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Dragon Age‘s New Update Took Away My Damn Scars

Dragon Age: Inquisition‘s second big patch went out today, largely focused on the RPG behemoth’s PC version. I took it for a spin and discovered a few tiny tweaks paired with a big change for the worse: my character’s scars are gone—her face pristine as fresh plastic—and I’m not alone in that. The patch, released…

Great Gaming Gifts for $60 and Over

The hints that your special gamer people have been dropping? You’ve caught them. The money required? You’ve saved it. They deserve something bigger, something cooler. And you’re going to give it to them. Here are some finer things that just might make their holiday game run a lot more more sparkly. Corsair Gaming K95 RGB…

Smash Bros. Players Have Invented…’Smashketball’

Ever since Super Smash Bros. came out for the Wii U, players have been playing around with the game’s new stage builder. While many fans have focused on recreating their favorite stages from past games, one idea has stood out because of its novelty: turning Smash into a particularly silly version of…basketball? That’s right. Shortly…

The top-notch strategy game Heroes of Might and Magic 3 will be remade in HD for PC and tablets, publisher Ubisoft announced today. It’s out in January.

Tiny GTA V Tricks You Into Thinking Los Santos Is Cute

“Cute” is not normally a word I’d use to describe Grand Theft Auto…unless it has been miniaturized. Then GTA becomes so adorable you could just eat it up. Check out GTA Series Videos‘s take on Los Santos—they use something called tilt-shifting to get a really striking effect that miniaturizes GTA V: Neat, right? You might…

See A Motion-Captured Face Come To Life

A well-animated face can be the difference between empathizing with a game character and looking at a glassy-eyed marionette. That’s why this mocap tech demo so strangely moving. The video above is a demonstration of the current animation pipeline from a company called 3lateral (who were responsible for rigging the faces in Ryse and Grand…

How To Unlock The New Strike In Destiny: The Dark Below

Destiny‘s new DLC is out today, and with it comes a brand new strike called The Will of Crota that also doubles as the weekly heroic. Of course, the game doesn’t do a very good job of explaining how you can unlock and play that strike. That’s what we’re here for. It’ll take you about…

Mega Man X Makes A Much Cooler Statue Than The Original

Back is September, First 4 Figures revealed thefirst in their new line of Mega Man statues. It was nice, if a bit too Astro Boy for my tastes. Now the company unveils its first Mega Man X statue. That’s more like it. Not that I have anything against the original Mega Man. He’s an adorable…

It Took Six Hours For A Team To Beat Destiny’s New Raid

Well, that didn’t take long. One group of Destiny players has already gotten through the toughest content in the new expansion pack, The Dark Below. The team, known as ‘Invigorate Gaming,’ posted the following stats for the new raid, Crota’s End: Their triumph over the new raid might not be surprising, given that they were…

Stock Up on Xbox One Games, Elgato Game Capture, Vita Discounts

Get $25 Dell gift cards with the purchase of select Xbox One games, use said gift cards to buy more Xbox One games. Sunset Overdrive plus $25 Gift Card ($40) | Dell Forza 5 – Game of the Year Edition plus $25 Gift Card ($40) | Dell Ryse: Son of Rome – Legendary Edition plus…

The Not-Particularly-Secret Origin Of Homestar Runner

From children’s book to web series to Telltale adventure game to a four-year stint as an incredibly quiet thing, Homestar Runner was one of the first really important things on the internet. Where did it come from? Atlanta, of course. Specifically Dunwoody, Georgia, where series creators Mike and Mark Chapman (the Brothers Chaps) attended school…

Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris: The Kotaku Review

She’s always been a shape-shifter, our Lara. Not just in the silhouette shaped by ever-advancing polygon technology, but also in the sorts of games she’s headlined. The newest Lara Croft game molds her into a form that’s a little bit of both past and present. It works, mostly. This is the return of the wise-cracking…

Yahoo! Mario is looking exceedingly triumphant in this custom Super Smash Bros. Wii U stage “Star World.” It’s made by Reddit user Rifick, a player who’s making a name for himself online thanks to his standout work in the game’s level editor. Check out more of his new stages here, and our ongoing roundup here…

That’s It, I’m Done With Facebook Games

Today Facebook announced its 2014 Games of the Year. The top winner? Cookie Jam, a Candy Crush Saga clone. If this is the best Facebook has to offer, I’m done. I realize that most of our readership was done with Facebook games from the word FarmVille. They’re bothersome, annoying, formulaic, et cetera. But I’ve seen…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker: The TAY Review • The Last of Us – A Very Memorable Experience • AniTAY Presents: Project Hydra Versus Tenchi Muyō! TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

Destiny’s Weekly Strike Is Now Locked Behind DLC

Are you a Destiny player who didn’t buy today’s new expansion pack, The Dark Below? Hope you don’t plan on doing this week’s heroic strike. Because you can’t. Since the weekly strike is currently “The Will of Crota”—the new strike packed with Destiny‘s $20 expansion—players without the DLC won’t be able to do it. It’s…

DayZ Fan-Film Got All The Game’s Silly Glitches Right

FireFilms’ live action short got right not just the glitches, like the zombie bypassing walls, but also all the humor that comes with the game: the weird way characters move, the eerie locations, the handcuffs and, of course, the disinfectant sprays. DayZ (Fan Film) – Live Action [YouTube] To contact the author of this post,…

Driveclub‘s Dynamic Weather Update Completely Changes The Game

Two days ago I was bored with Driveclub. Today each race is exhilarating, often terrifyingly so, and all that’s changed is the weather. Now that most of the connection kinks have been worked out, Evolution Studios dropped its promised post-release dynamic weather update on the PlayStation 4’s once-troubled online racer,and it’s pretty much the best…

As they always say, the sincerest form of flattery is when someone remakes your stuff in Unreal Engine 4. This time, the remakee is Hideo Kojima’s P.T., and the remaker is level artist Jonathan Vallieres, this being his first, 2.5-month UE4 project. Video’s below, and you can find lots of WIP shots here UE4 –…

Rumor: Final Fantasy X and X-2 Are Getting HD Remasters for PS4

If true, it looks like Final Fantasy X/X-2 are headed to the PlayStation 4 in hi-def. Good thing Square Enix didn’t recently release HD versions of these games. Oh wait. As spotted by website Nova Crystallis and webforum NeoGAF, Square Enix France’s online shop allegedly leaked a listing for Final Final X/X-2 HD Remaster for…