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Crytek Closes Five Studios After Rough Year

After a year of financial hardship, Crytek is closing its studios in Hungary, Bulgaria, South Korea, China, and Turkey, the developer said today. Crytek says they plan to “refocus on its core strengths of developing innovative games and game-development technology.” This news comes after months of late and missing employee paychecks at the multinational developer,…

2016’s Good Video Games, In Two Minutes

There were a lot of good video games released in 2016. Here, in just under two minutes, we can see a whole lot of them in one place. Once again this is Malcolm Klock doing what he does best on roundup duties. If you’re worried that your favourite game won’t make the cut, remember, you…

Here’s a look at Ace Combat 7‘s VR play. The game is a PlayStation 4 exclusive and slated for release sometime next year. The VR play looks like it might make some people barfy!

At A Bar Called Buchanan’s. Mission, Texas. By Chris Lopez JPGs is a photo peek into wherever gamers might find interesting. If you’re a photographer and have images you want to share, drop us a line!

Mummy Trailer Gets Uploaded With Most Of The Sound Missing

If you’ve ever wondered how the dozens of layers of SCORE and EXPLOSIONS and WOMP sounds come together to blast your ears during a movie trailer, try watching one without any of those things actually in the clip. Earlier tonight, IMAXaccidentally uploaded their own version of the December 4 Mummy trailer that was missing several…

Battlefield 1 Gets Around To Adding The French

The decision to leave the French out of Battlefield 1 at launch was always a weird one, considering the country’s enormous contributions to the war, but whatever: they’re now being added as part of the game’s first expansion, called They Shall Not Pass Due out in March, it’ll include new maps based around the Battles…

Enormous Minecraft Art Is Reaching For The Heavens

It took gmoff01around 80 hours to build this in Minecraft. It’s made of 70,000 blocks of quartz. For those wondering about the details, no, he didn’t build the entire thing by hand, in the sense that he didn’t mine each block manually then walk along placing each one. We’re showcasing art here, not the death…

Every Rogue One Shot That Was In The Trailers, But Not The Movie

We’ve discussedthis already, but just so you can see it all laid out, here’s a video by Vashi Nedomansky showing all 46 shots shown in Rogue One’s trailers that didn’t make it into the actual movie. Some would have been reshot, others perhaps filmed only for the trailer as a promo, others still might turn…

Mod Brings Snow To All Of The Witcher 3

OK, so there are parts of The Witcher 3 where it’s already snowing, but this mod brings snow to almost the entire map. Merry Christmas, you drifters in from Temeria. The mod, called Winter is Coming, was made by KNG, and you can download it here It’s not perfect, since the mod couldn’t go in…

Adidas, Make These Zelda Sneakers

As part of his application process for a design internship with Adidas, student Paxton Porter—a lover of both sneakers and The Legend of Zelda—came up with these designs. Both of which I would cop in a heartbeat. Figuring that Nintendo would be down for a footwear collaboration, and rightly believing that the brand deserves better…

Dishonored 2’s New Game Plus Is Really Good

I finished Dishonored 2 last weekend and immediately jumped into a New Game Plus. Turns out it’s a fantastic, downright essential addition to the game. New Game Plus (NG+) was added to the PC version in a beta patch late last week, and the update just went live for everyone today. Provided you’ve finished at…

Lucky Man Gets The Stanley Parable‘s Voice To Narrate His Wedding Proposal

If you play games, you’ve thought about which voice actor you want to narrate your daily goings-on. For me, it’s GLaDOS. She’s reciting a fruit tart recipe. For Kotaku reader Chad Oliver, it’s The Stanley Parable’s Kevan Brighting, and he’s narrating his marriage proposal. On Oliver and his now-fiancee Morgaine’s 8-year anniversary in November, Oliver…

EVE Player Acts Like A Jerk About Secret Santa, Gets Sent 6,000 Pieces Of In-Game Coal

In games as in life, it’s not a great idea to complain about Secret Santa presents. In the wake of a recent fan-organized EVE Online Secret Santa event, one player wasn’t too pleased with the gift he received—a skin for a Purifier ship—and decided to voice his frustrations publicly. “I don’t even use fucking Purifiers,”…

The first six Mega Man games will come to iOS and Android in January, Capcom says. In case you can’t wait that long, I recommend the 3DS version

It Took Five Years For One Man To Find The First NES Advertisement

A neat little piece of gaming history has been archived in full thanks to preservationist efforts. The original advertisement for the Nintendo Entertainment System has been catalogued after a five year search. Archivist Frank Cifaldi managed to get his hands on an issue of Consumer Electronics containing the advertisement after an extended search period. The…

The Best Teams For Overwatch’s 3v3 Elimination Mode

Overwatch’s 3 vs. 3 Elimination mode, out since November, turns on its head everything we know about team composition. Heroes beloved in 6 vs. 6 Quick Play and Competitive modes, like Lucio and Torbjorn, are damn near useless in 3 vs. 3, where your priorities are a bit different. That makes composing a viable team…

The State Of The Wii U In 2016

The Wii U spent 2016 on life support, relying on a slow trickle of exclusives to keep owners from pulling the plug completely. As Nintendo prepares to release the Switch in March, the Wii U readies its dying breath. This is part of our 2016 “State of” series, a look at how the major consoles,…

Final Fantasy XIV May Let You Pay To Catch Up 

The biggest barrier for entry in Final Fantasy XIV, a tremendous video game, is that you have to catch up with the entire story to play each new expansion pack, which can take dozens and dozens of hours if you’re behind. Square Enix wants to change that. Over the weekend, FFXIV director Naoki Yoshida published…

Huge Skyrim Mod Enderal Gets A 20-Hour Expansion Pack

The massive total conversion mod for Skyrim, Enderal, is getting DLC that will add 10 to 20 hours of quest content. It’s scheduled to arrive sometime in 2017. Enderal is less a Skyrim mod and more a completely new game built upon the bones of Skyrim, taking place in its own world with its own…

Street Fighter V‘s Rollercoaster Year

It’s funny to think of a fighting game having responsibilities, but that’s exactly where Street Fighter V found itself on the verge of its mid-February release date earlier this year. As the follow-up to what was arguably the genre’s most important release in decades, there was a lot riding on Street Fighter V’s success. Would…