You Got Your Dead or Alive in My Fatal Frame

Other than being made by the same company, survival horror series Fatal Frame and fighting game series Dead or Alive have had little in common—until now that is. Upon beating, Zero: Nuregarasu no Miko, the fifth and newest game in the Fatal Frame series, you unlock a series of four bonus chapters following DoA‘s ninja…

The New Borderlands Has Its Own ‘Loot Caves’

It’s not just a Destiny thing anymore. Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel players have begun stumbling across incredibly efficient loot/experience/badass rank/moonrock grinding spots (that’s my nice way of saying “exploits”), so of course they’re calling them loot caves. We live in a post-Loot-Cave world now. Yes, this is the year 2014 AD, but we’re starting the count…

Ad Agency’s Half-Life 3 Campaign Is A Terrible Idea

Everybody wants Half-Life 3, but this elaborate crowdfunding plot dreamed up by interns at marketing agency McKee Wallwork & Co is not how we’re going to get it. Marketing duo Chris Salem and Kyle Mazzei have launched an Indiegogo page entitled “We Want Half-Life 3,” allegedly with the full support of their firm behind them.…

A Time When Fanboys Were Innocent, And Sega Was King

Before there were YouTube channels about kids who were Sega fans, and a generation of people who equated being “fans” with being loud, angry and combative, there was a humbler, more private form of fanboy expression: home video. If you were with us last year, you might remember Tyler, who throughout the 90s had the…

This weekend’s League of Legends‘ pro mega-event will be streamed on digital network ESPN 3. As it did with DOTA 2‘s colossal International tournament, ESPN will be streaming LoL‘s finals live from Seoul, South Korea. This comes as something of a relief, given that ESPN’s president recently said eSports “is not a sport.”

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DayZ Player Explains Why You Shouldn’t Yell ‘I’m Friendly’

It’s the most basic interaction in the game. Two players meet in the wastes, someone yells “I’M FRIENDLY I’M FRIENDLY”, and then eventually everyone dies. While playing DayZ, TheRunningManZ ran into an underequipped stranger. Everything was pretty standard until they got attacked by someone else, who was actually the stranger’s friend. What made it so…

Track: CVS Bangers Vol. 3 | Artist: DJ Hennessy Youngman CVS Bangers is an ongoing mixtape made explicitly for shopping at a CVS at night, curated by Art Thoughtz star Hennessy Youngman. For more context about CVS Bangers, go here Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to…

Watch Destiny’s Big Raid Boss Go Down in 17 Seconds

On Hard Mode too. Nothing else to really say about that. It’s just damned impressive. You’re reading Numbers, a blog on Kotaku that examines games and culture through the lens of math and statistics. To contact the author of this post, write to [email protected] or find him on Twitter @dcstarkey

The Evil Within, Gone Wrong Thanks To Glitches

Shinji Mikami’s latest take on survival horror looks like an intense affair full of blood and guts. But it also occasionally has some bugs—many of which make the game way more hilarious than it intends to be. Here are some of our favorite picks of glitches or goofy moments that people around the web have…

A Guide To Playing (And Beating) Smash Bros.’ Little Mac

So you want to play as Little Mac. Or, lets be real, you want to learn how to best deal with Little Mac, a highly popular character in Smash Bros. You’ve come to the right place. Little Mac is rather infamous right now, as he is a powerful character that many people like to play…

Sony just published a list of additions it’s bringing to the PS4 with the upcoming 2.0 system update. A few neat things stand out, such as the ability to add a PS Plus game “to a PS4 owner’s library without downloading it.” Or shout, “Find face!” at your console and have it respond. Read the…

Shadow Of Mordor Studio Can’t Replicate Players’ Orc Problems

Last week, I wrote about a strange issue Shadow of Mordor players have been reporting since the game came out: Orcs they insisted they’d killed kept coming back from the dead. Developer Monolith has now told me that while they’re aware of people’s confusion, they’re also having a hard time testing for a solution. To…