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Nine Things You Need To Know About Gears of War: Ultimate Edition

It’s been almost a decade since the first Gears of War came out on Xbox 360. During that time, many games borrowed Gears’ best ideas, and the series became one of the most influential of the last generation. I’ve spent the last week playing through Gears Of War: Ultimate Edition, an Xbox One and PC…

Tomb Raider Headlines Next Month’s Free Xbox Games

Just after Sony revealed its PlayStation Plus lineup, Microsoft has announced which free games (assuming you have an Xbox Live Gold subscription!) are coming to Xbox One and Xbox 360 next month. It’s not a surprise Microsoft would want to have more people playing Tomb Raider, given it’s invested in Rise of the Tomb Raider…

Galak-Z is coming to mobile devices next year, developer 17-bit announced today. How does a twitchy action game work with a touch screen? We’ll have to wait and see, but Galak-Z: Variant Mobile will apparently be heavily modified to work without a controller. You can reach the author of this post at [email protected] or on…

Five Nights At Freddy‘s Creator Says ‘Not A Single Person’ Has Figured Out His Game’s Story

The creator of Five Nights at Freddy’s is not taking a break, but he doesn’t want the community to, either. He’s a little disappointed in them, actually, and threatening to not open “the box.” Scott Cawthon wrote a brief update on Steam last night, teasing what’s coming in October. Hardcore fans will have new challenges…

Heads up to Heroes of the Storm players: in case you’re wondering where the Battlefield of Eternity map went, Blizzard took it out of rotation because of an issue that “can cause games to crash.” Also, a Blizzard rep told me that thenext Diablo map is coming out tomorrow. Fresh meat! UPDATE (3:26 pm): The…

Time Loop Video Game Gives You 12 Minutes To Not Die… Again And Again

The most interesting unreleased video game I’ve played this year is an adventure called Twelve Minutes. It involves living and dying in the course of 12 minutes, all of them spent in a three-room apartment. Then your character wakes up back in time with a memory of what happened and tries to survive those 12…

Luigi Tries To Beat Mario In A Live-Action Mario Kart Short

Luigi on an electric longboard and a city turned into a Mario Kart course full of dangerous elements. The folks at CorridorDigital made a pretty neat live-action short film about Luigi trying to beat Mario’s time trial score. Impressive effects for a YouTube video! And this is how they made it: To contact the author…

Mad Max: Fury Road, Retold Ancient Egyptian Style

Japanese artist Takumi recreated everything from Mad Max: Fury Road in an ancient Egyptian style, and while the movie has nothing to do with ancient Egypt, it still fits and looks really awesome with this art style. The top pic is only one part of Takumi’s piece. Here’s the complete one below, where all the…

Remember Half-Life: Blue Shift, that expansion where you played as Barney, the security guard? Well, Blue Shift’s Source engine remake, Black Mesa: Insecurity, just got its very first teaser trailer You can watch it below, and follow the mod’s Mod DB page and/or Black Mesa Forum thread for updates. Dayshot is an image-based feature that…

6 Games I Bought Purely Because of Their Graphics

I like to think I’m not a superficial person. (So do we all.) I’m not technically-minded, so conversations about frame-rates and resolution et cetera sort of float by me. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK But I am definitely guilty of occasionally buying a video game purely and simply because of its looks, especially…

It’s Not Forza 5, It’s GTA V

As beautiful as these sweeping shots of expensive sports cars are, they’re not from some slick Forza or Gran Turismo trailer. They’re from a Grand Theft Auto V Rockstar Editor video. Thanks, mods. RisingJake’s clip looks so good for two reasons: first, it uses a number of existing, user-created fancy car models that bring licensed…

Australian Retailer Sticks It To Konami

Ah JB, you truly are the cheeky little schoolboy of Australian retail. First it was your incredible in-store reviews, now it’s stores throughout the country taking sly potshots at Konami’s decision to remove Hideo Kojima’s name from the cover of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain Thanks for the reminder JB. Just in case…

What It’s Like To Watch League Of Legends At Madison Square Garden

League of Legends descended on Madison Square Garden this past weekend for the North America Championship Series (NA LCS) matches. What does it look like when 11,000 gamers flood into a venue best known for performances by people like Taylor Swift, Elton John, and the New York Knicks? See for yourself. The Kotaku video team…

Motherboard writer Jason Koebler, a grown man who hasn’t played Pokemon in years, went along to the Pokemon World Champs on the weekend and tried to play. It didn’t end well

The Witcher 3’s Free DLC, Ranked

Since The Witcher 3 came out in May, developer CD Projekt Red has released 16 pieces of free post-release downloadable content, ranging from missions to outfits to gear. Some of that stuff was superb. Some was less superb. Let’s rank it all, worst to best. Before we do that: It should go without saying that…

Persona fans will want to check out DidYouKnowGaming’s latest, where they introduce us to cool factoids about everyone’s favorite high school simulator. I had no idea Mitsuru could get so feisty about cheating! Also, Kanji used to look way different. Woah. And the whole bit about trying to put Nanako in the fighting games? Hilarious.…

The Most Exciting Moment At The U.S. League of Legends Finals

“There is so little chance of a steal,” the announcer said amidst a series of breathless exclamations. A moment later, me and the 11,000 other people in Madison Square Garden were all losing our shit. The Saturday games for third place in the North American League of Legends Championship Series (NA LCS) were definitely the…

The two Iowa men arrested yesterday at the Pokémon World Championships in Boston for unlawful possession of guns have been held without bail pending a dangerousness hearing on September 1, the District Attorney said today. The hearing will determine whether they can get out on bail while they await their charges.

A teaser trailer for Barkley 2, a sequel to the hilarious Barkley, Shut Up And Jam: Gaiden, has arrived. It’s promoting the game being at PAX later this week—I can’t wait to check it out—and teases a release in…2023. (The developers tell us it’s actually early next year.) You can reach the author of this…

If you’re buying the standalone disc for Rock Band 4, it’ll cost you $20 more on Xbox One—$80 instead of $60. How come? You need a special device for your Xbox 360 hardware to to work on your Xbox One. The bundles, however, are the same price. You can reach the author of this post…