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Dying Light Benchmarked: Graphics And CPU Performance

Most known for developing the Call of Juarez and Dead Island franchises, Techland is back this week to launch a new open world survival horror title for the PC (including Linux and SteamOS), PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Dying Light takes place in an expansive urban environment where players navigate using freerunning ‘parkour’ mechanics while…

Watch The Biggest Smash Bros. Tournament of The Year Live, Right Here

Apex 2015—the biggest Smash tournament ever—almost didn’t happen. But thanks to the community’s rallying, the tournament was able to quickly find a new venue for the competition. Which means that we can start enjoying some great top-level play! The Main Stream Secondary Stream If you’d like to watch the newbie stream, you can catch that…

1/26/2015: Say Hello To All Of Team Kotaku

Well, almost every full-time employee, anyway. Our friend András couldn’t make it from Budapest to join, but this is basically your whole Kotaku team saying hello from our New York headquarters. Sadly the team all flew back to their respective cities and continents, but we had a good week hanging out with each other IRL.…

Portal 2 Mod Looks Slick Enough To Be A Valve Game

Portal Stories: Mel, an upcomingmod for Portal 2, is starting to less like a mod in this new trailer, and more like a straight-up official Valve entry in the series. OK, so we can’t speak for Mel’s sense of humour, but everything else about it looks shockingly professional, from the detail (and unique design) in…

Game Where You Build Stupid Shit But It Actually Works

Besiege is a devilishly simple, physics-based building game. You can create machines of destruction with ease. For a game in Alpha, it’s surprising how polished Besiege feels. I was creating absurd death machines within a few of minutes. Sure, some of them weren’t exactly structurally sound, often resulting in a horrid crumpled mess, but the…

That Time A Video Game Changed The Way I Walked

It’s strange to remember just how easily influenced I was. Embarrassing to admit just how obsessively I was able to actually love one. single. video game. But to be fair, I was only ten years old at the time. I played a lot of games at that age. Mostly on my Amiga 500. Games like…

Mean Girls Video Game Alert

It’s been a while since we lastgot a Mean Girls game, so let’s get another Mean Girls game. Sadly, there is not a Lindsay Lohan to be found, but what can be found is a faithful recreation of the film’s story and themes, with high school hostility replaced by….wait, a tower defence game? What is…

It’s Good That Fantastic Four Doesn’t Look Like Marvel’s Other Movies

Marvel Comics’ first modern superhero success has been made into some very bad movies. The one coming up this summer has the chance to be much better, mostly by looking nothing like the comics it came from. There’s been a lot of discussion about the teaser for director Josh Trank’s filmic reboot of the Fantastic…

Meet Twitch’s Newest Star: A Piano Player

For most of this week, I was pretty sick. There was an upside, though: it gave me the opportunity to stumble across one of Kyle Landry’s piano marathons on Twitch. That night, he became one of the most viewed anythings on Twitch, nearly beating Counter-Strike, Hearthstone, and Dying Light At first, it was just idle…

AMD Taunts Nvidia Over Latest Graphics Card Controversy

Of the few remaining Video Game Brand Battles, the AMD vs. Nvidia fight might be my favorite. The two graphics companies often take small swipes at each other, and usually with less restraint than console or game manufacturers. The latest shot comes from AMD, in an update they posted to Facebook (via NeoGAF): 970 minutes…

League Of Legends Characters & Art So Good They Should Be In The Game

These League of Legends characters and environments weren’t made by Riot Games, they were made by fans. But Riot thinks they’re good enough for public acclaim, and so do I. Riot and art site Polycount held a competition recently where users could submit their own designs for LoL stuff, and the winners – chosen by…

Worth Reading: Dragon Age Heartbreak, The Death Of Madden, And More

The Super Bowl is almost here, which means it’s time to pretend you care about football! Being a Bears fan, I’m all about whatever makes people the unhappiest, since my team isn’t playing for. Do I actually have to root for the Patriots? I might be sick. I need something else to keep my mind…

Law and Order: SVU is doing another ripped-from-the-headlines episode that touches on video games, this one focused on a female game developer determined to release her creation amidst a storm of online harassment.

2014’s Best Games On Sale, Faster Xbox Load Times, and More Deals

C atch up on some of the big games you missed last year with Greenman Gaming’s 2014 Revisited sale. Note that the promo code takes an extra 20% off the advertised deal prices. Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel ($24) | Green Man Gaming | Promo code 20PERO-FFDIGI-GAMESX Alien: Isolation ($20) | Green Man Gaming | Promo code…

We’ve updated our post about Nintendo’s new YouTube plan: Pewdiepie has weighed in on the issue, and he does not sound happy about it. Read what he has to say here.

Smash Tournament Relocates After Hotel Violates Safety Codes [UPDATE]

UPDATE (12:57pm): Apex 2015 has found a new venue and will still be on for this weekend. Original story follows: This morning at Apex 2015—a major Smash tournament held at a hotel just outside of New York City—the fire alarm went off. There was no fire, but when the marshals came to investigate, they discovered…

All The Anime Shows Airing In Spring 2015, In One Chart

Here’s an awesome resource that can get you up to speed with the latest and greatest anime running in spring 2015. Posted by Stargazed Charts, this visual gives you a quick rundown of upcoming anime, including the studio behind it, the source, the genre, and a synopsis. It even includes theatrical releases and special, one-off…

PSA: Remember To Download The Free Rare Pokémon Available Now

Are you playing Pokémon Omega Ruby or Alpha Sapphire right now? Good news. Game Freak is giving out a few rare Pokémon that you’ll want to pick up. All you have to do is go into the game, and select ‘Mystery Gift’ from the main menu, and put in a couple of codes. The code…

Game of Thrones Season 5 Trailer Leaks

From Tyrion’s “I don’t give a shit” beard to that great shot of Meereen’s harpy falling, this first trailer for season 5 of HBO’s Game of Thrones is full of fun moments. This is an unofficial, off-screen leak, but surely HBO will post the real thing soon. In the meantime, let’s just watch and cross…