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The Witcher 3‘s Intro Is All about Geralt’s Fearsome Ex-Girlfriend

Here’s the opening cinematic for The Witcher 3. That lady wielding all the bad juju? She and Geralt were a thing once. The last part of CD Projekt Red’s action/RPG trilogy has been a long time coming but the developers have been promising a bigger scale and more intense story than in previous entries. This…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Senran Kagura: Shinovi Versus: The TAY Review • Love for Level-5 • Rockmandash Reviews: ef – a fairy tale of the two [Visual Novel & Anime] TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

All the Deaths from the Original Star Wars Movies, in Three Minutes

How many people became one with the Force in the Episodes IV-VI of the Star Wars films? Have a look at this montage of death scenes from the original trilogy and find out. This video from Digg keeps a running tally of all the on-screen deaths from Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back and Return…

How To Level Up Alt Characters In Time For Warlords of Draenor

Leveling in World of Warcraft is much easier than it was in vanilla WoW days. We have heirloom items that level with us, the dungeon finder, PvP with experience points. But there’s still a lot we can do to make leveling even more quicker (and fun) and GOM TV’shere to share all of it in…

Victorian Era LEGO London Is Massive

Doing LEGO builds for themes that never had official sets must be the hardest. But a UK-based group called Bricks to the Past‘s large-scale LEGO display of 19th century London is amazing without acknowledging that. Here’s the full build with the London Docklands and its warehouses on the east side and some cozy stores and…

Dreamfall Chapters: Book One Builds A World and Little Else

I am a huge fan of The Longest Journey franchise, so you can bet the moment the Kickstarter for Dreamfall Chapters went online I threw my money at it. And now that the first chapter is out, let me say that it’s not the most exciting opening, but it does do some serious world building.…

The U.S. Military Is Developing a High-Tech Sandbox

Dubbed the ARES Sandtable, this U.S. Military prototype uses a Kinect, a projector, software, and sand to recreate real-world environments like never before. Below, via Military.com, you can see what traditional military sandtables look like: Traditional sandtables can take up hours to set up, while the AREAS table might make it possible to do the…

Richarizard Nixon And Other U.S. Presidents As Pokémon

Now that’s an unexpected combination. And if the drawings weren’t enough, artist Brandon Dayton added new pun names too for these Pokémon Presidents. Makes me wonder who the others, the ones not included here, might be as Poképrez. There’s more on the artist’s Etsy site and you can also get all of them as prints.…

Watch People Freak Out Over Mewtwo in New Smash Bros.

Yesterday, Nintendo announced that Mewtwo was heading to the new Super Smash Bros. games as a downloadable character. Some people went bonkers. Others filmed themselves going bonkers. As pointed out by website Barukanlog, YouTubbers have been uploading live reactions to the announcement. Maybe they’re hamming it up? Maybe these could be staged? Maybe not? But…

Five Fallacies You Should Learn If You’ve Ever Used the Internet

PBS Idea Channel is easily among the greatest YouTube channels around. And given how much drama’s been hitting the internet recently, they’ve produced a short series of six videos that discuss some of the most common mistakes people make when arguing online. They cover the Ad Hominem, the Black and White Thinking fallacy, the “No…

DigiPen is a school famous for feeding fresh meat into the grinder that is the games industry. In this terrific story on Motherboard, Jagger Gravning takes a look at what the school’s massive gender gap (it’s 80% dudes) means for the student’s social lives.

Hack, Love, Relax, Drink Coffee, Whatever

Else Heartbreak is an upcoming adventure game for the PC Else Heartbreak is an adventure game set in the peculiar city of Dorisburg, a place where bits have replaced atoms. Follow the daily lives of its citizens, fall madly in love, and learn how to modify reality through programming. Those delicious visuals? Programming? Adventure gaming?…

And YOU Thought It Was Hard To Get To Blizzcon

Getting tickets to Blizzard’s annual fan convention is hard enough when you’re an American who lives relatively nearby. So spare a thought for Andrey “Trolden” Nolden, one of the biggest Hearthstone personalities on YouTube, who can’t even get into the country, let alone the show. Nolden, who is Russian and applied for a visa to…

​Why Destiny Needs A Screenshot Tool

Among the many tweaks and changes we think would make Destiny a better game, a HUD-free screenshot tool features prominently. Destiny is a gorgeous game, but it’s very difficult to show that off without a huge gun or some HUD-clutter getting in the way. Case in point: These fantastic screenshots captured by redditor TwilightGap, who…

You Can Play Dark Souls II In First-Person, If You Want

Someone did it for the first Dark Souls on PC, so of course it was going to happen for Dark Souls II. What you’re seeing here is a hack that “tells the game’s camera to permanently stay zoomed in, giving you a first person perspective”. Technically, aside from a few little glitches, it works just…

53 Things We Just Learned About Super Smash Bros. Wii U

So Nintendo held a big Nintendo Direct tonight for Super Smash Bros. Wii U, and it basically laid out what we all suspected: this is going to be the definitive version. In fact, the video spends a lot of time crapping all over the 3DS version—which was pretty good!—in favor of the upcoming HD Smash,…

Here’s To You, Shadow of Mordor Orc With A Silly Name

By now, the internet’s (somewhat immature) love of any Shadow of Mordor orc named “Dush” is well-known. But few people actually go through the trouble of making a full-on emotional tribute to Dush orcs, like hoodwinkedfool does. I even got a little sad at the end of this video, too. Aww, Dush. You had an…

Mewtwo Returns To The New Smash Bros. As A Downloadable Character

The most menacing Pokémon of all is back. EDIT: to quote Nintendo on this, so there’s no confusion. “This series veteran fighter will be made available as free downloadable content in spring of 2015 for anyone who buys both versions of the game.” Apparently they’re not done building him yet! Here is an in-progress GIF:…

Ridley Is In Smash Bros. Wii U… But Not Playable

Yes, Ridley is in the Wii U version of Smash. No, he’s not playable. But! You can get him to fight for you during a match, which I suppose is an OK compromise. Ridley even has a special form… So much for being too big! Here’s the reveal in full, if you’d like more details:

Wow, Super Smash Bros. Wii U Will Have Eight-Player Battles

If you and your seven friends have always wished you could play Smash on the same television, NOW IS YOUR CHANCE. The Wii U version of Super Smash Bros. will let groups of up to eight people play together, Nintendo just announced during their live event. You can have five-player battles, six-player battles, and—crazily—eight-player battles…