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Mystery Game Inspired By The X-Files Does A Lot Without Words

Virginia is a narrative game developed by Variable State out now for the Playstation 4, Xbox One, and PC. It lasts about two hours and has no dialog but it might just be one of the best stories I’ve encountered in games this year. Taking the role of a rookie FBI agent Anne Tarvers, you…

The Denizens of Minecraft’s ‘Worst’ Server Are At War With YouTube

A war is raging on one of the longest-running servers in Minecraft, 2b2t Some of the battle is fought with diamond swords and lava buckets, as you might expect, but the rest of it unfolds with racist memes, shocking gore and porn, as well as monstrous contraptions designed to make the server literally unplayable. It’s…

Street Fighter V Update Makes Losing Matches More Embarrassing

Losing in Street Fighter V is now very, very embarrassing. Last night’s Street Fighter V update added Street Fighter III’s suit-clad human-muscle Urien and a Versus CPU mode, but the game’s new environmental stage KOs are the real… kicker. SFV patch 1.06’s new stage KOs are just vicious. Your limp, defeated corpse no longer just…

Well Of Course Destiny Players Have Already Found Rise of Iron Cheese

Destiny, a video game about the eternal war between the players and developers of Destiny, has always been full of cheese. Over the past two years, Destiny’s community has discovered all sorts of ways to manipulate the game and get new gear as quickly as possible. Rise of Iron is no exception. This week’s new…

Your PC must be this powerful to run Civilization VI 2K has revealed the modest minimum and equally modest recommended specs. Not shown are the maximum specs, as some fool would try to top them and get us all killed.

Forza Horizon 3 Runs Fine On PC

Forza Horizon 3 marks the series’ PC debut as part of the Xbox Play Anywhere program. I’ve been playing the PC version since yesterday, and so far nothing horrible has happened. In fact, almost everything is fine. It’s sad that a PC port of a game that’s traditionally been a console exclusive had me primed…

Nintendo’s Big Fall Wii U Game Briefly Went On Sale Two Weeks Early

Some shocked Wii U owners spread the word this morning that Paper Mario Color Splash, the only remaining big Nintendo-published Wii U game of 2016, was playable today despite it not technically going on sale until October 7. It’s common these days for retail copies of games to find their way to gamers’ consoles prior…

Over at Kotaku UK, Julian Benson went inside the troubled development of Star Citizen. He interviewed numerous people involved in the project, including Chris Roberts.

Star Wars: Uprising Is Coming To An End

Last year around this time, mobile developer Kabam and Disney released Star Wars: Uprising, a “dull Diablo clone” set between the events of Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens. It’s shutting down in November. As of yesterday, folks still playing Uprising for whatever reason can no longer make in-game purchases, and they’ve got…

There’s a new Witcher 3 patch/”hot-fix” today for consoles. Just hit. Looks like they want to get in on the shortening load-times thing, too. We can all agree that infinite loading screens are a tad too long, yeah?

D is For Destiny, A Children’s Book About Grinding In Space

Destiny, a time-consuming video game which parents can play to avoid parenting, now has an official children’s book. It’s called D Is for Destiny, and yes, it really is official: it’s the product of a team of Bungie’s artists and writers, who got together to make something that parents who love being tormented by engrams…

Oculus Rift Founder Palmer Luckey Funding Trump Shitposters [UPDATE]

Palmer Luckey, the founder of Oculus Rift, has been keeping busy since he sold the company to Facebook in 2014. One thing he’s done to pass the time, as reported by The Daily Beast, is to financially back (and be named Vice President of) a non-profit dedicated to alt-right meme shitposts. UPDATE – 9/23, 10:30…

A patch available now for the Xbox One version of ReCore shortens some of the game’s loading times. The two-minute load to the Shifting Sands area is now one minute. The original two-minute respawn times in Core Foundry have also been halved. (Load times in the PC version are shorter.) Read our full ReCore review…

If Nintendo Won’t Make A New Advance Wars, These Guys Will

Since developers Intelligent Systems are too busy these days on Fire Emblem (and other stuff) to make any more of their brilliant Advance Wars games, a team of Japanese developers have decided to do their work for them, announcing a new PC title that is Advance Wars in everything but name. Tiny Metal, billed as…

Massive Spaceship Battles Make A Very Cool MOBA

When you replace traditional arenas for the depths of space and swap out colorful characters for massive capital ships manned by crews of 5,000, suddenly the term “MOBA” feels somehow inadequate. Yet that’s what Fractured Space is. A giant spaceship MOBA. Launched out of Early Access today on Steam, Fractured Space is a free-to-play multiplayer…

YouTubers Agitated Over Crowdsourced Content Moderation [UPDATE]

YouTube’s latest initiative, “YouTube Heroes,” is gamifying viewer participation in content moderation, angering several content creators who believe incentivizing crowdsourced moderation isn’t a great approach. Announced Tuesday, “YouTube Heroes” will allow enrolled YouTubers over 18 (or over 13 with a guardian’s consent) to receive points for sharing knowledge on videos, captioning videos or moderating content.…

Fans Restore Abandoned Half-Life Project

A long forgotten Valve project is now playable after 13 years in limbo. Based on an old school Quake mod, Half Life: Threewave is a multiplayer capture the flag game that was initially discovered in 2003 during the infamous leak of Half Life 2‘s beta. It was unplayable. Not anymore. The folks over at Valve…

Smash Bros. Player’s Sexual Consent Guide Ignites Debate In Community

The Super Smash Bros. community is having a conversation about sexual assault, whether they want to or not. Last week, that discussion came to a head when a female competitive Smash player published a guide attempting to educate the community around the famous Nintendo fighting game about consent. Now, the Smash community is debating whether…

Destiny: Rise of Iron’s raid—the real meat of this DLC—goes live tomorrow at 1pm ET. If you play Destiny and aren’t hyped already, this trailer will help.

Video Game Fashion, Reviewed By People Who Know Fashion

Today we’re doing something weird. We’ve asked a team of fashion experts to judge the outfits of video game characters. Think of this as Video Gaming’s Next Top Model. This post originally appeared on Kotaku Australia and on Kotaku on 2/3/16. Their opinions on Quiet from Metal Gear Solid V will (probably not) shock you.…