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Worth Reading: Rethinking Frame Rates, Shady Steam Codes, And More

It’s a special Monday edition of Worth Reading, thanks to yours truly running out of time on Friday afternoon. But let’s kick this week off right by inviting debate on some of the most contentious topic around: frame rates and the price of a video game. However… These are paragraphs I might otherwise dedicate to…

Why Some Dota 2 Players Are Mad At Valve Right Now

Last weekend, a special event themed after the Chinese New Year was released for Dota 2. Called “Year Beast,” the new mode was so popular, that Dota 2 hit a newrecord for number of people playing a Steam game at the same time. But the number of players trying to get into the Year Beast…

Fallout Publisher Sends Legal Threat To Game With ‘Fallout’ In Title

Indie developer and YouTube personality Jordan Maron is changing the name of his upcoming mobile game Fortress Fallout after receiving a cease-and-desist notification from Zenimax Media, the parent company behind Fallout publisher Bethesda. Maron explained in a video published yesterday on his popular YouTube channel CaptainSparklez (via Polygon) that while he’s been working on Fortress…

​A Chronicle Of Buggy, Broken Telltale Games, 2012-2015

It is a truth universally acknowledged, but little examined, that Telltale’s games have issues. The studio rose to prominence with 2012’s Game of the Year-worthy The Walking Dead adventure game. Since then, their games, wonderful in many ways as they may be, have been accompanied by an undercurrent of fan anger. Each subsequent notch in…

If you’re a World of Warcraft player who’s colorblind, Blizzard will introduce a slew of new accessibility options in the upcoming 6.1 patch. “For example, when you move your mouse cursor over a piece of rare gear and then a piece of epic gear, the game colors the names of the items blue and then…

Five Nights At Freddy’s Creator Trolls Everyone

Last weekend, the Five Nights at Freddy’s 3 page on Steam had a new announcement from its creator, Scott Cawthon. “Game Cancelled!”, the post said. ” Cawthon said that he had been hacked, and that someone released Five Nights at Freddy’s 3 ahead of time, on a different website. Naturally, people in the comments initially…

Seven Reasons Fahrenheit Is One Of The Finest Adventure Games Ever

Recently remastered in HD for PC and iOS, Quantic Dream’s Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophecy in the States) set the standard for cinematic adventure games years before Heavy Rain and Beyond Two Souls came along. Want to know why? With a twisted story, ordinary characters in strange circumstances and advanced cinematic storytelling, playing Fahrenheit back in 2005…

What’s So Great About Metroid Prime

The Metroid Prime trilogy, arguably the best gaming trilogy ever, has just been re-issued as a $20 download on the Wii U. That’s a good reason for Kirk “never played a Metroid Prime” Hamilton to try them out. I had to see how that went. What follows is an early report of Kirk’s findings, an…

Half Price Destiny, Game of Thrones Last Call, Ghibli, More Deals

Destiny’s not a perfect game, but it can be really tough to put down. Plus, it was good enough to make Kotaku’s 12-best lists for Xbox One and PS4. [Destiny, $30] The standard Wii U Deluxe bundle is down to $260 today, including two games. Tax free for most. [Wii U Deluxe with Mario 3D…

Nintendo Sure Screwed Up The Majora’s Mask New 3DS Launch

On January 14, Nintendo announced a limited-edition Majora’s Mask-themed gold New 3DS XL. Since then, chaos has ruled humanity. Food is scarce. Most spend their days staying inside and huddling with their loved ones. Gangs of scalpers roam the streets to prey on hapless consumers who like shiny things. Well, at least it feels that…

A “Definitive Edition” of Darksiders 2 is coming to the PS4, GameSpot has confirmed with publisher Nordic Games. Hooray for more new-gen ports?

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Pokémon One a Day Series 2: Mareep, Flaaffy, Ampharos • Indie HYPE: Breach and Clear: Deadline • Indie HYPE: Fortified! • The deadpan TAY Review – “New” 3DS XL • Pre Cult: Octodad: Dadliest Catch • My Teenage Romantic Comedy SNAFU: Ani-TAY Review TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s…

How Items In Pokémon Would Actually Work

The fine folks at Dorkly imagined how Pokémon items—that usually are just a few pixels with a short description—would actually look like. Here’s the “Ring Target” (moves that would otherwise have no effect would land on the Pokémon that holds it) above, and a few more below. To see all of them head over to…

Diablo III Player Reaches Level 1,000 Without Dying

Gaining 1,000 Paragon levels in Diablo III is no small feat and it’s only accomplished by a very few amount of players. But doing it on Hardcore difficulty, where your character’s death is permanent, that’s some next level insanity. Ukranian player Nokieka is the first in the world to do it. According to Battle.net and…

Hope You’re Ready For Custom Majora’s Mask Music (And Dumb Jokes)

Yes,it’s an old joke, but it’s also an old game. If sticking one of those things on the 3DS can make it fresh again, then it can work for the other as well. (viaKotaku AU)

Space Game Tricks Me Into Enjoying The Boring Stuff

When I first saw Offworld Trading Company, the videos were full of cute little spaceships on an alien planet…and while those things technically feature, this is not really a space strategy game. Despite the fact that the same guy who was lead designer on Civ IV was in charge of OTC’s development, you’re not getting…

Maybe The Laziest RPG You Could Ever Play

Dreeps is an RPG where you do almost nothing. And as terrible as that may seem, I actually kinda like the idea. Designed for iOS, it asks you to simply set an alarm. When you wake up in the morning, a little robot boy in the game will also wake up and start adventuring, all…

Kinect Is Teaching Cops Some Sweet Beatdown Moves

So Microsoft’s Kinect was a video gaming bust. Whatever. It’s still got its uses. Like…helping police work on their “use of force options” against suspects. You know, whether to shout or shoot at a guy. Prepare for unintentionally hilarious police action/acting. Via Attract Mode, the Windows version of the peripheral is being used as part…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: They’ll Never Find Waldo

So science thinksit’s cracked the code for finding perennial hider Waldo every time? Oh we’ll see about that. It’s time to hide Waldo where they’ll never, ever find him. So they’ve found the optimal search algorithm for finding out where the bespeckled world traveler might be lurking on any given page. That just means we…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: The Indescribable Allure of Avatars • Kairosoft Stole All My Free Time Again with Anime Studio Story • Some Reasons You Should Watch Danger Man • How This War of Mine Helped Me Understand My Refugee Mom • A Really Short Review of the New Nintendo 3DS…