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The Elder Scrolls Online is getting some new DLC next month—it’ll take players to Orsinium, the Orcish city that was shown off in Daggerfall. It’ll be out November 2 for PC/Mac and the week of November 17 for consoles. More details over on theBethesda Blog

The New Jughead Comic Is So Damn Good

Archie Andrews isn’t the cool one anymore. Jughead Jones is. Ever since Archie Comics rebooted their iconic milieu of Riverdaleto be more modern and complicated, Jughead Jones has been stealing just about every scene he’s appeared in. This week, he starts headlining his own ongoing title, written by Sex Criminals co-creator Chip Zdarsky and drawn…

Destiny Players Discover Secret Raid Room That Nobody Can Solve [UPDATE]

Late Friday night, someone wrote on the Destiny subreddit that there may be a secret room in the game’s newest raid, King’s Fall. He said he’d seen someone post about it on a Facebook group he was in. He even shared a video The bombshell discovery kicked off a frenzy of speculation and investigation within…

Hero Player Dunks On Mario Maker Troll, Saves All The Yoshi

Killing Yoshi to save your own skin is a time-honored tradition in Mario. Noble players who decide against ruthlessness do exist, though. Those of you who play Mario Maker know about a popular type of level that has the player sacrificing Yoshi to make particularly tricky jumps. Then, in a shitty twist, the levels typically…

My Five Favorite Kotaku Stories From Last Week

Who knew that one of the most interesting stories we’d find last week would involve proper implementation of a power grid in a zombie game? Or that there were so many terrific lower-profile games coming out to compensate for the awfulness of the new Tony Hawk? Dying Light Creators Respond Amazingly To Fan’s Drunken Rant…

Rock Band 4 Is Pretty Great So Far. My Singing, Not So Much.

Warning: Rock Band 4 may cause a person to sing Scandal’s “The Warrior” with an external mic active, upload the resulting video to the internet and post it on Kotaku along with their initial impressions of the game. I’m so sorry. With a couple more features left I’d like to test out, my Rock Band…

There’s A Reason Why Everybody Hates Hunters In World of Warcraft

Even after a bunch of nerfs, the Hunter class in WoW is pretty strong right now. They dominated everything since Warlords of Draenor’s release. So it’s not a surprise that they’ve became an easy scapegoat lately. Shooting arrows from max range while everyone’s running around during a raid encounter might not be that stressful indeed.…

LEGO Fan Pays Tribute To The Elder Scrolls Online Battles

LEGO runes never looked this good. Xenomurphy did quite an amazing job recreating an intense battle from The Elder Scrolls Online It’s one of the portals, called Dolmens, that connects Tamriel with the realm of the Daedric Prince Molag Bal. This one’s a 11,000-piece MOC that took six months to complete, and everything, especially the…

The GameCube’s shape is perfect for a unique dual paint job like this. It’s Hyrule and its parallel universe from The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess by artist Zoki 64 Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest, funniest game-related screenshots and art we can find. Send us suggestions…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: A Coat For Max

My boss wasdissatisfied with the (nearly) top-tier jacket upgrade Max Max receives in his eponymous game outing. We’ve got this, Totilo. Now let’s see what the problem is here. Jesus Christmas that’s horrible. He looks like generic bad guy number 13. He should look like a rock star, or a male model, or a mailman.…

I’d Say I’m Ready For Halloween

My wife let me buy this mask for $15 at Target. She made a horrible mistake. “The first time you scare me awake wearing that I’m burning it,” she told me as I wandered silently through the retail outlet, turning my head slowly to track the people we passed. “Oh don’t worry,” I whispered in…

Shooty Skies Is A Game About Shooting In The Sky, And It Is Great

Shooty Skies takes the addictive formula that made road-crossing mobile game Crossy Road a smash hit and applies it to the scrolling shooter. In honor of this I’ve taken the same headline from our first Crossy Road articleand applied it to this one. Crossy Road creators Matt Hall and Andy Sum have teamed with entertainment…

The First Five Minutes Of Disgaea 5: Alliance Of Vengeance

There’s not a lot of gameplay in the first five minutes of the sixth installment of Nippon Ichi’s tactical role-playing game series. That’s what the remaining hundreds of hours are for. Marking the series’ debut on North American PlayStation 4 this week, Disgaea 5: Alliance of Vengeance promises to be another ridiculous, demon-powered orgy of…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: The Ugliest PlayStation 4: Winners!

Yep, that’s about the ugliest PlayStation 4 console I can imagine. For those of you just joining us, last week I tasked our lovely community with coming up with a PlayStation 4 that was uglier than the upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops III limited edition system. Evan Narcisse called it “ugly as sin.” We…

Stephen Colbert Suitably Awed By No Man’s Sky

As demonstrated by his Pewdiepie interview earlier this week, Stephen Colbert’s new stint as the host of The Late Show gives him a chance to touch on topics his old gig couldn’t, like video games we wish we could just play already, dammit. Hello Games’ Sean Murray took to the couch on Friday night to…

Conker’s Bad Fur Day Was Once A Very Different Game

One of the filthiest games released on a Nintendo console was originally going to be just another kiddified 3D platformer. Check out some never-before-seen footage of the game that would become Conker’s Bad Fur Day. Long before Conker became an alcoholic shit-battler, Rare’s squirrel hero was something much more kid-friendly. After a debut as a…

The League Of Legends World Championship’s YouTube Chat Is Flooded With Dicks

It just keeps going on like this. Warning: NSFW imagery ahead. Going on: …and on: …and on: …and on: …and on: …and on: …and on: …and on: …and on: …and on: …and on: …and on: You can watch the 2015 League of Legends World Championship on YouTube via the live-stream below: Contact the author at…

The Keyboard Is Your Mightiest Weapon In Epistory

The only thing more powerful than the written word is the muse that stirs those words in the mind of the writer. That’s the player’s role in Flying Cactus’ Epistory. Released earlier this week on Steam Early Access, Epistory is essentially the tale of an author and her muse—a young girl riding on a three-tailed…

SOMA Is Scarier When The Monsters Aren’t Around

This picture of a mouse might be the scariest thing I encountered in all of SOMA. Now that I’m not playing the game, I can see that it is not, in fact, scary. Out of context, you might even find the picture funny. Yet while I was immersed in the game, feeling like I was…

That Time Sony Threw A God of War Party With A Dead Goat

The headline says it all, really. Public relations departments have a tough job: get people talking about your game. Some companies stick to the well-worn forms of getting things done—TV advertisements, billboards, sending out copies to press—while others decide to roll the dice and see what happens. This isn’t exclusive to games, mind you, but…