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Steam Players Make Their Own Justice, Virtually Imprison Troll

Steam’s hottest game has no built-in way to stop jerks from ruining your fun…which means that players have to get creative if they want to maintain the peace. Ark: Survival Evolved is a dinosaur hunting game where players have to use the environment to, well, survive. You know the spiel: you can craft, you can…

Watch Uncharted 4‘s Incredible Extended E3 Demo

The most impressive thing I saw at E3 was the behind-closed-doors extended demo of Uncharted 4, a video game about the power of stubble. Now, you can see it too. Keeping in mind that E3 demos are kinda nonsense—and that they’re about selling hyperbole, not reflecting reality—let’s sit back and enjoy a video full of…

Sure Seems Like Marvel Comics Is Ditching the Fantastic Four for a While

In a way, nothing matters in the comics Marvel is publishing right now. The future of the company’s superhero universe just got officially revealed today, via teasers that leaked out earlier this week. And the Fantastic Four—as a team and as a family—is nowhere to be seen. Secret Wars might hold the reason why. Secret…

A Horror Game That May Be Hidden In The Darkest Corners Of The Internet [UPDATE]

The internet is a vast, unknowable place. The parts you and I interact with on a daily basis are a very small sliver of what’s actually floating around out there. The web can go deep, and it can get dark. In the deep corners of the internet, a video is said to game exist. It’s…

The “father of video games’” home office is now on display at The National Museum Of American History. The museum rebuilt (actually rebuilt, not recreated) Ralph Baer’s workshop as a “landmark” for its new innovation wing. Check it out if you’re in the Washington, D.C. area! Contact the author at [email protected]

Smite continues to stretch the definition of “god” with Ravana, the Demon King of Lanka. Available in today’s big Combo Breaker update for the PC MOBA, Ravana achieved something akin to godhood by cutting off his own head 10 times. Show off.

Sources: Warner Bros. Knew That Arkham Knight PC Was A Mess For Months

You can’t buy Batman: Arkham Knight for the PC right now. Warner Bros. pulled it from digital and physical shelves last week, after players found that the PC version had critical performance issues. From what sources tell Kotaku, however, this shouldn’t have been a surprise for Warner Bros. “I will say that it’s pretty rich…

Nintendo Is Revamping Miiverse

Nintendo is giving the Miiverse, its social network for the 3DS and Wii U, a much-needed redo this summer, the company just revealed. The redesign promises a number of easier ways to document and share your gaming experience with other Miiverse-goers. First up is a new photo album. Nintendo’s new Miiverse website says you’ll be…

Heroes of the Storm’s resident oddball Abathur is almost as good at clapping as the Smash Bros. cast. Almost. He just needs a little nudge in the right direction. Thank you, Zelendorf, for this hilarious video I can’t seem to stop watching. To contact the author of this post, write to [email protected] or find him…

So That’s What A LEGO Angry Bird Looks Like

Earlier this month LEGO and Rovio announced LEGO Angry Birds, a series of playsets coming in 2016 to coincide with the big budget CGI movie. Now we’ve got our first look at Jason Sudeikis’ Red in LEGO form. In case you missed it, Sony and Rovio amassed quite a cast for the Angry Birds movie,…

Fan Animation Pays Tribute To Samurai Jack

The television series might have ended more than a decade ago, but artist avemagnadude brought everyone’s favorite lonely wanderer back for a few minutes in a short fan animation. Even though it’s a tribute—one that took 4 months to complete—it really makes me miss the show. To contact the author of this post, write to:…

Harry Potter As An R-rated Movie

Even right at the beginning at the Dursley family’s residence, things would get bloody real quick. Then, everything would turn into a giant mess after Harry arrives at Hogwarts in an adult version of Harry Potter The Fine Bros. imagined how quidditch, magic and everyday life would look in Harry Potter if it was an…

Star Citizen’s FPS Mode Delayed

Star Citizen is a game that looks very cool and is promising a lot. Well, a little less now, after the playable debut of one of its key “modules”—a first-person shooter known as Star Marine—was delayed indefinitely. In a letter to the game’s community, Star Citizen creator Chris Roberts goes to great lengths to explain…

Beautiful Future Graphics

French artist Koola, whose visualization work we saw last year, continues to amaze with how he can take Unreal Engine 4 and make it look like, well, the real world. If you’d like to look at pretty videos and pictures, we’ve got those here from some of his latest tests. If you’d like to read…

World Of Warships’ Humble Bundle Mess Finally Cleaned Up

Last week, Wargaming screwed up, and accidentally made some promises to World of Warships players they later failed to honour. When fans complained, they were given some of the stuff, but it’s taken until today for the company to truly make things right. Posting on the World of Warships forums, a company representative has said…

Emulator Within An Emulator Runs Almost Perfect Pokemon

We missed this earlier in the month, but the talented team behind the Dolphin emulator have done something very cool: they’ve got N64 games working on the GC/Wii emulator by running their virtual console versions. While Pokemon Snap might not be the most exciting game to show off, it’s done with good reason: the photography…

Fans Are Making A Spiritual Successor To P.T., And It Looks Terrifying

Forget Konami. We have Allison Road, a new horror game that is heavily inspired by the Silent Hills demo. Here’s how the developers describe it—the game sounds like a mix between Silent Hills and Five Nights at Freddy’s, weirdly enough: You will take on the role of the unnamed protagonist who wakes up one day…

Heroes Of The Storm’s New Diablo Map Is Very Chaotic (In A Good Way)

The never-ending battle between the forces of heaven and hell can get pretty messy at times, I’ve learned. Blizzard’s new MOBA Heroes of the Storm just added a new “battleground” (read: map) today. Known as “Battlefield of Eternity,” the level is exciting for Heroes fans because it’s the first map that’s based on one of…

How To Beat Arkham Knight’s Trickiest Batmobile Race

If I really hated Batman and wanted him dead, I’m not sure my first step would be to design a series of elaborate underground Batmobile races. Then again, I’m not the Riddler, so what do I know? Early on in Arkham Knight, Batman discovers the Riddler’s latest scheme: He’s captured Catwoman, attached a bomb to…

Oculus Fights Fan Group Over OculusRift.Com

Oculus Rift is attempting to seize the oculusrift.com domain from the group of developers currently using it, according to documentation obtained by Kotaku. It’s a battle that the VR company is almost guaranteed to win, given their ownership of the “Oculus Rift” trademark. According to the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP), the internationally-recognized…