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Cuboid hedgehogs are the cutest hedgehogs. This GIF is from a “preview of a biome’s artistic development” from Planets³, the Kickstarter-funded Minecraftlike that’s going pre-alpha in January. The full video is below, showing off the whole (rather gorgeous) scene, with the hedgehog squeaking adorably. Last news of the year [Planets³ Blog] Dayshot is an image-based…

GTA V Spreads Holiday Cheer with Mines and Homing Rockets [Update]

A new update is bringing Christmas goodies to Los Santos and its surroundings, and yes, those goodies include explosives. The patch only seems to be live on the PS4 for now, per user reports posted to the relevant thread at GTAForums. Apart from upping the property limit to three, the patch also adds new content,…

Enhanced Version of PC Cult Classic Suddenly Pops Up on Steam

Outcast came out in 1999. It was pretty great. Then, this year, its original creators launched a Kickstarter campaign for a HD remake of the game, which, sadly, failed to meet its goal. And now, it looks like they are settling for the next best thing: releasing the original game, with new features, on Steam.…

Double-Amputee Gets Two Badass Robot Arms

Les Baugh lost both of his arms over 40 years ago in a “freak” electrical accident. Now, in this footage, we get to see him doing everyday things he hasn’t done for decades, courtesy of not one but two robotic prosthetic limbs. The video, which we saw on the Deus Ex Facebook page (of course),…

Are You Still Playing Destiny?

Destiny has been out for several months now, long enough for most people to have a pretty good sense of what it’s all about. Sure, it got its grindy tentacles around a lot of us back in September, but has it managed to keep everyone playing since then? I’m probably not representative of the average…

You Can’t Gift Steam Games Wherever You Want Anymore

Region-locking, the act of making games non-functional if used outside particular parts of the world, is not an uncommon thing in games. It is, however, a big deal for Steam—especially the PC gaming service’s trading/gifting market. With widespread region locks now in place, change seems inevitable. Recently Steam users and developers began to discover that…

Forza Horizon 2’s Storm Island Weather Isn’t As Bad As It Looks

Look at those trees bending, buffeted by wind as the rain comes pouring down on Forza Horizon 2’s new Storm Island expansion. It could be worse. The weather is often bad on Storm Island, hence the name, but the extreme weather touted in the expansion’s press materials isn’t really all that extreme, especially when compared…

A Small Change Just Made Building In The Sims 4 A Lot More Fun

The Sims 4 got an update yesterday that, among others things, added the two new careers to the game. But we already knew about that—the developers had promised they were coming back in November. Buried within EA’s announcement was something far more exciting for many Sims fans: the return of a beloved cheat code. The…

Players Are Trying To Clean Up Pokémon’s Hacked Trading System

Right now, the GTS—Pokémon‘s online system, which allows players around the world to trade monsters with each other—is a mess. Normally, newer Pokémon games don’t let you name your Pokémon anything offensive. To wit, a friend tried naming a Pokémon she recently caught “Grassy,” but the system is so strict, that it wouldn’t allow it.…

Nic Cage Has A Bone To Pick With Destiny

Not the real Nic Cage, unfortunately, but a fairly convincing cartoon lookalike. He uses a fantastic review scoring system, too. While obviously intended to be funny, Mashed‘s video of famous/infamous actor Nic Cage ranting about Destiny pretty much tells it like it is. Getting friends together for raids can be kind of a pain, and…

Mercy Self-Destructs, A Smash Bros. Phenomenon

I’ve spent a long time playing For Glory in Smash Bros.—that hardcore one-on-one mode with no items and flat stages. And while much of that playtime has been me getting my ass kicked, I can’t help but keep coming back to it. Part of it is that, in my experience at least, the players in…

Until We Get A New Bloody Roar, Ultra Street Fighter IV Animal Costumes

It’s been over 11 years since we last saw Hudson Soft’s bestial battler series in action, and chances of a Bloody Roar revival are incredibly slim. Thank goodness Capcom is here to provide us our anthropomorphic fighter fix with a whopping nine packs of “Wild Costumes” for Ultra Street Fighter IV. Sure, no one’s transforming…

Last-Gen Gamers Are Being Left Behind

New-gen consoles have barely been out for a year, but there’s already a familiar story: a game launches and runs great on the PS4 and Xbox One, much less so on the PS3 and 360. Shadow of Mordor was an egregious example of this performance gap, but it’s not the only one. Is there any…

A Much Better Way To Shop For Video Games On A Console

I’m not sure when Microsoft added the best thing ever to their Xbox Live game store, but I’d like to show you some video of it so you can marvel with me. Seriously, who needs breathless catalog copy or sketchy user reviews when you can get live gamer-driven broadcasts of the $60 Xbox epic you…

How To Do Smash Bros. Wii U’s Version of Wavedashing

While the new Smash games don’t have the famous technique from Melee that players called wavedashing, they do have something called “perfect pivoting”—and it’s similar/useful enough that you’ll want to learn how to do it if you’re playing seriously. My Smash Corner explains how to do the technique in this video, and why it’s worth…

A Duel Between Two Destiny Snipers

This battle between snipers goes through many stages, all of them hilarious. At first, I’m expecting MoneyLoo to land a crazy shot off a camping sniper through the tiniest crack between stacks of crates. Then it’s a silly back and forth while the two snipers strafe between hiding behind cover and trying to kill each…

Finally, a Vita Memory Card Deal, Cowboy Bebop, Plus a Lot More

Vita Memory Cards are by far our most requested deal, so stock up. [ 16GB Vita Memory Card, $25] The must-own Cowboy Bebop Complete Series Blu-ray has dropped back down to its preorder price point. [Cowboy Bebop, $42] Dragon Age: Inquisition is down to a new low of $40. As a wise old man once…

Street Fighter’s Blanka Is a Monster at Trolling Other Video Games

First, he romped through the real world, making people’s lives miserable. Now, he’s showing up in Dishonored, Minecraft and a few other virtual locales to screw things up. Damn you, Blanka. This clever video by Street Troller switches up the formula established by older Blanka trolling clips and plops the green-skinned World Warrior into other…

Kotaku‘s 2014 Gift Guide To Awesomely Bad Games

Not everyone deserves that high-end graphics card you saved up for a special holiday gift. Some people get coal for Christmas—or, if you’re an adult, an excellent prank gift—and there are certainly video game equivalents to choose from. Halo: The Master Chief Collection Merry Christmas! Here, have this game that only as of recently half…

Changed PS4 Settings Are Not A Good Reason To Call The Police

A resident of Alexandria, Minnesota contacted the police earlier this month to report that someone entered his house and changed the settings on his PlayStation 4. Of course they did. Reader Matt sent us this clipping from hislocal Echo Press newspaper indicating the report, which was placed on December 6. I imagine he did so…