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The First Five Nerve-Racking Minutes Of Spirits Of Xanadu

A derelict spaceship, homicidal robots and the most ear-piercing sound a video game can produce, all in the first five minutes of Night Dive Studios’ Spirits of Xanadu. Spirits of Xanadu is a first-person action adventure game that has many early reviewers name-checking the classic System Shock, so I went into the game expecting some…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Kingdom Hearts II: The TAY Review • Bloodborne – First Impressions on Release Day • Should Open World Games Rethink How They Tell Stories? • Indie HYPE: Dyscourse • What Time is it? Bloodborne • Parasyte -the maxim-: The Ani-TAY Review TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To…

A Simple Song Swap Makes The Mortal Kombat X TV Spot So Much Better

While there will always be a fondness in my heart for the music of System of a Down, it does not belong in this television ad for Mortal Kombat X. Let’s swap in something more appropriate. There, much better. Now I’m ready to tear out some intestines. YouTuber shagg187 (viaReddit) came up with the fix,…

Sword Coast Legends Lets Dungeon Masters Screw With Players In Real Time

Last week the developers of Sword Coast Legends demonstrated how players delve the upcoming CRPG’s dungeons. Now take a look at the tools Dungeon Masters can use to make their players’ lives hell. Representing Dungeons & Dragons‘ dungeon master/player relationship in video game form is a real challenge. Giving a DM the power to craft…

Reminder: Nintendo Is Always Delaying Major Zelda Games

Today, Nintendo’s Eiji Aonuma announced that the upcoming Legend of Zelda game for the Wii U is not going to be coming out this year. That’s a bummer, but not an unprecedented one: Lots of console Zelda games have been delayed. Ocarina of Time was eventually released in November of 1998. (Via IGN) Wind Waker…

Choose wisely.

The Legend of Zelda Wii U Delayed Out Of 2015

Bad news, Zelda fans. The next game won’t be out this year, Nintendo just announced—they’re “no longer making a 2015 release [their] number one priority” for the upcoming Zelda Wii U Series producer Eiji Aonuma announced the bad news in a video message on Facebook, where he talked about how the team has “discovered several…

Destiny Players Are Trying To See The Future–And Bungie’s Pushing Back

Hardcore Destiny players don’t just wait around for updates from Bungie about the game. Armed with specialized knowledge of how game files work, some Destiny players try to predict what’s going to happen before Bungie actually makes any changes. These players find all sorts of things. They can, for example, tell what exotic weapons weekend-only…

I Have Created A Bloodborne Drinking Game

It’s the weekend. Many of you will be playing Bloodborne. Some of you will be drinking. Why not combine the two? I’ve been playing Bloodborne for a little over a week now. It’s been exhausting and awesome. After a few days of playing, though, some friends came over to hang out. I needed a break.…

The Invisible League Of Legends Attack Bug Riot Can’t Seem To Resolve

Bugs and glitches are an unfortunate fact of life that usually just have to be tolerated when playing a game as hugely popular as League of Legends. The story of one such bug that’s teetered between irritating and insufferable got a lot more interesting this week after a player figured out how to reproduce it.…

Kotaku Asks: The Lead Developers Of Dragon Age: Inquisition [Q&A Over]

Three top people from BioWare, one of the world’s most acclaimed RPG studios, are here to answer your questions this afternoon. Welcome to Kotaku Asks, a weekly feature where we invite guests from the world of gaming to come answer burning questions from Kotaku readers. (If you think you’d be a good guest or have…

What I Like (And Don’t Like) In Final Fantasy XV So Far

It’s been three weeks since I first played through the demo for Final Fantasy XV, a video game about what will happen to One Direction now that Zayn’s gone. So I’ve had plenty of time to digest. I first completed FFXV: Episode Duscae during a two-hour session at Square Enix’s PAX East media booth in…

Chainmail Bikini Anthology Has Women Gamers Telling Their Own Stories

Nearly every gamer has tales about how the imaginary worlds and real-life friendships of their shared hobby has inspired them and gotten them through some rough spots. An upcoming graphic novel anthology takes those moments and turns them in even more inspiration in the form of beautifully drawn comics stories. Due out later this year,…

Bloodborne players, make sure you don’t summon or invade anyone during the game’s Forbidden Woods section! Right now, doing so will prevent you from acquiring a crucial progression item, the Lunarium Key. Sony says a patch is coming next week. Contact the author at [email protected]

The Argument Over Whether A Bloodborne Exploit Is Cheating

Bloodborne is a difficult game, no doubt. If look closely, though, there are ways to make it easier. Boss exploits—aka cheesing—are the stuff of legend in Souls games, but is that cheating? So far, I haven’t summoned a friend in Bloodborne, and I’m hoping to keep it that way. I’m not against others asking for…

Lester from GTA V Can Kick Butt, Too

Most of the time you see Lester, the awkward mastermind behind GTA V‘s high-stakes robberies fits the stereotype of a maladjusted shut-in who doesn’t know how to do things with people. It’s a different story on the street of Los Santos. Lester will straight up take your bike and stomp a fool. With the cane,…

The trailer forDead Rising: Watchtower was better than I expected, so I’m hoping the movie follows suit! If you’d like to get a head start on me, the Dead Rising movie is now available for streaming over at Crackle. You can reach the author of this post at [email protected] or on Twitter at @patrickklepek

BioWare boss Aaryn Flynn, Dragon Age executive producer Mark Darrah, and Dragon Age creative director Mike Laidlaw will be here to take your questions this afternoon at 4pm ET in today’s installment of Kotaku Asks. So start thinking of good questions now. (Don’t post them here — wait for the Q&A article to go live…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Game of the Week—Shudder Speed [Fatal Frame] • The Rise of Asymmetrical Gaming: Part 2 • Want to improve Final Fantasy? Ditch Kazushige Nojima • The Beginner’s Guide to Digital Importing TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

R2-D2 Gets Seriously Badass

The force might not, but Yamaguchi Katuhisa‘s creativity totally is with this R2-D2 figure. R2 finally steps up, with its parts getting mixed up with other toys, and becomes the first astromech droid capable of beating the hell out of Imperial forces. He posted all these pics and a bunch of others on his Twitter.…