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Once Again, The Story Behind League of Legends’ Newest Hero Is Nonsense

Riot released an animated short yesterday that gives a backstory for The Bard, League of Legends’ newest incoming champion. Like all things League, the film is very cool. So cool, in fact, that you might find yourself thinking: “Hey, I bet this game has a killer story!” But what is that story? I have no…

Humble Monochromatic Bundle, $8 Gaming Mouse, and More Deals

Humble is back with another weekly bundle. This time around, you get up to seven games with monochromatic art styles, and of course, you pay what you want. [Humble Monochromatic Bundle] Monoprice is currently taking 15% off almost any order of $1,000 or less. Pair that with Monoprice’s already low prices, and you can create…

Hearthstone‘s Next Adventure Is Called Blackrock Mountain

Big news for Hearthstone fans out of PAX East already! The card game’s getting a new adventure in April called Blackrock Mountain, and it’s got five wings, 17 bosses, and 31 cards. Wanna see the new CG trailer? There’s also news on the phone-sized version of Hearthstone, which the company apparently showed off during its…

Anyone Up For Virtual Reality Lightsabers?

Drawing crowds at this year’s Game Developers Conference, this is motion control company Sixense’s forthcoming STEM System for virtual reality motion control. It’s working here with an Oculus Rift. The lightsaber demo is by no means Lucas/Disney-official, but it sure is an an enticing way to show what you could get if you combine VR…

Batman vs. Darth Vader: The Rematch

All you people who cried foul at the end of that brawl where Darth Vader and Batman threw down on the Death Star, this one’s for you. Bat in the Sunwent and made another version of their popular Super Power Beat Down episode that pit Batman vs. Darth Vader few months back. Since it’s an…

Something’s Wrong With Resident Evil’s Season Pass On PS4 [UPDATE]

I’ve received a bunch of comments from readers reporting they can’t play the second episode of Resident Evil: Revelations 2 on PlayStation 4, despite buying the season pass. It looks like they aren’t alone, and Capcom’s admitted there are issues. UPDATE (12:20 pm): Capcom told me it’s aware customers are having issues, and it’s working…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: The Real Impact of Source 2 • Where to Start with Anime: An Overly Specific Guide • What I Finished in February • Spacemon: A Pokémon Tabletop Story, Vol. 2: Chapter 14, Chapter 15 • Pokémon One a Day Series 2: Yanma, Wooper, Quagsire TAY Classic—TAY Open…

The Atari Action Figures We Never Had

Dan Polydoris from The Chicago Toy Collector toyed with classic 80s Kenner Star Wars figures and reforged them as a set of Atari characters, similar to what you can see on the boxes. A line-up of action figures (and maybe a few vehicles) based on these games could have been fun, sitting next to all…

What Obi-Wan’s Ghost Should Have Done

Instead of giving Luke life lessons about The Force, some haunting would have gotten the job done a lot faster. Dorkly’s Star Wars short has the most annoying Obi-Wan ghost who also likes to remind Darth Vader about his Hayden Christensen phase. To contact the author of this post, write to: [email protected]

It’s Fun To Explore the Minecraft Version of Los Angeles

While it might by slightly awkwardly named, Los Angelcraft, based on Los Angeles, is one good-looking Minecraft city. Made by Fujiwara1990 of Planet Minecraft, Los Angelcraft is, by its creator’s admission, huge. And it really is—look at this screenshot: That big, towering skyscraper I’m standing in front of is just one of the many buildings…

Akira, Redrawn using The Simpsons, Is Incredible

Akira is wonderful. The Simpsons is wonderful. Put them together and you get something pretty special. This is Bartkira. As Kotaku first mentioned when the crowd-sourced project first launched, Bartkira is inspired by artist Ryan Humphrey‘s art (see below) and spearheaded by cartoonist James Harvey With over 500 hundred artists worldwide, each contributor works in…

Five Ways We Can Improve Climbing In Video Games

Climbing in video games is not broken. Climbing in video games is doing just fine. No-one is complaining about it and no-one has a problem with it. Except me. Me: a person who climbs regularly. Me: a person who plays a lot of video games. Me: a person with no game design experience and only…

Ridiculous Halo Snipe Was One-In-A-Million

It is also completely bullshit. Watch as Lawrencce 1 lands a shot that ricochets off three different surfaces before connecting with the enemy player’s head: Lawrence knows just how ridiculous this shot is, judging from his YouTube description: Of course the kill was intentional!! I accurately predicted the spawn of the player after I killed…

Oh, So This Is How A Modern Assassin’s Creed Game Would Work

If you’ve ever wondered/worried how a more modern Assassin’s Creed game would work, with all our fancy weapons and computers and vehicles, don’t sweat it. Even in the 21st-century, there’s a place for an Assassin and his craft: inside the ring. Nice to see the spirit of Hoodslamis spreading (this clip is from England, at…

Short Zelda Movie Is Looking Pretty Good

For years now, a team called The Zelda Project have been working towards recreating as much of Ocarina of Time as they can, through both cosplay and film. We’ve seentheir cosplay before, but they’ve finally got the cash together to make a start on the film part. Teaming up with Player Piano, they’ve released this…

Yep, Valve Is Experimenting With Half-Life In VR

Valve’s virtual reality demo at the Game Developers Conference melted my brain. Afterward, my mind swam with possibilities. So of course, I ignored most of them and asked the age-old question: “Half-Life?” Surprisingly, Valve actually had an answer for me. The short version is: Valve has tried using Half-Life characters, settings, and ideas in VR,…

New Rollercoaster Tycoon Game Looks Like Shit

Hey, a new Rollercoaster Tycoon game got shown off properly for the first time today! Remember Rollercoaster Tycoon, and how good it was 10, 15 years ago? Keep remembering, because this one looks like hell. I mean that in the most literal sense. For all I know this could be the most enjoyable Rollercoaster Tycoon…

​The 10 Best Things About Building A New Gaming PC

Building a gaming PC can be time-consuming and stressful. There are a thousand things that could go wrong, and any one of them could wind up costing hundreds of dollars. And yet we do it anyway. Why? Because building PCs is totally awesome. Last summer, I finished building and fine-tuning a new gaming PC. It…

A List Of Times Hideo Kojima Has Said He’s Done Making Metal Gear

In an interview published yesterday, Hideo Kojima said the upcoming Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain would be his last Metal Gear game. I thought that sounded familiar, so I did some researching. Turns out… well, let’s take a look. December 12, 2000 – IGN IGNPS2: When you’re done with [Metal Gear Solid 2],…

If you missed out on This War of Mine or don’t have access to a gaming PC, Touch Arcade reports the developers are bringing the somber game to iPad later on this year. You can reach the author of this post at [email protected] or on Twitter at @patrickklepek