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​Watch Dogs Players United In Their Loathing Of One Minigame

Watch Dogs has been out for a little while now. Some people have beaten up on it for various things, while others think it’s a perfectly fine time. But there is one thing most of us seem to agree on: That drinking minigame is the worst It’s bad enough with a controller, but it’s far…

There are no rooftop guards in Assassin’s Creed Unity? Cool. That’s going to make this next game feel very different. This official tidbit (that we missed…a month ago) is part of a handy round-up of ACU facts that you can read over at the Assassin’s Creed subreddit.

After ten years, EA is pulling the plug on The Sims 2. Today the company said that it “will no longer be providing any new content or making any additional technical updates” for the game. The good news is that if you’re still playing the 2004 installment to pass the time until The Sims 4…

A Space Game Where You Play As A Wormhole

I’ve played as aliens, space ships, and astronauts in plenty of games before. But a wormhole? Now that’s novel. If you have fifteen minutes to spare, I highly recommend giving You Are A Wormhole by Aleks Sennwald a try—it’s a charming little game about being lonely. Every so often, an entity will reach your corner…

Game Of Thrones‘ Most Enduring Fan Theory, Explained

Some fan theories wilt and die while others linger and persist. One Game of Thrones theory—you probably already know which one—just seems too good not to be true. Warning: This theory contains spoilers for both the TV show and books, and possibly for some things that haven’t even happened yet in the books, so don’t…

Mario Kart 8 Hack Launches Luigi Into Space

This is a video of a ghost version of Luigi riding around Mario Kart 8’s Rainbow Road. But don’t worry: this doesn’t mean he’s come back to haunt us all with a new, supernatural death stare Rather, the footage above shows a ghost driver pulled from a play-through of Mario Kart 8’s revamped version of…

Business Cat Has Some Alarming News

“I’m going to need you to play the Destiny beta all day Caturday for work.”

Jason is in San Francisco right now, he just visited IGN to say hi. I’m explaining to him where I used to live and it’s making me miss sf

The July round-up of Kotaku reviews in today’s New York Times. Via @enMTW

I’m searching for a good GIF-making program for Mac. Gawker uses GIF Brewery. Any other recommendations are welcome!

​Five Years Later, Demon’s Souls Is Still Pretty Funny

I’ve said it before: The Souls games don’t get enough credit for their sense of humor. Sure, they’re stressful and challenging, but they can also be good for a laugh. The latest video from videogamedunkey takes a whirlwind tour through the game that started it all: 2009’s Demon’s Souls. He makes a very good point…

All the Masks Batman’s Worn Over 75 Years

The pointy ears, the sharp nose, the formidable jaw…Batman’s got one of the most iconic silhouettes in all of comics. But, like all superheroes, it changed a lot over his lifetime. Take a look at almost all of the ways the Dark Knight’s looked since he debuted in 1939. Look through the infographic poster by…

League of Legends didn’t like my new PC

I have a shiny new PC and I’ve been downloading MOBAs (okay, dota) to it since they’re interesting and relevant, etc, and I tried downloading LoL last night and it just… I pointed it to a folder I made but it started installing files in the directory above that, and then it just kinda started…

How I Learned Link’s ‘Real’ Name

“Link isn’t even his real name,” a friend told me recently. We were talking about Zelda, and the way people reacted to the new trailer for the next big game in the series My friend is more of a Zelda veteran than I. But still, his comment seemed heretical. This is Link we’re talking about!…

Deals: Cheap 4K, Cheap Solid State, FTL Advanced, Ground Zeroes

Samsung’s 4K monitor is the early winner in the 4K monitor wars, and this price is unprecedented. Considering a 4K display has the same number of pixels as four 1080p monitors, this is actually an insanely reasonable price-per-pixel. [Samsung 4K Monitor, $530] 1TB SSDs are just starting to creep towards affordability, and the excellent Samsung…

Playing The Order 1886 Feels Like Shooting Through an Old Movie

You know, I didn’t think about framerate or resolution once when I got to play The Order 1886 yesterday. What I did think was that it felt like playing through an old Cinemascope movie. With at least one very cool signature weapon. I played through the Inequalities chapter that’s been previously shown, huddling behind cover…

There’s Good News And Bad News About Pinball FX2 For The Xbox One

The good news — the world’s premiere digital pinball platform is coming to the Xbox One on July 31. The bad news — players will have to repurchase all of the Pinball FX2 tables they’ve already bought for the Xbox 360. The PlayStation 4 version of Pinball FX2, the pinball platform that features both original…

Marvel’s Next Super-Hero Surprise Might Be A Black Captain America

Yesterday, we all found out via women-targeted talk show The View that Marvel Comics’ Thor is going to be a woman soon. Today, Marvel says their next big super-hero news will be announced on parody political show The Colbert Report. What Marvel connection could Colbert possibly have? The safe bet is that they’ll be announcing…

Minecraft Star Wars: A New Hope Looks As Good As Ever

Good news: there’s a fresh trailer out for Paradise Decay’s big Minecraft remake of Star Wars: A New Hope, which we’ve last heard of in 2013. Bad news: This is the last trailer we’ll get before the film comes out next year. According to Paradise Decay (aka Grahame), the project has now been under development…

I started playing Hearthstone finally

I had screwed around in the tutorial but that was it. But I finally played a few matches yesterday and now I’m…well, not hooked, but I get it now. Where can I find some basic strategies about deck building though? I still have no idea.