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When Hearthstone Revenge Goes Perfectly

Behold, one of the funniest Hearthstone matches I’ve seen in a long time, thanks to an insane new Goblins vs. Gnomes card that puts a friggin’ landmine in one player’s deck. Let’s set the scene. At the bottom is infamous YouTuber Totalbiscuit (narrator of the video), who here is trying to put together the insane…

Watch In Agony As GTA V Racing Teammates Screw Themselves Over

When you’re trying to set a world record for rally racing, it’s not a good idea to ignore the guy telling you when to turn. In GTA Online‘s rally race jobs, only one player can see the checkpoints so the driver needs to listen to him to hit the required marks. At the start of…

Fan Theory: The Mario Games Are Too Hard On Bowser

Bowser has been around long enough that many gamers have found themselves wondering: is Mario’s longtime nemesis really all that bad? Maybe he’s just…misunderstood? Perhaps his intentions are pure, but as a flawed despot struggling to maintain order in his kingdom, he doesn’t always make the best decisions. Case in point: Super Mario 3D World,…

There’s A New Transformers Game On The Way, And It’s Just Precious

Oh my god, look at their giant heads. They’re so huge! This is what classic Transformers characters will look like in Transformers: Battle Tactics, a turn-based tactical combat game coming soon to iOS and Android devices. Before we get into specifics, let me get this out of my system. Huge! Heads! Ahem. Transformers: Battle Tactics…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Game of the Week — …But You Can Never Go Back [Little Inferno] • Rockmandash Reviews: Higanbana no Saku Yoru Ni [Visual Novel & Manga] • Sword Art Online II – Phantom Bullet: the Ani-TAY Review • I Still Have Faith In Cross Ange TAY Classic—TAY Open…

Why People Can’t Stop Loving Super Smash Bros.

To an outsider the Super Smash Bros. series may seem like an unbalanced cacaphony of unrelated characters beating the snot out of each other. According to the latest episode of PBS’s Game/Show, that’s exactly why folks love it. Did you know there was a fancy term for creating something out of a collection of otherwise…

The New Guilty Gear Is Breathtaking At 60 Frames Per Second

Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN- would be the prettiest sprite-based 2D fighter I’ve played, only those aren’t sprites. ARC System Works’ tricksy polygon work results in a game that has to be seen running 60 frames per second at 1080p. What ARC has done with the new installment of Guilty Gear is create intricate cel-shaded polygon…

Here’s two out of the six minimalist Mass Effect posters released by artist Noble-6 yesterday. You can find the rest below, and if you dig the style, make sure to check out the guy’s Redbubble portfolio here or DeviantART page here. He’s covered a whole lot, from Halo and Starcraft to Star Wars and Half-Life…

Flight Simulator Fans Are in for a Treat on PC

You might remember Microsoft Flight Simulator. Ten games were released in the series, the last one being Flight Simulator X in 2006. Later, in 2012, we got a free-to-play followup called Microsoft Flight, which has since been shut down. But now, it’s time to relive the glory days with Flight Simulator X: Steam Edition Dovetail…

Yakuza: Zero sure looks fantastic. Check out this gameplay video (footage starts about four minutes in), which shows off the game world and some very realistic puddle reflections.

20th Anniversary PS4s Are Getting Crazy Bids on eBay

The 20th Anniversary PlayStation 4 looks spectacular. I’d certainly like to have one, but some people want one bad. So much so they’re apparently willing to part with large amounts of cash for the limited edition hardware. GameSpot reports that the console, which is limited to only 12,300 units worldwide, sold out within minutes of…

It’s Basically Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, But With Birds

Yes, Aviary Attorney stars birds. You’ll remember that the feather-flaunting ex-dinosaurs have also taken our dating simulators. What’s next? Far Cry? Wait… oh nooooooooo Despite the rather comical premise, this one looks to play it pretty straight and let the absurdity of bird lawyers paired with some gorgeous period art do the talking. Or squawking.…

The New Nathan Drake Shows Off The Power of the PS4

We’ve seen Uncharted 4 in action.Here’s a closer look at the star of the game, Nathan Drake—and how Naughty Dog updated the character. This panel, which comes from last week’s PlayStation Experience show, has the Naughty Dog team talking about how they drafted the newest Nathan Drake model. In short, there was a lot of…

Conquest, Murder, Pillage…Yup, That’s Christmas

Video games don’t usually get into the Christmas spirit. Which is a shame! So it was nice to see that, upon reinstalling Crusader Kings II yesterday, I ran into this: a new holiday soundtrack to one of the most bloodthirstygames ever made. Seems it came out last year, as free (and optional, you can disable…

Some Tips For Taking On Destiny’s New Raid, Crota’s End

Getting through Crota’s End isn’t easy—but with some key pieces of information, you’ll be able to do it in no time. Here are some pointers by TeftyTeft Games on some of the things you’ll have to look out for while playing the new Destiny raid, including: The new ‘weight of the darkness,’ which limits your…

Nathan Drake Might Be The Best Climber In Video Game History

In video games we do many things. We run, we jump, we punch, we shoot and we climb That fact is most apparent in Naughty Dog’s Uncharted series. From this perspective Nathan Drake isvideo game man par excellence. He is the master of the video game verb. He is Mario, Kratos and Indiana Jones all…

Despite Player Outcry, Elite: Dangerous Will Remain Always Online

Elite: Dangerous is shaping up to be the best open galaxy/virtual reality space trucking game this side of the Milky Way (which it includes all of), but controversy recently blotted out its starry sky when Frontier yanked a long-promised offline mode right before release. Worse, not everybody was offered refunds. In a recent interview with…

2014’s Video Games, In Under Two Minutes

2014 was a big year in video games. Maybe not the biggest, but alongside some disappointments came some truly great games. This video covers pretty much all of them. Not all of them. If you’re a fan of Generic Indie PC Crafting Hybrid Game Still In Early Access On Steam, you might not find your…

The Best SimCity Is Now Free

Forget the bustedremake. Forget the cash-hungry mobile games. The best SimCity Maxis ever made is still available, and as of now it’s a free download on EA’s Origin store. I’m of course talking about SimCity 2000, the game that struck the perfect balance between accessibility and the finer tuning of city-management. More devoted fans might…

Five Nights At Freddy’s 2’s ‘Real Murderer’ Is Unexpected

It’s easy to get caught up in the jumpscares of Five Nights at Freddy’s and leave it at that. But underneath those scares, there’s a very disturbing story hiding in the background of the series—and players are still hard at work at trying to figure out all the details. Concretely, what players know is that…