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Here’s a cool new way to try playing The Sims 4: the creator of one of popular “legacy challenges” recently came up with an idea for another custom mode he’s calling the “moments challenge.” It adds neat short-term objectives and funny punishments (like grounding your Sims). Check out the rules here and give it a…

Peter Molyneux’s Godus Is Having Serious Problems

Legendary game designer Peter Molyneux, creator of the god game genre, has a history of over-promising and under-delivering. So when he took his latest game, Godus, to Kickstarter, people were a little wary. Turns out, they were right to feel that way. After a £526,563 Kickstarter that conjured up divine dreams of a Molyneux return…

Buff Dude Is Pretty Much A Real Life Dragon Ball Z Villain

Reality TV may not be the best place to find anything realistic, but it can be a good place to find people who would fit right in an anime. Take Chris, for example. Chris was a contestant in Steve Austin’s Broken Skull Challenge. Broken Skull Challenge is one of those shows where (really fit) people…

Five Months In, Hardcore Destiny Players Are Hitting A Wall

A couple of weeks ago, my regular Destiny crew stopped playing. It wasn’t some big announced event, or something we had planned. Our loss of momentum started with a confluence of other, smaller occurrences. We took a few days off, then a few more. Then we weren’t playing at all. Once or twice, I’d be…

Besiege Players Have Built Some Amazing Dicks

Give people the tools to build whatever they want, and they’ll probably create amazing technological wonders. Also, dicks. We’ve seen it time and time again: if people have the freedom to make things, they’ll probably make genitals. Even in Nintendo games, this axiom is true. Nothing is safe. So it’s probably not surprising to hear…

A Look At Metacritic’s Many Problems

Today, the gaming website Eurogamer announced plans to ditch review scores, joining outlets like Kotaku and Rock Paper Shotgun in Fighting The Good Fight against the arbitrary and meaningless quantification of video game quality. That’s good news both for Eurogamer and for video game criticism in general. It’s also good news for anyone concerned about…

Skilled Dark Souls II Player Makes Toughest Enemies Look Like Chumps

Parrying is an advanced move in the Souls games, as you can deflect an enemy’s attack. Remarkably, a number of bosses can be dismantled with a parry, too. Most players (i.e. me) are too busy rolling out of the way of a sword to worry about knocking it back, but it’s impressive to watch a…

DLC: Defined

Just about everybody knows that the acronym DLC stands for “downloadable content”, but do they know what it really means? Probably, but we’re going to define it anyway, because that’s what the XXX: Defined series is all about. DLC noun dee-elle-see At its most basic, DLC is any content for a video game not included…

Midweek Steam Sale, Mario Kart Slot Cars, and More Deals

Steam’s offering a surprisingly huge midweek sale on a ton of mystery-themed games, including Gone Home ($8), L.A. Noire ($5), Alan Wake ($5), and a lot more. [Steam] There’s a lot to like about the Corsair M65: Eight programmable buttons, metal scroll wheel, configurable weights. What really sets it apart though is the three-zone backlighting…

Marvel’s Next Cinematic Spider-Man Should Be a Black Guy

Here’s how Marvel should introduce Peter Parker to the Marvel Cinematic Universe: by killing him off. They’ve done it in the comics. And that development in Marvel’s Ultimate Universe resulted in one of the freshest narrative branches of its Spider-Man mythos, the introduction of Miles Morales, a Black and Latino teenager who becomes an all-new…

Street Fighter II Has Somehow Been Ported To Virtual Boy

While it feels like Street Fighter II has been released on every platform ever, that’s not true, as Capcom never blessed Nintendo’s doomed Virtual Boy with the classic fighter. That’s where fans come the rescue, as Hyper Fighting has introduced Street Fighter II to wildly outdated 3D. Homebrew games have existed in the still-active Virtual…

The surprisingly excellent zombie game Dying Light got its first batch of DLC today, Techland said in a surprise announcement. It’s called “Cuisine & Cargo,” and adds two additional “hardcore zones” (buildings) to explore in the game’s world. There are two more bits of DLC coming out in March and May respectively.

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: A Life Worth Watching: Why I Love The Slice of Life Genre • Your Lie in April Resonates with Me on Multiple Levels • Indie HYPE: Black Ice • Michonne! in Speed Painting Form! • The Worst/Best Extremes in Japanese Fiction I’ve Seen So Far: Part 2…

For the first time ever, Bethesda will be holding its own E3 press conference this year. Fallout 4? Dishonored 2? Doom 17? Skyrim 360? Let the speculation begin.

Cyberpunk LEGO Is, Sadly, Not Official

Computers and displays hanging on the walls, chaos that is somehow organized, rusty post-indusrial techno-junk lying everywhere. Tim Schwalf‘s massive LEGO cyber slums fan-build has it all, just like a proper dystopian town. It’s easy to imagine this as part of an official cyberpunk set with mechs and hardboiled detectives. Here are some close-up shots—head…

The Ten Coolest Unknown NPCs In World of Warcraft

Azeroth is full of great characters everyone’s familiar with, like Thrall, Jaina, or returning NPCs like Brann Bronzebeard or Nat Pagle. But some of the best storylines are hidden deep in Azeroth, and if you’re not exploring everything with both factions, reading every quest along the way, it’s easy to miss out. Nixxiom collected ten…

Steam Sales: A Visual Metaphor

Steam sales are good, provided you have self-control. If you don’t, you might feel like the Scout above whenever a big sale rolls around. Made by YouTuber zombiller, this Source Filmmaker parody of The Shining stars Team Fortress 2’s Heavy and Scout as Gabe Newell/Jack Nicholson and the Steam sale victim/Shelley Duvall, respectively. Apart from…

The Future of DLC Is an Expensive Place

You’ve probably seen that famous Mona Lisa Photoshop that shows how downloadable content has evolved in games over the years. The image has gotten yet another update to show our grim DLC future. While not brand new, the image continues to float around internet bulletin boards like 4chan and 2ch. In case you missed it,…

Doom Mod Replaces Every Sound with a Guy’s Voice

It’s the perfect way to turn an otherwise grim, brutal game about slaughtering demons goofy as hell. Submitted by user mallo to Doomworld last week, the “Greatest sound wad ever” replaces each in-game sound effect with mallo’s, well, own sound effects. Here’s some in-game footage, recorded by Rock Paper Shotgun, to show you what it’s…

Xenoblade Chronicles X‘s Stupid-Looking Characters Are A-Okay

I know it’s only February. But this year, these are going to be hard to top. Congrats, Xenoblade Chronicles X, for some of the dumbest-looking characters of 2015! Before we start, realize I don’t think characters with stupid faces are problematic. Not in the least! Rather, I’m charmed by their unapologetic ugliness (no need to…