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One Year Later, Did Sony (And Friends) Keep Their E3 2014 Promises?

Contrary to popular rumor, Sony’s 2014 E3 press conference is not still going on. It has ended, but boy was it epic. For nearly two hours last June, Sony and friends laid out the future of PlayStation. Let’s see what came to pass. Spoiler: They start strong and end on a big whiff. There’s so…

Kotaku Asks: Diablo Designer David Brevik [Q&A Over]

David Brevik, one of the original creators of Diablo and the current CEO of Gazillion Entertainment (Marvel Heroes), is here to answer your questions today. Brevik, who co-founded Blizzard North back in 1993 (when it was called Condor), served as a core member of the team that would go on to release Diablo and its…

Guy Spends Entire Splatoon Match Drawing Dicks, Still Wins

Give someone the ability to create anything they want, and there’s a 99% chance that person will make a dick. We’ve seen this axiom time and time again in video games. It was only a matter of time before it became true in Splatoon, too. As you probably already know, Splatoon’s entire schtick is that…

Worth Reading: Games Should Let You Skip Combat

It’s Friday. There’s a new Jurassic Park. Before you hit the theaters and spend way too much on popcorn (why does a small cost $6?!), enjoy our weekly roundup of the best games writing. Hey, You Should Read This “Rant of the Moment: Difficulty Curves” by Max Battcher The demise of cheat codes continues to…

Wonder Woman Celebrates Victory With Sex In New Justice League Short

“You weren’t so quick to get rid of me last night.” “I notice you like to think you’re in control.” That’s the Wonder Woman of an alternate reality Justice League, talking about sex. She stabs lots of people with a big, black… sword. The newest installment of Justice League: Gods and Monsters Chronicles isn’t quite…

Tearaway Unfolded, the revamped PS4 version of the wonderful Vita platformer, is coming out on September 8th, Sony has announced. It’ll cost $39.99, and probably be very cute. Contact the author at [email protected]

Heroes of the Storm will begin testing a ban system for its ranked modes this summer, game director Dustin Browder said on Twitter. While many Heroes fans have asked for an option to ban select heroes prior to a match, Blizzard has so far disregarded many team-building features considered sacred to MOBA players. Contact the…

Dark Souls Mod Lets You Play As The Game’s Bosses

The bosses in Dark Souls are assholes, the perfect virtual killing machines. Ever wanted to turn the tables and become one? Now’s your chance. DaTeHaCKs, which might be the most Internet name ever to appear on the Internet, is responsible for the mod that makes this possible. He hasn’t released it publicly yet, but he’s…

Good news, Tales fans: Tales of Zestiria, previously announced for PS3, will also hit PS4 and PC when it comes to North America and Europe this October. If only all Japanese companies treated their western fans this well.

Fans Unite To Solve Bonkers, Globe-Spanning Video Game Riddle

After helping reveal and solve the original Trials Riddle, Brad Hill, AKA Professor FatShady, and an entire community of Trials fans have been hard at work trying to solve another riddle: the Trials Evolution riddle. This is the end result: a story that spans countries, continents and — crucially — time. Prepare to be amazed.…

How Street Fighter V Is Evolving

Yoshinori Ono claims that he campaigned for years for his employer, Capcom, to bring back Street Fighter. Following the release of the Street Fighter III: Third Strike in 1999, many at the company believed that it had perfected the one-on-one fighting game. There was nowhere left to go. Others, including Ono’s boss Keija Inafune, simply…

Fan Builds Goonies Pinball For The Movie’s 30th Anniversary

Mike Johnson’s custom table might be the only Goonies-themed machine in the world. While the theme of the timeless classic The Goonies seems perfect for a pinball machine (it has skeletons, pirates, treasure, and adventure, and it’s from an era when pinball was very popular), no company ever made one. So this one’s just perfect…

The Opening of Full House Remade In GTA V

Michael, Trevor, Franklin, Lester. They’re one big family after all, just like the cast of Full House. Merfish and his friends recreated the classic show’s intro, and while I don’t remember anyone falling off a truck or getting hit by a cable car, they really did nail the whole thing. Check out the side-by-side comparison…

League Of Legends Player Hits Highest Rank With The Weirdest Character

Very few League of Legends players will ever make it to Challenger, the highest rank in the ultra-competitive multiplayer game. Fewer still will reach the upper-most echelons of League’s ranked mode by only playing as a single character. And until this morning, I didn’t think anybody would do that with Heimerdinger But that’s just what…

It’s Even Grosser When Other Mortal Kombat Characters Act Like Mileena

Oh god. What nightmare fuel. YouTuber Life And Death shows us what happens when characters other than Mileena have access to Mileena’s moveset and, more importantly, have her propensity for biting. It’s…disturbing. This grossness is possible thanks to a PC mod which swaps the meshes available to the characters—in this case, Mileena and Kitana have…

I’ll Never Get Over The Original Jurassic Park

Today is both the best and worst day of my life. Today, there is a new Jurassic Park movie. (Before moving on, I’d highly recommendlistening to this piece from the soundtrack while you read.) When I was a kid, there were two things on my mind: aliens and dinosaurs. If there had been a way…

Player Wrecks Other People By Becoming Bloodborne Boss

Bosses are the most terrifying and challenging part of Bloodborne—so what better way to intimidate other players than to become the spitting image of a boss yourself? Watch as Bloodborne player “jam” apes the ever-wailing Micolash in PVP battles against other people. Not only does jam go for Micolash’s signature look, jam also adopts a…

A Space Sex Game That’s Surprisingly Good

Starfighter: Eclipse may sound like a title for a run-of-the-mill sci-fi game involving spaceships, but don’t let the name fool you. It’s actually way steamier than that. I spent last night playing through one story arc within Starfighter: Eclipse, an erotic visual novel where you play as a starship fighter who has to investigate a…

Yet Another JRPG Is Coming To 3DS

Today, the publisher Atlus officially announced a U.S. localization for Legend of Legacy, a video game that, like most video games, probably should’ve been called something else. Terrible title aside, Legend of Legacy is a rad-looking RPG for the 3DS with turn-based combat and seven protagonists, not unlike the classic SaGa Frontier. It’s also got…

The Sims 4 Just Added A New World For Free

Well here’s a nice little piece of content. In its latest update for The Sims 4 today, EA added a whole new world to the game. No, not the Aladdin kind. But that would be pretty awesome too. The new third world is called Newcrest. EA explained in an announcement that the new world is…