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The Dark Souls 3 stress test happened this weekend, and hey, at least I beat a boss. Tossing a firebomb at the last second was, uh, my plan the whole time. You can reach the author of this post at [email protected] or on Twitter at @patrickklepek

My Five Favorite Kotaku Stories From Last Week

It’s been a quieter fall than normal for big game releases, but we’ve been covering a slew of smaller new games and finding plenty of interesting stories. My favorites from last week: The Past, Present, And Future Of The Witcher 3 | “‘We feel there are quite a few people in the industry who consider…

Competitive Call of Duty Star Says Leaving Twitch Is His “Biggest Regret” 

A year ago, Matthew “NaDeSHoT” Haag announced that he would be streaming Call of Duty on competitive gaming site MLG.TV exclusively in a deal that the New York Times once called “lucrative.” Last weekend, the former top player looked back on that decision—and came pretty close to calling it a mistake. Haag, who has over…

The New Captain America Comic Is All About America’s Real World Problems, and People Are Pissed

When Sam Wilson became Captain America last summer, lots of heated discussions sparked off over Marvel Comics’ decision to have someone else wear the colors of their patriotic superhero. Well, even more big changes hit in the first issue of Sam Wilson: Captain America and people in the real and fictional worlds are already mad.…

Prey for the Gods Is Basically Shadow Of The Colossus, For The PC

A bleak landscape, battles against massive enemies which you can climb over…Prey for the Gods is as Shadow of the Colossus as you can get without actually playing Shadow of the Colossus The game’s description even says “you must survive the colossal dangers that you encounter”, in case you hadn’t picked it up already. Not…

The Evolution Of A Destiny Character

In a game about collecting guns and armor (and shooting aliens), everything you put on your character should make you look cooler, right? To test that theory, I took 54 screenshots of my Destiny character over the past month, as she leveled up. I got the idea shortly before the September release of Destiny’s big…

Why The Latest Number One Mario Maker Course Is Such Garbage

Here, captured in a three second GIF, is the entirety of the current top-rated Mario Maker course. It’s hilariously bad. How in the world did it climb the ranks, then? The answer is in the course title, which is written in Japanese: It says “I will play the courses of everyone who likes this,” according…

Star Wars: Battlefront Trailer Is Strangely…Emotional

Get out of my head/fantasies/emotions, you relentless holiday season marketing machine.

World of Warcraft Players Discover Secret Cave With Pet Inside

Although WoW is a huge game, it doesn’t have many secrets. Fans datamine everything before a patch or an expansion goes live and immediately share it online. Sometimes tiny things do remain hidden though. But only for a few weeks. Terky the Murloc was one of those Asia-only pets, not added to the game on…

Someone Built A LEGO Safe With A Working Combination Lock

LEGO builder Jason Allemann has proved that 3-number combination locks aren’t that complicated, and a few carefully assembled LEGO bricks are enough to create one. It’s a pretty smart build as you can see in the video, designed to be impossible to take apart without knowing the combination… or without using a hammer. Time to…

I’ll Never Skip Tales Of Zestiria‘s Opening Movie

Nothing gets me ready for buttoning through endless expository dialog like the music from the opening of Tales of Zestiria. There are Japanese role-playing games with openings I watch once and then skip, and then there are JRPGs that I turn on just to watch the opening sequence over and over again. Grandia III is…

Start Off Monday With Some Blocky Snacks

The blocky sushi and blocky salad are both sublime. To enjoy them, all you need is a copy of Minecraft These were made using MrCrayfish’s Model Creator, by a minecrafter named VanillaBurp, in about a week and a half. There’s thirteen food items in total, and since the models are included in the map file,…

Guy Builds Actual Handheld Railgun

Railguns are an actual real thing, but for most people, they’re just a killer gun they used a lot in Quake. Which might explain why this guy went out and built himself a working, handheld version of the experimental weapon. NSA_Listbot’s 3D-printed gun (above) can blast out pieces of copper-plated tungsten (below). Here’s what it…

Adventures In Awkward PC Hardware Marketing [Update]

Please stick around for the final pan-around of the crowd. Update:

Happy 30th Birthday, Nintendo Entertainment System

On October 18, 1985 Nintendo of America took a huge gamble, releasing a console into a North American market that seemed to have washed its hands of video games completely. Thirty years later those hands are filthier than ever. While Nintendo’s Family Computer (Famicom) system enjoyed massive success in Japan following its 1983 launch, getting…

The First Five Minutes Of F.E.A.R. On Its Tenth Birthday

Ten years ago today, Monolith Productions did not release a sequel to Shogo: Mobile Armor Division. Instead they embarked on a horror-filled first-person saga that would leave players questioning supernatural age of consent laws. I won’t spoil anything about the F.E.A.R. series here—well, any more than I just technically did, but not really. The original…

Today We’re Playing League Of Legends’ Silly New ‘One For All’ Game Mode

There’s a precious 16 hours or so before the next round of League of Legends World Championship games get started, which means there’s only one thing to do: play some League of Legends! Today we’re trying out the silly new game mode “One For All,” which lets you play a full five person team with…

Destiny Addicts Finally Getting The Help They Need

My name is Michael Fahey, and while I am not a Destiny addict myself, I’m beginning to suspect I work with several of them. Maybe Rooster Teeth’s imaginary support group can help. Over the course of the past nine years of working at Kotaku I’ve developed a habit of jumping from one game to the…

Black Ops III‘s Free Run Mode Channels Mirror’s Edge And Titanfall

Not only does Call of Duty : Black Ops III have all of its campaign content unlocked from the start, it has content that looks as if it comes from other games unlocked from the start as well. Check out the new multiplayer parkour-flavored “Free Run” mode. Introduced in yesterday’s live stream alongside the new Loyalty…