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Oculus Rift Piracy Crackdown Actually Makes Piracy Easier

A new software update for the Oculus Rift VR headset that was supposed to “curb piracy and protect games and apps that developers have worked so hard to make” has actually had the opposite effect. Whoops. The creator of the Revive hack, which had allowed HTC Vive owners to play Oculus-exclusive programs before Rift’s latest…

It Took 191 Hours To Draw These 131 League Of Legends Champions

Reader Christopher Cayco is responsible for this incredible League of Legends artwork, which manages to cram every single Champion (up to Taliyah) into the one image. Chris did something last year, with his 721-Pokemon-in-one-pic. He recorded himself drawing it, so you can see how it was done here. You can also buy prints of the…

Kid Designs Overwatch Character, Blizzard Artists Finish The Job

Blizzard fan Shane Hickey’s young daughter thought it’d be cool to design her own Overwatch character and send it into the game’s creators. Blizzard thought it’d be cooler to turn her rough design into something a little more professional. Roman Kenney, a Blizzard artist, took the kid’s art (and attack descriptions) and made this: That’s…

The First Episode of Preacher Gets The Important Stuff Right

A filmed adaptation of Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon’s classic Preacher comic book series has been an on-again, off-again project for more than ten years. Yesterday, the first episode of the upcoming AMC TV series finally saw the light of day. Judging by what I saw, Preacher’s going to be bringing the word of God…

Soldier: 76 Plays Hero In The Final Animated Overwatch Short Of The Season

With the game’s launch just a day away, Blizzard has released the fourth and final animated Overwatch short of the season, giving the vigilante known as Soldier: 76 a chance to atone for past transgressions The oldest Overwatch characterby far, Soldier: 76’s driving skills might be a little rusty, but his shooting is totally on…

As promised, Square Enix RPG Romancing Saga 2 arrives on iOS and Android this week. Never released outside of Japan, the remastered version of the Super Famicom classic will be available on May 26 for $17,99.

This Is More Like It, Saturday Night Live

Saturday Night Live’s take on Dead Poets Society is an instant classic.

Oculus Kills App That Let Vive Owners Play Rift Exclusives

Last month we reported on Revive, a proof-of-concept compatibility layer that allowed games exclusive to the Oculus Rift to be played using the HTC Vive headset. This week’s Oculus app update took steps to ensure that trick doesn’t work anymore. Revive basically bypassed code checks that tethered games like the delightful Lucky’s Tale to the…

Kotaku Shop Contest: Kojima’s Body: The Winners

The helmeted skull logo of Kojima Productions may have an official body now, but the unofficial ones created by our readers for last week’s ‘Shop Contest are much, much cooler. The official look revealed by Hideo Kojima earlier this week is nice and all, if you’re into the puffy, Doctor Who Silence in the Library…

7-Year-Old Gaming Vid Briefly Pulled From YouTube Because Of Family Guy 

Last Sunday’s episode of Family Guy used an old YouTube clip of NES classic Double Dribble to simulate two characters playing the game. Shortly after the episode aired the original video was taken down by Fox on copyright grounds, because YouTube is stupid. Basically what happened, as documented by the folks over at TorrentFreak, was…

Melody’s Escape Turns Music Into A Platforming Adventure

This is what Flo Rida’s “Wild Ones” looks like when run through the advanced audio detection algorithms of Loïc Dansart’s Melody’s Escape I’ve been in love with music visualization since the early days of Winamp, and the only thing I enjoy more than watching the beats and melodies of my favorite tunes is playing them.…

Red Faction Started Blowing The Hell Out Of Everything 15 Years Ago Today

On May 21, 2001, developer Volition and publisher THQ took gamers to Mars and let them blow the living hell out of everything that moved and most things that didn’t. Red Faction is a game about a miner revolt on Mars in the year 2075. Earth’s resources have been depleted and a vile corporation has…

Five Nights At Freddy’s Follow-Up Goes Full-On Scary Clown

If you’re looking to give a bunch of kids nightmares, how do you escalate beyond terrifying animatronic animals? Five Nights At Freddy’s creator Scott Cawthon’s first trailer for Sister Location takes us to clown town. No doubt Five Nights fans are busy tearing this latest trailer apart, searching for clues as to what’s going to…

A Look At How Playing Games On YouTube Is Replacing TV

There have been so many good video games in 2016, so it’s not a surprise there’s been a plethora of good writing, too. Worth Reading, our weekly guide to the best pieces around, will point you in the right direction. Hey, You Should Read These “MONSTER FACTORY, New Media, And The Future Of “TV” by…

One Of The Twists In Fallout 4’s Far Harbor DLC Is Too Damn Good

The Fallout fandom is about to have a LOT of arguments over one of the plot points in Far Harbor, Fallout 4’s biggest DLC. Spoilers ahead! Far Harbor starts out simply enough: you need to find Kasumi Nakano, a missing woman who suspects she might be a synth. Searching for answers, Nakano ends up retreating…

Overwatch Fans Are So Desperate, They’re Role-Playing Overwatch In Other Games

You think you’re into Overwatch? Are you dedicated enough to role-play your favorite characters in another game, even if that means pretending to be a turret? While the world holds its breath for Overwatch’s impending launch, eNinja and friends decided to do something productive with the longing in their fingers and maybe also loins. Well,…

A Look At Minecraft‘s Official New Mario World

This Minecraft statue of Mario is different than other Minecraft statues of Mario. Because this one is official. This week, Nintendo launched a brand new Mario world for Minecraft on Wii U, and it’s really intricate, full of big Mario statues, explorable pipes, and a soundtrack that loops through a bunch of iconic tracks from…

Doom’s SnapMap Tool Is Cool, But It’s No Substitute For Real Mods

Doom’s single-player campaign might be getting all the praise, but that’s only half its appeal. The other side of the coin isn’t multiplayer (which is kinda boring), but rather SnapMap, a tool that lets players make their own maps and modes quickly and easily. Naturally, somebody’s already made a farming game. In Doom In the…

Nintendo’s Awful YouTube Policies Accidentally Impacting Minecraft Videos

Nintendo has a complicated history with YouTube, to say the least. So when Nintendo characters were added to Minecraft recently, people were skeptical. Wouldn’t the company apply the same draconian copyright measures to Minecraft videos on YouTube? They weren’t supposed to! But, well, they did. YouTubers are currently able to monetize their Minecraft videos, which…

A Great Thing Final Fantasy IX Did

It’s Friday, which is still Kotaku JRPG Day in my heart. So here’s an interesting thought on what made old Final Fantasy games special, from two veteran designers who have plenty of insight on what it’s like to make video games. First, some context: designers Brett Douville (LucasArts, Bethesda) and Tim Longo Jr. (LucasArts, 343…