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A Beautifully Drawn Game About a Man Who’s Dying

The main character of In Between isn’t going to live much longer. The only thing left is to make sense of it all. Just as in life, nothing is straightforward in In Between. The hand-painted indie game by dev studio Gentlymad is a platformer but it’s one where you can’t jump. Instead, players have directional…

Destiny’s Latest Exploit Lets You Kill Yourself For Exotics [UPDATE: Patched]

If you started playing Destiny today, you may have noticed an unusual number of your friends doing the same ancient low-level mission. Why would they do that? The answer—of course this is the answer—is that the mission lets players take advantage of a new loophole and earn lots of powerful exotic items with a minimum…

Until Dawn and the Illusion of Choice

There are so many good video games out right now, which means there’s so much good writing about video games, too. Worth Reading, our weekly guide to the best commentary and observations about games, is here to help. Hey, You Should Read These “Loving Your Enemies in Metal Gear Solid V” by Joshua Cauller Many…

Five New Board Games You Should Play

In the board game world, the North American convention season is mostly over. Gen Con saw a unique attendance of almost 62,000 people and had slightly over 400 new games. The upcoming convention at Essen, Germany in October already has a list of almost 600 new games, and it is not done yet. With so…

Rocket League‘s Next DLC Is Coming in October

There’s new DLC coming for everybody’s favorite car soccer game and the add-on will give a nod to Rocket League’s obscure predecessor The name of the Revenge of the Battle-Cars pack references Psyonix’s previous release Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars. The add-on will include two cars—Scarab and Zippy—from that game along with a bunch of new…

Destiny‘s Xur Is A Little Different Now

Today, Xur is back in Destiny, a video game that wouldn’t be nearly as good as it is now if we hadn’t spent the past year traveling through space and complaining about Destiny The infamous weekly shopkeeper is a little bit different now. Instead of a guaranteed weapon every week, Xur will now either sell…

Here’s a bit of an odd request for you, Kotaku readers. We’re looking for reviews of Grand Theft Auto V—not from you, but from your loved ones. Got a boyfriend, girlfriend, husband, or wife who watched you play through the adventures of Trevor and Franklin? Do they want to write up a quick, one-paragraph review…

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Mario Maker Level Is An Awesome Tribute To Dragon Ball Z

Here’s a simple yet sweet Dragon Ball tribute made by Eddie Stilson in Super Mario Maker It’s a musical stage, full of renferences, where Dragon Ball Z’s iconic, first opening theme Head-Cha-La plays, as we run forward. To contact the author of this post, write to: [email protected]

All This Terrific Fanart Was Drawn on a 3DS

Colors! is an app for the 3DS, Vita and mobile which lets you create artwork. Like these awesome pieces which, while low-resolution, are still a sight to behold. They were all drawn by Techno-Bits, an “untrained, and self-taught artist only using a 3ds looking to further [his] skills,” who “digitally paints many things around the…

One Of The Most Popular Builds Of Diablo III Is Back

With the new items and gameplay changes of Diablo III’s superb 2.3 patch, one of the coolest builds of old times, the Archon, is back and got stronger for Season 4. It’s a fun build totally worth trying out with the new patch, that focuses on the Wizards’s massive Archon ability, something that was neglected…

Star Fox Zero Has Been Delayed To 2016

Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto has just publisheda statement on the company’s Facebook page saying that Star Fox Zero for the Wii U has been delayed. Bummer. The statement reads: I made a big decision last week. We have been developing Star Fox Zero for Wii U with the aim of releasing it this year. Although we…

Interviewer Tricked Into Thinking Soccer Star Was Pro Counter-Strike Player

This is André Schürrle. He’s a very, very good footballer. A lot of people would recognise him as a star for both Wolfsburg and the World Champion German national team. This German web TV host, however, did not. Sofia Kats, from gaming channel Rocket Beans TV, was pranked by her colleagues into doing the interview,…

Konami’s Latest PC Port Is Garbage

Here’s a weird thing. The PC version of Metal Gear Solid V, a Konami game running on the Fox Engine, looks great! The PC version of Pro Evolution Soccer 2016, also a Konami game running on the Fox Engine, is the worst. On PS4 and Xbox One, the game looks fantastic! I’ve been playing it…

2015: The Year I Loved The Games I Hate

If you’d told me on New Year’s Eve 2014 that my two favourite games of the next year would be a Witcher and Metal Gear title, I’d have laughed, then frowned, then walked off to talk to someone who wasn’t clearly crazy. I mean, the Witcher games were a mess! Clunky controls, confusing UI, an…

Beating This Mario Maker Level Felt Like Defeating A Dark Souls Boss

Yep, this is a level in which the creator turned Mario’s glorious star into a player’s worst nightmare. It’s early days for Super Mario Maker, which means people are still figuring out what makes a Mario stage tick. It’ll take time before we see what people are truly capable of, but I’m already impressed by…

The Metal Gear Solid V Players Trying To Do The Impossible

One of the biggest secrets in Metal Gear Solid V may not actually be possible—but that’s not stopping players from coming together and trying to achieve it anyway. First, some background. Yesterday I wrote about a hidden ending of sorts that players found while datamining the game on PC. It looks like this, uploaded courtesy…

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Meet the Hutt Who Helped Luke Skywalker Learn About the Jedi

At the end of the original Star Wars movie, Luke Skywalker had a lightsaber and not much else. The old man who started to mentor him died at the hands of the Empire’s most feared enforcer and he didn’t know anything about the legacy he was supposed to continue. This week’s Star Wars comic shows…

Destiny: The Taken King Leaves Players Who Didn’t Upgrade Behind

Are you a Destiny player with no interest in buying The Taken King? You might want to find another game to play. As it turns out, The Taken King doesn’t just add a ton of excellent new stuff to Bungie’s ambitious MMO-shooter—it also locks out much of the old content both in PVE and PVP.…