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Hideo Kojima’s Sad Farewell To Metal Gear

It starts slow, and feels a little self-indulgent. But this Metal Gear Solid V debriefing ends with something of a genuine tear-jerker. Sorta like the games themselves. It’s funny as I was watching this I felt a little frustrated. This 10 minute video was essentially a montage of people telling Hideo Kojima how great he…

Watch Me Qualify For A Heroes Of Storm Rank [Update: Rekt.]

I got rank 40. I don’t want to talk about it. Thank you everyone for watching! /// Alright people. It all comes down to this. I have one shot. Or, technically, five shots. Heroes of the Storm reset its ranking system recently, meaning everyone playing has to go through 20 qualifying matches before receiving a…

Glitch Makes GTA V Look Like An N64 Game

A reader sent this over today, and at first I thought it was a mod. Nope, turns out it’s a glitch in GTA V, one which sucks pretty much all the textures and detail out of Los Santos, leaving one of the best-looking games on the planet looking more like something you’d find on an…

League Of Legends Just Nerfed Azir, Hard

The desert soldier Azir has been a powerful presence for much of League of Legends’ current season, with the mage being picked or banned in practically every major tournament game. Now little more than a month away from the World Championship, Riot is finally knocking the guy down a peg. To those unfamiliar: Azir is…

Next Big PS4 Update Adds YouTube Streaming, More Online Storage

Sony’s announced the big features coming to PlayStation 4’s upcoming 3.00 firmware update, and there’s lots to get excited about. PlayStation Blog has the details, revealing the firmware’s internal codename was “Kenshin.” There’s no release date yet, unfortunately, but it should be before the end of the year. The most exciting additions include streaming to…

Metal Gear Solid V Players Uncover A New P.T. Easter Egg

Silent Hills might be dead, but Kojima sure as hell ain’t letting the memory fade away. Earlier this year, we caught a glimpse of a P.T. easter egg that allowed Metal Gear Solid players to use Lisa, P.T.’s infamous ghost, as a distraction against enemies. But that’s not the only Silent Hills shout-out in the…

Mad Max’s PC Version Runs Really Well (So Far)

Maybe you’ll like Mad Max more than Kotaku’s Chris Suellentrop did, and if you’re gonna be playing on the PC, I’ve got some good news. Warner Bros.’ track record with the PC lately is not so great. While Shadow of Mordor was excellent, Mortal Kombat X and Batman: Arkham Knight were both trainwrecks. With Batman,…

Here you can see two King Leorics cast their giant-tomb-summoning ults so they cinch together perfectly, creating a closed rectangle that looks very scary to be stuck inside. Is this the Heroes of the Storm equivalent of a WWE “Hell In A Cell” cage match, as xWretchedWorldx described it on Reddit? Yes. Yes it is.

You’ve Got One Week Left To Earn That Cool Limited Destiny Emblem [Update: Extended!]

A quick reminder, in case you have a few gold chests left to find. A little while back, Bungie announced that all year-one Destiny players who complete a series of challenges in the game would earn an exclusive emblem that they could lord over all the rookies who’ll join up when the Taken King expansion…

Steam Is Getting An Uncensored Sex Game

Kindred Spirits on the Roof is a game about two ghosts who are eternally bound to a school—and the only way they can finally rest in peace is if they get to bone each other. Really. Steam has gotten a number of erotic games like this over the past year, many of which have been…

Against All Odds, Cloud9 Makes It Into The League Of Legends World Championship

Last night, the storied American League of Legends team Cloud9 (C9) beat Team Liquid 3-1 in a best of five tournament match, securing themselves a spot in the upcoming World Championship in the process. Doing so completed one of the greatest comebacks in League eSports history. The North American League of Legends Championship Series finals…

Screw Kimmel, I’m Streaming Some Metal Gear Solid V [UPDATE: Done]

Let’s stream some Metal Gear Solid V. Eat it, Jimmy Kimmel For the next hour or two, I’ll be playing through a couple of side-ops and showing off a lot of the gameplay in the fifth Metal Gear Solid. I’m going to do my best to avoid spoilers, so we’ll stick to side-ops and non-critical…

Layers of Fear Is The One of The Biggest Horror Surprises of The Year

Last year, game developers Bloober Team released one of the worst rated titles on the PS4. This year, they’re back with a horror game with a very unusual premise—and it’s actually pretty damn good. Layers of Fear is an early access Steam game where you play as a painter who has gone mad in his…

Barkley 2 Gets Even More Absurd With Turn-Based Basketball

I expect weirdness from the sequel to Barkley Shut Up And Jam: Gaiden, but even I was taken aback by the discovery of a turn-based basketball mini-game. We recently learned the Kickstarter-funded sequel won’t arrive until early 2016, but a playable version was being shown over the weekend at PAX Prime in Seattle. The line…

The two men arrested at the Pokémon World Championships last month for unlicensed gun possession will be held without bail for the next four months. After reviewing the threats they made online, the judge decided they posed a danger and could not be let out on bail, as the AP reports

Free iOS Game You Should Try: Sage Solitaire

My go-to mobile game for time-filling fun used to be Drop 7. Then it was Threes. These days it’s Sage Solitaire, a new riff on solitaire from the ever-interesting developer Zach Gage. I’m making pairs, straights and flushes, often while listening to a podcast. I’m hooked! The game’s default mode is free, and it’s fun…

If you’ve been jealous of folks playing Star Wars: Battlefront in the game’s private alpha, EA’s announced the game’s beta will begin sometime in early October. The beta will also mark the debut of a new, mysterious game mode called Drop Zone. Contact the author at [email protected]

Ace Attorney 6, announced this morning for Japan, is coming to the west too. HELL FUCKING YES.

How Microtransactions Actually Work In Metal Gear Solid V

Last week, the website GameSpot reported that there was a paywall on Metal Gear Solid V’s PVP mode. Turns out that’s not true. Let’s cut through the misinformation and clear up exactly how Konami is trying to get your money here. Anyone playing through the newest Metal Gear will eventually unlock a feature called Forward…

Smite‘s Latest God Brings The Eye Nipples

Unwilling to concede defeat after being decapitated by the Yellow Emperor, Chinese warrior-poet Xing Tian battled on, using his nipples for eyes and his bellybutton as a mouth, as you do. The eye-nippled champion arrives in the PC version of Hi-Rez Studios’ god-powered MOBA today via the Indomitable Spirit update, which also nerfs my giant…