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How To Get Into World of Warcraft‘s Hidden Zone

Around the northern shores of the Eastern Kingdoms lies a zone we can see on Azeroth’s map, but compared to all the other zones, it’s unmarked, not part of the game and accessible only through tricky ways. This tiny area’s purpose is unknown, but it has been speculated over the years that it was supposed…

Kids’ Games Are Getting Ridiculously Expensive

Children’s console games have come a long way in recent years. Gone are the motion controlled mini-game bundles and second rate movie tie-ins. In their place we have experienced and talented developers working with budgets the size of blockbuster movies. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK The key to this brave new age has…

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When The World Ends, Cosplay Remains

A couple of weeks ago, I asked if any cosplayers wanted to tell their stories. Here’s Dimitri Zaitsev talking about life, costumes, the apocalypse and…not washing.

One Of Japan’s Biggest Visual Novels Is Coming To The West

Muv-Luv is one of the most popular visual novels in the history of the genre. It’s appeared on everything from PC to Xbox 360 over its 13-year history, but the thing is, it’s never been released outside of its native Japan. A new Kickstarter is looking to change that, hoping to bring the first two…

City-Builder + Card Game Concrete Jungle Is Really Good

So that we’re all on the same page, I will crudely reduce the excellent card game Concrete Jungle down to this: it’s SimCity vs Tetris vs Scrabble. Which sounds weird, I know, but trust me, it works If I was going to explain everything about the game—especially the stuff I like—I’d be typing all week,…

GTA Online Crew Goes All Out With Recruitment Ad

Meet Los Demonios. They are a GTA Online crew that is looking for new blood. I’ve seen my share of GTA Online crews who do some intense roleplay, but this gang’s recruitment ad takes the cake: Not only did they put in the effort to make a nice cinematic trying to woo prospective brothers and…

Pewdiepie’s Game Tries Way Too Hard

Right now, the top game on the App Store stars none other than Felix Kjellberg. I took the game for a spin, and here’s what I found. PewDiePie: Legend of the Brofist is a $4.99 mobile game where the big bad villain is…a barrel. Yes, you read that right. An evil barrel. To the average…

The Hunt For Destiny‘s Most Mysterious Weapon [UPDATE]

Deep in the bowels of Destiny, a video game in which players travel through space wondering how the hell Bungie got away with that damn crucible bounty quest, there’s an enigmatic weapon that nobody’s discovered yet. It’s called Sleeper Simulant, and for the past two weeks, players have been going crazy trying to find it.…

How To Get Into Comics

With The Dark Knight Rises and The Avengers posting record performances at cinemaplexes, it can be easy to forget that not everyone can rattle off the names of Bruce Wayne’s parents or the address of the X-Men’s school off the tops of their heads. [This post originally ran on 07/31/12.] Comics’ reach through pop culture…

So Many Robots Die In The First Five Minutes Of Assault Android Cactus

Aww, look at Cactus. Isn’t she cute? You wouldn’t know just by looking at her that’s she’s a flamethrower-wielding robot-killing machine. Developed by Brisbane’s Witch Beam, Assault Android Cactus is my new favorite twin-stick shooter. It’s everything I want in the genre—fast action, tactile shooting, edge-of-your-teeth escapes—plus things I didn’t know I wanted, like a…

What To Make Of Assassin’s Creed Syndicate, One Month Out

Less than a month from release, Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed Syndicate is likely to be judged as much on its own merits as on how well its publisher listened to fan discontent about the flagship series and what it’s been willing to change. Companion apps are out. Platform-exclusive DLC is back. The overall plan for the…

Guy Cries Tears of Joy After Beating Mario Maker’s “Hardest” Level

Thousands of people have tried this grueling Mario Maker level. Only a handful of people have actually beaten it thus far—and they had to go through hell to do it. Here’s what that feels like: This video, uploaded by 広樹 あああ, shows what happened after a Japanese broadcaster beat the infamous “Pit of Panga: P-Break”…

43 Days Later, Twitch Has Beaten Dark Souls

It took them six weeks, but Gwyn, the Lord of Cinder, has been defeated. Remember, when Twitch Plays Dark Souls kicked off in mid-August, it wasn’t looking good. They were barely able to stumble into the first boss room, let alone make any significant progress towards slaying the game’s first challenge. They got stuck in…

Archie Comics’ New Version of Veronica Is Like, Totally, A Better Type of Kardashian

Archie Andrews is really different now. So is Betty Cooper, the girl-next-door who’s not his girlfriend anymore. But we haven’t seen much of the third part of the classic comic-book love triangle in Archie Comics’ newly-rebooted flagship until today. I dunno, guys… Veronica might be kinda cool? Archie #3 comes out this week, featuring the…

Anyone who’s played N++ can see how utterly ridiculous this stage is. Watch the whole thing, then weep at our inability to ever be as good at this player. Jeez Contact the author at [email protected]

Mobile Gaming Didn’t Kill The Vita — Sony Did

I have long been a fan of the PlayStation Vita. So this quote from one of Sony’s head honchos about portable gaming seriously bums me out. Here’s Shuhei Yoshida at a recent Q&A, as transcribed by Eurogamer, when asked if Sony will ever develop a Vita successor: “That’s a tough question. People have mobile phones…

My Five Favorite Kotaku Stories From Last Week

Marvel Comics used to have Assistant Editors’ Month, and last week, for reasons planned and unplanned, Kotaku had its version of the same. The top two editors of the site were out, but the rest of the team more than compensated with perhaps the strongest week of stories for September. It was hard for me…

A Five-Minute MOBA Is Exactly What I Needed

There are quick fixes, and then there are incredibly quick fixes. When Spacetime Studios says Call of Champions is a five-minute MOBA, they mean it—five minutes is all you get. Available now for iOS, Call of Champions isn’t the first mobile MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena) game, but it’s certainly the quickest. I still love…

Triforce Heroes sure looks cute, huh? This new trailer gives a sense of how the totem-pole team-up will work in the next portable Legend of Zelda game, which comes out October 23. Contact the author at [email protected]