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20 Hours In, I’m Obsessed With Bloodborne

The Blood-Starved Beast has poisoned me. I’ve run out of antidote and health potions, but I’m not willing to die. I’m close… I’m so close… As my health fades, I swing my blade and hold my breath. “Prey Slaughtered” flashes across the screen, and my hero keels over dead. I leap off my couch with…

Massive Pirate LEGO Build Is Full Of Secrets

It wouldn’t be a proper pirate LEGO without secret passages and long-lost treasure. Kinggregus’ giant, pirate-themed build has it all, well-hidden in a massive fort. The front side looks peaceful, as the builder described in this Eurobricks Forum post: I figured that it would be fun to do cliffs in another color than grey. I…

Dude Fights His Dragon Ball Figures In A Cool Stop-Motion Rumble

Taiwanese animator Jordan Tseng is not a guy whose figure collection is collecting dust on a shelf. Their purpose is to fight their owner in stop-motion videos. Broly and Goku from Dragon Ball Z come to life in his recent, amazing clip Both characters use their signature moves, but still, this fight doesn’t end well…

Realistic Digimon are Mildly Disturbing

Well aren’t you an adorable little nightmare-blob? Yes you are! These delightful Digimon recreations come from DeviantArt’s Lindsey Wakefield, who recently returned to drawing realistic Digimon after a short hiatus with Chibomon and Zurumon. You can see them at the top on the left, next to Agumon on the top right and Punimon on the…

Beard Growth Comes to Video Games

Finally! As anyone with facial hair will tell you, it grows. Except in video games, where beards seem suspended in time. Not anymore. In Witcher 3, the beard of series protagonist Geralt grows in real time. According to Eurogamer, the game’s developer, CD Projekt, said that the beard grows “as time passes” and when the…

Watch Me Play Bloodborne, Live [UPDATE: Stream Over]

Our impressions of the new PS4 game Bloodborne are now live, but this is a game that makes a strong impression when you actually see it in motion. To demonstrate, I’m going to spend some time streaming it! You can reach the author of this post at [email protected] or on Twitter at @patrickklepek

Building Link’s Hylian Shield, In Real Life

Look, nobody said Man At Arms had to make weaponsall the time. If a shield can be as iconic as the sword swinging next to it, then it deserves its real-life dues too. I’m more impressed with this than I have been for most of their swords! The whole thing just looks so damn big,…

People Aren’t Waiting Around For Nintendo To Make A Female Link

Nintendo may or may not ever give us a woman version of Link from Legend of Zelda, but where there’s a will, there’s a way. Or a game jam. In recent times, there’s been speculation that the next Legend of Zelda‘s Link will be a lady, not to mention an honest-to-goodness lady Link sighting in…

I don’t watch many trailers for upcoming games these days, especially when it’s for a game I’ll likely end up playing regardless, but if Batman’s going to keep getting delayed then I’ll have to get my fix somehow

42-Player Civilization Game Fixed, Resumes Destruction Of Planet Earth

My pessimism was for naught. The giant 42-player, AI-only Civilization V game that had seemed doomed has in fact been saved, and the surviving Civs are free to resume soaking the dirt with the blood of their enemies. When the game broke down last week, bogged down by mods, an AI hiccup and the sheer…

The History Of The Minigun, Our Deadly Spinning Friend

The Gatling gun was invented in 1861 by Dr. Richard J. Gatling as a means to ultimately demonstrate the futility of war. Now it and its descendants are some of gaming’s sweetest treats. How’d that happen?Ahoy has prepared a video. In games centered around putting bullets into people, there is no greater means of doing…

Change your Twitch password—the streaming company says they’ve been hit by a security breach and that the culprits got into people’s accounts. If you use your Twitch password anywhere else, you’ll want to change those passwords, too.

One Small Thing I Love About Heroes Of The Storm

I recently added Heroes of the Storm to the growing pile of MOBAs that I’ve become hopelessly addicted to. And while I find the characters in Blizzard’s new game lacking in some ways (like their skins), one thing really impresses me about it in comparison to League of Legends: the way the heroes talk to…

What Happens After A Hacker Dies

On December 2014, Michael Hamelin, a hacker and physicist, died in an unfortunate car crash. He is survived by his wife, a scientist named Beth Hamelin—who not only has to deal with the grief that comes with a loved one passing on, but also has to manage the intense security measures that Hamelin left behind.…

Fake NSA Spying Game Is Fun, And That’s Scary

We exist in a time when we have to live with the fact that our e-mails, tweets and status updates are probably being looked at by big faceless entities and people who they’re not meant for, simply as a matter of course. That sucks. In this game, you’re the one doing the snooping. It still…

Hearthstone Player Is Six Hours Into Attempt At Longest Turn Ever

Hearthstone is great, in part, because it’s so damn fast. If you don’t make a move in 90 seconds, tough luck. One player, however, has figured out how to make a single turn last more than 40 hours. As Eurogamer discovered, a player named Mamytwink is trying to break—or shred into a breathable mist of…

Surprise! Dragon Age: Inquisition DLC Is Out Tomorrow (For Xbox/PC)

The first single-player downloadable content for Dragon Age: Inquisition will be out tomorrow, Kotaku has confirmed. Well, unless you’re on PlayStation. Then you’ll have to wait a while. DLC pack #1 for Inquisition is called “Jaws of Hakkon,” which is likely named after a Dragon Age god named Hakkon Wintersbreath. It’s coming out tomorrow for…

Twitch Plays Pokémon Somehow Caught Them All

All 151 original monsters have now been caught by thousands of players controlling a single game of Pokémon on Twitch. It’s the sort of impressive feat that most Pokémon players will never accomplish, despite having full control of the game. As we reported earlier this year, the latest round of Twitch Plays Pokémon isa special…

My Five Favorite Kotaku Stories From Last Week

I know, I know, it’s hard to top a post about a great video game burger—seriously, that burger looks great!—but there are at least five other Kotaku posts I liked more last week. The Two-Year-Old Pokémon Card Thief | News editor Jason Schreier’s video game layoff stories were some of the articles I was proudest…

The First Five Fairytale Minutes Of Woolfe: The Red Hood Diaries

I’d be remiss if I didn’t correct my headline with the official tagline for Woolfe: The Red Hood Diaries. This is no fairy tale. There’s nothing fair about it. Belgian developer GRIN Gamestudio (not to be confused with the defunct Swedish developers of the Bionic Commando reboot) are quite proud of that tagline, as well…