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30 More Hours With Fallout 3, Which Is Still Damn Good

Seeing the reveal of Fallout 4 at E3, I found myself compelled to return to Bethesda’s first entry in the series, Fallout 3. There’s just something about it, a special kind of magic that few games have. Initially, I didn’t plan to spend much time with Fallout 3, but it sucked me in. Within two…

Devil’s Third Bears the Scars of a Troubled Development

As a critic, I endeavour to approach each game I play with an open mind. It’s almost impossible, however, not to have some preconceptions when a game arrives for review. Knowledge of the developer, familiarity with the circumstances of its development and experience within its chosen genre are just three of the factors that come…

25 Years Of The Dr. Mario Commercial Music Stuck In My Head

Call the doctor, Mario 0h-oh. It was on June 27, 1990 that Nintendo released Mario’s medical puzzle game for the Game Boy and NES, setting in motion the North American marketing effort that would result in the youngest doctor this side of Doogie Houser scatting in my head for all eternity. And by scatting I…

PC hardware company Razer has purchased Ouya, for some reason. Maybe they’ll meld it with their other Android box? Is anyone actually interested in any of these microconsoles? The world may never know.

Portable PC Inspired By Shadowrun‘s Cyberdecks

This custom PC is too small to be a desktop, but too big for a laptop. It’s a unique portable build, something out of an 80s cyberpunk world. And that’s what actually inspired its builder Chimerus: portable cyberdecks from Shadowrun Looks like a busted replica at first, but even though the build is based on…

Pre-order incentives are pretty dumb, and the Terminator being a pre-order character for WWE 2K16 might be the dumbest, but Arnold Schwarzenegger re-doing his naked-Terminator scene with WWE’s Daniel Bryan, Finn Balor, Paige and Dean Ambrose? Funny.

A Handy Way To Gear Up Quickly In World of Warcraft

Gearing up got way easier after Warlords of Draenor’s 6.2 patch added Apexis Crystals: If you collect enough crystals you can gear up your character without any effort in pretty strong item level 695 gear. But there’s a relatively easy way to push things to item level 700. Bellular Gaming’s beautifully edited short clip shows…

Massive August Splatoon Update Adds Private And Squad Squid Battles

Form up Squid Kids, it’s nearly time to build squads and play without those horrible strangers. Two new matchmaking modes arrive in Splatoon on August 5, plus 30 more player levels, more than 40 pieces of gear and a pair of new weapons. Squad Battles allow for organized groups of friends to form up into…

2,000,000 Blocks, 40 Days of Work, One Huge-Ass Shark

As a bonus, this huge-ass shark also happens to be a flying monstrosity armed with a metric crapton of guns. Pretty neat, unless you’re the enemy. The Redeemer-class gunship, or ‘Hammerhead’ as it’s called in the download, was crafted by expert Minecraft builder Rossky, who took 43 days, working 2-6 hours each day, to produce…

“We are still friends and working into doing something together, but that’s not going to be [Silent Hills].” In an interview with IGN, film director and producer Guillermo del Toro expresses his desire to keep working with Metal Gear designer Hideo Kojima after Konami’s cancellation of their project, Silent Hills

Had Xbox Live issues today? You’re not alone.

Stack The Pikachus. But Don’t Wake Snorlax!

This is a very cool toy. It’s also exactly the kind of thing I expect we’ll be seeing when Nintendo games finally hit mobile phones. Anyway, for now, this $20 Pokemon game (via Tiny Cartridge) is pretty simple: Snorlax is napping on a hammock, and you have to stack the Pikachus. Do it wrong and…

Some Steam Accounts Hijacked Following Security Lapse

Over the past week, a number of Steam accounts—including those of some prominent streamers and DOTA 2 pros—were temporarily stolen courtesy of a pretty glaring hole in Valve’s security. The loophole—which Valve says was a “bug”—was fixed once the issue was brought to light, but not before many users complained of temporarily losing their accounts…

GTAV’s Trevor Is A Pretty Good Joker

The the psychopathic behaviour, the lovable streak that endures in spite of it, the manic laughter…Grand Theft Auto V’s Trevor and The Joker are brothers from another mother. Combining a couple of skins—Ms7mido’sJoker and Play’n’Roll’s tuxedo—this mod only makes that official. The beautiful in-game screenshots (by berduu) are just icing on the cake.

The regular Kotaku ‘Shop Contest will return at the end of August. I’m taking a break until the weekend of August 29, and I’m sure the last thing whoever they’ve got to fill-in wants to do is stare at your beautiful pictures all day. I’ll miss my weekend peeps most of all. See you all…

The Brothers Brick—the best website around for custom LEGO builds—turned 10 today. Happy birthday!

Five Minutes In The Shadowy Forest Of Feist

I won’t lie, I initially only downloaded Feist from Steam because of how much it reminded me of Limbo, but it’s a different sort of creature. While it shares a similar look, the award-winning Feist is more action and less thoughtful puzzles, more immediate and harsh and less subtle menace. Still image evoke familiar feelings,…

Don’t forget to grab Diancie. Mythical Pokémon Diancie is available through Monday for Pokémon Omega Ruby and Pokémon Alpha Sapphire in North American and PAL regions. I completely forgot (thanks for the reminder, Oliver!). Don’t be me.

Star Wars Build-A-Bears Are Packed With Evil Gift Potential

A couple of days ago at a shopping mall likely quite close by Build-A-Bear Workshop started sellingofficial Star Wars plushies, bear costumes and accessories. Let us ponder the evil gift possibilities. Build-A-Bear used to be a place I stopped by now and then when a limited edition figure from a favorite animated series was released,…

The Difference Really Is Remarkable

Via /r/gaming.