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The Best and Worst Taunts In The New Smash Bros.

Taunting is an important part of any multiplayer game—and Smash Bros. is full of taunts. In fact, every character has a handful of taunts, all of which you can look at right here. GameXplain has a compilation video of every Smash character’s taunts, and it’s definitely worth a watch. Be warned, however, that the video…

Hear Hatsune Miku Sing Nicki Minaj’s Anaconda

Oh no Miku, what have they done to you? As you might guess, the lyrics in the song above are NSFW. If there is a song that is popular, it’s inevitable that people will make virtual pop star Hatsune Miku sing it. Nicki Minaj’s Anaconda is no different. Matei Dobrescu made this cover of the…

Player’s Secret Weapon In Destiny‘s Multiplayer Is…Sitting

Destiny‘s D-pad-mapped gestures are fun for expressing yourself to strangers in the Tower, or after a successful strike. But they’re a lot more useful when used in even more creative ways. Take Unspoken Ouch‘s tactic here, for instance. As you can see above, he uses the sitting gesture in a most devious way to confuse…

The More Damage You Have In The New Smash Bros., The Harder You’ll Hit

A small change can make a huge difference—and it looks like the new Smash Bros. has a tweak that’ll definitely change the way the game plays. CLASH Tournaments is calling this tweak “the rage effect.” Basically, the way it works is, when a character is at a high percentage—that is, when they’ve taken more damage—that…

League Of Legends‘ Neverending War On Toxic Behavior

“WHY DO I ALWAYS GET THESE ****ING TEAMS,” our Jungler rages not, even three minutes into our League of Legends match. “****ing stupid [Kassadin] you just lost lane and top is going to feed.” The game is hardly over. We’re just in a small hole, but the Summoner playing Lee Sin has already written this…

Destiny’s Raid Doesn’t Take That Long, If You Know What To Do

The first time a clan beat The Vault of Glass, Destiny’s massive raid, it took them ten hours. That’s because they had to learn what to do along the way; nobody could tell them what to expect. Now, though? People are practically blazing through the raid. It makes sense. Now that more people have gotten…

Check Out A Whole Bunch Of Quirky Indie Games, Live

Indie game festival Fantastic Arcade is in full swing in Austin, Texas, and I’m there! You can be too, sorta. There’s a live stream of every panel and presentation running all weekend, including one about soon-to-be-re-released classic Grim Fandango. Watch now. If you want to follow along, there’s a full event schedule on Fantastic Arcade’s…

The Latest Final Fantasy Music Game Is Totally Rad

Above: some hands-on impressions of Theatrhythm Final Fantasy: Curtain Call, the bizarrely-titled music game that Square Enix released for 3DS this week. If you don’t have the time or energy to watch the video, here’s the gist of it: Curtain Call, a sequel to 2012’s Theatrhythm, adds more songs, characters, and other goodies to an…

Square Enix’s New ‘Cloud’ Gaming Service Is Called ‘Shinra’

This is pretty much perfect. Last night Square Enix announced a cloud-gaming service called Shinra Technologies. They’re working with Avalanche Studios on the deal. The actual details of Shinra Technologies remain vague for now, though the tech seems pretty promising: Shinra Technologies, Inc. is a cloud gaming company whose business is based on its unique,…

My First 20 Hours With Wasteland 2

“Forsaken by his people, he strode into the wasteland,” the narrator intones in the intro to Fallout 2. 16 years later, and creator Brian Fargo has delivered that promise anew in a very literal way: by making Wasteland 2, a spiritual successor to his Fallout games that’s also a…sequel to their predecessor. That’s a mouthful…

G710+ For $100, White PS4 Bundle, Final Fantasy XIII Preorder [Deals]

The Logitech G710+ was one of your top 5 nominations for Best Gaming Keyboard, and today it’s for just $100, which is near the lowest price we’ve ever seen. We don’t expect it to last long. [Logitech G710+ Gaming Keyboard, $100] Destiny might not have lived up to the hype for everyone, but that white…

Wow, Look At All The Final Fantasy Spinoffs

This week’s biggest Tokyo Game Show news was Final Fantasy XV—hey, it’s alive!—but while we were all gawking at bromantic road trips, Square Enix showed off a bunch of other Final Fantasy spinoffs that are worth at least a little attention. Let’s go through them all. Above: a new look at the Monster Hunter-ish Final…

I Wish I Could Tell You D4 Was Amazing, But…

D4 is like a bizarro-world version of Heavy Rain, a weird mixture of the mundane and the insane – but it’s got a lot of problems. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK You play a bubblegum-chewing detective with the ability to delve into the past by touching objects, whose wife was killed two years…

​Get Up Close and Personal with the Original Doom‘s Pixels

Now you can take the opening area of Doom wherever you go. As long as you have a web browser, that is. A coder/artist that goes by the username P_Malin recreated an interactive embed of the first environment from Id Software’s iconic first-person shooter using Shadertoy. His recreation lets you move around the environment and…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Tokyo Ghoul: The Ani-TAY Review • Which Game Characters would help you Move House? • Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair: The TAY Review • Import Preview: Super Smash Bros. For 3DS • Azure Striker Gunvolt: The TAY Review TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

The Moment When a Diablo III Player Reaches #1

Alkaizer is one of the best Diablo III players out there, sitting at the number one spot with his Barbarian on the Season 1 leaderboards and now—as this video proves—he has claimed this position with his Crusader as well. Pretty cool for a solo player. In this segment, you can watch him clear a Rank…

Konami and Tri-Ace are teaming up for a smartphone RPG called Chronos Ring. It will be out this fall in Japan, but there is no word yet of a Western release.

EVE Online‘s Hurricane Cruiser, Turned Into a LEGO Beast

It couldn’t be easy collecting all the necessary bricks for this giant LEGO battlecruiser, but it’s totally worth the effort. Dinklebob‘s creation was inspired by EVE Online‘s “Hurricane” ship, and the extra tiny drones are the best part: Here are some WIP pics: And the final version from different angles: Lego Hurricane [imgur, via r/eve]…

15 Minutes of Gameplay from the Borderlands Creators’ Next Game

Want to see for yourself if Battleborn is going to be different from Borderlands? Feast your eyes on this hefty chunk of gameplay footage from Gearbox Software’s next game, then. In the clip above, you’ll see a bunch of Battleborn‘s playable characters in action during a runthrough of the same co-op mission shown to press…

The Wasteland 2 Intro Will Never Beat Fallout’s

Wasteland 2 comes out today, and the question on many an OG CRPG gamer’s mind is: “How does it compare to Fallout?” I’ll have a fuller answer to that soon, but there’s an elephant in the room that must be addressed first. Come on, Brian Fargo: where is my Ron Perlman? If you don’t understand…