​Blizzard Identifies Malware Targeting World of Warcraft Players

Blizzard has identified a fake version of World of Warcraft‘s Curse Client add-on manager that secretly installs “trojan” malware onto users’ computers, stealing account information and passwords. The malware has been downloaded by players Googling the client and inadvertently clicking on an unofficial link, which takes them to a malware download site designed to look…

Dark Horse Comics is Losing the Star Wars License

Should have seen this coming. Ending a relationship more than two decades old, Disney has informed Dark Horse the Star Wars license will go to Disney-owned Marvel Comics in 2015. Or should I say “return to Disney-owned Marvel Comics”, the original publisher Dark Horse took over the license from in 1991. Disney purchasedMarvel Comics in…

And Here’s Why The Average Person Shouldn’t Try Parkour

Characters like Ezio in Assassin’s Creed make parkour seem so easy—you’re literally just a couple of button presses away from doing some cool move or trick. It’s not so easy in real life, of course. The fact that the average person would probably mess themselves up trying advanced parkour moves is not surprising, but it’s…

Humble Weekly Sale, High-End TVs, Link Between Worlds [Deals]

The new Humble Weekly Sale is on, asking you to pay what you want for Samorost 2, Machinarium, Lume, and Windosill. Pay $6 or more, and you’ll also get Shelter and Botanicula. A portion of your payment goes to charity, so get to it! Humble Weekly Sale If you want to seriously upgrade your living…

How The Number Of Cosmetics Items In Team Fortress 2 Doubled In 2013

Team Fortress 2 is primarly a hat simulator with FPS elements, and not the other way round. If you ever wondered how frequently new cosmetic items—anything that has no effect on gameplay—were added to the game, we have just the source. -Josh, a curious user on the game’s subreddit, complied a detailed graph of all…

Here’s the latest from Kotaku‘s official reader-written blog, Talk Amongst Yourselves: The Characters We Might See In The New Smash Bros. – by GiantBoyDetective | A Satirical Note To Games Critics – by March Naylor | Fate/Stay Night: Review Of A Visual Novel – by Rockmandash Don’t forget that you can always go join the…

Sony Patent Aims To Add New Challenges To Emulated Classics

Streaming emulated classics to a video game console from the cloud is neat. Adding new challenges not present in those streaming classics? That’s awesome. It’s also the idea behind a recently revealed patent filed by Sony. Originally filed in late June of 2012, just as Sony was purchasing streaming game technology company Gaikai, the “Suspending…

If League of Legends Champions Were Cartoon Characters

Here’s a messy, stinky Twitch, ready to ruin a League of Legends pool party. Concept artist and character designer Genevieve Tsai played with the idea giving her favorite League champions cartoony looks and personalities. And they’d look pretty neat after the Disney Afternoon surgery. Here’s Warwick, Soraka, Vi, Caitlyn, Blitzcrank and a superb image featuring…

Classic Fallout Games Pulled from Online Stores, Will Return Soon

It’s—you guessed it—a legal issue. It all started with a news post on Good Old Games, which announced the removal of Fallout 1, 2, and Tactics from the site’s catalog. Shortly after, the trio of post-apocalyptic RPGs was “removed” (the actual pages stayed, with only the buy links being deactivated) from Steam as well. While…

YouTuber: American Internet “Cannot Handle” Digital Distribution

In his latest video, boogie2988 tackles the issue of digital distribution becoming more and more prevalent in a world where fast, unlimited internet access is still far from being the norm. “American internet is simply not ready for a digital distribution system.” he said. “It simply cannot handle it.” Bringing up an example of one…

“Not at launch for sure, will have to evaluate after launch.” Vince Zampella of Respawn Entertainment, responding to a tweet about whether Titanfall’s PC version would have any modding support.

Oh, It’s Just Every Flagpole From Super Mario Bros.

“There’s always a man, always a flagpole, always a Princess…” Gif artist Brother Brain combines every staircase and flagpole from the original Super Mario Bros. Hypnotic. Mario [Brother Brain]

The Star Wars Anime You Never Had To Suffer Through

As we’ve seen, when Japan takes on Star Wars, things can get a little weird. So maybe it’s for the best we never got an anime adaptation of the sci-fi stalwart. Then again, while the action scenes in this joke trailer are a little patchy – vehicular combat is actually an area 80s anime excelled…

“Hackers” Claim To Have Broken EA’s Origin Service, Battlefield 4

The same group of “hackers” who last weektook credit for bringing down a number of big games and company websites are back at it, today taking responsibilityfor issues plaguing EA’s Origin service on the PC. While it can’t be confirmed whether EA’s servers have indeed been attacked, at time of posting Origin’s servers are down;…