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A Video Game About How People Actually Talk to Each Other

Imagine being lonely. Not ‘no dates for a year’ kind of lonely. No, we’re talking no physical human contact for days on end, with only a voice on the phone for company. Then, things start to get tense. Trust erodes. What would that do you? Firewatch aims to find out. The indie game is coming…

Meet The Guy Who Spent Seven Months Killing Everyone In Fallout 3

On January 19th, 2014, Many A True Nerd started a new playthrough of Fallout 3. Not just any playthrough, though: his goal was to eradicate everyone from the capital wasteland. “It was a way to make a series that I love immensely feel fresh,” Many A True Nerd explained to me over email. “Fallout 3…

Early Access Game Pulled From Steam After Months Without Updates

The Stomping Land, an ambitious dinosaur game that launched on Steam in May, is no longer available for sale following months without updates or news from the developers behind it. The Steam page is still live, but you can no longer buy the game. It’s yet another case of a game in Early Access—the Steam…

The Sims Patch Notes Continue To Be Ridiculous

Today is a big day for PC gamers. The Sims 4 comes out. While this gives us all a great opportunity to brush up on our Simlish, it also means that we have a whole new era of amazing and silly patch notes to look forward to. The Sims 4 hasn’t even been out in…

Star Trek Online Gets The Voyager Crew Back Together

Just because Star Trek: Voyager was pretty horrible doesn’t mean we don’t miss the folks who starred in it. Five members of Captain Janeway’s crew are reprising their roles for the next Star Trek Online expansion, “Delta Rising.” That’s right, Star Trek Online is still a thing that’s happening, and its next expansion is due…

Destiny Limited Edition, Plus More Power and More Peripherals [Deals]

You’re running out of chances for the Destiny Limited Edition to come back in stock before the game releases. Grab it today. PS4 Xbox One PS3 360 We’ve got a whole lot of peripherals deals so let’s get into it. The Razer DeathAdder scored the win in last year’s Best Gaming Mouse Co-Op, our biggest…

Argghhhh. I want to be able to transfer my Diablo III save from Xbox One to PS4 and back but can’t. So frustrating, given all the other transfers Blizzard allows.

The Coolest Cosplay at PAX Prime, Day 4

How much League of Legends cosplay was there at PAX Prime? A lot. For example, there’s a person in that cat costume. Lots of fans paid homage to Riot’s online phenomenon by dressing up as LoL characters at Penny Arcade’s annual fan gathering in Seattle. These pics come from documentary series/social network Cosplay Boom and…

Even YouTube’s Most Popular Gamer Is Sick Of The Comments

“I go to the comments, and it’s mainly spam, it’s people self-advertising, people that are trying to provoke, people who reply to all these…just all this stuff that, to me, it doesn’t mean anything.” This is rockstar Let’s Play-er PewDiePie explaining why he’s removing comments from his insanely popular YouTube channel, which recently surpassed 30…

The Mario Kart 8 DLC we actually want

Reddit user lastp0rkch0p makes a compelling point…

Things Are Very Different For The Creator Of Final Fantasy

When you create one of the most treasured franchises in video game history, what do you do next? When you work on that franchise for 20 years, can you ever really move on? For Hironobu Sakaguchi, the man who created Final Fantasy back in 1987, these have been easy questions to answer. (1. Move to…

Your Favorite Gaming Mouse Is Just $40 Today

The Razer DeathAdder scored the win in last year’s Best Gaming Mouse Co-Op, our biggest vote ever, and today it’s available for just $40. [Razer DeathAdder] The DeathAdder features 6400 dpi, 5 programmable buttons, and a sleek matte black design. Even if you’re someone who thinks gaming peripherals are total overkill (been there), at this…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: An Awesome Soundtrack in an Otherwise Lackluster Game [Shadow the Hedgehog] • Rockmandash Reviews: Canaan [Anime] • Street Fighter x Pokémon Day 3! Chun-Li x ________ ! • TAY Goes to PAX: Day 3 (Settle it in Smash!) & Day 4 (OverClocked) TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide…

Dead or Alive 5: Last Round will be released in North America in spring 2015. Announced this weekend during a special event in japan, Last Round is the culmination of all the various incarnations of Dead or Alive 5 — all the fighters, costumes, etc. Dead or Alive 5: Last Round will be available on…

Nine Typical Minecraft Players

The folks at Dorkly collected nine different types of people who have one thing in common: they all play Minecraft. We’ve probably all encountered at least one or two of them before. I’m pretty sure there are more than just nine types. Just think about those dubstep intros and whatnot. Here’s the insanely-popular streamer above…

Well that GTA IV bowling session had an unexpected ending. Niko is lucky that veteran modder and YouTuber Helix_Snake, who can apparently mess up things in any game he wants, didn’t take him to play darts. This game is rigged [YouTube] To contact the author of this post, write to: [email protected]

Minecraft’s Latest Update Is Huge, Took Ten Months to Make

Chickens, cows and pigs have been the only meat-giving animals in Minecraft for a long time now, and, in one of the most welcome changes included in the game’s latest big patch, they are now joined by sheep. On October 25, 2009, sheep were added as passive, wool-giving mobs to the then-heavily-in-pre-alpha Minecraft. Shortly after,…

Tiny Madden Player Is The Game’s Cutest Little Glitch

Scouts said he was too small for the NFL. Well, Titans LB Christian Kirksey sure showed them.

Hollywood Reminds Us The Wu-Tang Clan Ain’t Nuthin’ Ta F**k Wit

Warning: this is NSFW Not at work? God, it is so good. Not just for the fact they got it all spliced up, but because of the sheer variety in the types of movie used. The clip was actually made earlier this year, with help from Subzin, but a RT from the RZA has helped…

Over 1000 Game Creators Call For An End To “Hateful, Harassing Speech”

Stating that everyone “has the right to play games, criticize games and make games without getting harassed or threatened”, some of the biggest names in gaming have put their names to an open letter addressing the community conflict that’s been so prominentonline over the past few weeks. That number includes developers from companies like EA,…