Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Game of the Week—Dawn of the QTE [Shenmue] • Fire Emblem Hit Percentages, Ranked • Con Men: NYCC Two Months Later and Gender Differences for Cosplayers • Project Hydra – Corpse Party: Tortured Souls EP2 & EP 3 • A Sad Tale of the Video Game Industry…

Watch The World’s First Kill of WoW‘s Current Hardest Boss

Only 4 guilds were capable of defeating Imperator Mar’gok on the hardest difficulty, the final boss of Warlords of Draenor’s newest raid, and the quickest one was the Finnish top guild, Paragon. While that’s impressive, their newly released kill video is just as awesome. Watch 18 minutes of epicness below from multiple guild members’ view.…

Flying Jetskis And Other New GTA V Myths

With the new gen versions of Grand Theft Auto V released and tons of new content added to the game, it was inevitable for the GTA Mythbusters series to return and confirm a bunch of new tricks and funny little exploits. This time it’s all about invulnerable monster trucks, pigeons avoiding wanted levels and military…

Nintendo Warns Parents About Kids Spending Their Money

Parents, do you know what video games your kids are playing? Do you know what they’re buying? Please pay more attention. For Nintendo. It happened with the iPhone, costing Apple millions of dollars to pay back people whose kids went overboard with in-app purchases on their parents’ iPhones. Now, Nintendo is asking that parents and…

GTA V Spreads Holiday Cheer with Mines and Homing Rockets [Update]

A new update is bringing Christmas goodies to Los Santos and its surroundings, and yes, those goodies include explosives. The patch only seems to be live on the PS4 for now, per user reports posted to the relevant thread at GTAForums. Apart from upping the property limit to three, the patch also adds new content,…

What Final Fantasy is, According to its Creator

From the mouth – or rather, the keyboard – of Hironobu Sakaguchi. If you’re a fan of the Final Fantasy series, you’ve heard of him. The man’s blood and tears are in the genes of the game series, and while he no longer works at Square Enix, his influence remains. In a Weekly Famitsu interview…

Enhanced Version of PC Cult Classic Suddenly Pops Up on Steam

Outcast came out in 1999. It was pretty great. Then, this year, its original creators launched a Kickstarter campaign for a HD remake of the game, which, sadly, failed to meet its goal. And now, it looks like they are settling for the next best thing: releasing the original game, with new features, on Steam.…

Are You Still Playing Destiny?

Destiny has been out for several months now, long enough for most people to have a pretty good sense of what it’s all about. Sure, it got its grindy tentacles around a lot of us back in September, but has it managed to keep everyone playing since then? I’m probably not representative of the average…

You Can’t Gift Steam Games Wherever You Want Anymore

Region-locking, the act of making games non-functional if used outside particular parts of the world, is not an uncommon thing in games. It is, however, a big deal for Steam—especially the PC gaming service’s trading/gifting market. With widespread region locks now in place, change seems inevitable. Recently Steam users and developers began to discover that…

Cheating eSports Team Now Officially Called “We Are Sorry”

An esports team formerly known as Arrow Gaming, successful in South-East Asian DOTA 2 tournaments before a match-fixing and betting scandal undid them in October, is returning to competition. Only with a more repentant name. Having left Arrow Gaming behind – who are now reforming with an all-new roster – the five busted competitors are…

A Small Change Just Made Building In The Sims 4 A Lot More Fun

The Sims 4 got an update yesterday that, among others things, added the two new careers to the game. But we already knew about that—the developers had promised they were coming back in November. Buried within EA’s announcement was something far more exciting for many Sims fans: the return of a beloved cheat code. The…

Someone Built A Replica Of The Weird New Star Wars Lightsaber

Since the internet seems to be getting overthe reveal of Kylo Ren’s weird, three-bladed lightsaber from the Force Awakens trailer, perhaps now is a good time for people to show off that they’ve gone and replicated the thing in real life. Prop maker Makoto Tsai has fashioned this pretty decent remake of the “claymore” lightsaber,…

Nic Cage Has A Bone To Pick With Destiny

Not the real Nic Cage, unfortunately, but a fairly convincing cartoon lookalike. He uses a fantastic review scoring system, too. While obviously intended to be funny, Mashed‘s video of famous/infamous actor Nic Cage ranting about Destiny pretty much tells it like it is. Getting friends together for raids can be kind of a pain, and…