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Luke’s Top Ten Games Of 2014

2014 was indeed a disappointingyear for video games, punctuated by some big-budget misfires. But hey, it’s not like every game released in 2014 sucked. Some were OK! And some were even better than OK. With everything from Watch Dogs to Destiny to Assassin’s Creed Unity disappointing in its own special way, my list this year…

Aww, The Dragon Age Dragon Thinks It’s A Helicopter

Dragons are supposed to be Dragon Age’s most fearsome foe. That’s why they are in the title! This dragon didn’t get that memo, though. Watch what happens when Matthew Yuen‘s archer Inquisitor does a move called “Leaping Shot” on a dragon in Inquisition. For whatever reason, the dragon glitches out and starts spinning around in…

Minecraft’s Creator Buys The Most Expensive House In Beverly Hills

In case you needed a material transaction to illustrate just how much money Markus Persson, aka Notch, has having soldMojang (and Minecraft) to Microsoft, take a look at this: the dude just paid $70 million (and maybebeat out Beyonce & Jay-Z) to buy the most expensive house in Beverly Hills The John Aaroe Group just…

Dude Kills Arcade Machine With Badass Spinning Kick

It’s a boxing game, dude. You’re breaking the rules. And by the look of that hit counter going beserk in slow-mo, you’re breaking the game as well. This guy is a member of King of Connexion. If you want to blow some time watching humans spin like video game characters, their YouTube page is perfect…

If Adventure Time Characters Were Pokémon Trainers

Imagine, for a moment, that characters like Finn or Marceline had to pick a Pokémon team. What creatures would you match them up with? Here’s one take by shorelle, and I think it’s perfect. Jake already sort of looks like Pikachu, ergo… Finn X Pikachu Marcelline X Mega Gengar Princess Bubblegum X Wigglytuff If you…

Steam Shooter Copies Real War, Declares Truce For Christmas

Well this is just heartwarming. Verdun, a multiplayer World War I shooter currently in Early Access on Steam, has declared a Christmas truce from December 18-25. You will still be able to duke it out in The War That Didn’t Really Succeed In Ending All Wars if you wish, but developers M2H and Blackmill have…

GTA V’s Version of Operation Is Way More Explosive

Remember the board game Operation, where you have to do your best to extract all sorts of stuff from a patient’s body without touching the edges of the cavities? This is sort of like that, except way more unsafe. AH Community takes the time to show how you can ‘recreate’ the classic game in GTA,…

The Biggest Disappointments of 2014

2014 was a weird, wooly year for video games. The big new consoles were finding their feet, and most of the games we were expecting to play got pushed back to next year. Some of the ones that did come out were great, but others, well… weren’t as great. As has become a tradition here…

Why Pokémon Players Are Obsessed With Blissey Secret Bases

In two words: experience points. Heaps and heaps of experience points. As you might already know, Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire include something called “secret bases.” Think of them like treehouses. Hidden throughout the game are nooks and crannies that players can move into and decorate, Animal Crossing style. While the game gives you…

Assassin’s Creed Unity‘s New Patch: Wait, There’s A Difference?

There’s no doubt that Assassin’s Creed Unity had technical problems, otherwise Ubisoft wouldn’t have apologized for the game’s performance and issued a series of ever-larger patches. So what’s it mean if the graphics, then and now, seem to in many ways be the same? This might seem like a strange point of view. You’ve heard,…

Spider-Woman Gets Her First Costume Change in Decades

Ever since her debut in 1977, Jessica Drew’s superhero costume has looked pretty much the same, despite a few tweaks over the decades: a tight red unitard with yellow accents and big webs stretching from arms to legs. But Spider-Woman’s got an all-new look coming soon and it’s radically different. The new Spider-Woman costume got…

One Brave Destiny Player Beat Crota’s End, Solo

We’ve been getting emails about people trying to solo the new Destiny raid ever since it launched. And while people got through bits and pieces of the raid by themselves, nobody managed to beat the entire thing solo. Until now. Watch in awe as The Legend Himself beats Crota’s End without any teammates. The appropriately-named…

Tales From the Borderlands, Ground Zeroes PC, and More Deals

Tales From The Borderlands Could’ve Been Awful, But It’s Great. Get it today for $18. [Tales From The Borderlands, $18, use code DECEMB-202014-GREENM] If you held off on buying a PS4 during Black Friday, your patience has been rewarded with what is arguably the best bundle we’ve seen Today on Amazon, $440 gets you the…

In case you missed it, Vagante is out on Early Access. I played it back when it was just a rough alpha back in June, but really liked what it was doing. It’s kinda like Spelunky but with Final Fantasy Tactics art and more of an RPG focus. We’ll probably be playing it soon to…

Evan’s Top Ten Games of 2014

There are surprises every year in video games and 2014 was no exception. Some of the surprises from the last twelve months were good enough, for me, to stand head and shoulders above everything else that came out. What shocked me about my favorite 2014 games? How about the fact that the Nintendo-exclusive Bayonetta 2…

New Minecraft Game Coming from Makers of The Walking Dead Game

Minecraft is getting a story, and it’ll be told through the lens of a narrative-driven game by Telltale. Minecraft: Story Mode won’t lay down the groundwork for any official lore, Mojang has said, but it will include characters and themes from the Minecraft universe. Here’s the announcement from Telltale: Minecraft: Story Mode will be an…

Evolve’s open beta will be running between January 15-19 on the Xbox One, accessible to Xbox Live Gold subscribers. Two monsters, the Goliath and the Kraken, and eight hunters will be available to play across 12 maps. There will also be smaller, invite-only closed tests on the PC and PS4 around that time.

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Game of the Week—Dawn of the QTE [Shenmue] • Fire Emblem Hit Percentages, Ranked • Con Men: NYCC Two Months Later and Gender Differences for Cosplayers • Project Hydra – Corpse Party: Tortured Souls EP2 & EP 3 • A Sad Tale of the Video Game Industry…

Watch The World’s First Kill of WoW‘s Current Hardest Boss

Only 4 guilds were capable of defeating Imperator Mar’gok on the hardest difficulty, the final boss of Warlords of Draenor’s newest raid, and the quickest one was the Finnish top guild, Paragon. While that’s impressive, their newly released kill video is just as awesome. Watch 18 minutes of epicness below from multiple guild members’ view.…

Flying Jetskis And Other New GTA V Myths

With the new gen versions of Grand Theft Auto V released and tons of new content added to the game, it was inevitable for the GTA Mythbusters series to return and confirm a bunch of new tricks and funny little exploits. This time it’s all about invulnerable monster trucks, pigeons avoiding wanted levels and military…