The Stories Behind League of Legends‘ Biggest Championship

League of Legends‘ World Championship series—featuring the absurdly popular MOBA’s best players—is about to kick off. Major matches will be held all around, you know, the world, culminating in what will easily be one of the biggest eSports events ever. Still don’t care? Then watch this video. Truth be told, I’m not as up on…

Zerg Impersonator Is Disgusting (But Also Accurate)

The Zerg from Starcraft don’t make noises I would call pleasant, and trying to imitate them with a normal human larynx is no easy task. Lucky (?) for us, one fan has our back. UPDATE: Looks like he removed the video. Ah well. In the video above, Starcraft fan Alex Paler tries to imitate various…

Old Game Boy Ads Weren’t Exactly Family Friendly

Nintendo’s cultivated an image as the most squeaky clean creator on game company block, but it wasn’t always that way. And by that I mean the ’90s were weird, you guys. Gaming tumblr Pxlbyte brings us a smattering of old ads for the Game Boy and Game Boy Pocket, a few of which are oddly……

Spotted: A Level 26 Destiny Character

That’s improbably high, given that the game’s servers have been live for around nine hours. It seems unlikely that a non-Bungie-employee could’ve possibly reached level 26. Gamespot managed to do an up-close inspection with a level 24 character, which gives a good sense of the gear that level rolls with: I also spotted a level…

Some Questions For People Playing The Sims 4

The Sims 4 came out last week. I’ve been enjoying my time with the game so far. But I’ve also seen a wide array of reactions to it online—some pleasant, some less so. I’d like to understand these better, so let’s talk about the state of The Sims. Here are a few questions I’ve come…

Moon Hunters, one of the neater Kickstarter projects I’ve seen in a while, is funded to the tune of $100k. Described as a mixture between Zelda and Starbound, Moon Hunters is one of the first participants in Square Enix’s Indie Collective program

A New Look At The Influence Of Japan’s Early Video Game Music

Video games have been around long enough that countless musicians have grown up and come into their own, creatively speaking, as gamers. A new documentary series, Diggin’ In The Carts, examines the early history of Japanese video game music at it applies to this trend. It’s produced by the Red Bull Music Academy, so I…

Amazing Things I Saw While Playing the Best God Game Ever Made God games haven’t been too popular in recent years. For a while I thought that was because there hadn’t been any good ones made recently, but that really isn’t the case. I’ve just been looking in all the wrong places. Dawn of Worlds…

Why Did Nobody Tell Me There’s A Suikoden Reference In Diablo III?

Kotaku, we need to talk. You all KNOW that Suikoden II is my favorite game of all time, yet in the six months since Diablo III‘s Reaper of Souls expansion came out, not ONE of you has told me about this incredible Luca Blight reference. Until this past weekend, when Kotaku reader/hero Phil Caron told…

Someone’s Putting Soccer Into Dota 2

Thanks to the power of modding, I have few doubts that you’ll soon be able to play every single game inside of Dota. I mean, someone’s already building Pokemon into Dota 2.It was only a matter of time before someone modded an actual sport into Dota. EnterDota Soccer. Here’s how this wild idea, which is…