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Take A Break From Metal Gear And Play Nova-111

Have you heard of Nova-111? I barely had, but now I must show it to you. It’s a wonderful surprise of a video game. It’s partially turn-based, partially real-time. It’s action mixed with puzzles. Its on Xbox One, PS4, PS3, Vita, PC and Mac and is coming to Wii U. It just came out. It’s…

Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio recently praised Minecraft. “If you play Minecraft, you’re basically writing code when you’re converting a hammer into a pickax,” said Rubio, according to the AP. “Kids might not realize they’re coding, but that’s going to be almost a basic proficiency just because of the way they grew up.”

Pokémon Look Really Cool As Giant Mechs

Japanese artist 太斗· converts Pokémon into giant Japanese robots. And not just random ones, either, but characters from the Zoids universe. It’s a franchise that’s really popular in Japan in the form of model-kits. And indeed, they all look like images of an assembled mecha from a model-kit’s instruction manual. To contact the author of…

I Can’t Stop Collecting Stuff in Video Games

Here’s something I wish more game designers understood: If you put an interaction in your game, I am going to interact with it. Anytime a game responds to its players, the rats—or at least this rat—are going to press the lever for more cocaine pellets. Jenova Chen, during a talk about the design of Journey…

Holy Crap, Monkey Island Is 25 Years Old

Monkey Island turned 25 years old earlier this week, and designer Ron Gilbert used his blog to share some truly interesting (and bizarre!) stories about the game’s development. In 2015, releasing a game to the world is pretty simple, especially digitally. It’s not quite click-one-button-and-it-appears-on-the-Internet, but it’s close. It was much different in 1990, though.…

Fan Version Of League Of Legends’ Bard Is Really Spoooooooky

League of Legends fan art is so fucking good. The latest amazing skin concept for the rotund and mostly adorable support champion Bard comes from League of Legends player and forum-goer Glow: He even made the little “meep” minions that travel around with Bard into ghosts that remind me of the halloween costumes from Peanuts.…

Level 8? More Like Level 28

Just over a month ago, I wrote about my level 8 newbie adventures in Destiny. In the weeks that followed, I played chunks of the game but resisted grinding, got stuck at level 26 for two weeks and just today finally got enough strange coins to get my first exotic gear. So now, finally, I’m…

The Truth About World of Warcraft‘s Worgen Characters

Creating a lupine character in World of Warcraft is a little bit different from other races. Since they’re shapeshifters, there’s both a human and a werewolf form. And when you’re customizing their looks, the changes you’ve made to one form will automatically affect the other form. And this, as Dark Legacy Comics’ latest shows, means…

Famous YouTubers Go On TV, Teach Jimmy Kimmel A Lesson

The last time Jimmy Kimmel commented on the YouTube Gaming controversy, he said that he’d give Let’s Plays a chance. And so it was that tonight, some of the biggest YouTubers around joined Kimmel in a segment about watching other people play video games. “I come in peace,” Kimmel—who was wearing a Power Glove, for…

Genzoman, purveyor of great fanart, shows off his skills in a Street Fighter/Rival Schools crossover piece that he did for UDON Entertainment’s 280-page Capcom Fighting Tribute artbook. Higher-res image is below, and you can check out some of the other art found in the book in this DeviantArt gallery Dayshot is an image-based feature that…

Fan Covers “Konami” with “Kojima Productions” on New Metal Gear Solid

Kojima Productions, apparently, is no more. The studio started by Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima has been “dissolved,” says Snake’s Japanese voice actor. The box art for Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain does not read “Kojima Productions.” It does read Konami. On Taiwan’s Gamer forums, a member named Gtaaaaa decided to change that.…

10 Things I Noticed as a First-Time Player of Metal Gear Solid 3 and 4

In preparation for Metal Gear Solid V, I’ve been playing through the entries in the series that I missed. It’s been enlightening. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK Over the past week, in preparation for Metal Gear Solid V, I’ve been racing through MGS 3: Snake Eater and MGS 4: Guns of the Patriots,…

A Final Fantasy Themed Wedding

Grace and her husband got married last month in Hawaii (congrats!). Since they’re big Final Fantasy fans, they decided that the logical thing was, well, a Final Fantasy themed wedding. Type-0 outfits made for fancy groom wear! And the bride is dressed asGarnet til Alexandros XVIIfrom Final Fantasy IX. There are a bunch of nice…

Sorry Men, You Cannot Advertise Maxi Pads in China Anymore

The Chinese government issued a new set of tough guidelines that are bound to radically change advertising in the country. According to People’s Daily, The Nanfang, and Qingdao News, the new advertising rules do things like ban child celebrities under the age of ten from doing endorsements, under the rationale that these young celebs cannot…

Destiny Gets Some Big Changes Next Week, No Expansion Required

Maybe you’ve heard: Destiny is about to get a whole bunch of changes. Some of those changes are tied to the upcoming Taken King expansion, but a fair amount of them will happen whether you buy the expansion or not. In the latest weekly update at the company blog, Bungie has explained a bunch of…

Arkham Knight’s PC Patch Is FINALLY Out

Arkham Knight, a PC game so brokenthat its publisher Warner Bros. had to withdraw it from sale, was released in June. It’s taken until September, but a patch to (hopefully) fix it is rolling out now. The update popped up earlier in the week for beta testing, but WB announced today that it’s now available…

Not Every Game Clip On YouTube Has To Have Terrible Music

Also: nice flying!

For Four Years, A Man Has Walked Across Minecraft

Kurt J. Mac has been walking in the same direction in Minecraft since 2011. It is now September 2015, and he is still going Profiled recently by Guinness for their records book/marketing catalogue, there’s a progress report from April 2015 in there, saying that as of five months ago he’d crossed 2,097,152 blocks. Equivalent to…

Upcoming Witcher 3 Patch Will Flesh Out The Game’s Romances

Not everyone was happy with the love triangle at the center of 2015’s hottest dating sim, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Fortunately, the game’s developers have been listening. Mild Spoilers For The Witcher 3 Follow. If you spend a bit of time looking around The Witcher 3’s online gathering places, you’ll see more than a…

Earlier this week I recapped my favorite story from Destiny’s buried Grimoire lore. If you liked the tale of Thorn and The Last Word, check out this dramatic reading by Ghosts and Echoes (Thanks, L-Rod!)