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The Video Game Loading Screens Of 2014

In a perfect world, we’d spend all of our time actually playing video games. But if 2014 has taught us anything, it’s that our world is not perfect. And so, among other things, we must spend a percentage of our time watching loading screens. Slowly but surely, video game developers are getting better at loading…

The NSFW Stages Of Super Smash Bros.

Human nature dictates that whenever people acquire new tools for visual expression, they’ll use them to draw dicks. So when Nintendo revealed that the latest (and, quite possibly greatest)Super Smash Bros.would come with a level editor, was there any doubt about what players would do with it? Of course not. Shortly after the stage builder…

How To ‘Ground Pound’ And Other New Moves In Halo 5‘s Multiplayer Beta

Now that the Halo 5 multiplayer is officially in session, you might want to pull off one of those new movement abilities you may have heard of. You can see them all in action in HaloFollower’s video above—with details explaining things like how your shield won’t recharge if you’re sprinting. But what about their basic…

What People Get Wrong About PewDiePie, YouTube’s Biggest Star

Four years ago, an account named “PewDiePie” uploaded a video to YouTube. It was about Minecraft. The video featured what sounded like a young man laughing heartily at an unlucky zombie that had gotten stuck in a tree. The commentary wasn’t in English, it was in Swedish. The next few videos on this account focused…

Listen to some Halo 5 music, if you’d like. We captured it from the upcoming game’s multiplayer beta, which just started for some Xbox One gamers and will launch wider later this month.

Yannick’s Top Ten Games Of 2014

The most interesting parts of 2014’s games for me were the relationships. The love and hate I felt for my enemies in Shadow of Mordor. The tenderness with which I cooed over my Miis and Sims. The surprising amount of joy I felt when killing Nazis in Wolfenstein Every relationship is unique, of course. It’s…

The Pokémon Players Who Want To Save Christmas

Pokémon players around the world are coming together in the name of holidays next week. The plan? To brighten up the day of any kid that is playing Pokémon for the first time, after receiving any of the new games as Christmas presents. First, some context. New Pokémon games, like X & Y or Omega…

A Game That Creates Weird Alien Art Galleries

Are games art? That question is old, tired, washed up and on its last day before retirement. The answer is yes, obviously. Now, can games create art—stuff to hang on a wall—with human hands entirely out of the picture? There’s something to think about. Secret Habitat is a free game that procedurally generates massive acid…

The Year In Dota 2: A Game That Kept Changing

Dota 2 is the staple of millions of players’ gaming nights, a rising star in the eSports scene for a new generation of competitive players and spectators. It’s also a lucrative vehicle for Valve to sell hats. From how it changed, to how people played it, to how Valve talked about it, here is the…

“It’s chess meets Hamlet. Okay, maybe not Hamlet. But it’s a start.” Ken Levine, of BioShock and System Shock 2 fame, wrote an interesting review of Shadow of Mordor this week in which he praises its novel ability to tell stories that players “build for themselves simply by playing the game” Read it over at…

Steam Winter Sale, N64 USB, Xbox One Bundles, Logitech, and More Deals

The Steam Winter Sale is here, so stock up on some PC games for your holidays breaks. Tell us what you’re picking up in the comments, and really tell us when you find the same games cheaper elsewhere. [ Steam] You could use this to play Wrestlemania 2000 and Blast Corps. on your gaming rig.…

The State of Star Wars: The Old Republic, Three Years In

Star Wars: The Old Republic has never been exactly what we want it to be. Though some of us have stuck with it since its launch in December 2011, we know it’s still not ideal in 2014. And so does BioWare. “We used to talk about this as KOTORs 3-through-10,” the game’s executive producer, Jeff…

The Sims 4 Is Getting An Outdoorsy ‘Game Pack’ Next Month

After weeks of fan speculation about a possible expansion for The Sims 4, players got an answer from its creator today. Yes, the game is getting its first batch of paid DLC soon. But it’s not a full “expansion” like the ones previous Sims games received. Rather, it’s a “Game Pack,” and it sounds sort…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Ani-TAY’s Top 15 Anime Openings of 2014 • The Perfect Time to Watch One of My Favorite Anime Movies • The Best Part in Space Age • Is it okay to nitpick Smash Bros. yet? • Pre-Cult: Tropico 4 • Return to (Castle) Wolfenstein: The New Order…

That’s One Way To Play Jenga

Impressive Jenga skills right there. And if you check the video below, even though the wobble is minimal, it doesn’t look like the pieces were glued together. Still, it’s only one level, but the tower technically fell and according to the rules, that means game over. ಠ_ಠ incredible jenga move [YouTube, DKBobby] To contact the…

Dark Souls Characters Turned Into Amazing Statues

The raw looks and the rough paint job make these figurines by artist futantshadow unique and cool. They’re just like the ones in all three Souls games: blurred shapes in the dark, coming after you. Here are some highlights, including a Darkwraith, Marvelous Chester, Ornstein, Heide Knight Artorias, an amazing Sunbro and more. The artist…

Nintendo is Working on New Console Ideas, Says Miyamoto

In an interview with Associated Press (via Gamespot), Nintendo executive and creative visionary Shigeru Miyamoto mentioned that divisions within Nintendo are hard at work on new console ideas – but that the Wii U is still very much the focus. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK “We’re focused on providing a robust line-up of…

Link faces Gyorg in a 19th century-era Termina. The painting, called “Majora’s Mask Remix,” is the work of VFX artist Valdis Matas, who posted the pic to the Polycount forums’ 2D section last week. It’s quite amazing. Majora’s Mask Remix [Polycount] Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest,…

Evolve is Finally Starting to Feel Like a Full-Sized Game

Evolve is finally starting to feel like a full-sized game, with a new multi-stage campaign called Evacuation, three new modes, a third monster and another four hunters. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK Evacuation is Evolve’s literal game changer. Until now things seemed light, with the only gameplay option ‘hunting’ or ‘being’ the monster,…

The Most Random Game Of Fallout

If nothing else, I have to admire this Fallout: New Vegas player for his persistence. He’s making every choice by rolling D20 dice. New Vegas is a huge game with countless dialogue options. That’s, um—let me see, carry the several thousand—a megafuckton of real-life dice rolls. BetaRayBen has a simple objective: use D20 dice (as…