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The Fall of Baghdad Makes for a Great Setting for a Crime Comic

War is chaos for all involved, a constant struggle to marshal enough resources, weapons and manpower to survive another day. It’s also great cover for stealing, killing and blackmail. The weirdest part of reading The Sheriff of Babylon, set in 2004 Iraq after the fall of Baghdad, is the whiplash at how America’s engagement with…

Hidden Audio Files Seem To Show A Cut (And Way Better) Ending For Fallout 4

Players are diving into Fallout 4’s files, and what they’re finding is actually pretty damn cool. First, there was that cool harpoon weapon that never made it into the game.Now someone has found files that shed light on a different ending for Fallout 4. Obviously, major spoilers for the end of Fallout 4 follow. Depending…

No more quick saving at every terminal! Fallout 4 update 1.2 is live on PC today, fixing a handful of issues including the terminal locking bug that’s plagued me since launch. Bethesda aims to roll the update to consoles later this week.

Rock Band 4 Adds Terrifying New ‘Brutal’ Mode

Rock Band 4’s big December update drops tomorrow, continuing the game’s slow march from bare bones to full-featured band game. Among this month’s additions are score challenge features, full-combo recognition and a nightmare called “Brutal Mode.” Brutal Mode is for advanced players who hate having fun, or at least have a warped sense of it.…

Two ‘Cheats’ Make Final Fantasy VII Way Better On PS4

If you want to play the original Final Fantasy VII—whether you’re a first-timer or an old fan revisiting a classic—you should probably use cheats. That might sound sacrilegious, but I’m not talking about level boosters or item duplicators. Some of FFVII’s new cheats are actually tools that make the game significantly more enjoyable to play,…

Witcher 3 Mod Replaces All Combat With Gwent Games

Hearts of Card is a mod for The Witcher 3. When active, it lets you walk up to an enemy, draw your sword and…the second someone takes damage, physical combat is replaced by an impromptu game of gwent against the opponent. Here’s a sped-up video showing the mod in action: While still fairly early in…

The beta for March 2016 Ubisoft action RPG The Division has been delayed. Originally, Ubi offered those who pre-ordered on Xbox One access to a beta this month, PC/PS4 in 2016. The beta is delayed to next year, but Ubi now says that Xbox One pre-orderers may get added to an NDA’d testing alpha Dec…

One-Punch Man Meets World of Warcraft Bosses

Based on the original opening of everyone’s current favorite One-Punch Man, YouTuber Sensus made a cool clip of Saitama annihilating the Burning Legion (and other big bosses). Pretty neat transmog set and no wonder Azeroth’s Saitama (who probably lost his hair during leveling) goes for demons in Outland: Without any gear except a yellow shirt…

Mega Man X, Reimagined For Modern Times

Artist TJ Townsend created a visually stunning high-def version of the SNES classic Mega Man X It’s a complete remaster of a screenshot from Mega Man X’s Sting Chameleon stage. Too bad it’s not a complete fan-game, but the pic is still a really precise one that took roughly 70 hours to complete. Here’s a…

Minecraft And Plenty Of Minecraft DLC Finally Arrives On Wii U December 17

Mojang’s block-building sensation makes it to Nintendo’s Wii U at long last next week, bundled with six popular texture packs with an additional 16 more available for purchase at launch. Skyrim on Wii U, anyone? It’s about damn time, really. And it’s something we’ve been asking Nintendo about for years. If there’s any game that…

Though Daigo Was Defeated, He Pulled off the Coolest Capcom Cup Moment

Daigo Umehara did not win the 2015 Capcom Cup. That’s okay. He did won the hearts of fighting game fans once again with another spectacular comeback. Kazunoko, playing as Yun, dominated the tournament, taking the top spot and willing the $120,000 prize. His fellow countryman, Daigo, playing as Evil Ryu, came in second, winning $60,000.…

Sounds Like The Final Fantasy VII Remake Will Be Episodic [UPDATE]

Will the upcoming overhaul of Final Fantasy VII be released in multiple parts? Sure seems like it. Says a press release that was sent out tonight (bolded emphasis mine): LOS ANGELES (Dec. 6, 2015) – During this past weekend’s PlayStation Experience in San Francisco, SQUARE ENIX® debuted a new trailer for FINAL FANTASY® VII REMAKE,…

What It’s Like To Play Rez In A Full-Body VR Suit

You don’t have to play the newly announced Rez Infinite in VR. If you do, though, it’s certainly… something. The Rez Infinite synesthesia body suit is something of an experiment. Debuted during the PSX keynote, it’s a series of vibrators that rumble in reaction to what’s happening in the latest iteration of Tetsuya Mizuguchi’s beloved…

Manifold Garden, An Incredibly Pretty Puzzle Game

Hello, my name is Nathan Grayson, and I have a broken brain. Manifold Garden broke my brain. Manifold Garden is a PS4 first-person puzzle game based on M.C. Escher’s famed piece, Relativity (it was even called Relativity before a recent re-reveal). What this means at first blush: it looks damn cool. What this means for…

In The Future, We’ll Do Bad Jobs For Fun

What’s left for humanity once robots take all our jobs? Well, in this game we simulate jobs, do them them real bad and call it “fun”. This is Job Simulator, announced over the weekend at the PlayStation Experience. Built for PlayStation VR (and the way it can use to PlayStation Move controllers to simulate “hands”),…

Cosplayers lead dramatic lives. Ratchet (of Ratchet and Clank fame) cosplayer and TAY contributor division-ten told me how she encountered the official PSX Ratchet cosplayer, and they had an intense staredown. “They waited for me to put on my mask,” she said. Evidently, though, the encounter ended peacefully.

The First Thing I Did In The World Of Warcraft Legion Alpha

Demon Hunters? Whatever. Legendary weapons that evolve with players until the next expansion? Sure. Gnome Hunters? You have my attention, World of Warcraft: Legion. I’ve never really seriously played World of Warcraft’s Hunter class. It’s odd, really. I am a solo player most of the time, and Hunters are a great solo class, but two…

How’s $99 For A Year Of PlayStation Now Sound? 

Overshadowed yesterday by things like the gameplay reveal of the Final Fantasy VII remake and the announcement of Ni No Kuni II, Sony also announced a limited-time 12 month subscription to… man, that Ni No Kuni II looks amazing. What were we talking about? Oh yeah, PlayStation Now, Sony’s streaming game service, gets a $99…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas: Winners! 

Last week I tasked our lovely communitywith dressing up their favorite video game images for the holidays. There are many wonderful entries besides Christmas Tree Pyramid Head, but come on—it’s Christmas Tree Pyramid Head. I celebrate Gorillanator’s winning Silent Hill entry with a song. Dashing through the hills / trying to find my missing adopted…

A Game Where You’re A Cat. Then A Shark. Then A Tentacle Monster

What Remains Of Edith Finch is an upcoming PlayStation 4 story game that seems equal parts mysterious and twisted. It made me sick to my stomach. It’s about a girl who returns to her childhood home: the ancestral house of the Finch family, many of whom die conspicuously young. Upon death, the family bolts the…