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Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth has a North American release date — November 25. Let’s celebrate the upcoming star-studded 3DS dungeon crawler by dancing along to its opening movie.

Fans Furious At Steam Game For DRM, Bugs, Lack Of Single-Player

Today, the developer Trendy Entertainment released Dungeon Defenders: Eternity, a revamped version of the original Dungeon Defenders that promises new improvements, including graphical tweaks and dedicated servers to prevent hacking and cheating. But fans are furious at the new release, which also adds a clunky new interface and online DRM to Dungeon Defenders, a tower…

Dragon Age: Inquisition Delayed to November

The next installment of Bioware’s fantasy RPG franchise will be coming a month later than originally planned, according to a new blog post. Here’s the word from executive producer Mark Darrah: I’m writing to let you know that Dragon Age: Inquisition has a new release date of November 18, 2014 in North America (November 21st…

Battlefield: Hardline Delayed To 2015

The next Battlefield game will no longer be out this fall—EA announced today that they’ve delayed Hardline to next year. Developed by Visceral Games, the studio best known for Dead Space, Battlefield: Hardline is centered around police warfare. It was originally scheduled to be out this fall for PC and current- and last-gen consoles (minus…

​You Probably Shouldn’t Pay To Unlock Counter-Strike Weapon Cases

Hey, you just won a Counterstrike: Global Offensive match! Time to shell out a few bucks, unlock that weapon case and see what’s inside, right? Not so fast! You might be better off just buying that ultra-rare knife on the Steam store. Here’s proof. In the video above, game design commentator and YouTuber 3kliksphilip shows…

John Madden Is A Maniac

John Madden is a professional american-football-man, broadcastist and screen scribbler, he’s also a complete maniac. You see, John doesn’t just love a good game of football, no. He Loves Smashing Through Stuff John is at his happiest while smashing through chalkboards. A lesser man would die from his injuries – but no, not John, he…

Everything Dark Souls II Gets Wrong

Despite its shortcomings, I like Dark Souls II a lot. Not everyone agrees. In the video above, the very smart critic Matt Lees gives his comprehensive take on where he felt that Dark Souls II failed and succeeded. On a lot of points, I’m totally there with him. The texturing and lighting belies a game…

The Mario Kart hacks continue to be awesome

I know this gets into dicey territory quickly, but MrBean and Chadderz keep making videos that seem like they’d make for very fun alternate versions of Mario Kart 8 tracks:

Here’s hoping the actual concerts are Street Fighter themed in some way, too.

One Of The Best JRPGs Comes To PC Next Week

If you read Random Encounters with any regularity, you have probably seen me obsess over The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky, a wonderful role-playing game that came out for the PSP back in 2011. Excellent news for anyone who somehow missed it: Trails will be out on Steam and GOG next Tuesday, July…

What Happens When Dota 2 Heroes Do Drugs

What sorts of “medicine” does the Witch Doctor carry around, you think? Surely, it can’t all be for healing purposes, right? At least, in this short by DoubleClickDota2, the Witch Doctor is packing something more than just tangos—so he decides to share his stash. And that’s when things get out of hand. Dota 2 Shorts…

Hearthstone: Curse of Naxxramas is live! You can download the new Hearthstone add-on on PC and iOS today. The first wing will be free for the next month, so get it now.

Four great indie games will be at the heart of Sony’s annual PLAY summer sale when it starts next week. Hohokum and CounterSpy will be PlayStation exclusives, while the others—Rogue Legacy and The Swapper—are making their debuts on Sony’s game systems. Learn more on the official PlayStation Blog

Attention League of Legends fans: Riot Games just released a fun video based on its popular online game that’s full of explosions, cat ears, and mild gore. You can watch the whole thing above. And if you like what you see, you can also check out a short making of film that Riot put out…

How A Successful Kickstarter Lost Half A Million Dollars

The world of crowdfunding is full of projects that never quite deliver what they’ve promised, but how often does a half-million-dollar Kickstarter simply disappear? Yogventures, an ambitious video game project helmed by a group of YouTubers called The Yogscast, raised over $567,000 back in 2012 to make what they called “the game you’ve always wanted.”…

How Much Game Makers Get Paid

Making video games sure looks like a fun gig from the outside, doesn’t it? Pouring your talents into a creation that can get played by thousands or even millions of people worldwide is not something many people can say that they do. But bragging rights and cool points don’t pay bills. Just how much did…

Deals: Red Vs. Blue, Dark Souls II Season Pass, PS4/One, Halloween

Hard to believe Red vs. Blue began way back in 2003. Today, the RVBX Ten Year Blu-ray Box Set is down to its lowest price ever of $54. As one of the first big items I ever put on Moneysaver Kotaku Deals, it’s got some personal sentiment for me as well. [RVBX] Dark Souls II’s…

The Story Of Areal, One Of Kickstarter’s Weirdest New Games [UPDATE]

UPDATE (12:45 pm): Shortly after we published this story, Areal’s Kickstarter campaign was suspended. A representative from Kickstarter wouldn’t go into detail about the project or its suspension, and referred Kotaku to this relevant section of its FAQ Original story follows: STALKER was the kind of gloomy and artful first-person shooter that left gamers wanting…

TheWorse mod, which pumps up Watch Dog’s graphics to more closely resemble the visuals shown during E3 2012, has now released its final update. You can see the mod in action here, and download the final release here.

Deus Ex: Human Revolution‘s Starting Area, Recreated In CryEngine

Not that Deus Ex: Human Revolution didn’t already look great. It did. But the game’s unique environment, and the room we start in, Megan Reed’s office, recreated in CryEngine 3 by fan artist Jovcem, just look super. Check out his site for more cool close-ups. It really makes me want a new Deus Ex game.…