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No One’s Sure Why Players Are Suddenly Getting Banned In Dark Souls II

Softbans, which traps players in a separate world of cheaters, are on the rise in Dark Souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin. It’s not clear why, but players have a theory: a very useful mod. Several Kotaku readers, including many reddit users, have reported being softbanned from the game. This is a problem because…

Brutal Doom Mod Has Some Great Customizable Gore Options

Ah, Brutal Doom. The last place a gore-hungry gamer can go when drowning people in The Sims and exploding opponents’ testicles in Mortal Kombat starts to get old. The famously gratuitous and bloody mod for classic first-person shooter Doom (already an exceedingly gratuitous and bloody game) is in the process of being updated in a…

Sony has decided to renew its superhero series, Powers, for a second season, so says The Hollywood Reporter The second season will premiere sometime in 2016. You can reach the author of this post at [email protected] or on Twitter at @patrickklepek

Who Invented Let’s Play Videos?

Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. Thomas Edison may have invented the lightbulb (it’s up for debate). But who invented the Let’s Play video? It might be a guy known online as “slowbeef.” Thirty-six-year-old Michael “slowbeef” Sawyer may be accidentally responsible, nearly a decade ago, for kicking off the popular and profitable Let’s Play scene,…

Creator Of Original Mobile Snake Is Making A Sequel

Can you teach an old snake new tricks? I hope so. Taneli Armanto, the creator of the original mobile version of Snake (which debuted on a 1997 Nokia handset) is attempting a comeback this month with Snake Rewind, a new and (allegedly) improved next act for the classic puzzle game that’ll release on iOS, Android,…

Nevermind Home Headsets, I Want A Virtual Reality Playground

If this ad reel for VR arcade The Void has anything to say about it, thefictional virtual reality playgrounds of the ‘80s are closer to fruition than ever before. Virtual reality while sitting at a desk is nice, and I’m sure plenty of folks will flock to the Oculus Rift when it arrives early next…

No, Konami Isn’t Disabling Your Copy Of P.T.

Konami might have cancelled Silent Hills, but contrary to an image floating around, they’re not going to disable your already downloaded version of P.T. I checked my copy of the game, and there’s no apocalyptic countdown timer. Compare this to the image everyone’s been losing their mind over: What happened? It’s linked to when your…

D&D‘s Next Storyline Is All About That Drizzt

Wizards of the Coast is calling the next big global Dungeons & Dragons storyline “Rage of Demons,” but the theme running through D&D tabletop, board and video games later this year is a dark elf wielding a pair of scimitars and his pet panther. One of the most borrowed dark elf names in MMO history,…

So What About Wonder Woman?

DC Comics did some big things to Superman and Batman over the weekend. But, once again, it feels like Wonder Woman’s getting the short end of the stick. This past Saturday, The Man of Steel’s relationship to Lois Lane turned decidedly less warm. And the Free Comic Book Day one-shot called Divergence also revealed that…

The Oculus Rift Will Go On Sale in 2016

The retail version of the Oculus Rift will be released in the first part of next year, Oculus VR revealed today. According to official site Oculus.com, the retail version “builds on the presence, immersion, and comfort of the Crescent Bay prototype with an improved tracking system that supports both seated and standing experiences, as well…

Who Would’ve Thought The Punisher Could Inspire So Many Puns

Frank Castle might not have super powers, but the folks over at ADHD gave him a very suitable one: The ability of dropping silly puns… non-stop. The puns in Age of Ultron have nothing on this. These are so bad they’ve gone past good and back to bad again. But they all fit The Punisher…

Kojima’s PT Eradicated From PSN; Can’t Even Be Re-Downloaded

The mess at Konami keeps getting messier, and weirder, with the discovery today that PT—a playable teaser for an upcoming Silent Hill game that has since been cancelled—has been completely removed from Sony’s PSN servers, even for people who had downloaded it while it was still available. Normally, when a game, demo, beta, whatever is…

X-Wing, Crysis Devs Want To Make A New Space Shooter

The creators of STARFIGHTER INC say their game is “a hardcore team-based PvP multiplayer space shooter in the vein of X-Wing vs. Tie-Fighter”. And they should know. One of the co-founders of developer Impeller Studios, David Wessman, worked at Lucasarts’ on the X-Wing series, first as a mission designer, then as gameplay and story lead…

Crowfall is an upcoming MMO that I am not interested in because it’s an upcoming MMO. I do wish, however, that this sub-game thing where you design your own fantasy kingdom could be broken off and turned into its own game. It looks great!

What’s Actually Inside a GTA UFO

Though GTA V has a number of UFOs littered around Los Santos, you can’t really get a close look at most of them. Which means it’s easy to miss the fact that the UFOs sometimes do have things inside of them. GTAForums member xHaviiHx recently shared images of the UFO at Fort Zancudo, pictured above,…

The next hero coming to Heroes of the Storm is Warcraft character Kael’thas Sunstrider, Blizzard revealed today in a not-so-cryptic tweet. The Heroes developer will be holding an internet Q&A about the dude on May 12th, they also said. Oh boy, another Warcraft hero!

Mortal Kombat Spammer Gets What They Deserve

You know that saying, don’t hate the player, hate the game? Fuck that. I prefer the whole “crush the skulls of your enemies using the white hot rage of justice” approach…when we’re talking about Mortal Kombat, at least. If you’ve played Mortal Kombat before, then you’ve probably come across spammers. The most famous spammer is…

Incredible Mod Adds Schools To The Sims 4

Sims modders have always been some of the best in the business. But even by their high high standards, this new “Go To School” mod for The Sims 4 has to be the coolest, most ambitious player-made project I’ve seen for the game so far. It adds a whole school system to the game. Impressive!…

Seven Easter Eggs Buried In Wolfenstein: The Old Blood

With decades of gaming’s most iconic offerings at their fingertips, MachineGames has no end of material with which to craft secrets scattered throughout Wolfenstein: The Old Blood. Here’s what we’ve seen so far. Note: If you don’t want to spoil the goodies tucked away inside Wolfenstein: The New Order’s standalone sequel, turn away now. There…

Here’s EA’s upcoming (announced) lineup for the next year or so. The news? Mirror’s Edge is slated for Q4 (January-March 2016), as is a new Plants vs. Zombies game. (Screengrab via EA’s presentation for Q4 2015.)