Why You Should Care About Heroes Of The Storm

“Well, that wasn’t good,” I said. My team had just been defeated in a game of Heroes of the Storm. “Eh,” my friend Alex replied as the colorful mush of the on-screen battle faded into a dark red “DEFEAT” screen. “It doesn’t feel any different if you win or lose in this game.” Alex was…

Mad Max Comic Shows How Fury Road’s Villain Rose To Power

If you’ve seen Mad Max: Fury Road, you know that the movie doesn’t explain much about the blasted world it happens in. But there’s a new comic that fills in more backstory about the crazy War Boy called Nux and the albino tyrant he works for. Published by DC Comics’ Vertigo imprint, the Mad Max:…

Watch Me Die Four Times In The First Five Minutes Of Steredenn

A lovely pixelized combination of shoot-em-up and roguelike, Steredenn changes every time you play, which is the excuse I’m using for all the deaths. Oh come on, it’s hard enough playing a shmup when you aren’t trying to talk about it at the same time. At least if this glorious beast were a standard shooter…

Blizzard Took Out Tychus’ Cigar In Heroes Of The Storm

StarCraft fans have long known Terran (read: human) hero Tychus Findlay as a cigar-chomping lovable grump. Sadly, Heroes of the Storm players will only get to know him as a lovable grump. That’s right: they put out the guy’s smoke. Heroes of the Storm fans first discovered this glaring omission last night when Blizzard released…

The Witcher 3’s Tiny Text Is A Nightmare To Read

I have perfect vision and a huge TV, yet I’m constantly leaning in while playing The Witcher 3. Here’s what I’m talking about—check the bottom left. (Click on the image to see it at full scale!) (OK, we’ll go back to regular sized text now.) You spend a whole lot of time messing with your…

This is Doug Bowser, Nintendo’s new VP of Sales. Yes, Nintendo hired a guy named Doug BOWSER. They claim he has “no relation to the King Koopa and Mario’s nemesis.” Uh huh. You can reach the author of this post at [email protected] or on Twitter at @patrickklepek

Doc Brown Comes Back To The Future To Hype LEGO Dimensions

Christopher Lloyd is a man who’ll jump at any chance to don a Hawaiian shirt, stand in front of a wind machine and shout “Great Scott!” A new LEGO Dimensions trailer is as good a reason as any. Good old Doc Brown is getting his own Fun Pack when LEGO Dimensions launches this September, adding…

If Players Were In Charge Of World of Warcraft

With the recent three million drop in subscription numbers, World of Warcraft forums are full of people thinking what could save the game from further decline. TheLazyPeon is one of them, and he compiled a list full of interesting ideas that’d fill the game with life again. Some of these idea always come up in…

There’s a Castle Hidden in the LEGO Autumn Foliage

It’s not the 80,000 pieces and the roughly 17 days of build time that makes Blufiji’s fantasy LEGO diorama awesome, but the beautiful autumn scenery. Everything just flows with the trees and colors. There are even purple leaved ones in there, and it completely fits! Blufiji created a small background story for his build to…

To Make Anime Eyes More Terrifying, Add Avocados

I’ve never really thought about this. But, it seems if you Photoshop in avocados into anime characters’ eyes, the result is most unsettling. Via Otaku News is Natsuki from Uta no Prince-sama, an anime which started out as a visual novel for the PSP. And thanks to Twitter user Ishima Tsu, here he is with…

No foam or cardboard here. JaroKrieg’s Jaster Mereel suit is made from aluminium plates! Photo by DarthInvidia

Bastion’s Hammer, Made Real

Supergiant Games, the developers of Bastion, needed someone to build them an actual replica of the Cael Hammer from the game. So they turned to Harrison Krix. Krix, who we’ve featured on Kotaku before, certainly delivered. With a bigger, more detailed 3D model of the hammer to work from than that used for the actual…

Giant Witcher 3 Sculpture Is As Handsome As Geralt

Tomek Radziewicz is a concept artist, but he’s also a sculptor, and he’s recently done some work on The Witcher III that’s a little more tangible than a lot of the stuff we normally post here on Fine Art. This amazing sculpture was designed and built by Radziewicz (with help from Arthur Wochniak), and now…