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​The Problem With League Of Legends’ Lore

Keeping track of lore in a MOBA often seems as valuable as watching porn for the story, to quote one recent critic of League of Legends’ latest character reveal. I tend to agree. But YouTuber Gnarsies makes a good case for why having terrible lore really does matter—even for a seemingly plotless gaming genre. Watch…

Why People Think Hideo Kojima Is No Longer At Konami

Konami is trending on Twitter. Why? People think Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima is about to leave the company. First of all, let’s remember Kojima is well-known for tricking people. Then again, there’s some weird stuff going on. Doesn’t Kojima have a new game coming out? Yup. Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, which…

FutureGrind: The Basics

What is it? The developers see FutureGrind as a mix of Uniracers and OlliOlli, though you just might see some Trials here, too. It’s about a year out from completion. Who is making it? Milkbag Games, a teeny-tiny indie studio in Ontario. Here’s a trailer: Did we play it? Yes, a few Mondays ago at…

It’s early days for VR, which means there aren’t many games to get excited about. EVE: Valkryie, however, in one of the few “real” games coming. I’ve always loved my time with the game, and the newest trailer shows how the atmosphere is coming together. It looks gorgeous You can reach the author of this…

Our First Look At The Attack on Titan Movie In Action

We’ve seen the cast of the live-action Attack on Titan movie already. Here is some actual footage of the movie—and man, it looks excellent. Well, the bits that aren’t plastered with television broadcast overlays look great, at least. The titans, for example, look damn menacing—as well they should! If this footage which was uploaded by…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: It’s Not A Nintendo Hybrid, It’s A Nintendo Ecosystem • Sunless Sea: How I Consistently Fail to Resist its Sirens Call• Trainime Reviews: Caboose Edition • Indie HYPE: The Flame in the Flood • Spacemon: A Pokémon Tabletop Story, Vol. 2: Ch. 18, Ch. 19 TAY Classic—TAY…

Someone Put Big Hero 6 Characters In Street Fighter IV

Zangief became Baymax and Cammy is transformed into Go Go Tomago from Big Hero 6 and they both fit perfectly into Ultra Street Fighter IV Modder Salim’s skins are excellent. He should bring all the other characters over too to create some kind of Disney-Street Fighter hybrid. PC Best Mods has a clip showing Baymax…

Best to start them early. Redditor Pypok and his wife needed a theme for their son’s nursery, and Pypok suggested space (by way of Kerbal Space Program). Turned out rather well, I’d say—perfect for a future space explorer. There are some in-progress photos in the embedded Imgur album below.

The next Carmageddon game, Carmageddon: Reincarnation, leaves Early Access and launches on Steam on April 23, almost 15 years after the series’ last game. There’s a launch trailer above (it’s about as bloody as you’d expect), and you can head here for the announcement, which has a features list for the final release.

Bad Men Destroy 12 Retro Consoles, Film It

WIRED’s Battle Damage thought it would be fun to take 12 old consoles (for YouTube purposes, the PS3 is now “old”) and smash them all up to see which was the most physically durable. My money’s on the GameCube, because it didn’t have that handle for nothing. SPOILERS: I was wrong.

Why Does Link Cry In Majora’s Mask? It’s…Pretty Dark

OK, so every time Link puts on a mask in Majora’s Mask, he makes a kinda screaming sound. If you ever wondered why—maybe he’s just really excited!—well, a Nintendo employee has an answer. Chatting with fans on Miiverse, a Nintendo rep/developer posing as the Happy Mask Shop guy from Majora’s Mask says (via @mnemosynekurai) “It’s…

Elite: Dangerous Honors Terry Pratchett With Discworld Space Station

Last week, revered author Terry Pratchett, best known for his brilliantly witty, insightful, and incisive Discworld series, passed away after a battle with Alzheimer’s. The makers of Elite: Dangerous have created a whole space station in his honor. The space sim’s latest patch added a location called Pratchett’s Disc starport. If you want to check…

Every Time I Beat A Demon’s Souls Boss, I Feel Like A Badass

Games don’t prompt me to stand up and scream on a regular basis. When I kill off a boss in a Souls game, however, I feel powerful. I earned this victory, and want to shout it to the world. There are few games I’m proud of beating, but Demon’s Souls, Dark Souls, and Dark Souls…

Getting A Bot ‘Turned On’ With Fake Sexts

I just spent the past 15 minutes trying to fool a bot into thinking blurry phone pics of my elbow crease were steamy photos of the world’s greatest butt. That, in a nutshell, is Sext Machine. Offworld came across the amusing oddity, which you play by texting an actual phone number (text “;)” to 669 333-SEXT…

The Dragon Age Secret That Took Months To Find

Up until very recently, there was something hidden in Dragon Age: Inquisition that nobody knew about. That is, until an alleged Bioware developer leaked part of the secret to some players. As ProjectFalconPunch explains it, there’s a secret quest that you can find in the Emerald Graves—around here, to be specific: Near that marker, you…

Players Are Making The Best Dragon Ball Xenoverse Characters

Dragon Ball Xenoverse lets players create their own custom characters, which they can then insert into classic DBZ storylines. The character creator is pretty robust, too—which also means that players are having a lot of fun with the tool. Some players like to make their DBZ characters riff off real people, places, or things. Other…

A Better Take On Video Game Sex

A few exceptions aside, video games are pretty shitty at sex. It’s often presented as a stilted, awkward “reward” or a tool for cheap titillation. It’s also heinously un-sexy. Games have come a long way since Dragon Age: Origins‘ infamously nightmare-inducing dead-eyed doll sex, but I think there’s still ample room to grow, for games…

Q&A: The People Behind Helldivers Spill Some Secrets

I like Helldivers. It’s one of my favorite PS4 games. But I had 11 questions about it. I posed them to one of the game’s designers. He had answers. Thank goodness. The following Q&A was conducted over e-mail. Answering my questions is Patrick Lasota, a designer at Helldivers dev studio Arrowhead Game Studios. Oh, and…

StarCraft II Is Transforming In Some Huge Ways Very Soon

Blizzard is launching a closed beta for StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void on March 31, and it sounds like the upcoming expansion pack will change their real-time strategy game in some totally drastic ways. For one, starting worker count is going to double, as outlined on Blizzard’s blog You’ll also notice that the starting…

How One League Of Legends Champion Has Changed Over Five Years

You know what people say when admiring the glory of real-world teenagers: “They grow up so fast.” The same goes for League of Legends characters. You just have to replace “grow up so fast” with “received a number of small but not insignificant changes over the course of many, many patches.” My, how time flies!…