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There’s a lot that can go wrong for a video game in its first week of release. Bugs, server problems…even shady PR agencies who break Steam’s rules

Gears of War: Ultimate Edition Update Tries To Fix The Gnasher’s Bullshit

I have not raged as hard at a video game this year as I have Gears of War: Ultimate Edition—and it’s all because of the horribly inconsistent shotgun. Thankfully, the source of my anger is about to improve. To understand why this is such a big issue, I will refer you to the following GIF…

Here’s an extremely impressive wood carving of Dota 2’s famous “Blink Dagger,” made by Reddit’s GremLinzTat. Do you think making this beauty took more or less time than actually nailing the proper in-game technique for using the teleportation device? Probably less. See more photos on imgur. Contact the author at [email protected]

GTA V Players Find Cool New Bigfoot Secret

The legend of Sasquatch just got hella trippier thanks to an awesome recent discovery made by the GTA community. About a week ago, a curious GTA V update dropped. Some players noticed something fishy about a new achievement titled “Cryptozoologist.” It was all in the flavor text: “You unlocked all animals for use in Director…

Riot Explains How League Of Legends’ Ranked Team Builder Will Work

It’s been a very long time coming, but Riot Games is finally turning one of the most frequently requested matchmaking features from an idea into a reality. Huzzah! Team Builder has long been one of those things in League of Legends that’s great in theory, but not always in practice. The basic idea of it…

I’ve Spent Two Days Trying To Escape This Hellish Mario Maker Maze

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time speedrunner Cosmo Wright has constructed one of the trickiest stages I’ve played so far, a level that’s more puzzle and maze than platformer, and I refuse to give up. When you load the stage—761A-0000-005C-D881—here’s what it looks like: Some folks aren’t fans of Mario Maker’s preview feature. While…

Batman’s First Sidekick Comes Home to a Bruce Wayne Who Isn’t the Dark Knight Anymore

Dick Grayson was the first Robin, the first person to be a junior partner to Batman. But then he changed as he grew up, becoming Nightwing and earning the respect of other big-time superheroes. For ages now, his loved ones thought he was dead. This week, they find out he’s not. DC Comics changed their…

Riot just released a set of League of Legends Facebook stickers, which means you can mercilessly troll your friends with Teemo when you’re not even playing the game. NICE. Download them here Contact the author at [email protected]

Players Discover Secret Destiny Mission With An Awesome Reward [UPDATE]

Destiny, the video game that won Peter Dinklage an Emmy, is now full of hidden secrets, some of which you’ll probably never find on your own. Today, for example, players discovereda hidden mission inside another mission that’s A) super-difficult, B) super-rewarding, and C) unlike anything else in vanilla Destiny. If you beat it, you’ll get…

Here Is A Thing That Happens In SOMA

You find these pulsing monstrosities all over the place in SOMA. You don’t have to interact with most of them, but what happens when you do? It’s, uh, well… Things have gone poorly for the underwater station players are left to rot in. Everyone’s dead, nightmarish robots run wild, and there’s a mysterious growth that’s…

Angry Birds Movie Trailer Hits Way After the Fad Is Over

Angry Birds was incredibly hot, like, three years ago. T-shirts, toys and probably too many games… you couldn’t escape the upset avians of publisher Rovio’s hit series. And now that the public obsession has cooled to lukewarm, we get our first look at the Angry Birds movie. The deal to make a movie out of…

The Game About Being A Jew That I Needed In High School

Bullying takes many different forms. It was the worst for me when it came under the guise of friendship. [This article was originally published on April 22, 2014.] I had just entered ninth grade at a prestigious private school in New Jersey. This was a place of unimaginable wealth, the kind of school my mother…

A Clever Way To Bait An Enemy In Heroes Of The Storm

I have played exactly nine hundred and ninety-nine games of Heroes of the Storm, and I’ve never seen a Murky player use the frog creature’s egg quite like this Murky, for those who don’t know, is unique sort of MOBA character because of the way his egg works. As Will Reilley explained on Kotaku, the…

Wooden Mannequins Destroy Everything In Attack on Titan Fan Film

Here’s a pretty unique Attack on Titan clip from Taiwanese animator Jordan Tseng. It’s a mix of stop-motion and CGI animation, with a Mikasa figure fighting wooden mannequins behind the walls of the human kingdom. It took two months to complete but it was completely worth it. These two minutes have more charm than the…

Overwatch Finally Gets More Evil Characters

While there’s no info on Overwatch’s beta yet, Blizzard’s slowly building up the online shooter’s roster. This time they introduced two really evil-looking characters which, besides the gloomy guy Reaper, were missing from the current line-up. The big guy, Roadhog, looks like the perfect mix of a Borderlands and a Mad Max character. He uses…

Drawing a 3D Samus Looks Like a Tough Job

But the end result is totally worth it. The drawing was done in chalk by Denver-based artist Chris Carlson, who specializes in 3D pieces like these. He’s got a lot more of them over at his website Here’s the finished piece, in its full glory: And a making-of timelapse vid, which the above GIF is…

Guy Builds Crazy 1,000-Key Emoji Keyboard

YouTuber Tom Scott won’t have any problems reacting to anything on social media with his emoji keyboard. That’s 14 individual keyboards synced together with over 1,000 keys bound to emojis. This is the most ridiculous thing I’ve built in a long while: a full-size, real-life emoji keyboard, made of 14 keyboards and over 1,000 individually…

LEGO Is As Close As We’ve Got To An Actual Destiny Weapon

This is Destiny’s MIDA Multi-tool Scout Rifle. Elliott Feldman spent a few months building it, and he’s done a hell of a job. I like two things in particular: the small details (like a removable clip and sliding trigger mechanism) and the fact he laughed at the notion of doing the normal LEGO builder thing…

Man Learns To Drive On PlayStation, Arrested After Police Chase

Englishman Adam Jones, 24, doesn’t have a driver’s license. He’s never even sat a license exam. So when he was arrested last week by police for driving at over 100mph through the town of Grantham, his excuse was that he had “learned to drive on his Playstation.” As ITV reports (via Boing-Boing), Jones was arrested…

Did you know you can blind your enemies with the water gun in Metal Gear Solid V? Check out the latest ep of DefendTheHouse’s mythbuster series on MGS—it’s full of fun factoids like that. Contact the author at [email protected]