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Destiny‘s New Patch Means Treasure Keys For Everyone

Destiny, a video game in which players travel through space talking about how good Destiny is now, got a new patch today, and it’s got a few changes people will really care about. Treasure Keys for everyone! Treasure Keys, consumable items that players can use to unlock the main reward chest at the end of…

Splatoon’s Ranked Mode Is Surprisingly Hardcore

Normally, Splatoon matches are nice and chill—I frequently find myself smiling even when I lose. Things are different in ranked mode. Ranked mode is intense. Ranked mode is fierce. Ranked mode is where the kids are separated from the squids. Last night, Splatoon got an update with a number of goodies, including a new map…

YouTube’s big gaming push continues. The video giant will be running more than a dozen hours of live E3 coverage, anchored by friend-of-Kotaku Geoff Keighley, who’d formerly been doing that kind of thing on Spike TV. TV’s loss is streaming video’s gain. The way of the world! Read about YouTube’s ambitious E3 plans

Life is Strange is Getting Really, Really Good

Life is Strange has been the most pleasant surprise of the year so far for me. Its trajectory, episode by episode, has gone from “this is interesting, you might want to check it out” to “actually you should be playing this” to “holy shit this is getting seriously good, now”. Although, after playing the third…

Steam Is Now Offering Refunds

Steam is finally getting a proper refund system. Starting today, users of Valve’s PC platform will be able to get a full refund on any game for any reason, provided it’s been less than 14 days since purchase and they’ve spent less than two hours playing. You’ll be able to get your money back for…

Man of Action Entertainment will produce an animated Mega Man series, reports Deadline. They’ve worked on Ben 10, Marvel’s Ultimate Spiderman, and other cartoons. Deals like this are made all the time and never happen, but hey, Mega Man makes sense for a cartoon. You can reach the author of this post at [email protected] or…

Nintendo has denied a recent Nikkei report that their new NX console will use Android as an operating system. Of course, Nintendo has a habit of denying Nikkei reports that later turn out to be true. On the other hand, Nikkei’s track recordisn’t 100%. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Heroes Of The Storm Is Changing Its Competitive Ranked Modes

The good news is that it sounds like Blizzard is changing most everything for the better. The frustrating news is that everyone’s current ranking is going to be reset. Just in time for its exodus from beta, Blizzard announced a bunch of adjustments the developer will be making to its new MOBA Heroes of the…

Tomorrow’s Spider-Man Comic Undoes One of Marvel’s Stupidest Mistakes

Eight years ago, in a Marvel Universe far, far away, Spider-Man was married. Then Marvel editorial had him make a deal with the devil—a villain called Mephisto—and he wasn’t a husband anymore, like it had never happened. It was stupid. People hated it. This week, Marvel’s teasing fans with the a world where that bonehead…

Infinite Crisis Is Shutting Down

It had a nice long run, but—wait, no it didn’t. Having officially launched in March of this year, DC Comics MOBA Infinite Crisis will be shutting its doors on August 14, some six months later. The news was delivered via a forum post on the game’s official website from community manager Celestrata. After much deliberation,…

Years Later, Players Are Finding New Secrets About Dark Souls’ Endings

There are two endings in Dark Souls. It’s not clear whether one is good or bad—they’re just endings. Or maybe not! According to a player who’d dug around in the code, From Software actually knows which ending is the “good” one.” Warning: There are spoilers for Dark Souls ahead, obviously! An unused value called ClearState…

New League Of Legends Skin Turns The Game’s Notorious Monk Into A Boxer

I can’t look at this adorable little pugilist getup without thinking of Little Mac fromSmash Bros. Which is sort of fitting, considering that a League of Legends designer admitted that Lee Sin is a “problem” earlier this year. Problem or not, at least the new “Knockout Lee Sin” skin that Riot released for League of…

The Fallout 4 Announcement Has Begun [UPDATE: Announced]

UPDATE (10am): On Wednesday morning, Bethesda announced Fallout 4 for PS4, Xbox One, and PC. You can watch the trailer right here Original post follows: It’s official: Fallout 4 is coming. Bethesda just put up a countdown timer leading up to the announcement, which will apparently take place tomorrow. It’s curious to see Bethesda announce…

One of the designers behind Turok has launched a Kickstarter for a spiritual successor—except it’s a comic, not a game. Designer Tim Lewinson—who also worked on the ill-fated Turok 2—tells Kotaku he hopes to eventually turn this into a game in the future.

Sorry Hot Topic, GameStop Is The Proud New Owner Of ThinkGeek

In the face of a purchase agreement from GameStop Corp. valued at $140 million, ThinkGeek parent company Geeknet terminated the $122 million deal with Hot Topic it announced last week. From the official announcement: GameStop Corp. (NYSE: GME), a family of specialty retail brands that makes the most popular technologies affordable and simple, and Geeknet,…

So That’s How LEGO Dimensions Will Keep Players Rebuilding

I was a little worried that LEGO Dimension’s gadgets and vehicles would be one-time builds, toys you assemble once and then never touch again. As it turns out, every vehicle and gadget in the game has three different builds. Phew. While I wouldn’t mind a game that treated LEGO minifigures like Skylanders, bringing them to…

Eight Things To Do Before Warlords of Draenor‘s Massive Patch Hits

Patch 6.2 is shaping up nicely in World of Warcraft’s test realms, and while there’s no release date yet, it should be out in the next few weeks. It’ll be one of the biggest content patches Blizzard ever made for the game, including a new max level zone, naval missions, a new raid, a new…

Unique Pinball Machine Is Too Big For Regular Basements

Galactic Dimension, a unique pinball machine built by Niklas Roy, is a bit larger in size than ordinary machines. It has a UFO-styled playfield of 10×20 feet so keeping an eye on all the bumpers and kickers might be an issue. But it looks fun! Here’s a short clip below showing it in action (via…

Sony Just Registered a 1TB PlayStation 4

Compared to the current 500GB PlayStation 4, that’s twice the hard disk drive space. It is! According to the Federal Communications Commission (via DualShockers), Sony just registered a couple new PlayStation 4 models: CUH-1215A and CUH-1215B. Here’s where it gets interesting: the CUH-1215A model has a 500GB HDD capacity, while the CUH-1215B model has a…

Grand Theft Auto V Characters Modded Into Anime Nerds

Not that there’s anything wrong with being an anime nerd! Turning GTA V vehicles and online avatars isn’t new. For the past few years, Japanese players have been doing both to varying degrees of success: [Photo: Ve4_vy] [Photo: syun1204mine] Now with GTA V’s PC release, modders have been creating even more elaborate anime skins, turning…