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Dying Light will get its long-awaited “hard mode” on March 10th, Techland said today. Can’t wait! In addition to that free update, a $5 “Survivor Bundle” will also be released, giving players three additional character skins and four new weapons.

How Sony’s Impressive First-Person Shooter Virtual Reality Demo Works

They’re calling it a demo, not a game, and it’s not quite perfect. You can’t even walk in it, after all. But there’s something really cool about the London Heist, a snippet of a first-person shooter made to be played using Sony’s PlayStation 4 Morpheus virtual reality headset. I know that telling you much about…

With Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain, designer Hideo Kojima is embracing PC owners with open arms. The PC version of The Phantom Pain will arrive on September 15, just two weeks after the console launch.

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Dragon Ball Xenoverse: The TAY Review • Heroic Age: Exile’s Ani-TAY Review • Frank Underwood! In Speed Painting Form! TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

The surprisingly excellent Wolfenstein: The New Order is getting a standalone prequel this May. Set before the fall of the Allies, Wolfenstein: The Old Blood will see B.J. Blaskowicz infiltrating Castle Wolfenstein, as he does. The $20 game is due out May 5 for PC, PS4 and Xbox One. Saw faster, B.J.

World of Warcraft Player Reaches Level 100 Without Choosing A Faction

Neutral Agent and his fresh level 100 neutral Pandaren is the only max level character in the world right now who’s not part of the Alliance or the Horde. He did the same in Mists of Pandaria, when the level cap was 90, by rolling a neutral Pandaren and instead of leaving their low-level starting…

If Wes Anderson Directed X-Men

Vintage books, charming miniature models, funny effects and unique color palettes: all the signature traits and techniques of the director of “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” implemented in an X-Men movie. Patrick Willems and his friends imagined this weird scenario in their awesome short. Wolverine would be an art teacher, Magneto or the Sentinels would look…

DeviantArt’s biggreenpepper re-imagines some of Dota 2’s cast as mob bosses, made men, and just criminals in general—and it works surprisingly well, even with the whole coming in all shapes and sizes and colors thing. Full-size pic below. Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest, funniest game-related screenshots…

Happy 15th birthday, PlayStation 2! Sony launched their second home console in Japan on March 4, 2000, with games such as Street Fighter EX3 and Kessen. Eventually, the PS2 became not only the best-selling console of its generation, but the best-selling console overall, with over 155 million units sold worldwide.

The Elder Scrolls is Ready for Total War

Nearly all the Scrolls games talk up great battles, but you never actually get to fight one. Now there’s a Medieval II: Total War: Kingdoms mod to change that. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK Called The Elder Scrolls: Total War [via PCGamesN], this stretches over a time period that covers both Morrowind and…

Nvidia announced a new Shield device at GDC today. Gizmodo spent some time with it, while we spent some time watching one of the worst press conferences in living memory Contact the author at [email protected]

Chainsaw vs Tree = Majora’s Mask

Griffon Ramsey, who is very handy with a chainsaw, has made this video showing her work that takes a giant hunk of timber and, using a bunch of power tools, carves it into a mask from Zelda. If this is how much work goes into making ONE of these things, I suddenly have a new-found…

Apple Blocks Buzz Aldrin Game That Buzz Aldrin Helped Make

There’s a space game called Buzz Aldrin’s Space Program Manager. Aside from endorsing the game, the space pioneer himself has actually helped out on development as a consultant. You’d think that would be good enough for Apple to approve the game, but hahaha, no. Pocket Tactics reports that the game has had its submission to…

Sexy Fighting Game Characters, Redesigned

Anna Nilsson, from Swedish site Svampriket, has some ideas on what some of the “sexier” female fighting game characters should look like. Mostly, this involves putting some damn pants on. Nilsson’s redesigns take two things into account: she’s toned down the more, ahem, exaggerated aspects of their physical design, and made their outfits more practical.…

An RPG With No Wizards Or Spaceships? Sign Me Up. 

I’m very much into the premiseof Kingdom Come Deliverance, which is a medieval RPG that’s all about history. No monsters, no magic, no witches, no giant rats. Just regular folk going about everyday medieval business. Which, you know, will obviously include famine and war and brigands and disease and all other unsightly things, but for…

Why Five Nights at Freddy’s Fans Are Freaking Out Over A Hat

Earlier today, Scott Cawthon, creator of Five Nights at Freddy’s, uploaded a single picture to his website. You can view it here. It’s a hat. Yup…just a hat. The same hat that Freddy normally wears, when he’s not trying to kill you. What’s the big deal? Why are people overloading the official Scott Cawthon website…

Valve’s Steam Machines Will Officially Launch In November

“Steam Machines will start at the same price point as game consoles, with higher performance,” Valve said in a press release today. Well, OK then. The much-anticipated living room PCs, which have been MIA since Valve officially announced them in early 2014, will finally launch this November alongside a special Steam controller and a device…

Sony’s PS4 Virtual Reality Headset Is Coming Next Year

Sony today unveiled a new version of their PS4 virtual reality headset, code-named Project Morpheus, and though it’s still not final (or ready to be sold), they’re already touting how much better it is than the one they showed off last year. Morpheus will ship in the first half of 2016, Sony said this afternoon…

Microsoft just announced a slew of new independent games coming to Xbox One in the months ahead, including Wasteland 2.

Capcom All-Stars Statue Series Is Off To A Variable Speed Start

First 4 Figures is creating a sister series to its Mega Man statue linecalled Capcom All-Stars, giving the game company a chance to highlight even more characters it’s not doing enough with. First up: Viewtiful Joe. With the $210 light-up exclusive and $190 normal version now up for preorderwith a Q4 2015 release window, Capcom…