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YouTube Exploit Can Disable 3DS Region-Locking

3DS tinkerer extraordinaire Jordan Rabet, aka smea, has (with a little help) found a really easy way for Nintendo 3DS owners to get around the company’s region-locking. Previous attempts at breaking down Nintendo’s region restrictions have required buying certain games and the installation of custom firmware, but this new method—called tubehax—is much easier; installation is…

Watch Me Play Galak-Z For The First Time, Live [Done!]

My friends keep raving about Galak-Z, that procedurally generated space shooter that is anime as hell. Today, I’ve decided to see what the roguelike is actually all about. I hear the game is pretty difficult, so this should be interesting. I’ll be streaming it here starting around 6PM EST/3PM PST, and I encourage you to…

‘Realistic’ Mortal Kombat Fatalities Are Pretty Sick

After years of watching and playing Mortal Kombat, it’s rare to see a fatality that makes me go ‘holy shit.’ Most of them try a little too hard. Somehow, though, these folks have found a way to make fatalities shocking again. RackaRacka took it upon themselves to show us what some fatalities would look like…

The next game from the makers of Torchlight is Hob, a sci-fi puzzle adventure game. Teaser trailer above. Hob will also be playable at PAX Prime in Seattle next week

The 11 Most Absurd Cards In Hearthstone‘s New Expansion

Over the past couple of weeks, Blizzard has been slowly showing off some of the new cards that will be added to Hearthstone with the next big expansion, The Grand Tournament, which goes live this month. Here are some of the most ridiculous ones, via Hearthstone’s Facebook page(where you can see them all). (Note: “Inspire”…

The Wicked + The Divine Is The Perfect Comic About Loving Something Too Much

I never thought a comic book would make me feel sorry for Katy Perry. But The Wicked + The Divine generated some real empathy for someone whose music I can’t stand. It’s that damn good. Written by Kieron Gillen and drawn by Jamie McKelvie with colors and letters by Matthew Wilson and Clayton Cowles, The…

A Heroes Of The Storm Wombo Combo In The Truest Sense Of The Term

“We’re in the lead,” my teammate said. “All we gotta do is defend,” he said. He was right. The only problem was we failed the defending part. In the clip above, you can see how my team in a recent Heroes of the Storm game went from having a slight but not insignificant lead to…

Hero Completes Fallout: New Vegas Run That Nobody Thought Was Possible

YouTuber Many A True Nerd did not rest on his laurels after beating Fallout: New Vegas on a single health bar last March. Instead, he upped the ante and decided to continue the run on New Vegas DLC. It seemed all but certain that he would die during this new portion of the run, given…

Want to know why Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky SC still isn’t out yet? Check out this blog post by XSEED for a look at even more of the trials and tribulations that have faced the much-anticipated RPG—including but not limited to purple butt blasts. The good news: they’re still hoping to release…

Teenage Girls Are Playing Video Games. You Just Might Not Hear Them.

A solitary, silent majority of teenage girls plays video games: often alone, rarely online. When teenage girls do venture online to play games—and a fair chunk of them do, quite regularly—they usually don’t speak. That’s how you go from a world where 59 percent of all girls between 13 and 17 play video games to…

The People Behind Red Ash Are Crowdfunding Yet Again

After last month’s disastrous gameand successful anime Kickstarter campaigns, the people behind Red Ash are asking for even more of fans’ money—this time to extend the anime from 12 minutes to 30. You can’t make this stuff up. This time, they’re using not Kickstarter but a facsimile of the popular crowdfunding service, using the Studio…

My Five Favorite Kotaku Stories From Last Week

Stephen’s out on a long overdue vacation this week, so this week’s hand-picked Kotaku stories will, of course, be all cat related. Though sadly I still don’t think Kotaku is meeting necessary cat coverage standards, so I guess I’ll have to settle with these. How Snoopy KilledPeanuts – Kevin Wong’s first time guest editing for…

When Combine posters pop up in your apartment building, you should think about moving. 3D artist Liam Tart, who’s worked as an environment artist on Alien: Isolation, is remaking a small, familiar section of Half-Life 2 in Unreal Engine 4 to get out of his “usual sci-fi comfort zone.” You can follow his progress here…

A Day in the Life of a Witcher 3 Village

I’ve spent almost 100 hours in the Witcher 3, wandering the streets of Novigrad, galloping through Velen’s windswept woodland, sailing between the isles of Skellige. Yet in all that time, I never really stopped to enjoy the game’s quieter moments. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK There was so much to see and do…

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I can’t even look at it.

Ballsy Chinese Console Rips Off Both The PS4 And Xbox One

Right now, on China’s version of Kickstarter, you can back a games console called the OUYE. If you ever wanted a console that looked like a PS4 but had a controller like the Xbox One’s, it’s for you! Kidding, it’s garbage. It’s a hunk of copyright-infringing plastic that, judging from the games on show (and…

You Can Play A Final Fantasy VII Beat-em-up, Right Now

This is Final Fantasy VII: Re-Imagined. It’s an indie (read: unofficial fan project) side-scrolling beat-em-up that, recreates Final Fantasy VII as a 2D side-scroller. It’s awesome, it’s free and you can play it right now. There’s one level available as a playable demo in a browser from here, but if you’re having Unity problems there…

That concludes my weekend run. As a longtime reader, who’s admired the Kotaku staff from afar, I have a greater appreciation for what they do on a daily basis. Thank you so much to the readers for your opinions, praise, and respectful disagreements. Some exclusive, behind the scenes information: Tina is incredibly patient. And Evan…

WWE Finishers Used To Look Better

I used to think that it was just nostalgia, screwing with my memory. But when I did a side-by-side comparison, there was no comparison at all. I’ve been playing WWE games for close to 15 years now, and although the graphics have gotten crisper and more realistic (they actually do motion capture on the wrestlers…

The Most Depressing Theories On What Limbo Means

Limbo isn’t a straightforward adventure. It’s confusing. But it’s a good kind of confusing that inspires people to band together and try to solve its mysteries. It was first released in 2010 for Xbox Live, and since then, it’s been ported to nearly every platform imaginable. This month, the folks at Sony made Limbo free…