Highlight Reel: Don’t Mess With Grunts

Today’s gaming highlights: The longest professional League of Legends game ever, some lucky knife throws, and a Counter-Strike terrorist who just can’t be bothered to watch the bomb. League of Legends This week, during the League Championship Series, Complexity faced off against Curse in what resulted in the longest match of professional League of Legends…

​Five Years Later, Demon’s Souls Is Still Pretty Funny

I’ve said it before: The Souls games don’t get enough credit for their sense of humor. Sure, they’re stressful and challenging, but they can also be good for a laugh. The latest video from videogamedunkey takes a whirlwind tour through the game that started it all: 2009’s Demon’s Souls. He makes a very good point…

League of Legends didn’t like my new PC

I have a shiny new PC and I’ve been downloading MOBAs (okay, dota) to it since they’re interesting and relevant, etc, and I tried downloading LoL last night and it just… I pointed it to a folder I made but it started installing files in the directory above that, and then it just kinda started…

How I Learned Link’s ‘Real’ Name

“Link isn’t even his real name,” a friend told me recently. We were talking about Zelda, and the way people reacted to the new trailer for the next big game in the series My friend is more of a Zelda veteran than I. But still, his comment seemed heretical. This is Link we’re talking about!…

Deals: Cheap 4K, Cheap Solid State, FTL Advanced, Ground Zeroes

Samsung’s 4K monitor is the early winner in the 4K monitor wars, and this price is unprecedented. Considering a 4K display has the same number of pixels as four 1080p monitors, this is actually an insanely reasonable price-per-pixel. [Samsung 4K Monitor, $530] 1TB SSDs are just starting to creep towards affordability, and the excellent Samsung…

There’s Good News And Bad News About Pinball FX2 For The Xbox One

The good news — the world’s premiere digital pinball platform is coming to the Xbox One on July 31. The bad news — players will have to repurchase all of the Pinball FX2 tables they’ve already bought for the Xbox 360. The PlayStation 4 version of Pinball FX2, the pinball platform that features both original…

I started playing Hearthstone finally

I had screwed around in the tutorial but that was it. But I finally played a few matches yesterday and now I’m…well, not hooked, but I get it now. Where can I find some basic strategies about deck building though? I still have no idea.

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Back In The TAY Review: F-Zero • Game of The Week — You’re Holding The DS Wrong (Not Really) • Spelunky TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

Kotaku secrets revealed: the entire staff does not uniformly appreciate the excellence of Pilotwings 64, a game that lets you jump across the United States. Very sad. Good thing there’s a Pilotwings mode for when you’re feeling kind of blue…

BELOW, THE OLD TMI… ABOVE, THE NEW TMI

TMI articles lower than this one were finely-crafted pieces of gaming-related web-writing by the excellent Nathan Grayson. TMI posts above this are the ramblings of the Kotaku staff. Think of it as our water cooler conversations, now made a little more public. Anything goes.

Fan Video Justifies All The Hype For The Big Dota Tournament

Compared to Team Fortress 2, Dota 2 doesn’t have that many Source Filmmaker shorts. Too bad, because Dota Cinema’s and Lozeng3r‘s SFM serves as proof that these things really have potential. They’ve made the clip to hype us all for the finals of The International and, well, it’s safe to say that it works. The…

Wayforward has released their last Shantae platformer, Risky’s Revenge, on PC The game, which originally came out on the DS in 2010, comes with updated, HD artwork, Steam trading cards and achievements, and controller support. The two new Shantae games, Half-Genie Hero and The Pirate’s Curse, are still in development.