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Twitch Is Playing Metal Gear. It’s Not Going Well. (Update)

Metal Gear Ghost Babel, the Game Boy Color title that relied on precise timing and expert stealth, is now being played by an anonymous mob, able to input random commands at will. What could possibly go wrong? Unlike the crowd-played Pokemon, which ended up OK, this is already turning into something more akin to Twitch’s…

18 Minutes of No Man’s Sky In Action

For months, fans everywhere couldn’t help but ask, ‘what do you DO in No Man’s Sky?’ Recently, the developers seem keen on answering that very question. While we gave you some impressions on an E3 demo recently, this deep video dive by IGN is still worth checking out. You’ll see some familiar things we’ve mentioned…

It’s Not A NES, It’s A Gaming PC

In decades past, this casing may indeed have housed a Nintendo Entertainment System, but these days it’s home to a decent little gaming PC. Built by a PC Gamer reader, it packs an “Intel Core i5-4670K CPU, an ASRock Mini ITX motherboard, and an MSI GeForce GTX 750 video card”. It’s a tight squeeze, but…

The Toys I’d Wait In Line For At Comic Con 2015

The San Diego Comic-Con 2015 dealers room opens its doors on Wednesday evening, launching an extended weekend filled with standing in line to get limited edition stuff. Here’s what’s worth waiting for. For the second year in a row I’ll be missing San Diego Comic-Con, which is a sadness for the geek in me but…

YouTube’s Top 10 ‘Trending’ Games For June

A month ago we guessed that YouTube’s top 10 “trending” games for June would include Fallout 4 and some new Metroid announced for E3. Well, we got half of that right. As for rearliy, well, surprise: there are two Lego games on the June list! Remember, this list is not strictly a list of the…

Destiny’s Lag Situation Is A Huge Bummer

In Destiny’s competitive Crucible multiplayer, the most fearsome foe you’ll face isn’t a flame-slinging warlock or a knife-throwing hunter—it’s lag. One minute, you’ll be merrily floating around a PVP match, shotgunning fools and flinging space magic with abandon. The next, you’ll see something… impossible. An enemy will be standing in one place, then suddenly, he’ll…

Why I Sympathize With Shenmue III’s Most Hardcore Fans

One day in late 2013, I woke up to dozens of e-mails and Twitter messages from people with accounts like “@Shenmue5K” and “@SaveShenmue.” They wanted me to help them save Shenmue, a video game series I’d barely heard of. I’d just interviewed Sony VP of publisher/developer relations Adam Boyes at the PS4 launch event, see,…

How To Get Every Riddler Trophy In Batman: Arkham Knight

Do you want to 100% Batman: Arkham Knight? Then you’re going to need to get every pesky Riddler trophy hiding around Gotham—and there are a ton of ‘em. Luckily, Batman Arkham Videos is here to help. The YouTube channel has gone ahead and created a video walkthrough for every trophy, divided by island/area in Arkham…

One of Comics’ Best Writers Has America and Canada Fighting an Ugly War

We don’t know why the United States Canada are at war in We Stand on Guard #1. But it sure seems like America is the bad guy that deserves to get its ass handed to it. In the year 2124 of this new comics series’ fictional future, there’s been a war raging between North America’s…

My Five Favorite Kotaku Stories From Last Week

Short and sweet this time. Sources: Warner Bros. Knew That Arkham Knight PC Was A Mess For Months | Klepek digging into what in the world went wrong. Someone Keeps Putting Video in My Video Games | Suellentrop on the surprising, wonderful FMV resurgence. Guy Sneaks Into Game Studio, Finds Unannounced Game [UPDATE] | Schreier…

The Five Best Moments In Dragon Ball Super’s First Episode

I can’t believe this is true, but: Dragon Ball is back, and it’s better than ever. Dragon Ball Super, the new DBZ TV show that takes place after Goku defeats Majin Buu, started airing in Japan last weekend. As a result, English fan translations are also floating around. The first episode clocks in at about…

Next Witcher 3 Patch Will Address Game’s Inventory Problems

CD Projekt RED has a reputation for continuing to tweak and improve their games in major ways, weeks and months after release, and The Witcher 3 is no exception. The upcoming patch 1.07 has a slew of much needed tweaks, including changes to the inventory system. The full patch notes are coming later in the…

True Detective Botched Its Big Cliffhanger

The second episode of True Detective ended on a massive cliffhanger, making much of last week interminably frustrating for addicts like me. Fans were able to stop holding their breath last night when things finally played themselves out last night in the third episode. But it wasn’t an easy resolution. Warning: MASSIVE spoilers ahead. Episode…

I Love The Frustration Of Ambiguous Video Game Endings

I recently played a game with no real ending, closure, or sense of reward. It was infuriating. You may have heard about Her Story before, since it’s been talked about a few times on Kotaku recently. tl;dr it’s absolutely worth your time, and one of my favorites in 2015 so far. I am not going…

Heroes Of The Storm’s New Butcher Character Seems Overpowered [UPDATE]

Iconic Diablo villain The Butcher has been terrorizing people in Heroes of the Storm since he arrived in the game last week, and not always for the right reasons. Despite being a very cool and well-designed hero, many HOTS players feel that he’s ridiculously overpowered at the moment. If you take a look on Twitter,…

Why Some People Are Calling Fire Emblem Fates ‘Homophobic’

Last month, Nintendo announced that gay marriage would be included in the strategy game Fire Emblem Fates, a first for a series that has long included straight romantic relationships. This month, many are calling the game “homophobic” and criticizing it for allegedly featuring “gay conversion therapy,” all based on a Tumblr translation of the game,…

The Longest Five Minute Boat Ride To Hell Ever

The opening moments of Skobbejak Games’ first-person horror game Vapour are alot like being seated next to a chatty person on an airplane, only with more flames and dead bodies. If the developers were trying to convey the notion of hell, they nailed it. Protagonist Charles the Psychotic Warlock spends the opening four minutes or…

The Akira Trailer Remade With Simpsons Characters

This is probably how Springfield will look like in a few decades. Until then here’s an impressive remake of Akira’s classic trailer, made by the folks over at the Bartkira project, turning everything Akira into everything Simpsons. They’re redrawing pages from the manga also with Simpsons characters for a while now (and it’s really good!),…

Star Wars Episode I: Racer was one of the better things that came out of 1999’s The Phantom Menace, and Mon Gazza Speedway was one of its best tracks. While there’s no new podracing game on the horizon, Victor Lammert’s cool tribute is a really close match to a shot from an imagined modern version.…

The Future Of Video Game Hair: A Hilarious Shampoo Commercial

NVIDIA HairWorks is a cool and interesting piece of tech that already exists in games, but you probably never use it, because it absolutely kills performance (hi, Witcher 3). Still, development and progress continues, and here’s what you can do with HairWorks’ version 1.1 when you don’t have to worry about things like in-game framerates.…