. The most recent video game sales numbers in Japan are not good. In fact, they’re bad. Very bad. As blog Hokanko points out, the most recent Media Create sales figures—which date from May 11 to May 17—are the worst since 2001. This period was the week that followed Golden Week, a string of…
Well, aren’t all Japanese love hotels like that? No, actually. They’re not. Even in Japan, the Sky Paradise Rakuen is most unusual. Think the Jungle Cruise or the Pirates of the Caribbean ride plus people screwing. Located in Oita Prefecture, Sky Paradise Rakuen was recently featured on Japanese television show Ariyoshi Hiroiki no Dare Toku!?…
The second arc of Sword Art Online wasn’t exactly my favorite, but that doesn’t mean I’d pass up the chance to strap on my fairy wings and explore this (not so) online world. So why don’t you join me? Update: Livestream over, check out the full livestream below! Part 1 Watch live video from BiggestinJapan…
These days, many popular anime and games get live action-stage play adaptations—including Tokyo Ghoul. And let me say, the cast doesn’t look half-bad in costume. Yuki Ogoe — Ken Kaneki Aya Tabata — Touka Kirishima Shogo Suzuki — Nishiki Nishio Shuto Miyazaki — Hideyoshi Nagachika Yuri Hamada — Rize Kamishiro Mitsu Murata — Uta Tomokazu…
Track: Music | Artist: Cornelius | Album: Sensuous Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment
As gamers, we all have shared experiences. When I say certain game titles, say, Pokémon Pearl, you know exactly what I’m talking about. Right? Not exactly. According to Twitter user and Taiwan native @Taiwanjin, “Reminiscing on Pokémon Pearl with a Japanese friend didn’t quite jive, because for some reason, things in the the Taiwanese version…
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