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Dragon Age: Inquisition Has A Filler Problem

Leave the Hinterlands. I’ve heard it time and time again following the release of Dragon Age Inquisition: don’t stick around in the starting area. We gave you this advice. Bioware encouraged the same thing. Our readers seem to agree: leave the Hinterlands. As you might know, The Hinterlands—the first large area accessible to you in…

Black Friday Xbox One Prices, Firefly, Breaking Bad, and More Deals

The Xbox One has been upgraded to a “Yes” by Kotaku, and the half-life of Black Friday deals will let you snag the Unity Bundle for $350 with a $25 LIVE credit thrown in. [Xbox One] There are no superlatives left to throw Firefly’s way, this deal on the other hand… Firefly: The Complete Series…

PSA: Here’s What Your PC Will Actually Need to Run Dying Light

Yesterday, posts started popping up on places like the ever-popular gaming forum NeoGAF that claimed to have the official PC specs for the upcoming zombie game Dying Light. These were noteworthy because they made the game’s system requirements sound insane. We can all calm down, though, because they weren’t accurate. Posts like the one on…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: The Worst Design Choices in the Past Few Years • Pokémon Omega Ruby + Alpha Sapphire Mascots in Speed Painting Form! • Spacemon – A Pokémon Tabletop Story: Chapter One-Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine, Ten, Eleven TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them…

PS4 Hit Resogun Coming to PS3 and Vita

Resogun is one of the best games on the PS4, a voxel-based sidescrolling shooter that shows off the system’s power in stylish fashion. Later this month, it’s jumping back a hardware generation to the PS3 and Vita. Announced today on the official PlayStation blog, the Vita and PS3 versions of Resogun are due to hit…

This is the Dungeon Heart and the treasury from a Minecraft recreation of a whole Dungeon Keeper 2 map. It was built by YouTuber spumwack in survival mode, which means he gathered all the materials by hand. Nicely done! There’s many more (annotated) shots in the Imgur album below, showing off the various rooms. An…

Delayed Elder Scrolls Online for Consoles Gets News and One Screenshot

The Elder Scrolls Online for consoles has been MIA. But today, Bethesda has provided a an update on how things have been going. Above, you can see the single image Bethesda posted on ElderScrollsOnline.com, along with this explanation as to what’s been going on: ….we have been (and will continue to be) steadily working on…

Golden Sega Genesis Transforms into Megatron

There’s certainly more than meets the eye with this toy Sega Genesis. To mark the release of Nintendo 3DS title Sega 3D Re-issued Archives, the game maker is giving away this special “Gold version” Mega Drive (aka Genesis) Megatron Transformer to five lucky individuals in Japan. Of course, it’s not made of actual gold, but…

First Footage of the New Dragon Ball Z Animated Movie

Next spring, a new Dragon Ball Z movie hits theaters in Japan. The anime marks the return of the greatestDBZ villain, Frieza. Here’s a first look at what we can expect. The following was uploaded by YouTube user Tommda and originally appeared on Japanese morning show Mezamashi TV. Dragon Ball Z: The Resurrection of F…

QTEs Don’t Have To Suck

“Press X to not die.” It’s a gaming cliche at this point, one that many view as a symptom of lazy game design. Quick time events, as they’re known, are glorified cut-scenes. Things happen, and we press buttons that don’t really match up with the action on screen. They can be pretty bad I don’t…

Turning Stealth Video Games Into Stealth Board Games

Thibaud de la Touanne spent twenty years working in the video game business, most recently with Ubisoft Montreal. He’s left that behind now, though, and is bringing that experience to board games. He’s designed a game calledV-Commandos, a WW2 game which brings mechanics you’re probably used to in something like X-Com (or, you know, Commandos)…

‘Christopher Walken’ Calls Xbox Support

Picture the scene: Christopher Walken gets home after a long day filming. He kicks back, wants to relax with some Destiny on Xbox One, but can’t. Because he’s been “hacked”. So Walken – or in this case, an excellent impersonator– makes the dreaded call to Xbox Support. It’s better that the lady on the other…

The people behind Dragon Age: Inquisition are giving a panel about how they approached storytelling in the game. You can watch a live-stream here; it’s starting right now. It’s hosted by the NYU Game Center and will feature creative director Mike Laidlaw, lead writer David Gaider, and actor Freddie Prinze Jr., who I’m hoping will…

A May 2013 Kotaku article about a gamer learning to drive in part with the help of a video game appears to have been based on a hoax that we fell for. Ugh! We’ve updated the original article. Sorry, folks.

A Survival Game Where You Get To Play As The Dinosaurs

Finally, my life-long fantasy of hunting dinosaurs as a T-Rex can come true. Check out Saurian: Hell Creek. It’s in the early stages of development right now, with some placeholder elements and temporary assets in the footage above, but it still sounds pretty exciting: We are Saurian, an independent game project who’s goal is to…

Gaming Mouse Wants To Feel Your Heart Beat (And Your Skin Crawl)

Mionix, makes of finePC gaming mice, are working on something new. And it falls somewhere between a gaming mouse and…Nintendo’s Vitality Sensor. It’s called the NAOS QG, and is intended to be the first entry in a line of peripherals known as “Quantified Gaming”. The idea being that by embedding sensors in the surface of…

The Old City is a neat exploration game (with a whiffof Dishonored about it) that we first looked at early in the year. Despite a failed Kickstarter, it’s now up on Steam.

24 Different Ways To Kill Far Cry 4’s Villain

After watching this, I’m pretty certain nobody hates Far Cry 4‘s villain, Pagan Min, more than Cosmic Contrarian. The guy spends nearly seven minutes killing Pagan Min in all sorts of hilarious ways in the level editor, from overloading him with turtles, to throwing him off cliffs. And then, after Pagan Min is dead, he’ll…

BioWare Put A Lot Of Work Into Dragon Age‘s Trans Character

Dragon Age: Inquisition has a terrific cast. There are dwarves, elves, mages, and towering Qunari, all of whom are interesting people with diverse backgrounds. Awesomely enough, the game also includes one of mainstream video gaming’s best trans characters. The character is a trans man named Krem; he’s second in command of a mercenary company under…

Great Gaming Gifts for $60 and Under

At the very least, you’ve decided to shell out enough to get a brand-new game for the gamers you’re bestowing gifts upon. Good for you. And them. There are options to be had and some of them aren’t even games. But, don’t worry, there are games, too. One of The Best Games on Every System…