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Beyond Eyes: The Basics

What is it? It’s an upcoming downloadable game in which you “see” the world as a blind girl who is searching for her cat. How exactly does that work? You’re this 10-year-old girl Rae, and you walk around, sensing the world through what you can touch and hear. It’s not just a matter of having…

Steam Game Turns Gabe Newell Into A Boss Fight

You think you can take on Gabe Newell? Good luck! The GIF above comes fromCrawl, a dungeon-crawling game where your friends play as the monsters. It’s not an April Fool’s joke, either. Gabe Newell is literally going to be in the game as a mini-boss of sorts. The game calls them “statues,” and according to…

Legally Blind Gamer Can Finally Enjoy More PS4 Games

PlayStation 4’s recent firmware update has a bunch of cool new features, but I hadn’t heard of “zoom” until I read about how it changed the way one player is able to experience their games. Over on the Giant Bomb forums, user Sparky_Buzzsaw pointed out that he’s legally blind. “Being legally blind doesn’t mean I’m…

The couch has been determined to be OP, Battlefield Hardline fans. The most recent patch notes reveal the developers are straight up nerfing the jokey vehicle, sadly. – Couch health reduced and repair rate decreased to a miniscule amount, making the Couch the one-off it was intended You can reach the author of this post…

Top Sellers On The Wii U eShop

Why would this be? I’m thinking Zelda is up there because it was part of a bundle that required you to download the game. Mario World is cool and relatively cheap. But Wii Street U? I don’t get it.

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku’s reader-run community: Yurikuma Arashi: The Ani-TAY Review • Bickering Bros. Bonding • Tokyo Ghoul √A: The Ani-TAY Review • Game of the Week—Damn Level (Use Donatello) [Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles] • Spacemon: A Pokémon Tabletop Story, Vol 2.: Chapter 23, Chapter 24 TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY…

Watch Grand Theft Auto V On PC At 60 FPS

Rockstar today released a new trailer for the upcoming PC version of GTA V, which comes out in two weeks. In the video, you can see what their gargantuan open-world game looks like while running at a buttery 60 frames-per-second. Unsurprisingly, it’s stunning. Watch right here while I go look up how much it would…

Wario Turns Pokémon Into Evil Little Creatures

Hoenn would turn into a post-apocalyptic region in days with Wario-like Pokémon running around. And judging by their looks, these little vile creatures, drawn by Justin Hall over at Dorkly, would also act as Mario’s greedy antagonist. Here’s a whole bunch of “WaPokémon”, check out Dorkly’s gallery for more. To contact the author of this…

Quantum Break, the next shooter from the makers of Max Payne and Alan Wake, is now planned to launch in 2016 on the Xbox One, Microsoft announced. The game was previously slated to arrive in 2015.

Diablo III With WoW’s Camera Looks Like a Totally Different Game

Diablo III and all its predecessors have a fixed camera with an isometric view. We can zoom in, but basically that’s it. Monstrousd3 messed a bit with the camera angles and made a short clip showing how the game would look from a different perspective, similar to World of Warcraft’s. It certainly looks a bit…

Nine steps to creating awesome Zelda fanart. EternaLegend’s piece, titled “A Hero’s Hardship,” depicts the Hero of Time with “bad memories haunting [him] well after his adventures are over.” The finished, high-res painting can be found below—check out EternaLegend on Tumblr here and on DeviantArt here for more. Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs…

Bloodborne’s Multiplayer is The Soul of The Game

“Don’t give up.” This was exactly what I needed to hear during my first session of Bloodborne, a game I was prepared and excited for, but which nevertheless dealt me a merciless first few hours. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK During this time I was at that frantic stage, common to Bloodborne’s precursors…

Japan’s New Fire Emblem Has Four Versions, Is Crazy

The last Fire Emblem—which was amazing—was available in a single version. The next one, Fire Emblem if, is available in four (at least in Japan), and it’s both hilarious and horrifying to see it all written down in the one place. Bear with me here. And note that everything I’m about to show you has…

Bravely Default Sequel Trailer Torments America

We still don’t know if Bravely Second—the sequel to Bravely Default—is even coming out in the West, let alone whether it’s coming this year. Sadness. But hey, at least there’s this new trailer for the game. Which might actually make you sadder, so…sorry? Bravely Second is out in Japan next month. The first one was…

Let’s Try To Get Goku In Smash Bros., Guys

Guys. This is our chance. We can get Goku from Dragon Ball Z into Smash Bros.…maybe! Today during the Nintendo Direct, a new Smash Bros. initiative was unveiled. Turns out, Bandai is now taking suggestions for who to include in Smash Bros., presumably as a DLC character. You can vote for pretty much anyone you…

The First Five Seconds Of Super Mario Bros. 

What deep insight can you glean from a classic video game within the first five seconds of pressing start? Not much, as it turns out. So I went ahead and recorded another video for Super Mario Bros., upping the limit to 300 seconds instead of five. Man, what a difference. I know you’ve likely seen…

A Complete Directory Of The Classic PC Games You Must Play

After our readers so enthusiastically took to the idea of listing the best classic PC games of all time, I wanted to pull out the alphabetical directory in order to make it easy for everyone to find their favorite games. Updated over several weeks in September of 2013, the list has an absolutely absurd number…

Jeez, Bloodborne Sure Can Be Depressing

Bloodborne is breaking my heart. It’s very easy to miss it, but there are many smaller stories taking place in the world of Yharnam. Many of them are kind of dark. ( And on this note, if you don’t want to be spoiled on one of the sidequests in Bloodborne, you should stop reading now!)…

Watch All Of The Latest Nintendo Direct, Right Here

If you missed it, there was a Nintendo Direct held earlier tonight. There was nothing amazing in it, though fans of Smash Bros., Amiibo, Mario Kart and Fire Emblem were well looked after. For those who weren’t around, or just want to catch up, here’s the American one: And here’s the Japanese one, which runs…

Mario Kart Is Getting A New, Harder Difficulty Level

Ever since the olden days when Mario and co raced in horse-drawn carriages, Mario Kart’s had three difficulties levels. Soon, though, that’s going to change. On April 23rd, Nintendo will release a free update to Mario Kart 8 that’ll add a 200cc mode. It’s apparently far faster than 50cc, 100cc, and 150cc, requiring a mastery…