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Still No Word Why Far Cry 4 Stopped Working For Some Xbox One Owners
Far Cry 4 for the Xbox One disappeared from the Xbox Marketplace for a little while earlier this week, preventing some from playing a game they own. The problem was eventually solved, but the whole thing’s left me pretty confused. What exactly happened…and why? Unfortunately, Microsoft’s brief statement on the issue to Videogamer.comhasn’t provided any…
By Patrick Klepek Published January 9, 2015 - Uncategorized
I Played The New Princess Bride Video Game So You Wouldn’t Have To
It’s early January in the Year of our Lord 2015. Is there a better time to release a mobile game based on the beloved 1987 Rob Reiner film The Princess Bride? I can’t think of one. Like any sensitive modern gentleman, I love both The Princess Bride the film and The Princess Bride the book—not…
By Kirk Hamilton Published January 9, 2015 -
CultureBattlefield 4 Player Didn’t See That Chopper Coming
On today’s Highlight Reel we have lucky gun throws in Counter-Strike, random raining cars in Far Cry 4, photobombing helicopters in Battlefield 4 and more. Watch the video above, then link any of your favorite highlights in the comments, and be sure to check out, like and subscribe the original videos via the links below.…
By Chris Person Published January 9, 2015 -
UncategorizedFive Nights At Wario’s Makes Nintendo Terrifying
Five Nights At Wario’s is a Five Nights At Freddy’s parody game chock full of Nintendo characters like Mario, Luigi, and Princess Peach. Also their eyes are dead and they’re bleeding pure darkness from infinite void orifices. And then there’s Waluigi. Dear god, Waluigi. Five Nights At Wario’s is available for free over on Game…
By Nathan Grayson Published January 9, 2015 -
UncategorizedGTA Game Slowly Descends Into Glitch Hell
At first, it’s a few small oddities. The floating car glitch we’ve seen before. A character model disappearing for a few seconds. But, by the time that this drug-running mission in Grand Theft Auto Online ends, everything’s gone to hell. Or heaven, by the looks of it. Things don’t seem that weird at the beginning…
By Evan Narcisse Published January 9, 2015 - Uncategorized
Life-Size Pac-Man Maze Unhinges Jaw, Consumes LA
It could be said that Los Angeles is an urban maze, a sprawl of overlapping, interlocking grids and dumpster-strewn dead ends. Yesterday, you could have also said it was a Pac-Man maze. Because it was. The maze was put together to be used in—of all things—a Bud Light beer commercial that will apparently air during…
By Nathan Grayson Published January 9, 2015 - Uncategorized
Video Game Pre-Order Bonuses Are Getting Stranger Every Day [UPDATE]
Pre-ordering video games is, in general, a Very Bad Idea, as we’ve learned from the likes of SimCity, Battlefield 4, Halo: The Master Chief Collection, Assassin’s Creed Unity, Aliens: Colonial Marines, and many many more. So these days, video game publishers have to get a little more creative when it comes to getting you to…
By Jason Schreier Published January 9, 2015 - Uncategorized
“If you own a PlayStation, you may have killed him at some point.” Grantland‘s got a great profile of Reuben Langdon, a motion-capture stuntman who’s lent his physical and vocal talents to games like Resident Evil: Code Veronica, Devil May Cry 3 and Street Fighter
By Evan Narcisse Published January 9, 2015 -
UncategorizedWatch Pokémon Red/Blue Get Destroyed In Just 21 Minutes
When I first saw that the schedule for Awesome Games Done Quick listed the original Pokémon games with an estimated completion time of “30:00,” I had a feeling we were going to see something ridiculous today. And we sure did. It took just 21 minutes for speedrunner Werster to rip through Pokémon Red/Blue this afternoon,…
By Jason Schreier Published January 9, 2015 -
UncategorizedCollege Student Found The Perfect Gamer To Win $6,000 From
When 22-year-old Nate Danziger booted up Cordial Minuet, he wasn’t sure what to expect. Cordial Minuet, a psychological puzzler from designer Jason Rohrer, asks people to use their own money. You only need a few dollars to start, but it’s still real money! Danziger discovered Cordial Minuet because he loved The Castle Doctrine, Rohrer’s last…
By Patrick Klepek Published January 9, 2015 - Uncategorized
Everything Saints Row is On Sale, 25% off Mortal Kombat X, More Deals
Humble’s holding a special 50-75% off sale on a ton of Saints Row games and DLC packs this weekend. [Saints Row Sale] Greenman Gaming is having a nice VIP sale right now on some upcoming and recently-released games. You’ll have to sign in to see the deals, but the big highlights are Mortal Kombat X…
By Shep McAllister Published January 9, 2015 - Uncategorized
Monkey Island Creator Wanted Lobotomized Criminals In His First Game
Maniac Mansion and The Secret of Monkey Island creator Ron Gilbert has been quietly releasing some amazing pieces of gaming history on his official website. Today, he’s uploaded a look of his first design document for Lucasfilm Games. The unproduced game would’ve been called I Was A Teenage Lobot, and marked the first appearance of…
By Patrick Klepek Published January 9, 2015 - Uncategorized
Six Of Us Debate Whether Rockstar Should Bring Back Max Payne
As we so often do, a few members of the Kotaku team got to talking about Grand Theft Auto yesterday. This lead to a discussion about one of Rockstar’s other, smaller titles: Max Payne. Specifically: where should it go next, if it goes anywhere at all? Stephen Totilo: San Andreas is my favorite GTA. Yannick…
By Yannick LeJacq Published January 9, 2015 -
UncategorizedA Perfect Glimpse of How GTA Is Disturbing and Funny at the Same Time
It’s the kind of thing that, were it to happen in real life, would be appalling on multiple levels: dude talks shit while walking by, another person pulls out a weapon. But because it happens in GTA V, it becomes comedy. It helps that the timing in this quick, 9-second clip by YouTuber something i…
By Evan Narcisse Published January 9, 2015 -
UncategorizedWatch Someone Beat One Of The Worst Games Ever Made In Three Minutes
There are bad games, and there are bad games. Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing is one of the truly awful ones. My former colleague at Giant Bomb, Alex Navarro, has a long and sordid history with Big Rigs. He reviewed it at GameSpot many years ago, and returned to the scene of the crime…
By Patrick Klepek Published January 9, 2015 - Uncategorized
Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Pokémon One a Day Series Two: Cyndaquil • Heroes of the Storm Could Use Some More Heroes to Help Balance • My Top 5 Anime of 2014 (as told in gifs) • Fatalis’s Thoughts on Anime in 2014 (Also my Top 5 List) TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s…
By András Neltz Published January 9, 2015 -
UncategorizedGuy Saves His Drone From Drowning At The Last Second
Nice catch! Zweier Spanjer‘s first day testing out his DJI Phantom II drone took an unexpected turn when its batteries started to deplete and the $700 gadget started plummeting towards the nearest pond. It ended up getting rescued by its heroic owner. Hopefully he didn’t have a phone worth more than $700 in his pocket.…
By Gergo Vas Published January 9, 2015 - Uncategorized
You Can Buy Missed Garrison Followers in WoW‘s Next Content Patch
World of Warcraft devs are sharing more and more details on the MMO’s next big patch as its inevitable release is gets closer. Besides improved flight paths, one of the recent and most interesting changes announced for the update, shared by community manager Crithto, will be a Garrison NPC who’ll sell all the followers—buddies you…
By Gergo Vas Published January 9, 2015
