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Fable Card Game Survives (For Now) The Death Of Lionhead

Yes, Fable has been driven into the ground until only dust and ash remain, but for remaining fans of Lionhead’s fantasy series, there is small hope: the video games might be gone, but a card game is still being worked on. Turns out that before being shut down, Lionhead was quietly working on a digital…

Looks like former WWE wrestler Gregory Helms was a few too many years ahead of his time

When Life Imitates (Mario K)art

The Eastern Canadian Karting Championship is, if I’m not mistaken going by this video, secretly a Mario Kart recreation society. If you’re wondering how this actually happened, seems that the overtaking driver’s front wheel clipped the kart in front’s rear wheel, which whipped them right over the top. Amazingly, they stuck the landing, and I’m…

Overwatch has a ghost window. Why is it there? What does it mean? No one knows. (Somebody on the dev team probably goofed.) Here’s the full video, courtesy of Punished Dartjuk

The Most Popular Fallout 4 Mods On Xbox One

Xbox One owners can now download mods for Fallout 4. There are 885 available already and the servers for the game’s creators at Bethesda seem to be struggling to keep up . The most mod for the game on Xbox One is a cheat menu that lets you add caps, stimpacks and more. That’s currently…

Doom Credits Pay Tribute To Developer Who Passed Away

In July of 2014, id Software technical producer Steven Serafin passed away at age 28. His colleagues put this nice shoutout in the credits of their newest game, Doom Serafin helped present the first demo of the post-2013-reboot version of Doom, which was shown at QuakeCon in 2014.

Mojang Bans Paid Advertisements Within Minecraft

Mojang, the developers behind Minecraft, have made big changes to its policies on companies being able to promote their products using Minecraft. It could make a video like this, depicting a Verizon cell phone, a thing of the past. In a blog post titled “let’s talk about promotions in Minecraft,” Mojang said it wants to…

The next DLC character for Street Fighter V, Ibuki, has been delayed until the end of June The character had been scheduled to hit pretty soon, but Capcom’s decided to push back the release until the game’s story mode is complete.

Doom‘s Soundtrack Hides A Satanic Easter Egg

The new Doom is a surprise on multiple levels. Foremost, it remains surprising that it’s, you know, good. Actually, it’s not just good; it’s excellent. It’s also loaded with secrets, ones that are remarkably compelling to dig out of Mars’ demonic loam and fist bump. But Doom’s secrets aren’t strictly inside the game. Turns out,…

Harsh Life Lesson From Kirby

Some stats in life matter. Some don’t. In the kill-or-be-killed world of Team Kirby Clash, the co-op mini-game in the upcoming 3DS side-scroller Kirby: Planet Robobot, your stamina, attack, recovery and team meteor stats matter. But the game’s got jokes and/or hidden profundity. When you level up in the mini-game, the game mentioned upgrades to…

NBA 2K16, Gone Home Headline PlayStation Plus Lineup For June

One of the best independent games from the last few years and an excellent basketball game are part of Sony’s excellent lineup for next month. Remember, though Sony and Microsoft advertise their monthly games as “free,” you need an active PlayStation Plus or Xbox Live Gold subscription. With that said, here are the games Sony’s…

I Got Death Threats For Reporting On A Video Game Delay [UPDATES]

Last Wednesday, I reported that No Man’s Sky had been delayed. For two days, up until the game’s developers confirmed the news, I received a stream of nasty messages, angry tweets, and, as has become a standard part of gaming culture, threats against me and my family. Apparently I’m not the only one. No Man’s…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Tetris The Movie: The Winners

There is no way in hell the official Tetris movie will surpass the greatness of the mock-ups out readers put together in our second most-recent Photoshop contest. First off I’d like to thank occasional ‘Shop Contest winner Ben “GiantBoyDetective” Bertoli for slipping in a quick contest while I was off over the long weekend, even…

Just Cause 3‘s Mech Land Assault DLC arrives June 3 for season pass owners, June 10 for folks that would rather pay piecemeal. The barrage of videos depicting gravity gun-based carnage will follow immediately after.

A Compelling Argument For Official Overwatch LEGO Sets

I’m not playing much Overwatch, but I am fascinated by the characters and setting enough to drop cash on some toys, especially if they’re as cool as LEGO builder Taylor’s version of D.Va. Not all of Overwatch’s characters are as large and in-charge as D.Va, but that’s fine. Taylor’s version of the dynamic duo (via…

Gran Turismo Sport won’t have dynamic weather and time changes. Gran Turismo creator Kazunori Yamauchi told GTPlanet, “We opted to not have the transitions in the race this time in order to raise the framerate and the quality of the image during the race.”

At Age 41, This Anime Director Is Already Burnt Out 

Yutaka Yamamoto is one of Japan’s best known young anime directors. Most recently, he helmed the anime series Wake Up, Girls! He’s very talented and sounds very exhausted. As pointed out by Hachima, Yamamoto announced via Twitter that he was taking “an indefinite leave” because he’s fallen into poor physical health after “excessive” and “unreasonable”…

The First Ten Minutes Of The Witcher 3: Blood & Wine

Here’s the intro to Blood & Wine, in which Geralt is encouraged to take up a fancy new contract and says farewell to the Northern Kingdoms.

You know those enormous space stations you can build in EVE Online now? PC Gamer has a cool story about the quest to build the first one packing a superweapon. A bootleg Death Star, if you will.

The Witcher 3 vs Studio Ghibli

The Witcher 3’s final (and biggest) expansion, Blood & Wine, is now out. If you need me for the next month, that’s where I’ll be. To celebrate, here’s a Studio Ghibli-inspired crossover piece by Lap Pun Cheung, who is very good at this sort of thing