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Schlocky and Stiff, Resident Evil 4 Nevertheless Remains a Classic

Well over 10 hours into Resident Evil 4, there’s a pertinent moment that says a lot about the game’s essence. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK Leon S. Kennedy, our hero and veteran of Resident Evil 2, has bettered all manner of mutated meanies – villagers with significant social shortcomings, a giant fish with…

First-Person Zombie Movie Is A Man Running (And Jumping) For His Life

Dying Light, named for the video game it’s promoting, is a short, first-person zombie movie that is shot entirely from the perspective of a man sprinting over rooftops, frantically trying to avoid becoming fresh meat. The perspective can get a little sickening at times (the FOV, with his looooong arms, is off), but on the…

Kim Jong Un Video Game Hacked, Creators Claim

First announcedin May 2014, Glorious Leader is a platformer where you control North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. And just like the man it’s based on, the game has been caught up in a hacking fiasco. Having been pretty quiet since its reveal, the game moved to Kickstarterlast month hoping to pull together the funds…

Let The Internet Create The Ultimate D&D Character

If you find that creating your role-playing character’s backstory a little rough (thanks to your sense of imagination being dulled to a smooth sheen), the internet — as always — is here to help. Who The Fuck Is My D&D Character is a generator (via Super Punch) made by Ryan J Grantthat will do as…

Hosts’ Reactions Are The Highlight Of Japanese ‘Face Hacking’ Video

My weekend shift is over, Kotaku, so I’ll leave you with this video of Tokyo artist and producer Nobumichi Asai’s impressive and slightly disturbing “face hacking” that I saw on Geekologie The effect — which we’ve seen previously — is achieved using face-tracking, projectors and 3D animations, according to Blastr, and is shown here being…

Smash Bros. Lore Theory May Make You Regret Beating Up On Master Hand

Is it possible that the big bosses featured in every Super Smash Bros. game—Master Hand, Crazy Hand, Tabuu, and Master Core—really represent different aspects of series creator Masahiro Sakurai? It sounds crazy (hand), but this video from The Game Theorists might actually convince you that it’s at least possible. Even if the video has some…

More Than You Ever Wanted To Know About The Sega Dreamcast

The latest from the video game trivia masters at Did You Know Gaming? tackles Sega’s ill-fated but fondly remembered Dreamcast—from inception to downfall. (Is it just me or is the rapid-fire pacing of this channel’s video releases starting to get a little crazy?) Anyway, the Dreamcast was not a bad system, but a perfect storm…

Half-Life 2 Characters Fit Perfectly In Artist Pogo’s Neighborhood

Artist Nick Bertke, AKA Pogo, made this video compositing elements from Half-Life 2 into footage of his real-life neighborhood and what looks like his home. And it looks astounding. Before I read the video’s description on YouTube I was slightly confused about what was real and what was CG, which is a testament both to…

Microsoft has updated its rules regarding videos that include footage from its games to allow creators to make money from ads—as long as they don’t use the game’s title in their video titles or include anything the company considers “objectionable” (does that mean no Spartan poop stance clips?). [via Windows Central]

The Next Penelope Looks Like F-Zero With Boss Battles

I hadn’t heard of The Next Penelope before the game’s marketer, Indie Fund scout John Polson, reached out to tell me about it, but I’m sold on the premise and look of this game. It has elements of F-Zero, as well as the under-appreciated classic Micro Machines (which was more or less remade as Toybox…

Taking The Minecraft Vegetarian Challenge

Minecraft is a lot of different things to a lot of different people; a place to build a word processor, recreate Westeros or trap incredible monsters. For many players it’s simply about survival, which means making sure you have shelter at night, forging armor and weapons with which you can fend off attackers, and somehow…

Publishers Wanted To Change Life Is Strange‘s Protagonists Into Men

Dontnod Entertainment and Square Enix’s Life Is Strange looks really interesting, but it was almost a very different game, according to a developer diary video posted this week. Apparently Dontnod shopped the game around to a number of different publishers before going with Square Enix, and it turns out most of them wanted to change…

A Major Game of Thrones Question May Have Been Answered At The Library

A popular fan theory on the identity of one of George R.R. Martin’s most mysterious A Song of Ice and Fire characters may have just been debunked—and by a simple trip to the library. Spoilers for the series, including possibly for unpublished material here! Redditor _honeybird this week documented a trip to Texas A&M University’s…

Guy Beats Ocarina of Time‘s First Three Dungeons With A Blindfold On

It’s the last day of Awesome Games Done Quick 2015, and to celebrate, speedrunner Runnerguy2489 played a few dungeons in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Also, he did it all blindfolded. Yep, he played through a solid chunk of the iconic N64 game without looking, finishing the first three dungeons thanks to some…

Is anyone else totally into Outlander? It’s a bit sappy, but it also has time travel, and historical accuracy, and beautiful women and men, and great writing and cinematography and music (by Battlestar Galactica composer Bear McCreary!). Watch the new trailer here.

Ten Times One Player Beat Two in Professional Smash Bros.

I’ve been spending a lot of time with the new Super Smash Bros. games on Wii U and 3DS lately, but actually playing doesn’t get me nearly as hyped as this compilation of pros succeeding against the odds. EvenMatchupGaming‘s first Super Smash Bros. “2v1 comebacks” video features ten clips of players whose partners have died…

Let’s Survive Together With The Walking Dead‘s Season 5(b) Trailer

The first half of The Walking Dead‘s fifth season introduced some fascinating new villains, killed a whole bunch of characters and in general got darker than ever. Now the show is poised to return on Feb. 8, and the latest trailer reveals the group will be focused on “surviving together.” Which apparently means killing things—lots…

​How Destiny Players Fixed One Of The Game’s Biggest Problems

As much as I love it, Destiny is riddled with flaws, many of which Bungie doesn’t seem all that interested in addressing. Most of them—like how you still lose ammo when you die—are things players can’t do anything about. But the game’s lack of matchmaking for its most challenging missions—one of its most glaring problems,…

Nintendo Will No Longer Sell Consoles or Games in Brazil

Nintendo is pulling out of Brazil. The company announced yesterday that it will no longer distribute products there due to the country’s high tariffs on electronics, despite its “many passionate fans” that live there. Nintendo officially blames “challenges in the local business environment,” including “high import duties…and our decision not to have a local manufacturing…

Spartan Crabwalks in Halo 5 Beta Glitch

Players have discovered plenty of interesting issues in the ongoing Halo 5: Guardians multiplayer beta, but this is probably the funniest. “Not sure if anyone has shared this before, but this is what happens when you crouch in midair and sprint upon landing at the beginning of a breakout game,” wrote Redditor coked_up_tourist. Other users…