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Evan’s Top Ten Games of 2014
There are surprises every year in video games and 2014 was no exception. Some of the surprises from the last twelve months were good enough, for me, to stand head and shoulders above everything else that came out. What shocked me about my favorite 2014 games? How about the fact that the Nintendo-exclusive Bayonetta 2…
By Evan Narcisse Published December 18, 2014 - Uncategorized
New Minecraft Game Coming from Makers of The Walking Dead Game
Minecraft is getting a story, and it’ll be told through the lens of a narrative-driven game by Telltale. Minecraft: Story Mode won’t lay down the groundwork for any official lore, Mojang has said, but it will include characters and themes from the Minecraft universe. Here’s the announcement from Telltale: Minecraft: Story Mode will be an…
By Tina Amini Published December 18, 2014 -
UncategorizedEvolve’s open beta will be running between January 15-19 on the Xbox One, accessible to Xbox Live Gold subscribers. Two monsters, the Goliath and the Kraken, and eight hunters will be available to play across 12 maps. There will also be smaller, invite-only closed tests on the PC and PS4 around that time.
By András Neltz Published December 18, 2014 - Uncategorized
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…
By András Neltz Published December 18, 2014 - Esports
The Year In eSports
In 2014, eSports and competitive video games were everywhere. Some games and their finals invaded regular sports channels on TV, filled huge stadiums, and the streams pulled hundreds of thousands of viewers. At this point, it doesn’t look like the eSports craze will end anytime soon. From January to December, here are the best eSports-related…
By Gergo Vas Published December 18, 2014 -
UncategorizedWatch 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.…
By Gergo Vas Published December 18, 2014 -
UncategorizedFlying 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…
By Gergo Vas Published December 18, 2014 -
UncategorizedCuboid hedgehogs are the cutest hedgehogs. This GIF is from a “preview of a biome’s artistic development” from Planets³, the Kickstarter-funded Minecraftlike that’s going pre-alpha in January. The full video is below, showing off the whole (rather gorgeous) scene, with the hedgehog squeaking adorably. Last news of the year [Planets³ Blog] Dayshot is an image-based…
By András Neltz Published December 18, 2014 -
Kotaku EastNintendo 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…
By Toshi Nakamura Published December 18, 2014 - Kotaku East
Report: A New JoJo Fighting Game is Coming to PS4
JoJo fans rejoice, it looks like there’s a new game coming your way. Let’s hope it’s not as DLC-ridden as the last Revealed online via Korean website Daum 루리웹, in what looks to be a leaked scan of an upcoming issue of Jump Comics, is a full page article advertisement for a new “stylish JoJo…
By Toshi Nakamura Published December 18, 2014 -
UncategorizedGTA 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,…
By András Neltz Published December 18, 2014 - Kotaku East
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…
By Toshi Nakamura Published December 18, 2014 -
UncategorizedEnhanced 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.…
By András Neltz Published December 18, 2014 - Culture
Nice Paintjob, Robots!
Gennaro Grazioso is a character modeller and a concept artist working in the video game business. Which means we’re getting a nice mix tonight! Normally the work I post here is rather specialised, but there’s both 3D and 2D stuff here, and it’s all excellent. You can see more of Gennaro’s work at his personal…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 17, 2014 -
UncategorizedDouble-Amputee Gets Two Badass Robot Arms
Les Baugh lost both of his arms over 40 years ago in a “freak” electrical accident. Now, in this footage, we get to see him doing everyday things he hasn’t done for decades, courtesy of not one but two robotic prosthetic limbs. The video, which we saw on the Deus Ex Facebook page (of course),…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 17, 2014 - Uncategorized
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…
By Kirk Hamilton Published December 17, 2014 - Uncategorized
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…
By Nathan Grayson Published December 17, 2014 - Esports
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…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 17, 2014 -
UncategorizedForza Horizon 2’s Storm Island Weather Isn’t As Bad As It Looks
Look at those trees bending, buffeted by wind as the rain comes pouring down on Forza Horizon 2’s new Storm Island expansion. It could be worse. The weather is often bad on Storm Island, hence the name, but the extreme weather touted in the expansion’s press materials isn’t really all that extreme, especially when compared…
By Mike Fahey Published December 17, 2014 -
UncategorizedA 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…
By Yannick LeJacq Published December 17, 2014