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The More I Played Overwatch, The More I Liked It

Blizzard’s Overwatch is, in the grand scheme of shooters, kinda simple. Each character has one weapon, levels are straightforward, and movement speed feels like everybody is a giant moon ape—not just, you know, the giant moon ape. At first I wasn’t impressed, but then I discovered how interesting its characters are. It took me a…

The Sonic Boom Cartoon Is Off To A Fine Start

While the jury’s still out on Sonic Boom: Shattered Crystal for the 3DS and Rise of Lyric for the Wii U, the first couple of episodes for the animated series aired on Cartoon Network over the weekend, and it’s not half bad. I suppose it all depends on what you were looking for in a…

Gorgeously animated strategy game The Banner Saga will be coming to PS4 next year, along with even more small-team-developed games

The Coolest Cosplay from Blizzcon 2014

Basically, some of these costumes look like folks’ World of Warcraft, Diablo and Starcraft characters walked right through the screen and caught a flight to Anaheim. The House of Warcraft held their annual fanfest last week and dropped a big bomb in the form of Overwatch, which had a bit of day-one representation. But most…

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Charge Your DualShock 4s in Style, Holiday Game Sales, and More Deals

This PowerA charging cradle can top-off two DualShock 4s simultaneously, and it’s down to an all-time low $17 today. Its 4.4 star review average inspires a lot of confidence too. [ PowerA DualShock 4 Controller Charging Station, $17] If you’re an Xbox One owner, or just don’t like the look of this cradle, we’ve rounded…

Five Gaming Rumors That Were Too Good To Stay Fake

Lots of things in video games sound too good to be true. But what about when it’s the other way around—when something is too good to not be true? Erhm, you know what I mean. The trivia-themed YouTube channel “Did You Know Gaming?” recently took a look at five myths that became so pervasive among…

Remember the last-gen Assassin’s Creed comes out this week, too. Unity‘s been getting all the hype from Ubisoft but Rogue looks like it might be improving on the best parts of last year’s Black Flag.

There’s A Big New Game Award Show Happening This December

Spike’s VGX may no longer be this year’s big holiday showcase—former host Geoff Keighley just announced plans for a new December awards show, The Game Awards, which promises “awards, world premieres, musical performances, and appearances by game developers, eSports players and online content creators.” For the past few years, Keighley (a friend of Kotaku) has…

Here’s The Launch Trailer For Grand Theft Auto V On PS4/Xbox One

Hot off Rockstar’s presses, this is the launch trailer for Grand Theft Auto V, which comes to PS4 and Xbox One next week (and to PC in January). This current-gen version of GTA V, which is out November 18, will come not only with fancy new graphics but with a brand new first-person mode that…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Bayonetta 2 : The TAY Review • Times when DLC was Better than the Game it was Made for • The Lisbon Games Week 2014 Report • Why Muv-Luv Was a Defining Entry in Modern Science Fiction TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

If Famous Directors Made Call of Duty

The Wes-Anderson-Call-of-Duty-Fox takes it all, but shooting and crawling—not to mention the plot—would be a lot different in all of Dorkly’s recent gallery, with Call of Duty and some famous screenwriters’ take on it. There are a few more over at Dorkly. If Other Famous Screenwriters Wrote Call of Duty [Dorkly] To contact the author…

Blizzard is planning to add this cool Diablo-themed map as a Battleground in Heroes of the Storm, with the High Heavens going up against the forces of Hell. Not much is known yet, but it’d look great if the winning side could slowly take over the other half of the map, just like Zerg creep.…

Dungeon Of The Endless Is Pretty Good, Guys

Amplitude Studios are having one hell of a year. Not only is their strategy title Endless Legend one of the year’s biggest surprises, one of their other games is also going to quietly sneak onto some people’s GOTY lists as well. That game isDungeon of the Endless. It’s a…weird game, one that mixes rogue-like dungeon…

Batman: Redesigned Is Not Your Pappy’s Batman

Brainstorm is a Facebook group where artists can take part in various challenges. This month, the challenge was to redesign Batman (and the Batmobile). The results are probably not the kind of Dark Knight Bob Kane had in mind. Below are some of the best entries. While most of these slant sci-fi, there are some…

Overwatch’s Hype Is All About Those Kids

Boy, people sure got excited about that Overwatch reveal, didn’t they? It’s been a while – Watch Dogs’ E3 announcement probably being the last case – since I saw grown humans lose their shit over a trailer and a lil’ bit of early gameplay. But in the case of Overwatch, there’s a very good reason…

Watch The Finals Of The Netrunner World Champs

Fantasy Flight’s World Championship Weekend is still going on, closing with the finals of the Netrunner tournament. You can catch it right here.

Happy Tenth Anniversary, EverQuest II

Ten years ago today, Sony Online Entertainment released the follow-up to the game that put massively-multiplayer online role-playing games on the map. Two week’s later Blizzard came along and set the map on fire, but some of us will never forget EverQuest II November 2004 was a magical month for MMO fans. Up until that…

The Best 3D Castlevania Is This Custom-Made Board Game

A massive game board inspired by the original NES classic, 11 characters with upgrade-able weapons and abilities, battle dice, movement dice and more than 100 item and monster cards — this is the ultimate Castlevania board game. This amazing creation is the work of Redditor XsimonbelmontX, who last year crafted an outstanding Fallout-themed Monopoly board…

The Origin Of Battle Network And Other Fascinating Mega Man Trivia

Did you know that every time I hear the opening theme to Mega Man 2 I start singling the lyrics version created by Brentalfloss in 2008? That’s not a fact presented inDid You Know Gaming‘s second look at the Mega Man franchise, which mainly deals with fan-created bots and the excellent Mega Man Battle Network…