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Cities: Skylines, Get To The Chopper

For those tired of towering over their cities like a God, there’s this Cities: Skylines mod that lets you pilot a chopper around, shining a giant spotlight into people’s faces. It’s still in alpha, but youcan grab it here if you want to try it out.

Simon Stålenhag, an artist we featured last year on Fine Art, has launched a Kickstarter for two books based on his “alien robots in 80s Scandinavia” stuff. They look awesome!

Warcraft & Dungeon Keeper, Together In One Game

You’ll probably never get a proper Warcraft game again. Dungeon Keeper’s name is now mud. If you’re a fan of either series (or, both), and want to play those kind of games again, you’re not getting any help from Blizzard or EA. You might want to look to smaller companies—like Realmforge—instead. They’ve just released a…

What Nintendo DS Games Look Like In High-Res

But Kotaku writer, I hear you ponder, the Nintendo DS was incapable of getting anywhere near a resolution you’d call “high”, how could this be? The answer: emulation. Via this /r/games thread, the latest beta version of the Drastic emulator for Android has a feature that lets users test out high-res rendering for 3D objects…

Classic PC Games, Now Playable Inside…Twitter

Note this works for any game listed here (via Wired)

Old Folks Are Not Okay With Mortal Kombat X Fatalities

In the latest installment of The Fine Bros. “Torturing The Elderly” series, a group of older folks don’t take kindly to seeing people graphically slaughtered. As it turns out, ripping apart a guy’s skull and using his lower jaw (complete with bubbling esophageal hole) as an ashtray makes older people uncomfortable. While the jury is…

Losing In MOBAs Should Be More Fun

I’ve had a bad losing streak going in League of Legends the past few nights, which made me realize a fundamental truth about the game and others like it: they’re a lot less fun when you’re not on the winning team. Uniquely so, I mean. Saying something like, “a competitive game isn’t as enjoyable when…

What GTA V Would Look Like If Everyone Was Way Too Drunk

You gotta love ragdoll physics. They make everything way more hilarious. Take a look at this cutscene montage by Tyrannicon—they’re using a mod that lets them ragdoll at will, making it seem as if everyone in GTA has had too much to drink. Despite breaking certain scenes, this mod still improves GTA a thousand times:…

Why League Of Legends Should Never Have Voice Chat

League of Legends becomes much more enjoyable once you invest in a solid headset and start playing games with friends on Skype, Mumble, or Curse. It’s so much better that you might wonder why the hell Riot doesn’t just make its own voice chat system. Because it would be a terrible, terrible thing. YouTuber and…

Destiny’s New Multiplayer Changes Sound Pretty Great

As someone who is a competitive multiplayer nut, I’m not too miffed about the lack of a raid in the upcoming Destiny expansion, House of Wolves. Today, Bungie revealed all the PvP changes and additions coming to Destiny, and they sound rad as hell. First off, let’s talk big picture changes. PVP as a whole…

How A Five Nights at Freddy’s Conspiracy Theory Got Out of Control

Five Nights at Freddy’s fans are big on mysteries; they love gathering clues and evidence that might shed some light on an otherwise cryptic horror game. But in the last few days, the fandom’s tendency to read too much into things got way out of hand. As we reported yesterday, following the reveal of Five…

The Messy Story Behind A Game Clone

Developer Matt Akins published a scathing piece yesterday that accused a company of stealing his video game. I’ve spent the last day looking into his claims, and the truth is…well, what’s your definition of truth? Let’s go down the rabbit hole together. Akins looked at how much money was being made on the mobile market…

Mario Kart 8 Courses, Ranked

48: Excitebike Arena 47: Sweet Sweet Canyon 46: Electrodome 45: Dry Dry Desert 44: Wario Stadium 43: Donut Plains 3 42: Rainbow Road (SNES) 41: Bone-Dry Dunes 40: Ice Ice Outpost 39: Wario’s Gold Mine 38: Moo Moo Meadows 37: Royal Raceway 36: Wild Woods 35: Music Park 34: Animal Crossing 33: Water Park 32:…

Last year’s two Danganronpa games sold a combined 200,000 copies in the west, according to publisher NIS America. That’s not only remarkable because they’re niche visual novels—it’s remarkable because they were only on Vita. Pay attention, game publishers!

Could The Metal Gear Solid Lookalike Doctor Really Sue Konami?

As Kotaku UK reported a few days ago, an Italian doctor called Sergio Canavero is currently at the centre of an insane internet-generated conspiracy involving Metal Gear Solid V, head transplants, and a whole host of other mad ideas. To cut a long story short, because of his strong resemblance to a doctor who appears…

League Of Legends Is Completely Rebuilding Two Of Its Original Champions

Bits and pieces of any big multiplayer game start to gather dust over the years. For League of Legends, the game’s age reveals itself in champion characters who become less and less interesting—and therefore less popular—with time. Over the past few weeks, Riot has introduced a number of major updates for two of the very…

The First Video Game I’ll Let My Four-Year-Old Kid Play All By Herself

I play with my four-year-old daughter a lot. I’m the parent that sets up playdates, sits down with puzzles and board games, and takes her to the playground for a few hours. But I’ve never let her venture into a video game on her lonesome. That all changed this weekend. [Note: This piece originally ran…

Come On, Disney, Hip-Hop Stormtrooper Needs to Be Star Wars Canon

“Can I walk onto a Star Wars set and fit into the background?” A lot of the costumes on display here could do exactly that. Probably not Hip-Hip Trooper, though. He’s definitely Expanded Universe… unless things change. Thousands of Star Wars fans converged on Anaheim more than a week ago for the annual Celebration fan-fest.…

Hawkeye’s Super Powers Include Free Guacamole at Chipotle

Addressing criticisms that he’s outclassed by the rest of the Avengers, Jeremy Renner’s Hawkeye gifted The Tonight Show audience with a soulful song about his secret super powers, which include collecting scarves, free guac and Mario Kart. And singing, apparently, as Renner belts out a pretty wonderful parody of Ed Sheeran’s “Thinking Out Loud.” I’d…

MechWarrior Makes Kerbal Space Program Intense

Using various mods, allmhuran built a pretty neat drivable mech from MechWarrior in Kerbal Space Program. Yes, dropships included. The best thing in this is that Kerbal’s graphics are not that different from classic 90s MechWarrior games, and it totally reminds me of classic stuff that could barely run on my old PC back then.…