Hearthstone: Curse of Naxxramas is live! You can download the new Hearthstone add-on on PC and iOS today. The first wing will be free for the next month, so get it now.

Four great indie games will be at the heart of Sony’s annual PLAY summer sale when it starts next week. Hohokum and CounterSpy will be PlayStation exclusives, while the others—Rogue Legacy and The Swapper—are making their debuts on Sony’s game systems. Learn more on the official PlayStation Blog

Attention League of Legends fans: Riot Games just released a fun video based on its popular online game that’s full of explosions, cat ears, and mild gore. You can watch the whole thing above. And if you like what you see, you can also check out a short making of film that Riot put out…

How Much Game Makers Get Paid

Making video games sure looks like a fun gig from the outside, doesn’t it? Pouring your talents into a creation that can get played by thousands or even millions of people worldwide is not something many people can say that they do. But bragging rights and cool points don’t pay bills. Just how much did…

Deals: Red Vs. Blue, Dark Souls II Season Pass, PS4/One, Halloween

Hard to believe Red vs. Blue began way back in 2003. Today, the RVBX Ten Year Blu-ray Box Set is down to its lowest price ever of $54. As one of the first big items I ever put on Moneysaver Kotaku Deals, it’s got some personal sentiment for me as well. [RVBX] Dark Souls II’s…

The Story Of Areal, One Of Kickstarter’s Weirdest New Games [UPDATE]

UPDATE (12:45 pm): Shortly after we published this story, Areal’s Kickstarter campaign was suspended. A representative from Kickstarter wouldn’t go into detail about the project or its suspension, and referred Kotaku to this relevant section of its FAQ Original story follows: STALKER was the kind of gloomy and artful first-person shooter that left gamers wanting…

TheWorse mod, which pumps up Watch Dog’s graphics to more closely resemble the visuals shown during E3 2012, has now released its final update. You can see the mod in action here, and download the final release here.

Deus Ex: Human Revolution‘s Starting Area, Recreated In CryEngine

Not that Deus Ex: Human Revolution didn’t already look great. It did. But the game’s unique environment, and the room we start in, Megan Reed’s office, recreated in CryEngine 3 by fan artist Jovcem, just look super. Check out his site for more cool close-ups. It really makes me want a new Deus Ex game.…

Here’s Halo‘s newest character. Played by actor Mike Colter, Agent Locke will be showing up in the live-action Halo: Nightfall series being produced by Ridley Scott. The character will then appear in next year’s Halo 5: Guardians. Variety has more details.

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Rockmandash Reviews: Kanon [Visual Novel & Anime] • 10 Things The International 4 Has Taught me About DOTA 2 • Back in the TAY Review: Ultraman – Towards the Future • In Defense of Sword Art Online TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

High Level Starcraft II Play Starts Here

StarCraft II might be off the radar nowadays, but that doesn’t mean the pros stopped getting better and better at the game. One highlight was a recent matchbetween two Koreans, Parting and Byul, where the Protoss veteran basically destroyed the Zerg with perfect control of only a few units. Here’s the full match below. After…

Nvidia’s New Tablet Tries Damn Hard to Earn Real Video Game Respect

What would a tablet have to do to be seriously considered as the best place for you to play games? Native Twitch streaming? Good-as-console versions of popular games? Play-from-your-couch capability? Nvidia’s new gaming tablet can do all of that. And some extra stuff besides. You can use a controller with it, too. It’s been about…

Ghibli’s Newest is a Tale of Friends, Family, and the Supernatural

This last weekend in Japan saw the release of When Marnie Was There, the newest film from the acclaimed Studio Ghibli. It is an excellent tale of friendship and family all set against the backdrop of an incredibly personal supernatural story. Good – A Supernatural Mystery When Marnie Was There is one of those movies…

“Kimchi Slap” Looks Painful and Gross

You know kimchi, right? I love kimchi. I could eat it all day long. Just don’t try to slap me in the face with it, though. As tipster Sang points out, Everbody Kimchi is a South Korean drama set in the kimchi industry. On a recent episode, one character got slapped in the face with…

A South Korean court ruled that the cancelled One Piece exhibit can be held because the manga does not glorify Japanese imperialism and portrayed the Rising Sun imagery in a negative light. “Taking these reasons into consideration, the court concluded that the museum cannot unilaterally cancel the showing,” reports Asahi (via ANN).

The Luigi Death Stare Is Lethal Enough for a Japanese Commercial

Yes, the meme might be over, but that doesn’t mean the Luigi Death Stare can’t be used as a Mario Kart 8 selling point in Japan. マリオカート8 TVCM3[Nintendo@YouTube via Siliconera] To contact the author of this post, write to bashcraftATkotaku.com or find him on Twitter @Brian_Ashcraft Kotaku East is your slice of Asian internet culture,…