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Old Arkham Knight Steam Reviews Are Now Flagged As ‘Pre-Release’ [UPDATED]

Four months and several patches later, Batman: Arkham Knight on PC has resurfaced on Steam. Before Warner Bros. pulled it down, however, Steam users had pummeled the game with thousands of negative reviews. Now, those reviews have been flagged as “pre-release.” UPDATE (11:08 am EST, 10/29/15): The “pre-release” tag appears to have been lifted from…

No One Should Have To Pay For Faster Loading Times

I put up with a lot of nonsense as a mobile gamer, from arbitrary timers and energy meters to pay-to-win in-app purchases. Selling faster load times might just be the worst. Last week Kyle Ward, founder and CEO of developer Step Revolution poked us about his company’s game ReRave Plus on Twitter. You guys cover…

Riot just posted a laundry list of changes it’s making to League of Legends for the transition to the 2016 season, including tweaks to vision items, masteries, marksman champions, and even a new jungle monster! The vision ones seem big. I’ll cover specifics of the 2016 preseason in greater detail as they emerge.

Warner Bros. is selling Batman: Arkham Knight on PC again, and anyone who’s bought (or buys) it before November 16 will get every Arkham game for free. A “community challenge pack” will arrive first for PC owners in January, and the DLC that’s already come out on consoles should be coming for PC players soon.…

The Early Days of Dragon Ball Z, As Told By Its Voice Actors

The internet has changed the way we experience nearly everything—including, in this case, what being a part of Dragon Ball Z is like. Here in a video interview with reddit, Goku and Vegeta’s voice actors in the English dub of Dragon Ball Z explain how different things were back when they were first recording Dragon…

What Halo 5‘s Grunts Talk About When You’re Not Shooting Them

Covenant Grunts have always said silly things in Halo games. Usually they’re chattering away during gunfights. But in their downtime? Halo 5 has answers. In one of the Halo 5 campaign’s non-combat levels, you can eavesdrop on a grunt’s conversation with an Elite. Enjoy that chatter in the clip here: There are a few other…

When Batman Becomes a God, He Goes for the Revenge He’s Always Wanted

In the main Justice League comic, some of DC’s preeminent superheroes have become infused with the power of gods. All that increased might hasn’t exactly changed Superman, Batman and the Flash for the better. The Dark Knight’s campaign for justice was already obsessive but, when he becomes the God of Knowledge, it gets extremely personal.…

November Xbox Games With Gold Lineup Is Boring, But At Least They’ve Got Backwards Compatibility

Microsoft’s Games With Gold lineup for November isn’t super exciting, with Pneuma: Breath of Life and Knight Squad leading on Xbox One. However, it’s also the first month in which the company is guaranteeing every Xbox 360 game featured in Games With Gold will be backwards compatible with Xbox One. In that sense, Games With…

The Protoss warrior Artanis is now live in Heroes of the Storm, and he’s a lot of fun! I’ll have more detailed impressions on the new StarCraft hero by tomorrow. Blizzard still hasn’t said who/what they’re going to add to HOTS after Artanis, which is uncharacteristic given the game’s fast-paced release schedule.

Fallout 4’s concept art looks hot. Take a peek at some of the stuff you’ll see in the official Fallout 4 art book here.

You can stop tweeting “Direct” at Nintendo now—new CEO Tatsumi Kimishima says the company still plans to put on their video marketing presentations, with at least one Nintendo Direct to come by the end of 2015

Rocket League is getting an awesome-looking (free!) update in November called mutators, which introduces a bunch of new game types, including low-gravity mode, bigger versions of the ball, slow-motion, and more.

Sniper X Is Deer Hunter With Humans. Also Jason Statham. 

I guess Human Hunter 2016 would have been too on the nose, even with the celebrity endorsement. That doesn’t stop Sniper X from being pretty much exactly that though. Oh they are bad humans doing bad things like patrolling camps filled with beige buildings and standing too close to trucks filled with explosive barrels, but…

Quake Live Fans Are Angry About A $10 Switcheroo

Out of all the games to get patched today, the last thing I was expecting to see was a 1GB patch for Quake Live. This story originally appeared on Kotaku Australia As it turns out, I wasn’t the only one. But what nobody saw coming was the fact that the game is no longer free-to-play…

Artist Completely Redraws Final Fantasy IV‘s World Map

Final Fantasy IV’s pixelated original overworld and all the locations on it got a beautiful facelift from artist TJ Townsend. Now it looks like a proper world map from a modern JRPG. And he recorded the entire process and shared it on YouTube. Pretty cool to see how it all came together. The best part…

Army of Darkness As An NES Metroidvania Game

The setting and the story of the third Evil Dead movie would have been perfect for a Metroidvania game. Something similar to the first Castlevania. We never had one, so CineFix imagined how it’d look. The biting Necronomicon would have been a tough boss fight, that’s for sure. And instead of a whip, Ash would…

Behold, The Zelda Ukulele

Dubbed the Ocalele of Time, this is an Ocarina of Time-inspired, handmade ukulele that also happens to look like an ocarina (albeit with tiny guitar parts attached). It was made by Nobo13, a man on a mission to craft one ukulele a month. He’s made two other gaming-themed instruments so far: one with a Triforce…

Joining the delayed KanColle PS Vita game is the arcade game. The game’s staff says it’s been pushed back to spring 2016 due to a manufacturing delay. The title was supposed to hit arcades this fall in Japan.

When A Game Is Busted, But You Can’t Stop Playing

For the last week I’ve been trying to enjoy a most unexpected game: Emergency 2016. I say unexpected because it’s a broken piece of shit, and yet…I can’t stop playing it. On paper, and in screenshots, it looks so cool. You take control of a mythical German super agency that coordinates all kinds of emergency…

Studio Wanted To Sue Kojima For “Ripping Off” Escape From New York

THR has a great interview with John Carpenter up on their site, and tucked away neatly in one corner of it is some interesting stuff about a Metal Gear lawsuit that never was. While discussing an old lawsuit between Canal+ (co-owners of Carpenter’s classic Escape From New York) and Luc Besson ’s 2012 film Lockout…