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Rocket League Is So Good, Nobody Minds That The Servers Suck
R0cket League, a ridiculously fun mashup of driving and soccer (seriously!), has taken the Internet by storm. The unexpected popularity has ravaged the game’s servers. Despite constant downtime, it hasn’t stopped vehicular sports fans from coming back over and over. If you’ve been trying to play Rocket League on PC or PlayStation 4 over the…
By Patrick Klepek Published July 17, 2015 -
UncategorizedScummy Hearthstone Trick Prevents People From Taking Turns
There’s a shady new move floating around certain circles in Hearthstone, Blizzard’s addictive—and excellent—digital card game. Thanks to a legendary dragon card called Nozdormu, which cuts player turns from 45 seconds to 15, crafty Hearthstone sneaks have figured out how to manipulate the game so that their opponents can’t actually do anything. The trick: use…
By Jason Schreier Published July 17, 2015 - Uncategorized
A former Midway Games employee is raising money on Kickstarter for a documentary called Insert Coin, a look at the studio in the 90s. At the time, Midway was pumping out classic after classic—NBA Jam, Mortal Kombat, Smash TV. Looks interesting! You can reach the author of this post at [email protected] or on Twitter at…
By Patrick Klepek Published July 17, 2015 - Uncategorized
Thousands Attend Two-Day Funeral For Satoru Iwata
Thousands attended a two-day funeral service for the late Nintendo president Satoru Iwata in Kyoto, Japan this week, carrying umbrellas and even bringing Nintendo 3DSes to pay their respects. Over 2,600 people showed up during the first day and some 1,500 came on the second, Nintendo said in a statement to the Wall Street Journal.…
By Jason Schreier Published July 17, 2015 -
Esports15-Year-Old StarCraft Pro Shows How To Play Protoss Properly
American protoss player Arium showed us during this year’s Dreamhack Valencia how to annihilate an entire Zerg army and win a match with two protoss Immortals and a single Warp Prism. And this wasn’t just a random game. He played against one of the best zergs out there: the Korean GSL veteran Symbol Arium (who’s…
By Gergo Vas Published July 17, 2015 -
UncategorizedGuy Spent Three Years Making His Own Ghostbusters Ecto-1
Now that’s a classy way to drive around the yard: in a perfect replica of the Ghostbusters Ecto-1. British enthusiast Paul Harborne spent three years and around $150,000 renovating his rare Cadillac Miller-Meteor and turning it into the iconic car. Must be fun to do a vehicle safety test with this particular car. ButCatersTV’s video…
By Gergo Vas Published July 17, 2015 - Kotaku East
This Anime Isn’t Really About Picking Up Girls In a Dungeon
If you randomly heard a title like “Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? ,” you’d probably expect to be in for an anime filled with fanservice and nothing but. Yet, while there is some degree of it in this one, it’s never really the focus of the show. In…
By Richard Eisenbeis Published July 17, 2015 - Kotaku East
Let’s Play Dress Up With Persona 4
Persona 4: Dancing All Night has a lot of awesome remixes of your favorite Persona 4 songs. You know what else it has? A ton of costumes to dress everyone up in. And while I may be partial to those of a certain young detective, every Persona 4 cast member (except poor Margaret) has at…
By Richard Eisenbeis Published July 17, 2015 - Uncategorized
Every Single Popular Destiny Gun Is Getting Nerfed
Tonight, Bungie announced some crazy news in the world of Destiny, a video game where players fight against vile, disgusting enemies like the Cabal, the Vex, and Red Bull. You know all those weapons that everyone uses? Gjallarhorn? Thorn? The Last Word? Hawkmoon? They’re all getting nerfed. Every damn one Thanks toa massive weapon overhaul…
By Jason Schreier Published July 16, 2015 - Culture
A Metroid TV Series That Looks Like This, Please
Alberto Camara is an artist at Rovio in Finland, where he’s worked on a whole bunch of Angry Birds games. Not that there are any Angry Birds pictures in this gallery. You can see more of Alberto’s work at his personal site and ArtStation page To see the larger pics in all their glory (or,…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 16, 2015 -
UncategorizedLuckslinger Is A Cowboy Hip-Hop Game
Ever wonder how wild the Wild West would have been if everyone had been scratching records instead of rustling cattle? Luckslingermight be the game for you. It’s a side-scrolling shooter and adventure title that is mostly a cowboy game, except for the places it takes a detour and dumps a bunch of hip-hop in the…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 16, 2015 -
CultureWelp, That’s It For Besiege
Here lies Besiege. It was massacred by a giant elephant robot monster. Yes, people are still making stuff in Besiege—stuff more elaborate and terrifying than anything they were making back when everybody was paying attention. This elephant is goddamn absurd. Between layers upon layers of armor and so many methods of attack that I lost…
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Very Cool Box Art. Maybe The Coolest.
I am an aficionadoof fine box art, it is known. And this is an ever-growing collection of damn fine box art. Cool Box Art is a Twitter account run by @TheSonicMole and @87th, which collects the finest examples of packaging art (and posters) in video game history and dumps them back onto the internet a…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 16, 2015 -
CultureNew Skyrim Mod Is Basically A Skyrim Expansion
Skyrim mods, they’re the gift that keeps on giving. Years after the fantasy RPG kingpin came out, we’re seeing stuff that’s practically professional-quality. The Forgotten City could be mistaken for a full-on Bethesda-made expansion. It’s not quite on Enderal’s level, but there’s still a lot to be cautiously optimistic about. Check it out: The mod…
By Nathan Grayson Published July 16, 2015 -
EsportsThe Injuries That Are Ending eSports Careers
They may be sat behind a desk instead of being out on a field or court smashing into other humans, but that doesn’t mean esports players are immune from career-threatening injuries. Motherboard has a great interview up with Dr. Levi Harrison, a hand and arm surgeon based in Los Angeles. Harrison—who specialises in athlete injuries—tells…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 16, 2015 -
UncategorizedGuild Overcomes World Of Warcraft‘s Hardest Raid Yet After 472 Tries
“13/13,” Method’s Scott McMillan tweeted. And just like that, the World of Warcraft community went nuts. McMillan was referring to the fact that his guild defeated all 13 bosses in WoW’s latest top tier raid, Hellfire Citadel, on Mythic difficulty. And they only wiped 472 times before pulling it off. (For some perspective, they wiped…
By Nathan Grayson Published July 16, 2015 -
EsportsGanging Up On A League Of Legends Pro Is Never A Good Idea
Oh man. I bet these two League of Legends players thought they were being so clever, teaming up at the very beginning of the match to jump into top lane and surprise their opponent who was all alone up there. The would-be ambushers should have checked the in-game handle of their target more carefully, because…
By Yannick LeJacq Published July 16, 2015 -
UncategorizedYou Can Now Play DOOM Inside DOOM
I’m starting to feel a little dizzy. We have YouTube user TheZombieKiller to thank for this ridiculousness. Of course, this isn’t the only weird place you can run DOOM. How about an inkjet printer? You can reach the author of this post at [email protected] or on Twitter at @patrickklepek
By Patrick Klepek Published July 16, 2015