Hackers Explain Why They Supposedly Took Down PSN and Xbox Live

On Christmas day, many gamers around the world found that they couldn’t play many of their favorite games anymore. The reason? The online services powering these games, such as PSN and Xbox Live, were down—and a group of alleged hackers claimed responsibility for it. Today, Xbox Live seems to mostly be up and running. PSN…

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Five Nights at Freddy’s Parody Turns The Game Into A JRPG About Sex

It’s hard to describe Five Nights at Fuckyboy’s 2. It’s not what you would call “good,” in the same way that 420BLAZEIT isn’t exactly “good.” But they are both hilarious and weird. The game takes the characters from Five Nights at Freddys, and puts them in a JRPG game where you battle party favors and…

Call Of Duty Just Got The Most 420 No Scope Mode Ever

Just in time for the day after Christmas, Advanced Warfare has added a new team-based multiplayer mode that’s all sniper rifle action, all the time. You can start playing right now— provided you can get online, of course. The new mode is called “One Shot.” In a blog post, Advanced Warfare developer Sledgehammer describes it…

Skyrim, Summarized In 25 Seconds

Yup. That’s pretty much the entire experience, right there. Ferhod might be using the Heavy from Team Fortress in this video, but they manage to nail the hilarious spirit of Skyrim anyway. Amazing. Skyrim in a nutshell – SFM [Ferhod]

Christmas Will Last Longer In GTA Online, Due To Xbox Live, PSN Outages

Rockstar Games has changed its plans and decided to continue to give out Christmas gifts in Grand Theft Auto Online at least a day after Christmas, since so many players were unable to grab them on the 25th. The studio just announced this on Twitter following a day full of questions (including from us) about…

What Are Your Favorite Made-Up Smash Bros. Mini-Games?

The advent of “Smashketball” showed that some of the best parts of this new Smash generation are the ones players create for themselves. Nintendo doesn’t make it easy to share custom stages or rulesets with one another, so the best way to share stuff is by talking online. What are the best made-up games you’ve…

SimCity Purists Are Understandably Upset About The Newest SimCity

The new SimCity game for iOS and Android may have a four-star user-review rating on the iTunes app store, but a glance at those reviews—and some time playing the game—make it clear that this city’s got some problems. I know, I know: “Oh, it’s Kotaku harumphing about a new SimCity game again.” But, well… have…

Fans Have Spent Six Years Making A Pokémon Game That Feels Fresh

Pokémon Uranium isn’t your typical Pokémon fan game. The developers seem to be pouring everything into making a game that looks fresh—a quality that is unusual for the franchise. Taking inspiration from real-world places like Rio de Janeiro, the game takes place somewhere very different from any existing Pokémon games. You’ll still be collecting 8…

Smash Bros. Fans Have Some Great Ideas For Cards Against Humanity

Needless to say, some of these are going to be pretty gross. That, and deep into Smash lore. The photos come from smashboards forum user UltimaNylocke, who posted some goofy suggestions for Cards Against Humanity additions on this cardcast page. More of my favorites from the custom set below: There are a lot more responses…

Hundreds of Star Wars Comics Are On Sale…Before They Disappear

Dark Horse Comics, publisher of Star Wars comics since the early 1990s, won’t be allowed to sell any more after New Year’s Eve when Marvel takes over the franchise. So they’re putting all of them on sale. That’s half-price per issue or, if you prefer, $300 for the full 28,353 pages’ worth. Our friends at…

Old Folks Try QWOP, Are Also Utterly Confused

You can see the gears turning as they figure out that moves have to be coordinated in a rhythmic fashion to get your QWOPer to qwoperate (had to), but that doesn’t make it any less frustrating for them. This isn’t the first time YouTube channel React has had elders try out video game phenomenon for…

Day After Christmas Outage, Xbox Live Back, PSN Down For Maintenance 

Xbox Live is working across the Xbox One and Xbox 360 platforms this morning, a day after the service was down for many. But the PlayStation Network was down for “maintenance” on the PlayStation 4, according to a system message. Xbox Live appeared to come back to something close to normal functionality late Christmas night,…

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