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A Metal Gear Solid Primer in Podcast Form

I just played the first 30 minutes or so of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, and I’m hooked. I’m also slightly—emphasis on slightly—less confused than I otherwise would have been, because I asked Jason Schreier of Kotaku and Ashly Burch of Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin’? to talk about why they like the Metal…

Arkham Knight PC Patch Briefly Appears, And Early Reports Are Promising

Warner Bros. has been cagey about Batman: Arkham Knight’s long-promised PC patch, but a beta version accidentally went live for some folks today—and they’re reporting good news. This is a pretty confusing saga, so bear with me. When players cried foul at the game’s technical incompetence on PC, Warner Bros. stopped selling the game. They…

League Of Legends’ Most Annoying Samurai Gets Some Hot New Dance Moves

Buried in League of Legends’ characteristically dense patch notes last night, developer Riot Games revealed a seemingly small, but ultimately very important detail: they were going to make Master Yi’s dance scale with his movement speed. Yi is a famously quick-footed assassin in League who’s probably best known for the way he can blink into…

Heroes of the Storm is changing its ranked structure, Blizzard announced today. Players will only be able to queue up for ranked games with one other person instead of two or three like they can now. Hopefully this will lead to improved (read: more fair) matchmaking, though I’m certainly not bitter about that. Contact the…

Stasis Shows How Spooky A Point-And-Click Adventure Can Be

Who knew 2015 would be delivering some of the best horror games in years? You can now add Stasis to the growing stack of games proving crowdfunding can, for all its problems, produce some seriously excellent video games. It was only a year late, too! (It was promised for August 2014, but went live on…

Rocket League Is Better With Overly Excited Soccer Commentators

I know they’re not actually getting this excited about car soccer, but a man can dream. thumbstickathletes has put together a collection of great Rocket League moments paired with some decidedly enthusiastic soccer announcers doing commentary and the results are great. How many copies does Rocket League have to sell so that Psyonix can legitimately…

Hey, There’s A New Danganronpa Out This Week

Dear Kotaku: I have failed you. There’s a new Danganronpa out this week, and I’ve barely even touched it. Blame Steins;Gate and then Metal Gear Solid V because for some reason I volunteered to review Kojima’s latest epic and I haven’t had time for anything else. So for the past few weeks I’ve had an…

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Batman Arkham Knight DLC Still At A Drip-Feed, Still Needs Something Great

We’ve been hard on the six-month downloadable content roll-out for Batman Arkham Knight, because, so far, it just hasn’t been that good. The newest morsel, released yesterday, isn’t much of an improvement, but this month does bring promise of a potential turnaround. Yesterday’s addition was a $1.99, 76.2MB bundle of extra battle maps called the…

Destiny‘s New Public Events Look Sick

Bungie just showed off some of the public events that’ll be playable in the next version of Destiny, a video game about delayed gratification. I’m not gonna lie: they look fantastic. When The Taken King comes out on September 15, Destiny players will be able to go to a zone called the Court of Oryx,…

New Battlefield 4 Map Hides A Creepy Secret

Battlefield 4’s new Zavod: Graveyard Shift map can get kind of spooky when you turn off the lights. In the video above, jackfrags tells us how to encounter a cool little easter egg within the latest Battlefield 4 content. Turns out, if you destroy this light… …Battlefield 4 will start playing some kind of demonic…

One Man’s Quest To Buy Every Amiibo In 24 Hours

Most retailers are suffering a shortage of certain rare Amiibo—some figurines, you just can’t find in a shop. Unless, of course, you happen to live in very specific places. Then you might be able to find just about any Amiibo you want. Last month, Twitter user UnlistedLeaf posted this picture online: People reacted pretty strongly…

Horror Game Devs Publish Book To Scare Children

If you’ve been looking for a new way to upset some kids, the developers of Year Walk have some ideas. In anticipation of the super creepy Year Walk coming to Wii U later this month, developer Simogo decided to write a selection of short stories, based on the game’s various creatures. They’ve titled it Bedtime…

These New Robo Skins For League Of Legends Are Super Cool

One of the most popular skins last year in League of Legends was PROJECT: Yasuo, a special outfit that made the samurai warrior look like an extra from Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. Shocking as it might sound, Riot saw how much fans liked this new robo-Yasuo and decided to make five more PROJECT skins this…

How To Keep Everyone Alive In Until Dawn

Almost everyone was dead by the time I saw the credits in Until Dawn, but you can do better! Most of the trophies in Until Dawn are secrets because they’re tied to the various ways the game can play out. (Usually, that means people dying!) If you handle things just right, though, it’s possible to…

FTC Slams YouTube Group For ‘Deceptive’ Xbox Marketing Campaign

Around the launch of the Xbox One, the YouTube network Machinima held a special campaign for its clients: Make a positive video about Microsoft’s newest console, and you’ll get paid extra. Also, you’re not allowed to talk about any of this. Seems sketchy, right? The U.S. Federal Trade Commission certainly thought so, and after an…

I Did My Best In Heroes of the Storm And Still Got Last Place

Late last night, Heroes of the Storm reached into my chest, tore out my heart, and began to vigorously stomp on it. It cackled maniacally while doing this. And all I could do was sit back and watch in a daze. A few weeks ago, Blizzard’s new-ish MOBA reset the rankings for its highly competitive…

Five Minutes Inside The Mind Of A Goddess

Red Goddess: Inner World is one of those games that shows up on PSN or Steam and you just don’t know. You just don’t. Perhaps the first five minutes of nonlinear platforming action will help? Five minutes into the story of the young goddess Divine’s quest to restore her powers and memories and I’m sure…

When redditor officialvide showed Minecraft to his dad, his first order of business, after picking up the basics, was to recreate the NYC United Nations Headquarters in-game. Impressive for a WIP, and especially for a first project. Much fancier than a wooden hut, anyway. There are five more renders below. Dayshot is an image-based feature…

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