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Bloodborne Servers Offline For Several Days Due To Mysterious ‘Emergency Maintenance’

While playing Bloodborne last night, the game booted me to the title screen, citing server maintenance. It was annoying, but fortunately, I wasn’t in the middle of a battle. You can play offline, but From Software’s announced online modes will be down for “a few days.” There may be a very good reason for that.…

Disney Releases The Coolest Star Wars Infinity Figures In The Most Annoying Way Possible

Disney harnessed the light side of the Force to create six variant Disney Infinity Star Wars figures with Lightsabers that actually light up. Then they tapped into the dark side to make each of the six exclusive to a different retailer. Using the same sort of portal-based wizardry that makes Light Core Skylanders figures flare…

Koei Tecmo Finally Responds to Dead or Alive Xtreme 3 Controversy

It’s been nearly two weeks since a single Facebook comment on the official Dead or Alive page sent people into a tizzy over whether Dead or Alive Xtreme 3 wasn’t coming to the West because of “issues happening in video game industry with regard to how to treat female[s].” Now, publisher Koei Tecmo has responded.…

Our Favorite Games from November

Game releases slow down as we near the end of the year—this is evident if you look at how short this list is compared to last month’s. Although that could also be attributed to the release of Fallout 4. In any case, there were still plenty of games we liked, such as… Call of Duty:…

GTA V Mod Adds 4K Textures, Game Looks Utterly Ridiculous

Earlier this year, Martin Bergman was working on a GTA V graphics mod that looked positively unreal. It’s still not out—he’s been keeping busy with Battlefront—but another modder (Josh Romito) has stepped in and done pretty much the same thing. Only his mod is available right now. Via Mixed Digital, the mod—called The Pinnacle of…

Portal 2 Wheatley Replica Comes Complete With Movement And Sound

It’s probably the perfect item to scare off guests from the living room. Modder Evie Bee built a replica of Portal 2’s AI companion that moves and sounds just as annoying as the original one. Her project is well documented with WIP pics over here (via Hackaday). Pretty cool how the LEDs that light the…

World of Warcraft Hotfix Makes Shipyard Missions Less Painful

One of the big features of WoW’s patch 6.2 was the Garrison Shipyard, a place where we can send our crew on various daily missions and build up our fleet. It was supposed to be one of the many activities people can do till the next expansion drops. But because of weak rewards, no one’s…

This must be an alternate Sonic whose MO is to make enemies keel over from his cuteness. He was doodled by kawacy, who otherwise specializes in anime-style art—his gallery is right here, if you want to check him out, and below’s a timelapse video depicting the painting process. Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs…

Mod DB’s begun accepting votes for its 2015 Mod of the Year competition. Like last year, the top 10 mods will be chosen by the end of the month—until then, you can head over here to see how it works, or here for Indie DB’s Indie of the Year and here for Slide DB’s App…

Tick Tock Isle, a “cute game about a guy who fixes clocks” that we first saw in 2012, is now out! It’s $3 on Steam

Buzz Lightyear Is The Hero Fallout 4 Deserves

Paladin Danse, you seem familiar. The gruff voice, the commitment to duty, the giant sci-fi armour…where have I seen you before? Oh, right. This mod by Trashlizard brings Danse’s Pixar doppleganger, Buzz Lightyear, into Fallout 4 by way of some custom power armour. All you need to do is set Dance to be your companion,…

XCOM, Recreated In…Excel

Having just learned how to code in VBA, crruzi thought the best way to practice would be to go and make a video game. So he went and made XCOM. In Excel. It’s not the entire game yet—the tactical battles are working, with the strategic stuff still under construction—but come on, it’s Excel There’s even…

Riot just announced a number of sales it’ll be putting on for League of Legends’ seasonal holiday event “Snowdown,” which will also add a giant Poro King (seen above) to the game’s ARAM map for a limited time. I’d also be into the idea of a Poro champion, but we’ll have to keep waiting for…

My Five Favorite Kotaku Stories From Last Week

Short week last week. But we wedged some good stuff into it, I dare say. My favorites: Fallout 4’s User Interface Is Truly Terrible – Comprehensive and convincing. Why So Many People Are Yelling About Dead or Alive Xtreme 3 – A complicated controversy clearly explained. Nobody’s Sure How One Of Counter-Strike’s Best Players Nailed…

YouTube Copyright Nonsense Hitting Yet Another Community: Hatsune Miku Fans

Sega released a trailer yesterday for the new Hatsune Miku game, Project Diva X, but if you live in the United States, it’s blocked on YouTube. This isn’t new. Rather, it’s part of an unfortunate but increasingly predictable pattern of Japanese companies butting heads with the world’s largest video service. Hatsune Miku is not a…

World’s Best Jigglypuff Player Gives Heartbreaking Interview After Winning Smash Tournament

Star Super Smash Bros. player Juan “Hungrybox” Debiedma won first place in the fighting game’s Dreamhack tournament this weekend, making him the first American Smash pro to do so on European soil. The post-game interview he gave immediately after winning quickly turned personal. You can watch the full post-match interview here: HungryBox is known in…

What Happens When You Release 50 Synths At The Start of Fallout 4

In two words: pure chaos. It’s hilarious. Normally, no combat occurs at the start of Fallout 4. It’s a pretty linear experience: you spawn, you make your character, you meet your son, and then you dash into the vault before the bombs fall. If you dilly-dally at all, it’s game over, and everything explodes. Unless,…

Playing Against League Of Legends’ Annie In A Nutshell

Annie always looks so small and easy to kill when she’s wandering around with her stuffed teddy bear until…TIBBERS!!! Then, this happens: As YouTuber Darkk Mane shows, being slapped by what looks like a large overstuffed taxidermied grizzly doesn’t always look super impressive. But it sure feels intense when you’re on the receiving end. Watch…

Modder Turns Dota 2 Into A Third-Person Shooter

You know what would make Dota 2 more fast-paced and exciting? Turning it into a different video game, of course! Say hello to “Slayers of the Ancients” a “highly experimental” mod made by Steam user BMD that turns the MOBA into “a capture-the-flag 3rd person shooter in the style of Team Fortress 2.” Spotted earlier…

Marvel’s Cute New Superhero Comic Has An Awful Tension Lurking Inside

At first, you think you know what you’re getting in the first issue of Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur #1: adorable girl genius befriends crimson T-Rex for eventual hijinx. Then you get to page 8 and a very bleak moment adds a grim undercurrent to everything. The main character of Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur—out…