Midweek Steam Sale, Mario Kart Slot Cars, and More Deals

Steam’s offering a surprisingly huge midweek sale on a ton of mystery-themed games, including Gone Home ($8), L.A. Noire ($5), Alan Wake ($5), and a lot more. [Steam] There’s a lot to like about the Corsair M65: Eight programmable buttons, metal scroll wheel, configurable weights. What really sets it apart though is the three-zone backlighting…

League Of Legends Team Fires Manager For Threatening One Of His Players

German eSports team Meet Your Makers (MYM) has “released” its manager Sebastian “Falli” Rotterdam following the revelation that he had threatened League of Legends player Marcin “Kori” Wolski to intimidate him against quitting the team. MYM announced that Rotterdam has been “immediately released” from the team as part of a lengthy message posted on its…

Street Fighter II Has Somehow Been Ported To Virtual Boy

While it feels like Street Fighter II has been released on every platform ever, that’s not true, as Capcom never blessed Nintendo’s doomed Virtual Boy with the classic fighter. That’s where fans come the rescue, as Hyper Fighting has introduced Street Fighter II to wildly outdated 3D. Homebrew games have existed in the still-active Virtual…

The surprisingly excellent zombie game Dying Light got its first batch of DLC today, Techland said in a surprise announcement. It’s called “Cuisine & Cargo,” and adds two additional “hardcore zones” (buildings) to explore in the game’s world. There are two more bits of DLC coming out in March and May respectively.

Think Before Getting Your Valentine Cheap-Ass Chocolate

If you buy the current love of your life sweets for Valentine’s Day that can be purchased in a drug store, you’re doing it wrong. See how a real chocolatier feels about the heart-shaped boxes that’ll be 75 percent off on February 15. BuzzFeed tapped Jonathan Grahm ofCompartes chocolates in Los Angeles to try out…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: A Life Worth Watching: Why I Love The Slice of Life Genre • Your Lie in April Resonates with Me on Multiple Levels • Indie HYPE: Black Ice • Michonne! in Speed Painting Form! • The Worst/Best Extremes in Japanese Fiction I’ve Seen So Far: Part 2…

For the first time ever, Bethesda will be holding its own E3 press conference this year. Fallout 4? Dishonored 2? Doom 17? Skyrim 360? Let the speculation begin.

Cyberpunk LEGO Is, Sadly, Not Official

Computers and displays hanging on the walls, chaos that is somehow organized, rusty post-indusrial techno-junk lying everywhere. Tim Schwalf‘s massive LEGO cyber slums fan-build has it all, just like a proper dystopian town. It’s easy to imagine this as part of an official cyberpunk set with mechs and hardboiled detectives. Here are some close-up shots—head…

The Ten Coolest Unknown NPCs In World of Warcraft

Azeroth is full of great characters everyone’s familiar with, like Thrall, Jaina, or returning NPCs like Brann Bronzebeard or Nat Pagle. But some of the best storylines are hidden deep in Azeroth, and if you’re not exploring everything with both factions, reading every quest along the way, it’s easy to miss out. Nixxiom collected ten…

The Japanese Military Is Great at Snow Sculptures

Remember that enormous Star Wars snow sculpture? Wonder who helped make it? The Japanese military, that’s who. The Japanese Self Defense Force Northern Army 11th Brigade was instrumental in completing the large works, including the Vader piece and the snow version of Shinto shrine Kasuga-taisha Here, you can see how the Japanese military drew up…

Rage of Bahamut: Genesis has Demons, Angels, and Adventure Galore

A looming war between demons and angels. A draconic beast poised to destroy the world. A plucky hero and his companions on the path to saving it. What more could you ask for in an epic fantasy tale? Not much. In the magical world of Mistarcia, angels and demons had warred for eons. Then a…

The Future of DLC Is an Expensive Place

You’ve probably seen that famous Mona Lisa Photoshop that shows how downloadable content has evolved in games over the years. The image has gotten yet another update to show our grim DLC future. While not brand new, the image continues to float around internet bulletin boards like 4chan and 2ch. In case you missed it,…

Doom Mod Replaces Every Sound with a Guy’s Voice

It’s the perfect way to turn an otherwise grim, brutal game about slaughtering demons goofy as hell. Submitted by user mallo to Doomworld last week, the “Greatest sound wad ever” replaces each in-game sound effect with mallo’s, well, own sound effects. Here’s some in-game footage, recorded by Rock Paper Shotgun, to show you what it’s…

Xenoblade Chronicles X‘s Stupid-Looking Characters Are A-Okay

I know it’s only February. But this year, these are going to be hard to top. Congrats, Xenoblade Chronicles X, for some of the dumbest-looking characters of 2015! Before we start, realize I don’t think characters with stupid faces are problematic. Not in the least! Rather, I’m charmed by their unapologetic ugliness (no need to…

Kirby’s Claymation Looks Real Enough to Touch

Kirby: Rainbow Curse has an art style not exactly common in games: one of clay. Everything in the game is made of it and it is animated as if it were claymation. And let me tell you, when you get a good look at the game up close, you’ll wonder if it really is CG…

Some fantastic range on display from Argentsouled, who goes from Persona 3 to Final Fantasy VII without breaking a sweat. You can see more of her work here