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The Old Lady Is Mortal Kombat’s Best Character

Meet Blanche. She’s the old lady in the background of the Outworld Marketplace stage, and she is the best thing about Mortal Kombat X If you’ve been playing Mortal Kombat, then you probably already know that you can use the old lady as a weapon, like so: [Source: Generic Gaming] This alone was enough to…

Dark Souls Player Conquers His Own, Tougher Version Of The Game

TheUrbanOrb claims he’s “not a masochist,” but consider this: no shield blocking, getting hit, or leveling up. These are a few of the self-imposed restrictions he struggled through during a recent Dark Souls run, the end of a multi-year journey that began when his dream of playing the piano was taken away. In late 2009,…

Minecraft Player Named ‘MojangSucksDick’ Gets Pranked By Mojang

Making a username in a fit of rage can lead to some pretty silly situations. Just ask the Minecraft player who gave themselves the username ‘MojangSucksDick.’ A few years ago, Reddit user jessemoforice had trouble logging into their Minecraft account. So instead of logging into their already existing account, they made a brand new one.…

My Five Favorite Kotaku Stories From Last Week

I take a couple of days off last week, and the staff goes and publishes some blockbuster stories. Those two events can’t be connected! My five favorite stories from last week: The Horrible World of Video Game Crunch | “This made me come to the realization that crunch was not some occasional occurrence before you…

Bioware’s Casey Hudson is Microsoft’s New Creative Director

While working at Bioware, Casey Hudson made his name as the director of Mass Effect 3, though he left the studio in August last year. Today, Microsoft announced that he will be joining the company as its new creative director. (This article originally appeared on Kotaku UK.) His main focus is going to be on…

Smite‘s Squirrel God Is Appropriately Nuts

Enough withthe teasing. Today Hi-Rez Studios officially reveals the Norse squirrel god Ratatoskr, one of Smite’s most versatile MOBA combatants yet. First off yes, there is a Norse squirrel god, and while Ratatoskr is more of a messenger, carrying information up and down the world tree, if Mercury qualifies, so does this freakishly cute rodent.…

When The Game Industry Thinks You’re Too Old to Make Video Games

David Mullich tells the story. A friend of his: an executive at a major video game company. In talks with another video game company for a similar role. Several interviews; both in-person and over the phone. The job involves relocation. New job, new home, new city. Both the exec and his wife are flown on…

A Beginner’s Guide To The World Of The Witcher

Good news: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is a really cool game. Bad news: It’s dense and complicated as hell, and requires you to keep track of a ridiculous number of people, places, and concepts. Don’t worry: I’m here to help. Wild Hunt is likely going to attract a bunch of new people to the…

League Of Legends Will Hide ‘Eye Candy’ For Serious Players

League of Legends players take the game seriously. Super seriously. So seriously that those pesky pretty little things on the Summoner’s Rift map like butterflies and dragonflies start to look like serious eyesores that get in the way of winning. I mean: you can’t even attack them! But Riot can. In a small post on…

Meet Orgrim Doomhammer, star of next year’s Warcraft movie. Wired’sgot a first look at the digital movie star, voiced by actor Robert Kazinsky and rendered by Industrial Light and Magic. What do you think? I’m not used to orcs having so much body hair, but I dig it.

Our First, All-Too-Brief Look at the New Doom

Looks like those demons are getting serious upgrades, huh? It’s only a teaser—and may not be gameplay—but this short clip above represents the first glimpse of the next installment in Id’s legendary shooter franchise. Publisher Bethesda will be showing more (be kinda hard to show less) at E3 next month. Contact the author at [email protected]

Suicide Squad Set Footage Shows the Joker Slapping Harley Quinn [GONE]

You didn’t think the Clown Prince of Crime was going to be all lovey-dovey, did you? The clip above—from what looks like surreptitiously shot video—purports to be from the set of David Ayer’s upcoming Suicide Squad movie, which assembles a bunch of DC Comics villains for a big black ops mission . There’s no real…

A new expansion called Rising Tide will be making Civilization: Beyond Earth bigger—and wetter. The add-on will bring oceanic exploration, along with new enemies, factions and Diplomatic Traits to the game when it releases this fall. Contact the author at [email protected]

Nothing Traumatizing Happens In Telltale’s New Game Of Thrones Screens

Telltale’s Game of Thrones Episode Four: Sons of Winter iscoming soon, and not one of the new screenshots will leave you staring at your screen in horror for minutes after the show ends. Available soon for consoles, PC, Mac and mobile, Episode Four spins the continuing tale of the House Forrester, who’ve had a relatively…

Smash Bros. Gets Modded with Dragon Ball Z

And, of course, it’s called Super Smash Bros. Brawl Z. Of course! As Smash Boards and Event Hubs point out, Japanese YouTuber InD Mark-2 has been uploading Smash Bros. mods with DBZ characters and move sets. (Though, the original mods are apparently from Brawl Vault Modders. The teen Gohan, for example, was done by CaliKingz01.)…

Remember Project Hon? The cool-looking Korean mecha game has been cancelled. Korean site Money Today (via tipster Sang) reports the game was canned due to market conditions. NCSoft said this was not an easy decision. Bummer.

It’s Not An Action Movie Trailer, It’s A Taylor Swift Music Video

Yannick’s beloved Taylor Swift doles out weapons to every woman she knows and walks about in slow motion in her music video for “Bad Blood”, narrated by Kendrick Lamar. It’s about a dozen different movies I’d like to see set to a song that’s not quite as catchy as the other ones I’ve heard. Maybe…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Hot Pockets

Nothing goes together like gaming and Hot Pockets, unless the Hot Pockets marketing team is at the helm. Let’s show them how it’s done in this week’s Kotaku ‘Shop Contest. Hot Pockets are horrible crap you should probably not eat. I say this not because I hate Hot Pockets, but to calm any fears that…

Every Fairy From The Legend Of Zelda. Even The Hideous Ones.

Which is your favorite fairy from The Legend of Zelda franchise? Our old friend MasterOfHyrulehas compiled a video featuring each and every—what the hell is that thing? Someone kill it! Set it on fire! Glue an Xbox One game to it! Okay, we’re safe. My personal favorite fairies are the ones from Ocarina of Time…

There’s Metal Gear Solid Hiding In This Week’s My Little Pony

Apparently Snake’s box hiding box isn’t as fool-proof as we thought. Even Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima managed to spot it. It’s no secret the makers of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic love their video game references, like last year’s BioShock Infinite Easter egg. And this isn’t the first time Metal Gear Solid…