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Some exciting news for Xbox gamers: Microsoft just confirmed the release dates for three rad-looking games that are all coming out this Spring—i.e., soon. The games are Ori and the Blind Forest (March 11th, $19.99), Screamride (March 3rd, $39.99), and the Xbox One version of State of Decay (April 28th, $29.99). Woo!

Dungeons & Dragons Brings Fresh Elemental Evil To MMO And Tabletop

Considered by many to be the greatest D&D adventure of all-time, “The Temple of Elemental Evil” gets a major nod this March when the latest storyline, simply titled “Elemental Evil”, hits the MMO Neverwinter, the tabletop game and beyond. “The Temple of Elemental Evil”, AKA Advanced Dungeons & Dragons modules T1 through T4, remains the…

Ever wanted to know what it sounds like for someone to fart on a keyboard and call it a Resident Evil soundtrack? Your day has come. 1997’s Resident Evil: Director’s Cut: Dual Shock Version included new music by composer Mamoru Samuragochi. It’s mostly good! But this track? Can’t explain it.

One Lightsaber Battle That Escalated Quickly

It’s funny to see people still overreact to the new Star Wars lightsaber design. Russian YouTuber Mr. TV Cow and his clip is no different and he goes way beyond the usual reactions and edits with his clip. A Jedi and a Sith are ready to fight and show off their silly sabres in this…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Pokémon One a Day Series Two: Feraligatr, Sentret, Furret • Late Night Drinks with a Nomad: Death Parade Episode 1 • Death Parade Has the Potential to Become Great • Pre-Cult: Age of Wonders 3 • TAY Explores Comics: 6000 TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY…

Custom Batmobile Baby Stroller Is Just Asking For Trouble

At least young Colin Earl won’t have to wait for a bat to come crashing through his window for vigilante inspiration — this custom-built Batmobile stroller should do the trick nicely. The nice folks at Super-Fan Builds, makers of the lovely BioShock aquarium, tackle a Batman super-fan in this latest, ill-fated episode. Well-meaning wife Maressa…

Three More Classic Star Wars Games Are Getting Digital Releases

Just a couple months after the digital debut of X-Wing and TIE Fighter, the folks at Good Old Games have announced plans to start selling three more classic Star Wars titles: Star Wars: X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter, Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance, and Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds Saga That sure is a mouthful. In addition to…

Classic Counter-Strike Maps In Isometric View

Using a program called HalfMapper, gzaloprgm posted a nice gallery of classic Counter-Strike 1.6 maps with the camera angle set to isometric view. It no longer looks like a competitive FPS, but like a classic X-Com game. I can imagine myself playing a turn-based strategy game on these maps. Here’s cs_italy, de_dust2, de_train and all…

$400 Version of Borderlands New-Gen Port Will Get You Your Own Claptrap

Just announced today, Borderlands: The Handsome Collection will come with many fine things, graphically improved versions of Borderlands 2 and last year’s The Pre-Sequel among them. But, if you don’t mind missing out on a few bill payments, you can get a talking, remote-controlled Claptrap in a collector’s edition. The Handsome Collection bundles together new-gen…

Redesigned Darth Vader Looks Just As Menacing

But not more menacing. That would be just silly. Still, alternate universe Darth Vader makes a good effort. The redesigned Vader was drawn by 1oshuart of DeviantArt (AKA artist Joshua Cairós) for a Star Wars-themed challenge organized by the Brainstorm Facebook group. The group got a lot of entries, but 1oshuart’s is just something else—and…

Elite Dangerous Isn’t Sure How to Punish Space Murder

Elite’s lead designer, Sandro Sammarco, has discussed possible changes to bounties and exposed an interesting issue with video game punishments: what if they’re too effective? This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK In a post discussing an interdiction issue (this is the ability for a ship to pull another out of supercruise to rob or…

PlayStation Making Up For Downtime With A 10% Off Sale This Weekend

As first detailedearlier in the month, Sony is making up for some Christmas-related downtime with a sale on pretty much everything on the PlayStation Store. That sale has a catch: you’ll get 10% off almost anything on the store, provided you lump it all into the one purchase and buy it all at once. The…

Pro Teams Implicated In Huge Counter-Strike Match Fixing Scandal

It has not exactly been smooth sailing (or terrorist blasting, given the lack of boats) in Counter-Strike land lately. First there was the big pro cheat tool bust right before Dream Hack 2014, then there was foul play at Dream Hack 2014, and now we can add a team purposefully losing a match to the…

GTA V’s San Andreas vs 2004’s San Andreas

We’ve seen charts, and galleriesfrom the street, but it’s only when you see the size of the game world in both GTA titles laid bare that you start to appreciate a few things you might have otherwise missed. Like how small the modern Los Santos, which feels like an endless metropolis, really is. Or how…

Fan Cuts The Hobbit Into A Single, 4-Hour Movie

The first thing I thought after watching The Battle of Five Armies was “boy, that’s a movie that didn’t need to be made”. Now, thanks to the power of fans and the internet, we can pretend around half of Peter Jackson’s entire Hobbit trilogy never happened. A guy by the name of tolkieneditor (via Daily…

Winning Hearthstone Play Had A 0.00041% Chance Of Happening

Over the weekend, during a Hearthstone tournament, one player lucked into a killer combination not once, not twice, but three damn times in a row, beating the odds in extraordinary fashion This happened during week 8 of the ESL Hearthstone Legendary Series. Video here: Some context: The player who starts on top, Kitkatz, has a…

Destiny Player Builds Robot To Grind For Him

Playing Destiny can be time consuming, especially if you want to level multiple characters. Naturally, players are finding low-effort ways to get the job done, some of which don’t require physically playing the game at all. A player that goes by the handle yavin427 recently shared a method with Reddit, and it involves using a…

After unlocking “The Void,” the Mario Kart 8 hackers have started to put stuff inside of it. In their latest video, the fraternal modding duo MrBean35000vr and Chadderz show what happened when they started dropping odds and odds (like giant stacks of goombas) into an empty track they found in the game. Neat! Also just…

One man keeps unearthing hidden, secret parts of Team Ico’s games and one of NomadColossus‘ most recent finds reveals extremely moody beta sections of Ico that didn’t make it into the final version. Well worth a look if you love this PS2 classic game.

Fan-Made Silent Hill Game Is Nearly As Creepy As The Original

In case you forgot, Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima and horror movie maestro Guillermo del Toro are making a new Silent Hill together. If you’re not excited/weeping in terror at the prospect, you might actually be one Silent Hill’s soulless denizens. Sadly, it’s still a long way off. Thank goodness for fan games. Silent…