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New DayZ Game Looks Cute As A (Zombie’s) Button

MINIDAYZ, which began life as a fan-made tribute to DayZ, has quietly been picked up by Bohemia Interactive and is now hosted on the publisher’s site – for free – as an “official” DayZ title. It’s a top-down game that shares the same basic premise as DayZ – scrounge around to stay alive while fighting…

​Dragon Age Players, Show Us Your Heroes

The first act of Dragon Age: Inquisition doesn’t really take place on a snowy mountain; it takes place in the game’s character creator. Anyone who’s spent any amount of time playing role-playing video games knows how important it is to create a really cool-looking character. Hopefully you read my tips articleand took your time with…

Dragon Age: Keep Has 300 Different Choices

If you include all of the race and gender choices for your protagonists as well as all the decisions you can have them make, then there are 300 different options. Most of them are pretty minor, but it leads to more than 1,427,247,692,705,959,881,058,285,969,449,495,136,382,746,624 different possible world states for Dragon Age: Inquisition. Damn. If you’re interested…

The Missing Feature World of Warcraft Fans Won’t Forget

There is one piece of Warcraft lore that won’t go away, no matter how much Blizzard tries (or doesn’t try) to bury it. People have waited for its arrival, breath bated, fists balled, for more than half a decade—half of WoW‘s lifespan. It is… a dance studio. It all began back when World of Warcraft‘s…

Fuck you, bird.

A Dragon Age Sex Scene That’s Actually Pretty Great

Bioware games are known for many things, including the inclusion of romance and sex. But boy, did Bioware outdo themselves this time. Obviously, if you don’t want to be spoiled on romances in Dragon Age Inquisition, you shouldn’t keep reading! Now that we’ve got that out of the way, behold. This is the sex scene…

Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire’s New Mega Pokémon, In GIFs

Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire release for the 3DS tomorrow, and to celebrate that, here’s a trailer that goes over every mega Pokémon in the game…in anime form. It’s really pretty, and it kind of makes me want to start watching the Pokémon anime again. I kind of love that they make Mudkip seem like…

The Pinball RPG I Always Wanted

Rollers of the Realm is a pinball/RPG hybrid. It’s also the type of pinball game I’ve wanted for a long time. Some of you may remember the old NES title Pinball Quest, a game that mixed RPG elements with pinball. It held a lot of promise, but 8-bit physics could just never do pinball justice.…

Yep, That’s Super Mario 64 In Doom

Not the most… expected combination, but the original Doom with a sugary sweet Super Mario 64 filling works surprisingly well, all things considered. Doom: The Golden Souls is a mod heavily inspired by Super Mario 64. It’s been in development for quite some time, but version 1.0 just butt-stomped onto the surface of the goomba…

One Year Later, Should You Get An Xbox One Or A PS4?

People ask us all the time whether they should buy a new-gen console? Should they get an Xbox One? A PS4? For a year, we’ve told people to not bother with either. Now, we think you should make the leap, especially if you’re a console-only gamer. But which one to get? We’re not going to…

Finally, A Game of Thrones Video Game That Looks Worthy Of The Name

Could this be the first great Game of Thrones video game? It’s premature to start praising Telltale’s upcoming series before we’ve even gotten a chance to play it, but the stars seem to be aligning for this one. For starters, it looks great, as you can see in the just-released trailer below—our first good look…

Dragon Age Players Weren’t Supposed To Find This Creepy Easter Egg

Typically, when you fall through the map in a game you don’t expect to find anything aside from an endless void. But if you happen to fall through the map in the exact right place in Dragon Age Inquisition, you might find something a little weird. LeeCsM found this…thing after falling through the ground in…

Shadow of Mordor DLC Lets You Play As A Lady

If you feel like adding some estrogen to your orc-slaying experience, today is your lucky day—Warner Bros. just launched a free new DLC pack (for PS4/Xbox One/PC) that will let you replace boring ol’ Talion with a lady whose full title must be spelled out every time she’s mentioned: Lithariel, the Warrior Commander of the…

Discounts On Your Favorite Gaming Peripherals, Pre-Black Friday Deals

We’ve got a ton of great peripheral deals today, the highlights though (at least for gamers) are the Razer DeathAdder gaming mouse for $40, and the Razer BlackWidow mechanical keyboard for $90. Those were your favorite gaming mouse and keyboard, respectively, and we’ve never seen them for this cheap before. Thrustmaster Hotas Warthog Joystick ($360)…

Destiny DLC Intro Leaks On YouTube

It’s Thursday, which means it’s time for a new Destiny leak. This time around, it’s the cinematic intro for the upcoming ‘The Dark Below’ DLC, which Bungie will release on December 9. Says YouTuber Mr Jester6598: This is the opening cinematic for the Dark Below DLC out next month. I can not explain how to…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Assassin’s Creed Rogue: The TAY Review • PS3 Customers Prefer Curry, Xbox 360 Customers Prefer Sausage • Amiibo: The TAY Micro Review TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

The Folks Behind Halo Say They’re Fixing Matchmaking Today

As has become something of a tradition in the world of video games, Halo: The Master Chief Collection launched with some serious problems—after it came out last week, players struggled with matchmaking and online play in the collection of Halo ports ad remakes. Today, hopefully, things will get at least a little better. After some…

There’s a new Kingdom Rush out today. Called Kingdom Rush: Origins, it’s $3 on iPhone/Android and $5 on iPad, and is everything you might expect from a new game in the wonderfully addictive tower defense series: new towers, new heroes, annoying microtransactions, fantastic gameplay.

HBO Go finally launches on Xbox One today, so if you’re an HBO subscriber (or are “borrowing” your parents’ account) you can now watch every episode of shows like Game of Thrones and The Sopranos on the newest Xbox. Still no word on when it will come to PS4 or Wii U.

How Guardians of the Galaxy Should Have Ended

The folks at HISHE made several animated alternate endings to Guardians of the Galaxy, with many of the movie’s memorable scenes getting derailed and Thanos in his hovering chair becoming the most chill villain in the Marvel Universe. And Baby Groot finally meets someone capable of discussing things on a much higher level. How Guardians…