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League Of Legends’ New Champion Select Is A Huge Improvement

One of the most exciting developments Riot announced yesterday for its massive pre-season overhaul of League of Legends is a new and retooled champion select system. The thing went live last night on League’s public beta and I got a chance to try it out. So far so good! Seriously, so good. The current champion…

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The Long-Delayed Uncanny X-Men #600 Finally Came Out, Just in Time for Marvel to Start Killing Off Mutants

The X-Men have been fighting each other for a long time. Today, according to a long-delayed X-Men comic originally slated for release in May, it seems like all that drama may have been for the wrong reasons. Marvel’s highest-profile mutants have been at war with each other at least since the 2011 “Schism” storyline that…

Mario Maker’s Newest Impossible Level Has A Great Joke At The End

Anyone who manages to beat this hellish Mario Maker will be treated to a funny callback. Wanna see? The level, which is called U-Break, took around 50 hours to build and beat. PangaeaPanga, the level creator, estimates that he experienced around 20,000 Mario deaths before successfully clearing the level from start to finish. The result…

PSA: Here’s How To Turn Off Voice Chat In Halo 5

You just got home from a long day at work. Hoping to unwind, you hop into a match of Warzone in Halo 5. Suddenly, you hear it: the piercing, unforgettable sound of an eight-year-old bragging about his K/D ratio. Don’t worry—we’re here to help. In-game voice chat is enabled by default in the latest Halo…

The Great Board Game Pandemic Is Even Better With The Risk Legacy Treatment

Pandemic Legacy is an excellent new board game that physically changes every time you play. It’s partially the modern classic Pandemic, a cooperative game released in 2007, where players are trying to save the world from four deadly diseases, sort of like the digital game Plague Inc but with player roles being reversed. It’s partially…

New Tool Lets You Build A Fallout 4 Character’s Stats Early

For me, going into an RPG like Fallout always means spending hours agonizing over every single stat. Thanks to the wonders of the internet, however, I can now start that meticulous process before the game is actually in my hands. Introducing RPG Gaming’s Fallout 4 Build Planner.It’s a fan website that lets you allocate SPECIAL…

Big changes are coming to League of Legends next year—including a revamped champ select system, new social, loot, and crafting systems, and even a new client. Head over here for all the details.

Destiny Player Loses Key Match In The Worst Way Possible

There’s failure, and then there’s failure that will haunt you for the rest of your life. The setting: Redditor NoSleeves12 is playing Destiny’s competitive player vs. player gauntlet, Trials of Osiris, with two of his buddies. His team has hit 8-0, which means they’re a single win away from getting a flawless victory and heading…

Some People Shouldn’t Be Allowed To Customize Their Need For Speed Cars

This is why we can’t have nice things. Despite the stuttering issue which is still occurring for me and many other Xbox One players the day after launch, I continue to play the new Need for Speed, largely due to my children loving cars. I love them to, though you wouldn’t know it from what…

A Star Wars Prequel Trilogy Trailer, In The Style of The Force Awakens

Here’s proof from YouTuber Max Nicholson that some good music and editing can even make Episode I, II and III look good. One thing that always bugged me about the prequels — including the marketing — was how they gave away the big twist from Empire. So, I decided to make a video that reinforced…

Students Remake Metal Gear Solid’s Heliport in Unreal Engine 4

A nine-week class project carried out by four people, resulting in some cool Metal Gear Solid fanart. The heliport was one of the first areas Snake entered on Shadow Moses Island in MGS. It’s also revisited much later, in a dream sequence, during MGS4. As far as Metal Gear locations go, it’s fairly iconic—which is…

A Lost Arcade, Remembered

First opened in 1944, Chinatown Fair was a New York institution until it closed in 2011. The memory of the place lives on, though, in this documentary about the arcade. The Lost Arcade premieres on November 14 at 4:45 p.m. EST at IFC Center, 323 6th Avenue, New York. If this all rings a bell,we…

Sony Releasing Fancy New PS4 Headset

The good news: these headphones look neat! The bad news: if you’re in North America, you’re not getting them (yet, anyway). Announced overnight by Sony Europe, the “In-ear Stereo Headset for PS4” are basically a fancy set of in-ear headphones, with a “woven fabric cable” and a noise-reducing mode called “AudioShield”. Because they plug into…

Exotic Destiny Weapon Still Exotic As LEGO

Sleeper Simulant is one of Destiny’s coolest—and most elusive—weapons. If you missed out on getting one last time they were available, building your own (out of LEGO, not in the game) might be an easier way to get hold of it. LEGO gunsmith ZaziNombies—who we’ve featured here before—has done a great job, not just copying…

League Of Legends Is Changing Everything In 2016

Riot just put out its 2016 Season Update for League of Legends and…I don’t even know where to begin. They’re changing everything, and then adding even more new stuff. I’ve never seen an update this big for the world’s most popular game. You can read about all the tweaks, fixes, and new content releases coming…

Everything* In Destiny, Ranked

Here at Kotaku, we like ranking things. Some of us also like playing Destiny. Let’s put those two things together and see what happens! I’ve played enough year-two Destiny to have a pretty solid set of opinions about which things are better than other comparable things. I have enough of those opinions that I’ve set…

The LEGO Dimensions Doctor Who Pack Is Brilliant

The LEGO Dimensions Doctor Who level pack plays out like a television episode, and like any television episode it starts with opening credits—what might be the best Doctor Who opening credits sequence ever. Well, technically it begins with a prologue involving a large fleet of Dalek ships descending on the Earth and one of the…

Overwatch Makes A Great First Impression

I can’t remember the last time I felt as excited about a new video game as I feel right now about Overwatch, Blizzard’s unprecedented stab at making a multiplayer shooter. I’ve been playing it for three days and see so much potential. The one game that came close was Heroes of the Storm, Blizzard’s similar-but-also-totally-different…

Stealthy Halo 5 Player Wrecks The Entire Opposing Team

Um. Blue Team? I think you missed a guy. Watch in awe as this Halo Fan manages to sneak by a ton of enemy Halo players before pulling out his power weapon and decimating the entire squad. By the time a single player notices Halo Fan, it’s too late: he’s wiped everyone out. Skip to…