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Yes, Final Fantasy XIV Really Was This Bad The First Time Around

Since its 2013 relaunch as A Realm Reborn, Final Fantasy XIV is one of the best massively multiplayer role-playing games going, but let’s not forget the poor performance, shoddy lighting effects and nightmarish copy-pasted landscapes from the original 2010 release that made the relaunch necessary in the first place. YouTube’sSpeakers Network has launched the first…

Level-5 recently showed off its upcoming Inazuma Eleven game. The hardware is still TBA, but as folks are pointing out in Japan, it sure doesn’t look like a Wii U title or a 3DS one, for that matter. Hrm…

One degree man. Kotaku reader and anime fan Donovan Harrell just graduated from Florida A&M University’s School of Journalism and Graphic Communication. He has the mortarboard to prove it!

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Miyamoto’s Minecraft Regret

Remember, Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto doesn’t just make games, he plays them. And one that he’s liked a lot over the last few years has been Minecraft, though not necessarily because it’s something he likes playing. It’s because he wishes Nintendo had made it instead. In an interview with Glixel, Mario’s creator says “I do like…

Best Buy Employees Surprise Teen Who Visited Store Every Day To Play Smash Bros.

Some store associates at the Best Buy in Valley Stream, New York took it upon themselves to purchase a Wii U for one of their customers after seeing him come in on most days to play Smash Bros. on the display version of the console located in the store’s game section. The early Christmas present…

Kojima Calls Guerrilla’s Decima Engine A ‘Rocket’ That Can Take Death Stranding To Jupiter

Hideo Kojima likened the development of Death Stranding using Guerrilla’s Decima Engine to the Space Race during the Cold War in a series of recent tweets. The collaboration with the creators of Horizon Zero Dawn, in Kojima’s words, “enables us to go to the mars but even to the Jupiter.” Metaphorically speaking, at least. While…

Valve Reveals Sweeping New Patch 7.00 For Dota 2

Valve released notes on Dota 2‘s latest upcoming patch, 7.00, earlier today. The site originally crashed when the notes were first supposed to go live, but is now back up and running with full details on a list of extensive changes that will be coming to Valve’s free-to-play MOBA. Did I say extensive? I meant…

3D Printed Case Makes Your Smartphone More Like A Game Boy

Reddit user Gabbelago likes to play games on their smartphone, so they decided to 3D print a case for it that had buttons. The resulting prototype is both practical and elegant. Gabbelago documented the project, titled “EmuCase,” in a series of images uploaded to Imgur yesterday evening “As to if it was designed for Pokemon,…

New Update Makes It Even Easier To Play Mini Games Like Skee Ball Inside Halo 5

J. Dickinson Este invented the first Skee Ball machine in 1909, and just over a century later, the game has finally made its way into Halo 5 Reddit user AllAboutPenguins tried to recreate the classic arcade variation on bowling using Halo’s now robust level editing tools, and said “I started building a skeeball map before…

New Trailer Shows Skyblivion Fan Project Is Still Alive And Well

The folks over at TES Renewal Project released a new trailer yesterday updating fans on their progress with Skyblivion, a mod aimed at recreating all of Oblivion inside of Skyrim In a four minute video depicting a trip through Cyrodiil, the capital province of the Empire in Tamriel featured in Oblivion, we see everything from…

A new trailer shows both Kuma and Panda will be in Tekken 7. The two bears are mainstays of the fighting series and were revealed during this morning’s The King of Iron Fist Tournament 2016 Tekken tournament in Japan. Between Panda’s style and Kuma’s fish, the two look as ferocious as ever.

Player Has Spent A Year Modding Perfect Bow and Arrow Into Fallout: New Vegas

Xilandro had but one desire: to recreate Far Cry’s excellent bow and arrow experience in Fallout: New Vegas. Easier said than done. “It took a year of planning, testing, random burnouts, trashing the idea and deleting all the WIP files, tons of rage,” Xilandro said. In total, the mod encapsulates 2,000 lines of code—and it’s…

Pokémon Go Bug Is Turning Buddy Monsters Into Giants

Pokémon games tend to scale monsters down, so you don’t get a good sense of a creature’s true size (according to the lore.) A recent glitch within Pokémon Go presents the opposite problem: it is making Pokémon ENORMOUS. The glitch, which allegedly appears only to buddy Pokémon, makes monsters appear as big as the map itself.…

This Week In The Business: Wasting VR

QUOTE | “I wouldn’t want to see virtual reality wasted on a few hardcore gamers because it has such a big opportunity to offer something to everyone” – Resolution Games CEO Tommy Palm calls on developers to make VR games for wider audiences, saying it will be a long time before hardcore crowds get the…

Five Great And Very Weird 2016 3DS Games You May Have Missed

You had your Pokémons and your Fire Emblems and your (really, really good) new Kirby game, but the games I most enjoyed playing on my 3DS this year were smaller, less hyped oddities. Do you like weird, great games? Here are some of my favorites from this year: Pocket Card Jockey From Game Freak, the…

A Career Waiter’s Journey To Twitch Cooking Star

In 2014, it seemed like chef Justin Warner’s star couldn’t rise any higher. He was on Zagat’s 30 under 30, he had won season 8 of Food Network Star, which would net him at least a pilot of his own cooking show, and he ran a successful restaurant, Do or Dine. By 2015, he’d lose…

The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth+ releases January 3rd on Steam This DLC includes mod support, as well as new items, bosses, and rooms. Console versions will be coming in the spring.

What Being On Fire In NBA Jam Would Really Be Like

Popular production company Rooster Teeth posted a new video in their Immersion series. Looking at game myths, this newest episode sees what would happen if one of the best things about NBA Jam was real. Rooster Teeth tossed Achievement Hunters Gavin Free and Michael Jones into flame retardant suits and covered some basketballs in rubber…

Everybody Poops, Including The Last Guardian‘s Cat Beast

The Last Guardian is filled with magical moments, but none quite as magical as when the legendary winged cat beast takes a massive rolling poo off the side of a treacherous bit of scaffolding. Without giving too much away, Trico’s digestive tract plays a pretty big role in The Last Guardian, and why shouldn’t it?…