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GTA V Players Have Found A New Cell Phone Secret

It seems that Los Santos is still hiding some never-before-seen easter eggs. As discovered by Twitter user @KarmaIngram1, there’s actually one more secret phone number in GTA V that you can call. Dialing 1-999-367-3767 connects you to “Black Cellphones,” which for whatever reason triggers an explosion, and it also changes the appearance of your cell…

If You Have Three Hours To Spare, Watch This Final Fantasy IV Speedrun

If you have a few extra hours today, spend them watching this three-and-a-half-hour speedrun of Final Fantasy IV, an RPG that was certainly not designed to be completed in fewer than four hours. Using a technique called step manipulation to determine exactly when each random encounter will spawn, AGDQ 2016 speedrunner nocashnocash is able to…

Two Guys One Controller

A lot of cool stuff went down at Awesome Games Done Quick last week (and over the weekend), but one of the best was a “2P1C” world record on Super Metroid. Where 2P1C stands for “two players one controller”. I wanted to share this last week but Twitch’s archiving and sharing is so terrible that…

Fan 3D Prints Fallout‘s Robotic Buttler

Codsworth, the robo-buttler of Fallout 4’s main character’s family in all his glory. Photographer Mark Mosinski built and printed tiny version of this personal Mister Handy and it looks fantastic. It’s one step away from being able to hover around and do its silly monologues like in the game. To contact the author of this…

The WarCraft Movie Trailer Is Much Better With WarCraft II Sound Effects

The upcoming WarCraft movie’s trailer, spiced up with 20-year-old sound effects by Robert Mermet. What could go wrong? Well, ditching the “epic trailer music” and adding classic .wav lines such as “Zug-Zug” or “Ready to serve” instead won’t make the clip less epic. It’s just… different… To contact the author of this post, write to:…

Top 5 Lines From The X-Files Video Game Episode

Like many of you, I’ve been making my way through The X-Files over the last several months in anticipation of the new six-episode revival later this month. And this week I came upon an episode in season 7 written by acclaimed author William Gibson, “First Person Shooter,” about a VR video game. It might be…

Man Arrested For Pissing All Over Video Games In Target Store

Last week, Anel Mujkanovic walked into a Target store in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. He then “took a handicap electric cart and drove around the store coming to a stop in the electronics aisle. After removing one set of urine soaked pants he exposed himself and began to urinate on video games and accessories.” OK. CCTV footage…

2016 Is A Crucial Year For Star Wars: The Old Republic

With Knights of the Fallen Empire, the latest expansion for SWTOR, Bioware tried something different, and right now I’m not talking about all the gameplay changesI applauded back when it first hit in October. The game is in a better place than it was. Now it has to keep improving. Though KOTFE did technically release…

Witcher 3 Dev Says There’s No Enhanced Edition Coming [UPDATE]

Update: PR for CD Projekt RED says “There’s no Enhanced Edition of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt that we are aware of, this is some kind of error that we will look into.” So. Original post: It’s probably too soon to know what this means, but a pair of European store websites have posted listings…

Somebody Hacked Watch Dogs Into GTA V

As intrepid modders the world over continue in their quest to make dicking around in Grand Theft Auto V more fun and chaotic, we may have reached a new milestone. JulioNIB has engineered a script that inserts a whole bunch of Watch Dogs-inspired hacking fun into GTA V, and it’s really wild. You can explode…

What Game Would You Fund With Your Powerball Winnings?

As a relatively poor human being, I enjoy fantasizing about what I would do were I to suddenly become obscenely wealthy. As the Powerball jackpot has shot through the roof, to $1.3 billion for this coming Wednesday’s drawing, I’ve naturally been thinking about that a lot this week. Hello! I’m Phil, and I’ve returned to…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: A Rift In Your Bank Account

The future of looking at fake things is upon us, and it costs $600. Many people are upset over the official price tag for the Oculus Rift, but as the image manipulators in our community will no doubt prove, it could be worse. I mean really, that $600 only takes into account the basic version…

The Five Stages Of Video Game Disappointment

I didn’t want to believe that Fallout 4, the sequel to one of my favorite games of all time, wasn’t really doing it for me. So, like any rational person, I made myself miserable trying to convince myself that I was having A Really Great Time. Originally posted on January 7, 2016 I think it’s…

A Lot Of Work Goes Into Making Skylanders The Most Story-Focused Toys-To-Life Game

Where Disney Infinity delivers a series of small self-contained stories and LEGO Dimensions is just getting started, the Skylanders series has spent the past five years building an original fictional universe—and tearing it apart. With toys from all three series littering my desk at any given moment, I think about the blossoming toys-to-life genre a…

Conor McGregor Has The UFC Under His Thumb

The UFC is not super kind to fighters. Don’t get me wrong: some champs and popular up-and-comers make decent bank, but they have little leverage. A few ugly losses, ill-advised words, or hell, a uniform violation can leave them jobless—or at least on the UFC’s shitlist. So it’s crazy to see a fighter making the…

Deadbolt is the newest game from the developers of the severely underrated Risk of Rain—here’s a trailer Best part? It’s coming out early this year and there’s already a playable demo of the game. Looks a bit like Gunpoint to me! You can reach the author of this post at [email protected] or on Twitter at…

Final Fantasy Adventure Remake Pops Up In English

An English website has popped up for Adventures of Mana, the upcoming Final Fantasy Adventure remake that was previously announced for Japan. There’s no official announcement yet, but the English screenshots pretty much confirm that the game’s coming west. Although the Japanese version of Adventures of Mana is planned for iOS, Android, and Vita, some…

Speedrunner Crushes One Of The Hardest Super Mario Bros. 3 Hacks Ever

In mid-2015, an intrepid modder called Obitus1 released one of the hardest Super Mario Bros. 3 hacks ever. Now, watch speedrunner mitchflowerpower absolutely kill it. Named Kaizo Mario Bros. 3. in honor of the infamous Kaizo Mario World series, this set of 19 levels is filled with near-impossible jumps, devious tricks, and items that you…

How Star Wars Galaxies Fans Brought A Dead Game Back To Life

It’s been a few weeks since Worth Reading, our weekly round of the best games writing around, but it’s good to be back. Hey, You Should Read These “How Players Revived Star Wars Galaxies And EverQuest” by Steven Messner The video game industry is terrible at archiving what it makes, so we’re left with fans…

Valve’s Marc Laidlaw, who helped write the Half-Life series and the original Portal, has left the company after 18 years. The news originally broke on the Half-Life subreddit, and Laidlaw later confirmed the news to us. Why’d he leave? He wanted a “break from the collaborative chaos of game production.” You can reach the author…