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Some Players Are Hunting Down Minorities In Watch Dogs

Ubisoft’s latest open world game, Watch Dogs, lets players assume the role of a hacker named Aiden Pearce. Pearce uses a cellphone app to learn more about the strangers roaming Watch Dogs’ version of Chicago—and some players are using this information to kill digital minorities. If you’ve seen screenshots or footage of Watch Dogs, then…

50% Blizzard Sale, $10 Vita Games, Xbox Cash, SONOS With Free Bonuses

If you need to catch up on some recent Blizzard hits, Amazon today is taking 50% off select titles, including Diablo III (on PC and last-gen consoles), World of Warcraft, and Starcraft II. [Blizzard Sale] Vita owners will definitely want to check out Best Buy today, where a number of titles are on sale for…

One Year Later, Did Microsoft Keep Their E3 2013 Promises?

E3 is a-comin’. Next week, great gaming companies will take to the stage to show off all kinds of games and make all kinds of promises, as they did in the past. Like last year, for example. Let’s look at what Microsoft told us at their 2013 briefing. After the somewhat unfocused reveal of the…

John Oliver Wants To Harness The Power Of Internet Trolls

Yesterday on Last Week Tonight, John Oliver gave an excellent explanation of why you shouldn’t trust Comcast, no matter what they say. He also realized that the solution to the problem resides in the comments sections of every website on the internet. If you aren’t familiar with the issue, net neutrality is the idea that…

Twitch’s E3 Schedule Is Full Of Juicy Teasers

Let’s take a look at Twitch’s full streaming schedule for E3 2014. I’ve annotated the bits I find particularly interesting. Monday 6/9 PT 9:30am – Xbox E3 2014 Media Briefing 11:00am – Xbox E3 2014 Media Briefing Post show 11:30pm – Hotline Miami 2 (Dennaton Games/Devolver Digital) 12:00pm – EA World Premiere: E3 2014 Preview…

​The Explanation Behind Sonic’s New Look

About three weeks ago in a hotel in Los Angeles, I got to play four levels of the upcoming Sonic Boom. It felt like good family fun: fairly easy combat, some trickier platforming, and a little bit of that iconic Sonic speedrunning through rings. You can watch Game Front’s footage of what I played on…

Watch Dogs Bug Leaves Some Players Unable To Load Saves

A number of Watch Dogs players are reporting a major bug that has prevented them from loading save games in the open-world game, which Ubisoft released for PC and consoles last week. The bug, which may or may not be related to the uPlay issues that popped up during launch, appears to make some players’…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: It Isn’t Time For 4K Gaming Yet • Why I’m Giving Final Fantasy XII Another Chance • 8 Tips for Mastering Mario Kart 8 • Minor Issues: What’s Wrong With Mii? TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

Someone Turned Starcraft II Into a Turn-Based RPG

I have to admit, it still makes me excited when I see modders pushing the limits of StarCraft II‘s Galaxy Editor, an editor which is basically designed to make new maps or mini-games. Modder Greythepirate took it to the next level and pushed live ‘Rogue Star’, a tactical turn-based RPG. It looks pretty smooth. Something…

Forza Horizon Is Getting A Sequel This Fall

The open-world racer will come to both Xbox 360 and Xbox One, reports IGN Forza Horizon 2 is being developed mostly by Playground Games, who are collaborating closely with original Forza developers Turn 10 games on the project. “Hundreds” of cars will be present in the sequel, according to the developers—the setting is Southern Europe,…

The Battle For Earthrealm Continues In Mortal Kombat X [Update]

After weeks of teasing from series co-creator Ed Boon, today the name of the next game in the legendary fighting game series has been revealed: Mortal Kombat X. Update 11:20 — added platforms and gameplay details from the official press release. As seen in the vague but delightful first trailer, Mortal Kombat X will arrive…

The Next Homefront Game Is Set In A Future Philadelphia

Crytek has finally revealed what it’s doing with Homefront, THQ’s last stab at a big-budget shooter: it’s turning it into a free-roaming guerilla warfare FPS. On first impressions, it’s like Homefront meets Far Cry, set in a future Philadelphia dotted with encampments of Korean occupying forces to be photographed with smartphone cameras and disrupted with…

Final Fantasy Characters As Pokémon Trainers

With a little redesign, Final Fantasy characters would make pretty cool Pokémon trainers. You just have to find the matching Pokémon for them. Artist Andrew Ryan did just that. Gotta love Barrett with his Pokéball launcher arm. Here are the characters from Final Fantasy VIII, with the same design: And the characters of Final Fantasy…

The Ten Most Useless NPCs in World of Warcraft

Not everyone sells epic mounts and top-tier PvP gear in Azeroth. Some NPCs just stand in the middle of busy cities, and besides getting one or two pointless items from them, their presence is absolutely pointless. Wowcrendor collected ten of the most useless ones in his latest video. She’s not featured in the video below,…

Tales Fans Vote for Their Favorite Characters and More

This past weekend saw this year’s Tales of Festival event in Tokyo—a celebration of the Tales JRPG franchise. It was full of voice actor interviews, in-character skits, music from the series—and to cap it off, the results of this year’s Tales popularity polls were revealed to the 10,000 plus fans in attendance. The survey results…

American Roads and Game Design: A Love Letter

In California there’s always a Full Throttle sunset waiting for me in the middle of the road. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK There are never Lucasarts toy bunnies waiting to disrupt my ride, no credits roll over the windscreen. But there’s that thick, clotted layer of Californian tarmac. That wide, husky yawn of…

Real Mass Effect Sniper Rifle Does Not Need Calibration

Mostly because it doesn’t actually shoot anything. It’s just a life-size replica. One that brings the N7 Valiant sniper rifle out of the game series and into the real world. The bulk of the rifle is molded, with a few parts carved from wood. This isn’t the first rifle props builder Zander Brandt has constructed…

Gigantic LEGO Star Destroyer Is Pretty Much Perfect

SNOT is a building term in LEGO that stands for “Studs Not On Top”. It can be a pain to plan, but the results – which hide the brick’s trademark studs – are often worth it. Especially when you’re building a Star Destroyer that’s over two metres long This behemoth was put together by Jerac,…

Kaptain Brawe was an adventure game I liked very much. There is now a Kickstarter for Kaptain Brawe 2.

Remember, People Eat Pokémon

As cute as they are, and as childishly innocent as the world they inhabit may seem, it’s always worth keeping in the back of your mind the fact that people eat Pokémon A fantastic article on Modern Farmer looks at this secretive and unsavoury practice, drawing from both precedent (Slowpoke Tail) and conjecture (there’s not…