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Indies Are Trying To Make Their Own Elder Scrolls Game

A year ago, we first heard about Frontiers, a game that was looking a lot like an Elder Scrolls title, only it was being made by two people. Well, good news everyone: the project continues. The game’s now up on Steam Greenlight, and also has a new trailer. Note that there’s very little interaction with…

How To Find The Secret Venom-X Weapon In Call Of Duty: Ghosts

YouTubers OutsideXbox bring a quick guide to finding the secret Venom X weapon in the Devastation DLC for Call Of Duty: Ghosts. If you can’t watch the video, here’s how to unlock the secret weapon. On the “Unearthed” map, there’s a large crane with three grey supports on it. Using a grenade and grenade launcher,…

High-Res ​BioShock Infinite, Looking Mighty Shiny

BioShock Infinite has never really been wanting in the art department. So what better game to document with gorgeous, high-res screenshots? These shots come courtesy of Dead End Thrills, and were captured during the first act of Infinite‘s weak-starting but cool overall expansion Burial at Sea. Noir Elizabeth is looking pretty noir-y, huh? Head over…

Eleven Things You Might Not Know About Game of Thrones

With the new season of Game of Thrones around the corner, it seems like a good time to look back on some fun facts about the show, no? This collection of trivia by BuzzFeedVideo spans both the show and the books, and includes stuff like: Where George R.R. Martin got the idea for the books…

A PC Game That Combines Magic‘s Strategy With Skylander‘s Toys

This probably goes without saying, but one of the things I love about video games is that they give me a (somewhat) grown-up excuse to play with toys. That might help explain why Skylanders is one of my favorite games in recent memory. It’s also why I’m so excited for Prodigy, a tactical RPG currently…

Adam Sessler Leaves Video Job For “New Avenues Inside Of Gaming”

Two years after leaving G4, veteran games journalist and TV presenter Adam Sessler is now seemingly leaving the field behind entirely. In a short blog post, he announces that after sixteen years in the field it’s time for something new. After some incredible achievements over the last year and a half, I am announcing my…

The iPad Version Of Hearthstone Is Live (In Canada, Australia)

Blizzard’s free-to-play competitive card game was made to be played on a tablet, and now iPad owners in Canada, Australia and New Zealand can do just that. Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft for the iPad is live there, and coming soon everywhere else. I’ve downloaded the game from my fake Australian account (Luke vouched for me),…

Happy 20th Birthday, Final Fantasy VI

Twenty years ago, an RPG called Final Fantasy VI came out in Japan, and really, it’s all just been downhill for video games since then. Square’s seminal RPG for the Super Nintendo was filled with issues: buggy skills; weird translations; way too many fights that were way too easy. But somehow, against all odds, the…

Watch Someone Getting 1536 In Threes

Ben Weiss recorded part of his game of Threes, and watching him get a 1536 actually made me tense, wondering what his next move was going to be. Terrence! via @AsherVo

Airtight Studios will be working with a few less hands on deck. The Seattle-based development studio behind upcoming ghost mystery game Murdered: Soul Suspect has issued a statement saying they’ve laid off 14 people, saying “this restructuring is part of the normal ebb and flow of game production.” This news comes on the heels of…

Here Are 95 Games The Amazon Fire TV Can Play Right Now

Powered by Android and with specs close to the Kindle Fire HDX, it comes as no surprise that the Amazon Fire TV is coming out of the gate running with a nice selection of gaming apps. Here’s what’s playable on the micro-console right now. We’ve got several Ubisoft titles, a handful of Gameloft, a bunch…

Watch The Father Of The Playstation Pretending To Be A Villain

The guys at Mega64 have released a 20-minute video showing how they made the hilarious GDC tribute to Ken Kutaragi. It’s fun to watch, but the best part is the former Sony CEO’s outtakes while performing as the “last boss” of the video. Kutaragi’s outtakes start at 11:40, you can jump to it here KOUNTDOWN…

The Wonderful World of Glitch Pokémon

You might know about the Missingno glitch from Red & Blue, that backwards L shape that players could encounter and catch despite not being a ‘real’ Pokémon. You might even know about the infamous Mew glitch. But these aren’t the only creature-related glitches you can find in Pokémon, amazingly enough. Glitch Pokezine is a collection…

Amazon Hires Portal‘s Kim Swift, Far Cry 2‘s Clint Hocking

Amazon is bolstering up talent in their video game development studio, and they’ve got two new high-profile snags: Portal designer Kim Swift and Far Cry 2 designer Clint Hocking have both joined Amazon Game Studios, Kotaku has learned. Swift, best known for helping create Portal, most recently worked at Airtight Games on the Ouya-exclusive Soul…

Maybe you’ve heard of 2048? The folks at Grantland have, including the popular smartphone game in a new list of media recommendations while almost entirely glossing over the fact that 2048 is a derivation of a clone of the well-liked game Threes. Well, Threes does get to be an oblique punchline at the end of…

Somehow, Dead Island Became A Fun DOTA-Style Game

I got a beta code for Dead Island:Epidemic. I didn’t love Dead Island. I couldn’t get into DOTA 2. So I didn’t expect to enjoy this game at all, but it’s actually a very accessible version of the biggest competitive games in the world. Around the time I started at Kotaku, I actually spent a…

Amazon Adding Metacritic Scores Is Bad News For Everyone

The immensely powerful aggregation website Metacritic just got a little more powerful, partnering up with Amazon, the biggest online retailer in the world, to display Metascores on video game pages. This appears to be a quiet launch—rolling out gradually over the course of the week—but that Metascore is anything but quiet. It’s right in your…

Welcome To TMI! Ask Me Anything

Hello! TMI is a new branch of Kotaku that I’ll be running. What is it? Well, it’s something of an experiment in disclosure, storytelling, interviewing, and a bunch of other stuff, and I’d like you to join me. I’m Nathan Grayson, and my hope is to tell you more or less everything that happens to…

If Half-Life 2 Were Remade Today

Then it might look a little bit like…this. Which is to say: it would look fantastic. This recreation of City 17 (the opening train station, to be more exact) comes from Polycount user Logithx, and damn if it doesn’t make you crave either a prettified remake of Half-Life 2, or, you know, Half-Life 3 itself.…

Corsair Vengeance K70, So Much Doctor Who, PSN Update [Deals]

Your runner-up for Best Gaming Keyboard, and the #1 Best-Seller in Gaming Keyboards, the Corsair Vengeance K70 Mechanical is getting a rare discount today. Pick it up for $115 and game on. [Amazon] Update: Amazon is backordered, but you can still grab the deal, or grab it from Newegg for the same price. Titanfall, Battlefield…