DOTA‘s Early Days Were Rough

DOTA 2 is one of the biggest games on Steam. It’s also the centerpiece of one of the biggest annual tournaments in all of eSports. And yet, once upon a time its most dedicated players resigned themselves to the idea that they’d probably never make a cent off it. Pro gaming behemoth Na`Vi put together…

Cancelled Driver Game Involved Blowing Apart San Francisco

Before Driver: San Francisco, Ubisoft tasked Sumo Digital with making the next Driver game. Unseen 64 has unearthed details and concept art on the abandoned project, which apparently would have involved the Bay Area and tons of explosions. Split/Second: San Francisco? I’m a sucker for reading about cancelled games, and wish more game companies were…

Looks like the line-up of Titans live-action series might include Barbara Gordon. The redhead known as both Batgirl and Oracle might be part of the twentysomething Titans TV show, according to a report on Nerdist.

Fan-Made Dragon Age Trailer Will Pull You Right Back to the War Table 

So you left the sprawling beginning area of the latest Dragon Age. Closed lots of breaches. Collected hella herbs. Read as much lore as you could stomach. Puzzled over its ending. Thought you were done? Watch this fan-cut trailer and you’ll roll a new character and jump back in. Just like he’s done for GTA…

One Of The Best Smash Bros. Matches In History Went Down Last Night

For some people, yesterday was all about the Super Bowl. For me, it was about a better match-up, one of the best and most dramatic Smash Bros. matches I’ve ever seen. To tell the story of Sunday’s amazing match, we have to go back a day further, to Saturday and the Apex 2015 tournament, the…

Rooster Teeth Animator Monty Oum Dies At 33

Rooster Teeth animator Monty Oum has passed away, the production studio announced today. The 33-year-old was hospitalized over the weekend for “a severe allergic reaction during a simple medical procedure” that put him in a coma. When the news first hit, fans raised nearly $180,000 for him. Oum was best known for RWBY, a web-based…

Sony Sells Off Studio Behind Everquest, H1Z1

After almost twenty years, the Sony Online Entertainment studio is no longer part of Sony. Sounds like we’ll be seeing games like EverQuest and H1Z1 on the Xbox soon. SOE announced their independence in a press release this afternoon, saying they had been purchased by a New York-based management firm called Columbus Nova and that…

PS4 Bundled with Plus, Majora’s Mask 3D, Jurassic Park, and More Deals

The PS4 comes with The Last of Us Remastered by default these days, but today, you can get a year of PlayStation Plus as well. [PS4 Console + Last of Us + PlayStation Plus, $400] Luftrausers is on my personal shortlist for game of the year 2014, and it’s only $2 right now. [Luftrausers, $2…

A pretty good idea in Battlefield Hardline’s new beta: A mode in which your team captures cars instead of checkpoints—and has to drive above certain speed to earn points. Explained and shown over atKotaku UK

There was no Minecon event in 2014, but the convention returns in 2015. Minecon 2015 takes place July 4-5 in London at the ExCeL Exhibition and Conference Centre. Tickets go on sale next month.

Clever Editor Turns P.T. Into Terrifying Found Footage Film

I’m a sucker for found footage films. Ever since The Blair Witch Project wrecked an entire summer for me, the genre has been my go-to source for quick’n easy jump scares. Now, an editor has taken a playthrough of P.T. and transformed it into a horror flick I’d “happily” watch. The first half is better…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Pokémon One a Day Series 2: Ariados, Crobat, Chinchou, Lanturn • Final Fantasy Road Trip: FFIV • Pre-Cult: Assassin’s Creed 4 • The first game I beat this year • An Introduction to Weiβ Schwarz • The Worst/Best Extremes in Japanese Fiction I’ve Seen TAY Classic—TAY Open…

Old School RuneScape Rebuilt In Minecraft

This must be one of the flattest Minecraft worlds out there, but that’s how you remake a classic browser game. As Chajben’s one-man project shows, the 2007 version of RuneScape—the free MMO we probably all encountered before one way or another—and is relatively small, making it possible to rebuild it block by block and make…

New Bayonetta Browser Game Is Balls-Hard

It’s pretty well-documented that at least one lead developer at Platinum is deeply in love with old-school games. So it’s not all that surprising that they made an retro-styled shooter starring the studio’s biggest action star. Also not surprising: it’s really freakin’ tough. Announced today via a tweet from Platinum’s JP Kellams, the bite-sized Bayonetta…