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Cosplayer Beats WoW‘s Loot Drops By Building Her Own Armor

“I never got it in-game, so I thought I’m gonna make it and I’m going to have my own Lightbringer set at the house.” Makes sense, when you’re a gifted costume-maker. The cosplay at Blizzcon last week featured amazing outfits that looked like they suddenly teleported out of Blizzard’s popular games and onto actual human…

Five Nights at Freddy’s 2, As Told By Steam Reviews

The first Five Nights At Freddy’s was released rather recently—and yet already, the series has a sequel. Better yet, the sequel is tearing up the Top Sellers chart on Steam. The game’s popularity made me curious, and so I tried it out for the first time last night. As much as I’m intrigued by the…

Yet More Proof That We All Want More Great JRPGs

Japan, are you there? Are you listening? Japan? I’m going to say this as clearly as possible, so even the biggest, most stubborn video game publishers can understand: Americans want more JRPGs. One more time: Americans. Want. More. JRPGs. Don’t just take my word for it. Listen to Sega, who just released a Steam port…

Assassin’s Creed Unity Has The Best Glitches

Who knew Parisian adventures of sneaky assassinations could be improved with a few choice bugs and hiccups? Since it’s release, players have found all sorts of entertaining glitches in Unity. Some bugs show the horrors of what happens when textures don’t load. Some glitches show Arno struggling with climbing things—sometimes, seemingly swimming/dangling on things he…

The heartfelt and deeply personal indie game That Dragon, Cancer is shifting gears. Ryan Green, who is making the game to tell the story of his son’s death from terminal cancer, says that it will no longer be an Ouya exclusive. Green and his co-developers have launched a new Kickstarter to help finish it in…

Xbox LIVE for $35, PS4 Last of Us Bundle, Razer Gear, and More Deals

New Rakuten customers, or those willing to create a new account for this purpose, can grab a year of LIVE for just $35 today with code THANKS15. [LIVE] You can do the same thing to get a DualShock 4 for the same price. Groupon is having a nice sale today on pretty much everything they…

Guy Can’t Stop Laughing At How Buggy The Remastered Halo Games Are

Since the launch of 343’s remastered Halo: The Master Chief Collection, many players have been reporting a laundry list of issues. Some of those, when players can actually connect to the multiplayer servers, include matches with skewed teams. You can see an example of that in the video above, where player Mark Edward Neace Jr,…

The Honest World Of Warcraft Trailer Evokes Strange Feelings Of Pride

When a normal game gets theSmosh Games Honest Trailers treatment I just point and laugh along with the video. Having been a semi-permanent resident of Azeroth for the past decade, the Honest Trailer for World of Warcraft makes me proud to have been a part of this glorious nonsense. “Get hooked on the MMO that…

Monument Valley, one of the best games for the iPad, is now even more best, as eight new peaceful puzzling levels arrive in the game’s Forgotten Shores expansion. The new levels are available today on iOS via $1.99 in-app purchase, with Android and Amazon versions of the update coming soon.

That Moment When LEGO Batman 3 Gets Really Good

Like the first two games in the series, LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham begins with the terrestrial adventures of Batman and Robin. It’s a slow start, but then comes a moment when it all comes together and the game kicks into high gear. It’s not an easy moment to pinpoint, but after much soul-searching and…

Why Assassin’s Creed Makes No Sense To Me

Assassin’s Creed has been around for seven years now. This makes it ancient in video game years. I doubt it’s going anywhere anytime soon, either. This is a problem because the relentless pace at which Ubisoft churns these games out can make it hard to take a step back and evaluate what’s not working about…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Assassin’s Creed Unity: The TAY Review • Music in Media Part 1: Influencing your Experiences • Freedom Wars: The Nitro Review “Phantasy Lords of God Hunter Burst Freedom Unite” • TAY Explores Comics: Blood and Steel TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

DARPA’s “Atlas” Robot Can Now Do The Karate Kid Crane Stance

That’s some serious balancing. Engineers at Boston Dynamics are making progress with “Atlas”, the 6-foot, 330-pound humanoid robot. Still a long way to go from this to fast robot ninjas, but it’s already intimidating as it tries to do the famous “Crane Kick” (or at least the stance) from Karate Kid You should turn the…

Skysaga is Minecraft Meets Bastion, And it Looks Great

To bop the elephant in the room squarely on its cuboid hooter, Skysaga: Infinite Isles looks an awful, awful lot like Minecraft This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK Created by Radiant Worlds – a 50-head studio founded by veterans of UK-based Blitz Games Studios, which went into voluntary bankruptcy last year – it’s a…

Satellite Reign is The Syndicate Wars You Remember

Memory can be a strange thing. Especially with old games. We’ve all returned to a beloved classic to discover something unplayable and been unable to reconcile warm memories with the broken experience of something that hasn’t aged well. (For me it’s Resi 2, which is regularly reloaded and ditched within hours.) This post originally appeared…

Those “Real” Mario Ads Just Got Weirder

Remember that live-action Mario Kart commercialMercedes put together? There are now more of them. Starring Peach and Luigi. They are bonkers.

Gritty ​Mega Man Short Is A Fan’s Dream Movie

Poor Mega Man. Poor, poor Mega Man. Left to rot by Capcom, he lives on these days under an assumed name, and is relevant only to long-suffering, die-hard fans. If that’s you though, boy is this a treat. Loot Crate, sellers of secret nerd stuff, put this short together because their theme for November is…

Plants vs Zombies vs LEGO

Oh, if only this was an actual LEGO set. Well, actually, it can be if enough people vote for it, thanks to LEGO’s Ideas program. Which I’m guessing people will do, because even as a pitch it looks as good as you’d expect from the finished product. The work of killarkai, the set includes the…

Cops Raided Game Studio Because They Thought It Was A Gambling Den

Staff at the Indonesian branch of mobile gaming giant Gameloft got a bit of a surprise on Monday, when police raided the office believing it to be an “an online gambling den”. Maybe they’d got a bad tip, maybe they were jumping to conclusionsabout mobile gaming in general, but local news site Tribun Jogja (via…

Hold X To Play This Call Of Duty Funeral Tribute

Would you believe me if I said Press E To is actually kind of powerful, even if it’s suuuper minimal and based on a goofy moment from Call of Duty? Press E To is a free PC game that emerged in part from another project creator Leo Burke was working on, and in part from,…