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The Perfect Street Fighter Soundtrack
So, that definitive Street Fighter soundtrack we wrote about a few weeks ago is now out. I’ve been listening to it all weekend, and it’s fantastic. Available digitally, as a CD box set or an LP box set, there are 46 tracks in all. What makes this “definitive” is that the tracks are all lifted…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 22, 2015 -
Smite‘s New Thor Skin Pilots A Giant Mech
With the introduction of the Japanese pantheon to the god-based MOBA coming early next year, Smite wanted to do something special to make the incoming deities fell welcome. Ragnarok Force X Thor should do the trick. Shown off today during the Smite Super Regionals in Atlanta, in which the top European and American teams battle…
By Mike Fahey Published November 22, 2015 -
A Great New Captain America Is Showing Up in Spider-Gwen
The series where Gwen Stacy is the superhero swinging around Manhattan beating up bad guys is a fan-favorite twist on the Spider-Man mythos. Last week, a great version of Captain America showed up in Spider-Gwen #2. She eats nachos off her shield. I want to see more of her immediately. The secret ingredient to Spider-Gwen’s…
By Evan Narcisse Published November 22, 2015 -
Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Cloud-Based Gaming: Winners!
The announcement ofFinal Fantasy VII’s Cloud for Super Smash Bros.got us thinking about which other games he could be in, which led to a Photoshop contest, which led to hilarity. Our image manipulating readers sure make judging contests like this difficult, especially when the people entering know my penchant for animated Persona dancing GIFs. In…
By Mike Fahey Published November 22, 2015 -
The Xbox 360 Is Ten Years Old Today
A decade ago today thousands of people stood outside electronics retailers in the bitter cold, waiting for their chance to sell an Xbox 360 on eBay. I blame those killer faceplates. I remember the Xbox 360 launch like it was yesterday, because in the grand scheme of things it was. I wasn’t going to get…
By Mike Fahey Published November 22, 2015 -
When A New Game Could Cost $10 Less Than Its Console
Not just a Super Nintendo system, but a system bundled with Killer Instinct, as seen in this ancient Electronics Boutique ad from back in 1996 posted by Redditorsketchbreaker. Of course we were in the tail end of the Super Nintendo’s run by the time Donkey Kong Country 3 arrived in November of 1996. After a…
By Mike Fahey Published November 21, 2015 -
Animated Short Illustrates Several Strange Things About Heroes Of The Storm
Why can’t Johanna be killed? How can Illidan be blinded? Why can’t Raynor and Kerrigan just be happy? All of these questions and more arise from Carbot’s latest Heroes of the Storm short. Each of the heroes in Heroes of the Storm have been torn from their worlds and brought to the Nexus to do…
By Mike Fahey Published November 21, 2015 -
Happy 25th Birthday, Super Famicom And Friends
On November 21, 1990, Nintendo Japan released three amazing things—the first F-Zero, Super Mario World and a console to play them on. It was a very good day. Releasing a new video game console with only two games to play is unheard of these days (instead we get two GOOD games and a bunch of…
By Mike Fahey Published November 21, 2015 -
Let’s See Which Sort Of Pokemon Super Mystery Dungeon Says I Am
Pokemon Super Mystery Dungeon was released yesterday, and as with all entries in the dungeon crawling series it kicks off with a personality test to determine which Pokemon best suits the player. Let’s see who I am! The game opens on the title screen, which features the logo floating over whatever your 3DS camera is…
By Mike Fahey Published November 21, 2015 -
Modder Uncovers Secret Fallout 4 Weapon
Over the course of development, games go through numerous changes and overhauls. One modder has uncovered a lost Fallout 4 weapon that suggests some very intriguing things about the game’s direction. While everyone else picks over Bethesda’s post-apocalyptic wasteland, modder xxdeathknight72xx has decided to look under it—rifle through the couch cushions a little, see what…
By Nathan Grayson Published November 20, 2015 -
Blizzard Caught In Legal Fight With Game Cheating Company
Last week, Blizzard filed a lawsuit against the team behind a series of bots called “Buddy,” which allow users to cheat at games such as Heroes of the Storm, Diablo III and World of Warcraft. This week, the creators of those bots are hitting back at Blizzard, claiming the company has stolen their code. But…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 20, 2015 -
The New Archie Comics Have Some Damn Fine Fashion
The sharp comedy and the bittersweet romantic drama is great but, on the real, the fashion in the 2015 Archie comics has been the best stuff in the publisher’s reboot. Presenting a sense of style—or anti-style—to the world is 96.3% of what it means to be a teenager. Kids in the puberty zone put undue…
By Evan Narcisse Published November 20, 2015 -
Oops
Overwatch’s new tank character “D. Va” has an ult that triggers her giant armored mech to detonate and kill everything caught within its blast range. “Everything” includes you, I just found out in the hardest possible way. You know what the best part of this is? I somehow got that match’s play of the game…for…
By Yannick LeJacq Published November 20, 2015 -
The Secrets Players Have Discovered in Bloodborne’s New Patch
Bloodborne’s first (and only) expansion, The Old Hunters, arrives on Tuesday. In advance, From Software has deployed a patch that not only fixes a few things, it adds a bunch of content to the game that people are only beginning to discover. First and foremost, patch 1.07 adds a new covenant for players to align…
By Patrick Klepek Published November 20, 2015 -
Three Very Different Takes On Linkle, The Female Link
With snow threatening parts of the US this weekend, why go outside? Worth Reading, our weekly roundup of the best games writing, is here to comfort you. Hey, You Should Read These “A Response to the Response to the Response to Linkle” by Carolyn Petit “Nintendo still won’t make Link a girl, but they’ll put…
By Patrick Klepek Published November 20, 2015 -
Adding Kill-Death Ratios To Heroes Of The Storm Was A Bad Idea
Heroes of the Storm has been going through a lot of changes lately, some small, some the size of a gigantic two-headed ogre. There’s one change that’s disturbed me more and more the more I think about it. They added KDA ratios into the game. Oh god, the KDA ratio! A KDA ratio is a…
By Yannick LeJacq Published November 20, 2015
