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What It’s Like To Spend $50 On Hearthstone Cards

I finally bit the bullet and started playing Hearthstone when it was released on iPad, and I’ve been staring at that buy button for weeks now. So let’s figure out if there’s anything worth buying in 40 packs of Hearthstone cards. Jason Schreier has been playing more than me, so he sat in to go…

Nintendo just invited us to two big evening Q&As during E3, one for Super Smash Bros. and the other for… “a new game for 3DS.” What could it be?

​A Game About Plants Is One Of The Prettiest Things On iPad

Every time I tell people to play Botanicula, they make the same joke: “Sounds like Bunnicula.” And I shake my head and wish that this lovely game had a different name. If people would just get around the silly title and play the game, they’d find one of the most charming games of the last…

Transistor Is Oh So Hot

The next game from the people behind Bastion comes out on Tuesday for PC and PlayStation 4. Here’s the launch trailer. Unsurprisingly, it’s totally rad. We’ll have a review of the game up for you next week.

Playstation 4, Free Amazon Coins, Far Cry 4, Twin Peaks, Such Humble

Frys has the first straight discount on the Playstation 4 today, $20 off, if you can get the site to load. In other Playstation 4 deals, you can pick up a pre-owned unit from CowBoom for whatever their lowest price is at the time, plus an additional $20 off with code 14599752. We’re definitely not…

Quickscope Simulator Is Everything That’s Horrible About Call of Duty

In Quickscope Simulator, there’s only you, Doritos, endless headshots, and weed. Just like our lord no-scope 360 would have wanted it. This game might make 0 sense to you if you’re never watched a stereotypical montage video—they’re basically Call of Duty videos full of obnoxious elements like dubstep and people screaming over every single kill…

Oblivion, Remade In Skyrim

You’ve probably seen Skywind, the ambitious fan project to re-create all of The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind in Skyrim. Here’s a new trailer for Skyblivion, which, as you might have guessed, is the ambitious fan project to re-create all of Oblivion in Skyrim This is a totally different beast than the Beyond Skyrim: Cyrodiil project…

Every Type Of MOBA Player

From the live-streamer to the douchebag, the world of multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) games is full of archetypes. Here’s YouTuber shocknickfilms with a funny take on the personalities you might find in games like Dota 2 and League of Legends Every Type of LoL Player 2 [YouTube] To contact the author of this post,…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Equal Opportunity Psychopaths • This Isn’t Final Fantasy •Balancing Hype and Realistic Expectations • Word of the Day: Acquiesce TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

Video Magic Turns Little Kid Into Mario Kart Hero

DreamWorks animator Daniel Hashimoto has outdone himself again with the latest installment in his Action Movie Kid series, in which he enhances his kid’s life with professional-quality special effects. This one’s Mario Kart-themed. It’s tough to watch without bursting out laughing.

The story of Death Cargo, that mysterious horror-themed fighting game I first wrote about last week, gets stranger and stranger the more I look into it. Since I originally said that I was supposed to receive a working copy of the game two days ago, a lot of readers have been asking why I haven’t…

Watch Dogs Stunt Essentially Shows The Game With Photorealistic Graphics

What would Ubisoft’s late-May open-world hacking game look like in real life? This Watch Dogs video shows you. It’s in the vein of other real-world super-power stunt videos that’ll have you wondering if this is a genuine hoax (oxymoron!) using real people as patsies…or if everyone involved is an actor. Either way, the game’s fantasy…

PS4 Killzone Is Getting Four-Player Online Co-Op

Launch PS4 game Killzone: Shadow Fall will get a four-player online co-op mode called Killzone Intercept later this year, launching for free for the game’s season pass holders in June and as a standalone release later in 2014. The new mode puts players in the role of VSA assault, marksmen, medics and tacticians against computer-controlled…