The History Of The Minigun, Our Deadly Spinning Friend

The Gatling gun was invented in 1861 by Dr. Richard J. Gatling as a means to ultimately demonstrate the futility of war. Now it and its descendants are some of gaming’s sweetest treats. How’d that happen?Ahoy has prepared a video. In games centered around putting bullets into people, there is no greater means of doing…

Valve Rejects DOTA 2 Character, Player Makes It Anyway

I’m not sure Valve was serious about their rejected redesigns for DOTA 2 hero Faceless Void, but that hasn’t stopped a fan from painstakingly modeling one for use in the game. Of course they went with Faceful Void. Of course they did. Easily the goofiest-looking of Valve’s somewhat, shall we say, out of character remakes…

Change your Twitch password—the streaming company says they’ve been hit by a security breach and that the culprits got into people’s accounts. If you use your Twitch password anywhere else, you’ll want to change those passwords, too.

Surprise! Dragon Age: Inquisition DLC Is Out Tomorrow (For Xbox/PC)

The first single-player downloadable content for Dragon Age: Inquisition will be out tomorrow, Kotaku has confirmed. Well, unless you’re on PlayStation. Then you’ll have to wait a while. DLC pack #1 for Inquisition is called “Jaws of Hakkon,” which is likely named after a Dragon Age god named Hakkon Wintersbreath. It’s coming out tomorrow for…

My Five Favorite Kotaku Stories From Last Week

I know, I know, it’s hard to top a post about a great video game burger—seriously, that burger looks great!—but there are at least five other Kotaku posts I liked more last week. The Two-Year-Old Pokémon Card Thief | News editor Jason Schreier’s video game layoff stories were some of the articles I was proudest…

“Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory gave me brain damage.” This short blog post by veteran game designer Clint Hocking about the stress and anxiety of game development is worth a read

In-Game Kickstarter Rewards Can Be… Distracting

Anyone who enjoyed isometric PC role-playing games like Baldur’s Gate will undoubtedly love Pillars of Eternity, which has taken over my life for the past few days. It’s really, really excellent. It’s also got some hilariously anomalous player-created names and messages, like the one you can see above. “I will either die by the wife…

Halo 5‘s Online Mystery Game Suggests Master Chief’s A Traitor

We’ve always thought of Master Chief as the savior of humanity in the Halo series, but the ARG kicking off for Halo 5: Guardians posits something much sinister: he’s a traitor. What’s an ARG? It stands for alternate reality game, and usually means it sends fans chasing from one end of the Internet to the…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number: The TAY Review • Your Lie in April: The Ani-TAY Review • On Trying (And Succeeding) to get Excited About Rock Band 4 • Why Doesn’t This Game Exist: Drudgeons and Diplomacy TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

Batman: Arkham Knight just got yet another delay—the upcoming superhero action game will now come out on June 23, the developers say. More time to polish that batsuit.

LEGO Matrix Lobby Shootout Improves On The Original

Not only has YouTube LEGO animator Snooperking painstakingly recreated the lobby shootout from The Matrix, he tweaked the ending to solve the movie trilogy’s main problem. Despite the fact that Neo and Trinty are technically slaughtering countless innocent comatose machine batteries on their way to rescue Morpheus from Agent Smith (it’s the smell, if there…