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Player Teaches AI To Create Hearthstone Cards

Creating Hearthstone cards isn’t easy—unless you’re a robot. Scfdivine created a neural network that spits out new Hearthstone cards by analyzing all pre-existing cards. It’s hardly flawless, but it’s actually kinda shocking how often it’s on the money given the way it works. Scfdivine explained: “The way it works is the network is trained on…

Clever Video Lets You Soar The Skies Of Warcraft

We’re not getting a Warcraft trailer until November, but Legendary Pictures has released the movie’s Comic-Con VR teaser, letting you soar through Azeroth in your browser. It’s awesome. I’ve never seen anything like this before, but by dragging your mouse around the YouTube player, you’re able to look around and see the city of Stormwind…

So, Trove seems pretty popular. I had hoped to do a First Five of Trion Worlds’ free-to-play voxel-powered MMO, but with mylogin queue time hovering around an 50 minutes for the better part of an hour, my blocky adventure shall have to wait.

What PlayStation Mobile Meant To Me

On June 17, 2015, we released the last PlayStation Mobile game. It’s called Oh, Deer! Alpha and it’s an aggressively odd driving game about hitting as many or as few deer with your station wagon as possible on your way to grandma’s house. On Wednesday, PlayStation Mobile is going away forever. You read that correctly.…

Kirk and I went on the Mythocast podcast to talk about all things Destiny—you can listen to us ramble about The Taken King, Trials of Osiris, and other big Destiny subjects right here

Tony Hawk 5 Is Looking Kinda Rough

The first gameplay trailer for Tony Hawk Pro Skater 5 has arrived, and it’s a good thing fun and pretty aren’t mutually exclusive. I’m looking forward to a new Tony Hawk title that doesn’t require a horrid plastic skateboard to play and returns to the classic level-based goals of the earlier Pro Skater games. Give…

League Of Legends Pro Kills Off Key Target He Can’t Even See

This is absolutely ridiculous and amazing. Professional League of Legends player Chae “Piglet” Gwang-jin pulled off a bonkers baron steal over the weekend, a play so epic it deserves to be written down so that we may remember it—both as an example of crazy luck and a lesson for why you should always use Smite…

Mod Turns Dark Souls Into Black And White Nightmare

A simple tweak gives the world of Dark Souls an exceptionally eerie quality. This visual mod strips out the game’s UI, textures, and particle effects, leaving a black-and-white world that’s as beautiful as it is difficult to traverse. reddit user CystisomaMagna discovered this by accident, while playing around with a graphics tool called Reshade Quickly…

Five Nights at Freddy’s 4: The Final Chapter was scheduled for Halloween, but the release date has been moved up to August 8, the one-year anniversary of the original game. However, there will still be an expansion released for the game on Halloween. The news was distributed to a bunch of popular YouTube personalities. Who…

The Game Maker Who Became CEO: What Satoru Iwata Meant To Nintendo

By some measures, Satoru Iwata was the most successful video game creator to have ever lived: a kid who played Pong; a young man who started a development studio with friends; and eventually at 42, the CEO of the most beloved company in his medium’s history. “On my business card, I am a corporate president,”…

Avengers Assemble… Some Ikea Furniture

Thor shouldn’t have problems with basic furniture from Ikea. But, instead of using his hammer, he’s sitting there in silence, completely confused. The combined power of Captain America, Black Widow and Thor is put to the test in a short sketch, presented by Conan, with their rallying cry getting a totally new meaning. To contact…

Metal Gear Solid‘s Cast, Redrawn As Cartoon Characters

Artist Matt Synowicz’s Metal Gear Solid drawings are just like concepts from a Saturday-morning cartoon. It makes me sad we didn’t have a MGS-themed one. Sniper Wolf, Psycho Mantis, Vulcan Raven, Revolver Ocelot and Decoy Octopus are above and here’s a few more below. Obviously it’s not the entire cast of the series, but the…

The Video Game Community Pays Tribute To Satoru Iwata

Satoru Iwata wasn’t just a successful president of Nintendo, he was one of the most popular public figures in video games. Following his sad passing over the weekend, notable members of the industry (and beyond) have been paying tribute. The first Tweet below shows the flags at Nintendo’s HQ being flown at half-mast. Reggie Fils-Aime,…

Nintendo President Satoru Iwata Dies At 55

Nintendo has just issued a short statement announcing that president Satoru Iwata has passed away at the age of 55. The statementreads: Nintendo Co., Ltd. deeply regrets to announce that President Satoru Iwata passed away on July 11, 2015 due to a bile duct growth. Iwata was forced to skip last year’s E3 due to…

Unseen64, the best resource on the internet for information on cancelled/unreleased video games, is putting together a book. It’ll be released next year, but you can help out now here(people donating $25 a month for two months will get a copy).

Game Developers Can Be Sexy Too, You Know

For the third year running, a bunch of prominent (male) developers will be stripping off and getting sexy for a calendar, which you can hang on a wall and use as a shrine to shirtless objectification. I hope your eyeballs are ready. The 2016 calendar will feature devs from BioWare, 343, Riot, Double-Fine, Naughty Dog…

Twitch Actually Beat Metal Gear

When Twitch users first began playing Metal Gear Ghost Babel, it was a disaster, and I said as much. It’s time to eat humble pie, though, because in the days since they’ve cleaned up their act and not only progressed through the game, they beat the damn thing Maybe a more “serious” core of players…

comic-con sucks.

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: A New Ken! 

Read the name of this week’s Photoshop contest in a firm, gruff voice. Put a little anger into it. Now cup your hands together at the palms, pushing away from yourself. We’re not responsible for any fire damage you incur. Earlier this week Capcomrevealed a new look for one of Street Fighter’s most iconic characters,…

The First Five Minutes Of The Worst Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Game

Let’s celebrate San Diego Comic-Con with a property that embodies all aspects of media—comic books, television, movies, video games, toys—and how that can be a really bad thing. Some people love Konami’s 1989 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for the NES, played here via original Ultra Games cartridge in Hyperkin’s Retron 5. The didn’t mind the…