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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…

I’ve played 999 games of Heroes of the Storm. Staying true to MOBA tradition, I asked the HOTS developers if they would play my 1,000th game with me, and they said yes! We will live stream the festivities next week on Thursday, October 8th, beginning at 4:00 pm EDT. So clear your schedules, because this’ll…

Archie + Betty + Veronica Isn’t a Love Triangle Anymore. It’s a Hate Triangle.

Archie Andrews and Betty Cooper aren’t going out anymore. And Veronica Lodge isn’t really feeling comics’ most famous ginger teen like that. But there they are, getting all entwined in each others’ lives. There’s no romance at all yet, and that’s pretty great. Three issues into Archie Comics’ reboot of its flagship title and none…

The Future That Nintendo Tried to Predict With Wii U

Welcome back, Friday! Welcome back, Worth Reading! As another week draws to a close, our regular guide to the best games writing around is here to help out. Hey, You Should Read These “Year Walk and the future Nintendo predicted” by Rich Stanton With games like Super Mario Maker, Nintendo’s seemingly discovered Wii U’s potential…

My attempts to contact Xur from hotel Wi-Fi—I need to buy some three of coins, dammit—have not gone well so far. [UPDATE: Success!] Contact the author at [email protected]

Microsoft has purchased Havok, a company that makes middleware physics software (read: the technology that helps make objects in video games behave properly). Havok’s tech is used in various video games including Dark Souls II and Mortal Kombat X. And now Microsoft owns it!

The Beginner’s Guide Tackles The Fears We Don’t Talk About

Wanna meet at the bar after work? Because The Beginner’s Guide, the latest from The Stanley Parable co-creator Davey Wreden, is the kind of game you wanna talk about over several drinks. If The Stanley Parable was a game about games, The Beginner’s Guide is a game about game development. In The Stanley Parable, players…

The Most Popular PS4 Communities Are Hilarious (And Sometimes Awful)

PS4 players now have the power to form groups for all their favorite games. Almost immediately, people used this power to make all sorts of ridiculous, hilarious, WTF, and sometimes horrible communities. Here are some of the best (and worst) that I’ve found. At first glance, PS4 communities seem fairly normal. Here are the top…

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Kotaku Reader Sends Perfect E-Mail

Back in 2013, I wrote a Kotaku article about two Jeopardy contestants who got dinged for answering “Zelda” instead of “The Legend of Zelda.” They were robbed, I wrote. Two years later, a loyal reader has sent me an e-mail response that’s so perfect, I have to print it here. In its entirety: Hmmm… “[What…

Stephen Colbert Interviews Pewdiepie, Nails It

YouTube’s biggest star was on the Late Show last night—and the segment was actually pretty good. Really, I’d say that Colbert gaveJimmy Kimmela master class in how to cover the phenomenon that is Let’s Plays. Going in, Colbert immediately poked fun at television, calling it a “steam-powered medium”—and Pewdiepie talked about how, personally, he never…

Video Games Should Have Fewer Achievements

SOMA is a standout game, and one of the many ways it distinguishes itself is through its restrained use of achievements. There are 10 on Steam (or 10 trophies on PlayStation), and each is nothing more than a progress marker. They come infrequently and unexpectedly. I wasn’t sure when one would pop up or why.…

The World’s Smallest Car Is Perfect For GTA V

The Peel P50 three-wheeled microcar, which is the smallest production automobile in the world, certainly won’t stop the GTA V train, but it’s pretty much good for everything else. Traffic jams are no longer a problem. There’s no need to get out of the car at home and since it’s smaller than shrub hedges, and…

Arkham Knight Is Coming Back to PC

Warner Brothers Interactive Entertainment says that they expect to put the crippled version of the latest Batman game back on sale by the end of the October. In an announcement last night, the Arkham Knight publisher also said that theDLC already released for the game’s console versions will be supported in the same time frame.…

Goku And Frieza Are Having A Rematch In The Living Room

It’s an amazingly choreographed battle scene of two hands… dressed as Goku and Frieza from Dragon Ball Z by HigaTV Everything starts peacefully, but the ending is the usual. Goku transforms into Super Saiyan and Frieza reaches his final form as well. To contact the author of this post, write to: [email protected]

Tiny Pokémon Fit on your Fingertip

Very cute but probably very easy to lose. Better not drop them. Or take them near couches. These polymer clay sculptures were created by Ruby Huang, AKA Lonelysouthpaw. She likes to make clay fanart, basically, sometimes selling the results through Etsy. Apart from these Pokémon, which she recently started uploading on Instagram under the #pinkymon…

The League Of Legends Champion That Riot Almost Forgot

League of Legends’ most-neglected champion will be getting an update before the new year, the game’s developers have confirmed to Kotaku.The increasingly out of place champion Poppy will finally be getting the update that fans have been asking for since 2013. A Riot rep told me yesterday that Poppy’s revamp has been in “active development”…

Home Free, A Game Where You’re A Dog Lost In The Big City

Why aren’t there more games where you play as dogs? Dogs are awesome. Dog’s Life on PS2 is awesome. Humans are OK, I guess, but come on, more dog games please. Like this one! This is Home Free, a game currently up on Kickstarter, which has you playing as a dog (Evan took a good…

Xbox Live Is Down [Update: It’s Fixed]

It might not go down that often, but when it does, it goes down: Xbox Live users worldwide have been experiencing a severe outage for hours now, unable to sign into devices or access online features. [Update: it’s back!] Xbox Support’s Twitter account posted this three hours ago: And at time of posting it’s still…

Destiny‘s Iron Banner And Trials of Osiris Are Getting Some Changes

Destiny’s two big multiplayer events, Trials of Osiris and the Iron Banner, are coming back in a little more than a week. The first year-two Iron Banner will begin on October 13th, with Trials of Osiris kicking off later that week on the 16th. In this week’s update to the company blog, Bungie’s PvP designers…