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Oculus Rift’s Touch Controller Changes Everything

At Gamescom a few weeks ago, I had an appointment to see Oculus to try out the soon-to-be-released retail version of the Rift, which I was interested to see but not exactly zinging with excitement about. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK I’ve tried various VR technologies several times by now, as well as…

Fables: The Kotaku Comic Review

After 150 issues spread over 13 years, the grand comic that is Fables has finally come to an end. For those of you not in the know Fables is a comic series written by Bill Willingham that started in 2002 and ended last month. It is the last of the zeitgeist-changing Vertigo comics titles that…

This is a real, official thing. What a world we live in.

Halo Menu And Chill

Here are the two things I like about this website. One, it’s called halome.nu. Two, all it does is loop the epic/chanty menu screen music from the Bungie and 343’s Halo games. The site says “Have you ever left a Halo title running on your TV, just to listen to and watch the main menu?”…

What It’s Like To Be The Community Manager For The ‘Worst PS4 Game Ever’

In late 2014, to help a friend, I joined the team of Wander, the non-combat, exploration MMO, volunteering to help with mundane things like filling out paperwork and maybe playing the game a little to check out a few features. Nothing serious, I thought. I didn’t know that I’d soon be called in to help…

GTA Player Bails At The Best Possible Moment

Holy shit. This feels like it could have come straight out of The Matrix or something. drekerrr brings us footage of a GTA eject so epic, it could easily be a stunt in a big-budget action movie: Not only does the passenger somehow avoid the missiles, he also gets to take revenge on the attacking…

Florida Man Accused Of Stuffing PS4 Down Pants

Christopher Caldwell, 36, has been arrested after security staff at a Walmart in Florida told police they found him stuffing a PS4 inside his pants. And then some. Local crime blog Off The Beat (via @ZhugeEX & pixeldynamo) say Caldwell was found in the bike section of the Port St. Lucie Walmart “sticking the PlayStation…

5+ Minutes Of Video Game Racing So Good I Can’t Even

It just…the madness begins immediately, and for five minutes, it does not stop. What’s cool here isn’t necessarily the driving—though some of those drifts and flips are incredibly precise—but the design of the track itself, which has been meticulously arranged to allow for a car to be flung through it at top-speed with only millimetres…

Destiny: The Taken King Will Leave Gjallarhorn Behind

Remember last week, when Xur briefly sold Gjallarhorn in Destiny, a video game where you travel through space waiting for the other shoe to drop? Well… Turns out our boy Gjally will be left behind when The Taken King comes out this September. While some exotic items—like Suros Regime and No Backup Plans—will get upgraded…

The Best  Super Mario Maker Levels (So Far)

Super Mario Maker is largely in the hands of reviewers, entertainers, and YouTubers right now—but even so, we’re already starting to see some fantastic user-created levels. I recorded myself playing through a few favorites, including: A level where mushrooms are your worst enemy. A bullet hell level. A roller coaster. A level with a goomba…

Eurogamer went to Poland and visited CD Projekt Red to talk about the creation of The Witcher 3. They’ve published a really cool article about their trip, which offers a rare degree of insight into how such a vast, complex game is made. (And why it was delayed last fall.)

The facial animations in Tales From The Borderlands are so good. (The rest of the game—which just released its fourth episode—is very good, too.)

Nvidia has detailed a bunch of new features coming in a new GeForce Experience beta in September. Including: A more complex in-game overlay, direct YouTube uploads, in-game video clip editing, and a feature that lets remote friends assume control of your game.

Heroes Of The Storm Sneaks in A Duck Hunt Easter Egg

Add this to the list of things that make me want a Nintendo-themed MOBA more than anything else in my life right now. Heroes of the Storm got a big update this week that changed a bunch of characters and added the Monk from Diablo III into the Blizzard-ified MOBA action. As it always does,…

The New League Of Legends Mobile Game Is Good Simple Fun

If League of Legends were a mobile game, I like to think it’d be something like a slickly produced version of last year’s sleeper hit Flappy Bird: cute, charming, distressing at its difficult low points and dizzying at its high ones. Riot probably feels differently about this, as evidenced by Blitzcrank’s Poro Roundup Poro Roundup…

Mr. Handy Is Now The Funniest Thing In Fallout Shelter

Mr. Handy might be a robot, but he sure has a lot of humanity. I’ve been toying around Mr. Handy in Fallout Shelter lately, and I’ve been pleased to find that he’s become the best thing in the new update. Yes, Mr. Handy is useful—he’ll automatically collect resources for you, as well as help defend…

Marvel Comics’ Best Superhero Right Now Is a Girl Who Talks to Squirrels

Squirrel Girl started as a joke, a character so implausibly silly that you had to laugh at her even in her victories. But, a funny thing happened after the character got her own series: people started laughing with her. Spoilers follow for The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, which you really should be reading already, gosh. Way…

The latest XCOM 2 trailer gives a sense of how base management will work. Research and development, troop training, and monitoring for attacks, all from your new mobile base on a repurposed alien ship. Which I’m sure won’t lead to any complications…

Twitch Is Cheating At Dark Souls

The Internet’s attempt to play Dark Souls has been fun to watch, even if they’ve spent most of the time rolling into walls. But last night, a breakthrough: they beat the game’s first boss. It was awesome, but how they pulled that off calls into question whether they’re really playing Dark Souls anymore. The bar…

Hey Smash Bros. fans who like to play as Shulk: if you’ve had trouble with the guy’s Up-B recovery move, you’re not alone. YouTuber and Smash Boards forum member erico9001 put together a handy video on the glitch that causes his recovery problems, and how to avoid them. Contact the author at [email protected]