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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…

How I Realized My Dragon Age: Inquisition Character is Gay

Some hours into Dragon Age: Inquisition, long after I’d made it out of the Hinterlands, I realized something that really surprised me. My character had taken on a life of his own, and it turns out he’s gay. Character creation in role-playing games like Inquisition seems to get more detailed all the time—just look at…

Sons of Anarchy Game Looks Like Sons of Anarchy in First Trailer

In other words, you ride a chopper, light a smoke, hold a gun to someone’s head and get beat in the face with a pipe. All in first person! This is the first trailer for Orpheus Interactive’s Sons of Anarchy: The Prospect, in which you play a new prospect trying to earn your spot in…

This Week In Business: Big Companies Missing Out On Big Money

QUOTE | “The majority of those users probably wouldn’t have bought the game anyway. So it’s not like we’re losing revenue… It’s essentially free marketing.” – Monument Valley producer Dan Gray, talking about the fact that 95% of the Android copies of Monument Valley are pirated QUOTE | “By the time the big companies that…

1/5/2015: What Link Needed All Along

Who needs a sword when you can have knowledge. Picures in Boxes knows what’s up. Feel free to peruse some of our best stuff from the week over on Kotaku Selects, where I round it all up for you. To contact the author of this post, write to [email protected] or find her on Twitter at…

What happens when Alien: Isolation and Team Fortress 2 mix? You get this nicely done short film by MaGGoT4th, in which an Alien turns TF2‘s colorful cast into quivering mush puddles. Make sure to stick around for the twist ending.

PC Modders Turn Metal Gear Solid Into A First-Person Shooter

The Metal Gear Solid games have allowed players to look around in first-person for quite a while, but to play the whole game like an FPS—with convincing movement and decent controls? This looks like a job for modders. The Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes first-person PC mod—which you can see in action courtesy of…

No, People Are Probably Not Gonna Buy A Rare NES Game For $100,000

There is currently a factory sealed copy of extremely rare (there are only two copies in near-mint condition on Earth) NES game Stadium Events listed on eBay. It’s reached a bidding high of $100,000, and it still has six days to go. Unfortunately, there is likely foul play involved. As Wired outlines, auctions like these…

Still No Word Why Far Cry 4 Stopped Working For Some Xbox One Owners

Far Cry 4 for the Xbox One disappeared from the Xbox Marketplace for a little while earlier this week, preventing some from playing a game they own. The problem was eventually solved, but the whole thing’s left me pretty confused. What exactly happened…and why? Unfortunately, Microsoft’s brief statement on the issue to Videogamer.comhasn’t provided any…

I Played The New Princess Bride Video Game So You Wouldn’t Have To

It’s early January in the Year of our Lord 2015. Is there a better time to release a mobile game based on the beloved 1987 Rob Reiner film The Princess Bride? I can’t think of one. Like any sensitive modern gentleman, I love both The Princess Bride the film and The Princess Bride the book—not…

Five Nights At Wario’s Makes Nintendo Terrifying

Five Nights At Wario’s is a Five Nights At Freddy’s parody game chock full of Nintendo characters like Mario, Luigi, and Princess Peach. Also their eyes are dead and they’re bleeding pure darkness from infinite void orifices. And then there’s Waluigi. Dear god, Waluigi. Five Nights At Wario’s is available for free over on Game…

GTA Game Slowly Descends Into Glitch Hell

At first, it’s a few small oddities. The floating car glitch we’ve seen before. A character model disappearing for a few seconds. But, by the time that this drug-running mission in Grand Theft Auto Online ends, everything’s gone to hell. Or heaven, by the looks of it. Things don’t seem that weird at the beginning…

Life-Size Pac-Man Maze Unhinges Jaw, Consumes LA

It could be said that Los Angeles is an urban maze, a sprawl of overlapping, interlocking grids and dumpster-strewn dead ends. Yesterday, you could have also said it was a Pac-Man maze. Because it was. The maze was put together to be used in—of all things—a Bud Light beer commercial that will apparently air during…

Video Game Pre-Order Bonuses Are Getting Stranger Every Day [UPDATE]

Pre-ordering video games is, in general, a Very Bad Idea, as we’ve learned from the likes of SimCity, Battlefield 4, Halo: The Master Chief Collection, Assassin’s Creed Unity, Aliens: Colonial Marines, and many many more. So these days, video game publishers have to get a little more creative when it comes to getting you to…

Uncharted 2’s Museum Level Sucked

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves was an immediate game-changer when Naughty Dog released it in 2009. As a high octane love letter to Indiana Jones and the 1950s adventure serials that inspired it, it set an ideal expectation for the adventure genre — never give the player an opportunity to breathe. Every objective must serve the…

“If you own a PlayStation, you may have killed him at some point.” Grantland‘s got a great profile of Reuben Langdon, a motion-capture stuntman who’s lent his physical and vocal talents to games like Resident Evil: Code Veronica, Devil May Cry 3 and Street Fighter

Watch Pokémon Red/Blue Get Destroyed In Just 21 Minutes

When I first saw that the schedule for Awesome Games Done Quick listed the original Pokémon games with an estimated completion time of “30:00,” I had a feeling we were going to see something ridiculous today. And we sure did. It took just 21 minutes for speedrunner Werster to rip through Pokémon Red/Blue this afternoon,…

College Student Found The Perfect Gamer To Win $6,000 From

When 22-year-old Nate Danziger booted up Cordial Minuet, he wasn’t sure what to expect. Cordial Minuet, a psychological puzzler from designer Jason Rohrer, asks people to use their own money. You only need a few dollars to start, but it’s still real money! Danziger discovered Cordial Minuet because he loved The Castle Doctrine, Rohrer’s last…

Everything Saints Row is On Sale, 25% off Mortal Kombat X, More Deals

Humble’s holding a special 50-75% off sale on a ton of Saints Row games and DLC packs this weekend. [Saints Row Sale] Greenman Gaming is having a nice VIP sale right now on some upcoming and recently-released games. You’ll have to sign in to see the deals, but the big highlights are Mortal Kombat X…

Monkey Island Creator Wanted Lobotomized Criminals In His First Game

Maniac Mansion and The Secret of Monkey Island creator Ron Gilbert has been quietly releasing some amazing pieces of gaming history on his official website. Today, he’s uploaded a look of his first design document for Lucasfilm Games. The unproduced game would’ve been called I Was A Teenage Lobot, and marked the first appearance of…