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Pro DOTA Player Controls Three Heroes At Once, Helps Win Match

On March 11, a pro DOTA 2 game in the Star Ladder Europe tournament (between Team Secret and DUZA Gaming) suffered from connectivity issues, so much so that two of Team Secret’s five players were disconnected. Rather than pause the game and wait it out, though, one of Secret’s players put da team on his…

EVE Online Is A Video Game With Its Own News Show

I don’t play the game, so I had no idea this even existed, but hey, turns out that space MMO EVE Online has its own official TV news show! And it’s pretty good! It’s called The Scope, and as this interview on Motherboard explains, it was inspired by the more mainstream coverage of 2014’s enormous…

The Madness of Skyrim Mods, Captured In Three Minutes

Watch as one man tries to see how far he can push Skyrim before everything crumbles into complete chaos. You’ve got your typical wacky Skyrim mods here—Thomas the Tank Engine as dragons, Tommy Wiseau horses, Sonic. But it doesn’t take long for you to stop being able to track all the mods videogamedunkey activates—the entire…

Cities: Skylines, As Told By Steam Reviews

So, turns out Cities: Skylines is a pretty rad game. People like it so much, that the city-building sim is currently the top-selling game on Steam. But what are people saying about the game? Well, if we take a look at the Steam reviews for Cities: Skylines, we’ll find a hell of a lot of…

It’s Been A Helluva Couple Weeks For Video Game Music

Whether you want lush orchestral tracks of murderous dance-floor jams, it has been a heck of a couple of weeks for video game music. Several games that I’ve been checking out recently have sounded so, so good. I thought I’d take a second to highlight some of the best stuff. Ori and the Blind Forest…

One of Marvel’s Oddest Is Back in a Howard the Duck Comic Worth Reading

There’s probably only one comic this year that will feature a training montage with a mallard trying to sneak his tailfeathers under a laser. Yes, it’s Howard the Duck. Yes, you should read it. Of all the new comics series that Marvel is launching in the upcoming months, Howard the Duck feels the most counter-intuitive.…

Majora’s Mask Is A Game About Death

As someone who’s not-so-quietly championed The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask for years, I’m happy the game’s been given new life on 3DS. Finally, everyone gets it! The last time I played Majora’s Mask, however, I was only 15. Today, I’m double that. While replaying Majora’s Mask, I’ve come to realize how much my favorite…

What Invader Zim Showed Me About Bullying

If you’re told something repeatedly, it’s hard not to get it stuck in your head. It’s hard not to believe the most awful things people say about you, simply because they’ve said it enough times. And that’s the trickiest thing about bullying. I’ve been rewatching the 14-year-old cartoon Invader Zim, and somewhere in the early…

Skyrim Modders Help Man Who Says He’s Mourning His Brother

Letting go of lost loved ones is never easy. They linger in our hearts and minds. One Skyrim player has taken to loading up his deceased brother’s Skyrim file, reliving the last moments he spent in the game. That inspired a modder to make his brother’s character immortal. The mod is titled Bear: In Memory…

The First Five Minutes Of Angry Birds Bust-A-Move

Oh wait, it says here the game’s name is Angry Birds Stella POP!. Oh well, too late to change the video. We’re just going to have to roll with it. It’s only five minutes, no one will notice. In an effort to expand the gameplay horizons of its Angry Birds franchise, Rovio tapped UK developer…

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Watch Sketches Turn Into An Unreal Tournament Map

The new Unreal Tournament is being made in front of people in nearly real-time. You’re able to watch design ideas move from concepts into reality. The game’s main new stage, Outpost 23, has come a long way since its artistic sketches, and it’s really fun to watch the transition happen. The folks behind the stage…

If Someone Hacks Your PSN Account, You’re Kinda Screwed

Over the past few years, Sony’s PlayStation Network has proven itself to be totally resilient and definitely not susceptible to any sort of major hack. So of course, it’s perfectly reasonable that they still don’t have two-step verification For the past day or so, the web has been exploding over this Reddit post by user…

Wonder Woman Gets Pants, Superman Loses Cape

Two of DC’s holy trinity are getting radically new looks this summer. As revealed today at HitFix and Nerdist, Superman and Wonder Woman will be getting new costumes after Covergence, the publishing event that heralds the next editorial reconfiguration of the DC Universe. While costume changes are a familiar element of long-running superhero characters, each…

In Defense Of Urgot, League Of Legends’ Most Notorious Hero

League of Legends has so many different “champion” characters in its line-up at this point (more than 120) that some are inevitably going to be less popular than others. One guy in particular stands out, though, because he’s become the butt of so, so many jokes: Urgot. You don’t have to look too deeply into…

Star Citizen Might Take Up At Least 100GB

As video games become more and more complex, the game sizes are getting bigger and bigger, too. Star Citizen might set a new record, though, as the game could be a whopping 100GB. Robert Space Industries developer “JMasker”recently clarified what players can expect when the first major version of the game is available for download—right…

JRPGs, You’re Better Than This

64 hours. 23 hours. 42 hours. 28 hours. Somewhere on a grassy plain trying to figure out if I should spend my days hunting down one of many pending side quests. Somewhere deep in the ocean chasing mermaids. Somewhere making preparations for my next strategic battle. These are all the places I’m willing to leave…

How Blizzard Is Making Overwatch Different

More than a decade into its lifespan, World of Warcraft is still one of the biggest games in the world. Other games made by Blizzard—like Starcraft or Diablo—boast huge sprawling worlds, too. But they’re trying to make Overwatch a bit more… intimate. Announced last year, Overwatch marks a big departure for Blizzard. It’s a team-based…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Game of the Week—I Call Do-Over! [Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time] • House (1977) [Movie Review] • Spacemon: A Pokémon Tabletop Story, Vol. 2: Chapter 16 TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

Zelda Stop-Motion Animation is All About The Clay Monsters

Here’s a really cool claymation short by animator Johnny McHone, featuring Link and angry plasticine monsters. It totally looks like a Robot Chicken sketch with a little bit of Neverhood and Skyward Sword added. Must have taken a while to film the whole thing, since it was made entirely using an iPhone and Vine To…