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You Really Should Be Playing Life is Strange

My favourite thing about Life is Strange is that it encourages you to be present in the moment. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK At the beginning of the second episode, shy photography student Max awakens in her dorm room to the sound of Alt-J, and there’s no hurry to get up. You can…

Dead Or Alive 5 Is Missing A Bunch Of Features On PC

While it’s nice of Team Ninja to bring Dead or Alive to the PC today with Dead or Alive 5: Last Round, you should be aware that it’s shipping without some key components. If you decide to pick up Dead or Alive 5 for your personal computer, here’s what you’re missing: It’s not getting online…

Iron Man’s Best Friend Ultron, Chappie Cosplay and a Whole Lot of Halo

Somewhere in a What If reality, Tony Stark and the malevolent AI intent on destroying Earth in Avengers: Age of Ultron are just cool buds who sport impressive armor. The Emerald City Comic-Con happened over the weekend, flooding Seattle with extremely good costuming and fan tributes. You’ll see a stoic lil’ Master Chief, Superior Spider-people…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: My Anime Journey – The Ascent • Dramatization Station: Bloodborne, Part 1 • Why Doesn’t This Game Exist: Metroid, The Next Generation • Spacemon: A Pokémon Tabletop Story, Vol. 2: Chapter 22 • C: The Money of Soul: Ascendant’s Ani-TAY Review TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To…

LEGO Arcade Room Has All The 80s Classics

Donkey Kong, Frogger, Pac-Man, Q*bert, a ball pit, skee-ball, cosplayers, vending machines, a punch bag and proper tiled floor. It’s all there. The fine folks over at The Brick Show are taking us back to simpler times with this custom build when arcades ruled the night. The only thing missing here is a Billy Mitchell…

Cannon Sword? Cannon Sword. Ivent, the developer behind the recently Kickstarted brawler-fighter, Strength of the Sword Ultimate, shows off one of the game’s signature weapons in a preview video. You can find the clip below. Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest, funniest game-related screenshots and art we…

World of Warcraft’s New 10-Man Raid Nearly Beaten by Group of Five

While a lot of players are still trying to finish Blackrock Foundry, the ones who’ve completed it on the hardest difficulty are already looking for new challenges. Like Kief and his friends, who tried to do the 10-man version with only five players in the group, just like a normal dungeon. They killed 9 out…

The Schoolgirl Sim In Which You Kill People

Think a smitten, Japanese schoolgirl version of Patrick Bateman. That should give you a vague idea of of what indie sandbox game Yandere Simulator is about. Yandere is a Japanese character type that can be willing to kidnap or kill for the one she loves. Yandere Simulator is created by a programmer under the name…

Kids Playing 18-Rated Games? Neglect, Apparently

I’ve censored the above in case any under-18s from Cheshire are reading this. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK If you’re under 18 and play GTA, Gears of War or Call of Duty in Cheshire, you might want to think again before loading it up next time. That is, at least, if the Nantwich…

Ronda Rousey Just Killed Wrestlemania Wearing A Dragon Ball Z Shirt

As you’re probably no doubt aware, Wrestlemania is currently happening right now. Like, right this second. So there’s still time for the show to top its best moment, but how can you beat this? Ronda Rousey just made an appearance with The Rock and basically cleaned shop whilst wearing a Dragon Ball Z t-shirt. How…

Halo 5 Is Out October 27

The next Halo game will be out this October, Microsoft announced tonight in a trailer that aired during The Walking Dead You can watch the trailer, which is live-action and unfortunately has no actual gameplay, above. Halo 5: Guardians will be released on October 27 for Xbox One. Hopefully matchmaking works then too. If you’re…

Kid Arrested, Confesses To Swatting A…Minecraft Rival

A 13-year-old kid from Camarillo, California was arrested earlier this month and has since confessed to three acts of “Swatting“. The Camarillo Acorn reportthat police were initially investigating the boy for one Swatting incident, but in the process discovered he’d been responsible for two more, all three taking place in January. The boy made two…

Mortal Kombat Producer Walks Away From Twitter Over Family Threats

Shaun Himmerick, producer on Mortal Kombat X, is the latest games industry professional to step away from Twitter after receiving threats against his family. On March 26, Himmerick retweeted this message he received, after which he changed his Twitter handle to “come on people”: (WARNING: NSFW language) He then explains his decision in more detail:…

GTA V PC Screens Look Great, Are Not Delayed

Rockstar released these Grand Theft Auto V screens over the weekend. They’re for the PC version of the game, which after delay afterdelay is finally hitting on April 14. They look pretty good! As in, they look good, duh, but if you look closely (click on the magnifying glass in the top-left corner of each…

Gloating Is A Bad Idea In Bloodborne

Just because the boss is dead doesn’t mean it’s time for a victory cheer, as streamer Jeff Ramosdemonstrates in this video. “It’s really the story of my fucking life,” Ramos said as I commented on how beautiful this video is. He downed whichever vile Bloodborne boss this was despite losing his partner in the process,…

We Don’t Need To Justify A GIF Of Persona 4‘s Chie Dancing

She’s a non-nonsense tomboy who loves kung-fu and steak. Here she is dancing. *sigh* Fine. The GIF comes from the latest trailer for Persona 4: Dancing All Night, coming in June to Japanese PlayStation Vitas and hopefully pretty damn quickly to other PlayStation Vitas. We just want it for the endless GIFs it will provide.

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Code Name: S.T.E.A.M.: The TAY Review • Are Bloodborne’s Early Bosses the Game’s Equivalent of Tutorials? • A Lawyer Revisits the Ace Attorney Trilogy (Introduction) • Spacemon: A Pokémon Tabletop Story, Vol. 2: Chapter 21 • TAY Flashback – Bioshock TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY…

New Jersey Game Store Swatting Takes An Uglier Turn

Gamers attending a monthly social gathering at Digital Press Video Games in Clifton, New Jersey Saturday evening had no idea the sudden massive police presence outside the store was pointed their way, until a caller posing as a fire department representative started giving them questionable instructions. According to local reports, the Passaic County Sheriff’s Office…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Nintendo Mobile: The Winners!

Nintendo is officially making mobile games. While we wait to see what fruit the company’s partnership with DeNA will bear, our readers imagine exciting new ways to play and pay for Nintendo games on their phones and tablets. Maybe it won’t be all that bad? I was expecting last week’s‘Shop Contest to bear dozens of…

Pillars Of Eternity Characters Crippled By Ridiculous Inventory Bug

Pillars of Eternity is alovely CRPG, but it’s a lovely CRPG from Obsidian Entertainment, a developer that’s be known to miss the odd bug or two. Like the one that strips your character’s permanent buffs and abilities if you double-click equipment in your inventory. The relatively devastating bug, posted to Reddit by kiror yesterday, happens…