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Yet Another Xbox One Game Isn’t Working Properly [UPDATE]

Ori and the Blind Forest is a very pretty game. It’s a lot of fun, too! Unfortunately, thanks to a few irritating performance issues, some Xbox One players have had trouble soaking up its beautiful scenery and controller-chucking levels of platforming tension since the indie game launched earlier this week. Since Ori and the Blind…

If you’re having trouble downloading anything on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac, you’re not alone, as the App Store and iTunes has been down for several hours. Given Apple earned $4.8 billion from the two storefronts last quarter, you’d imagine it’ll be up real soon. As of this writing, here’s how Apple is reporting the…

Game Freak, developers of the Pokemon games, is teaming up with Sega for a 2D action platformer called—wait for it—Tembo The Badass Elephant It’s coming to PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4 this summer, and has already locked up best new game name of 2015. You can reach the author of this post at [email protected]…

A Game Where You Have to Fight Against Becoming Vaporware

Longtime gamers know how terrible it is to keep waiting and waiting for vaporware. Turns out the characters inside these stillborn worlds hate not knowing where they’re coming out, too. Games like Duke Nukem Forever and Daikatana have shown that the years of pining away for an anticipated game build up massive amounts of frustration…

With New Mod, Fans Are Making Sure System Shock 2 Never Ends

There are few games with more loyal followings than System Shock 2, Ken Levine’s classic sci-fi horror game. System Shock Infinite, an ambitious fan mod, kicks into gear as the game ends. System Shock Infinite has been in development for a few years now, with regular updates flowing to ModDB. Just a few days ago,…

The First Five Minutes Of Parallax, First-Person Portal Puzzler

Traversing portals to solve puzzles split between two worlds, one black and white, the other white and black? Sounds like a simple enough concept to grasp in five minutes. Toasty Games’ Parallax, launched this week on Steam, is a $10 puzzle game with sharp style and a game mechanic borrowed from the grandparents of the…

If you’re looking for a reason to dive back into Titanfall, here’s a good one: all of the downloadable content is now free on Xbox 360, Xbox One, and PC (on Origin!). Not bad. You can reach the author of this post at [email protected] or on Twitter at @patrickklepek

GTA V Character Jokes About How Long It Took for Heists to Come Out

“I know you’ve been complaining but you weren’t ready. Now, maybe, just maybe you are.” Grand Theft Auto V was supposed to get online multiplayer co-op Heists soon after the PS3 and Xbox 360 release of the game’s first iteration. Then a year later, Heists were still absent from the new-gen versions of Rockstar’s hit.…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Kirby and The Rainbow Curse: The TAY Review • Masterwork Mondays: Shaman King • Pokémon One a Day, Series 2: Espeon, Umbreon, Murkrow TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

What’s Your Favorite Chrono Trigger Memory?

Chrono Trigger, a video game about a guy with spiky hair who refuses to talk to any of his friends, officially turns 20 today, because we are all old as hell. Yep, Chrono Trigger was originally released for the Super Nintendo on March 11, 1995, forever changing the way we look at frogs. To celebrate,…

Ten Easy Ways To Make Gold In World of Warcraft

With subscription tokens, purchasable with gold, coming to WoW, people with enough in-game gold income might get away with not paying any real money to keep their account active. So why not go through a bunch of methods on how to make a small fortune in Warlords of Draenor? They might come in handy soon.…

Uncharted 4 Delayed to Spring 2016

The next entry in Naughty Dog’s well-loved action/adventure franchise won’t be out this year, according to Uncharted 4 directors Bruce Straley and Neil Druckmann. Druckmann and Straley broke the news on the official PlayStation blog: Since we showed you our first gameplay reveal of Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End, more of the game and story…

Huge Star Wars LEGO Set Is Full of Cool Details

The AT-AT walkers are slowly advancing on Echo Base in Martin Harris‘ Battle of Hoth diorama. It’s a huge one that includes everything we’ve seen in The Empire Strikes Back: Snowspeeders, a complete rebel base, a giant snowy battlefield and a some other tiny things. Here’s a video from The Brick Show showing all of…

Shovel Knight in Smash? Maybe someday. The eponymous hero of Shovel Knight was drawn by DeviantArt’s hextupleyoodot, AKA Artsy Omni, the guy behind the Rayman “leak,” as part of his Smashified series. You can find more of his art in his DeviantArt gallery here Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some…

League of Legends Made with 44,000 Dominos

YouTuber Tobben Domino brings League of Legends to life in domino form. What do you say about that? You can see five champions take on five champions—kind of like in the game. That is, if League of Legends was made of tens of thousands of dominos. To contact the author of this post, write to…

Which JRPG Has Better Sliding: Xenoblade Chronicles X or FFXV? 

There are many things we could compare between Xenoblade Chronicles X and Final Fantasy XV. But today, we’re going to see which has the coolest-looking sliding. That’s right, sliding The hell am I talking about? This. Above, you can see a GIF of Prompto Argentum‘s sliding attack from Final Fantasy XV, which Kotaku recently checked…

Dragon Ball Figures Are Cooler with Holograms

Sorry, cooler? No. I meant, hotter Using a Dragon Ball Goku figure and a clear pyramid, Brazil’s ZW Design created this impressive hologram effect. If you are interested in how effects like these are made, YouTuber RimstarOrg has a helpful walkthrough. To contact the author of this post, write to bashcraftATkotaku.com or find him on…

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A Halo Snipe Shot That Is Completely Nuts

Okay, what’s with all the unbelievable Halo snipes lately? Last week, we highlighted an absurd Halo snipe that ricochets off three different surfaces before connecting with the head of its victim. Today, we bring you a snipe by Jimmy Boswell that puts that last one to shame. Somehow, Boswell lands a shot that ricochets off…

GTA Online Heists Bring About Server Issues [Update]

As has become par for the course with this sort of thing, the much-anticipated launch of GTA Online‘s multiplayer heists has resulted in some woeful server troubles. We’ve been unable to connect or play all day, and we’re definitely not alone. Rockstar Support is reporting “limited” access to servers across all four platforms: “We are…