Check out this interesting Rock Paper, Shotgun article on Dota 2‘s Compendium weather options—it asks, can such a small detail have an effect on the gameplay?

Driving A Real Car Could Soon Be Just Like Playing A Video Game

Heads-up displays in cars are nothing new, but Jaguar wants to blow right past simply displaying a crude speedometer on your windscreen. They want to turn your car into a video game. This clip shows off the company’s virtual windscreen concept, and while they’re bullshitting about this being footage of it “in action”, it’s still…

Yo, Fred Durst Is Streaming Call Of Duty On Twitch

2014, you are a strange and wonderful year. Streaming right now on Twitch is Fred Durst, who 15 years ago as the frontman for Limp Bizkit was one of the most famous people on the planet. Today, however, he is a man playing Call of Duty: Ghosts, struggling with HDMI outputs and generally sounding like…

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​Watch Dogs Players United In Their Loathing Of One Minigame

Watch Dogs has been out for a little while now. Some people have beaten up on it for various things, while others think it’s a perfectly fine time. But there is one thing most of us seem to agree on: That drinking minigame is the worst It’s bad enough with a controller, but it’s far…

There are no rooftop guards in Assassin’s Creed Unity? Cool. That’s going to make this next game feel very different. This official tidbit (that we missed…a month ago) is part of a handy round-up of ACU facts that you can read over at the Assassin’s Creed subreddit.

After ten years, EA is pulling the plug on The Sims 2. Today the company said that it “will no longer be providing any new content or making any additional technical updates” for the game. The good news is that if you’re still playing the 2004 installment to pass the time until The Sims 4…

A Space Game Where You Play As A Wormhole

I’ve played as aliens, space ships, and astronauts in plenty of games before. But a wormhole? Now that’s novel. If you have fifteen minutes to spare, I highly recommend giving You Are A Wormhole by Aleks Sennwald a try—it’s a charming little game about being lonely. Every so often, an entity will reach your corner…

Game Of Thrones‘ Most Enduring Fan Theory, Explained

Some fan theories wilt and die while others linger and persist. One Game of Thrones theory—you probably already know which one—just seems too good not to be true. Warning: This theory contains spoilers for both the TV show and books, and possibly for some things that haven’t even happened yet in the books, so don’t…

Mario Kart 8 Hack Launches Luigi Into Space

This is a video of a ghost version of Luigi riding around Mario Kart 8’s Rainbow Road. But don’t worry: this doesn’t mean he’s come back to haunt us all with a new, supernatural death stare Rather, the footage above shows a ghost driver pulled from a play-through of Mario Kart 8’s revamped version of…

Business Cat Has Some Alarming News

“I’m going to need you to play the Destiny beta all day Caturday for work.”

Jason is in San Francisco right now, he just visited IGN to say hi. I’m explaining to him where I used to live and it’s making me miss sf

The July round-up of Kotaku reviews in today’s New York Times. Via @enMTW

I’m searching for a good GIF-making program for Mac. Gawker uses GIF Brewery. Any other recommendations are welcome!

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…