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That’s One Pissed-Off Simon Belmont

Wouldn’t want to be on the other end of that Vampire Killer. Even if it’s solid stone and doesn’t move. The most famous vampire hunter is the latest subject to be expensive-polystone-statue-ized by First 4 Figures, with a design based on the cover art for the first game: The 20-inch tall piece, available early next…

The 5.20 patch for League of Legends is live, which means the creepy new champion Kindred is available. I’m gonna try them out ASAP. Let us know what you think if you get a chance to play as, with, or against the undead duo. You can email me at [email protected], or find me on Twitter…

PC Shooter Adds Killer “Manga Mode”

As if Tokyo Warfare wasn’t wearing enough Japanophilia on its sleeves already, along comes this “manga mode” for the game that looks funny as hell. This isn’t what the game always looks like; it’s just an optional filter, in case the music and Tokyo streets weren’t Japanese enough for you. The game isn’t out yet…

Pokemon x Destiny’s Child is something I did not know I needed, but hey, life is full of pleasant surprises. You can hear more of GRIMECRAFT’s remixes here

Here’s something cool: Jakub Rozalski’s badass series of “Mechs in 1920s Poland” paintings that we featured last year have been turned into a boardgame

New Expansion Can’t Save A Dour Civilization Game

Time has not been kind to Civilization: Beyond Earth. I found it a passable strategy game at review, but the longer I stuck with it afterwards—particularly after I went back and remembered how amazing Civilization V still is—the more I went sour on it. It has some neat ideas around the fringes, sure, but the…

$6800 PC Looks Like A Future Killing Machine

Custom PC builder Deblow’s amazing effort here has no need for desks. It’s so big it is a desk. That’s the PC itself lit up there, sitting under an enormous glass panel. It is also not cheap. In total it cost him around £4500 (USD$6800)to build, of which £350 was for the desk components and…

Not All Of Us Loved Destiny’s New Raid

Over the last couple of weeks, several of us here at Kotaku have worked our way through Destiny’s new King’s Fall raid. Some of us really like it. Others, not so much. Jason and I have completed the raid a bunch of times—we went in cold the day it came out, and along with our…

League Of Legends Is Buffing The Master-Troll Champion Teemo…Again

Teemo, nicknamed “Satan,” is such a famously infuriating champion to go against in League of Legends that many players (myself included) recoiled in terror upon hearing that he was getting buffed late this summer. But apparently his changes weren’t enough, because today Riot came back with even more. For those unfamiliar, Teemo is an adorable…

Dr. Strange Comics Were Way Different 30 Years Ago

Last week, Marvel kicked off an all-new Doctor Strange series with a more grounded, approachable takeon the most powerful magician in this reality. But they also published a collection of the character’s 1980s stories on the same day. Looking at both releases shows just how much the Sorcerer Supreme has changed. Doctor Strange: Don’t Pay…

Square Enix Embraces Fan-Made Deus Ex Upgrade

Deus Ex is one of gaming’s all-time greats, but let’s be real: 2000 was a long time ago. Some parts of the game—like, say the visuals—don’t really hold up, which is where the fan-developed Revision project is stepping in. The strangest part? Square Enix, who owns the Deus Ex series these days, is totally on…

Months Later, Elite: Dangerous Players Make Major Discovery About Mysterious Alien Artifacts

You might remember the mysterious alien items that had Elite: Dangerous players stumped earlier this year. Well, they recently made a major discovery. Here’s the gist: a handful of months ago, players began coming across “unknown artefacts” that made bizarre noises—some of which were morse code scans of nearby objects, others of which had players…

Nintendo’s Unexpected Massively Multiplayer Puzzle-Solving Experiment

Games like Dark Souls, Bloodborne, Fez and Destiny get a lot of credit for challenging the packs of people who play them to put their heads together to solve puzzles: players share tips online and make message board breakthroughs. Nintendo kids were doing that on the playground a quarter century ago, of course, trying to…

Destiny’s Microtransaction Store Is Now Open

Destiny, a video game in which players travel through space doing the Carlton on as many planets as possible, will now let you spend real money on dances. Finally As of this afternoon, the Eververse Trading Company is open for business in Destiny’s Tower. And as you’ll see through a series of annoying prompts that…

Here Is A Silly Sex Scene That Happens In The Witcher 3 Expansion

And now for a ridiculous moment you can experience within the new Witcher 3 expansion, Hearts of Stone. NSFW spoilers below! Hearts of Stone isn’t just about defeating powerful monsters or stopping an immortal bandit captain. There’s romance, too! It is a Witcher game, after all. If you play your cards right in the DLC,…

Heroes Come For The Soda, Stay For The Adventure In Soda Dungeon

Why risk life and limb searching the depths of a dark and dangerous dungeon for treasure when you can get a group of soda addicts to do it for you? In Armor Games’ Soda Dungeon, out now for iTunes and coming in early November to Android, you play the part of a sort of dungeoneering…

Zilean’s New Passive In League Of Legends Will Let Him Level Up His Teammates

Well this is bound to be interesting. In it’s never-ending attempts to balance and re-balance its obscenely popular online multiplayer game League of Legends, developer Riot Games just revealed plans to rework aspects of Zilean, an old geezer who uses clock and time-based spells in battle to do stuff like: slow down his opponents, speed…

A Video Game Version of Chess That Changes the Rules Every Time You Play

Look at that glorious mess up there. “That’s not chess,” you say. Damn right, it’s chess on drugs. Get this game another hit of the good stuff, because it’s clearly working. Chesh gives one of the world’s oldest board games 271 pulls off a bong, takes it out back through an alley, explodes it up…

Friday the 13th Game Needs $700,000 To Become A Reality

There’s never been a good video game based on Friday the 13th, but the folks at Gun Media are hopingyou’ll let them give it another shot Friday the 13th: The Game just went live on Kickstarter, proposing a 1-on-7 multiplayer game where one person gets to prowl around as Jason and everyone else plays the…

Minecraft: Story Mode Works Surprisingly Well

The reveal of Minecraft: Story Mode was met with a lot of internet skepticism in 2014—could a narrative-driven take even work for such an open-ended exploration game? I’ve played through the first episode of the new series, and can say with confidence that yes, actually, a story fits Minecraft pretty damn well. Minecraft: Story Mode…