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Nvidia’s Latest ‘Most Advanced Graphics Card’ Is Faster And Cheaper Than The Last One

Last year Nvidia introduced the top-of-the-line GeForce GTX Titan X, a $1,000 beast of a graphics card that blew just about everything else out of the water. Well forget that old thing. The newly-announced GTX 1080 is nearly twice as powerful for several hundred dollars less. Nvidia hosted a special event on Twitch last night…

Hello, I Must Be Growing

I’m not the first person at Kotaku to call this wretched hive of GIFs and wordsmithery a family. And I won’t be the last. Here’s the thing about families: sometimes they nurture you so well that you have to take yourself away from them to achieve more in the world. Kotaku’s been my family for…

Nintendo’s Miitomo Is Designed For Oversharing, Which Is Creepy

Miitomo, Nintendo’s sophisticated new smartphone app, is a hybrid of free-to-play game and social network. By combining aspects of each, it becomes a disarming information gathering project. On its face, it makes a game of asking trivia questions about your friends and shares the answers with you. Under the surface, it uses the framing and…

The Next Battlefield Is Called Battlefield 1, Set In WW1 [UPDATES]

The PlayStation Store leaked the new Call of Duty, so it’s only fair that Xbox get to leak the new Battlefield. This morning, that’s what happened, with the above image (showing character art from the new game) popping up on Xbox Live as part of an advertisement for the reveal stream UPDATE – 4:15pm: This…

Plan New Dark Souls Characters With This Online Tool

There are a million stats to consider when building a Dark Souls character, but there’s a very useful online tool that lets you plan them out way in advance. A Dark Souls fan named nemesismonkey built a website called Mugenmonkey back in 2012, not long after the release of the original Dark Souls. Naiyt, another…

How Spelunky Makes Randomized Levels Feel So Good

The temperatures are rising, but who cares? Stay inside with Worth Reading, our weekly roundup of the best games analysis around. Hey, You Should Read These “How (and why) Spelunky Makes Its Own Levels” by Mark Brown OK, yes, so that’s a video from Mark Brown, but it’s so well done that I had to…

Watch Us Play The Overwatch Beta

We’re having some fun in the Overwatch beta for Ps4 over on Facebook. Check it out here.

The Politics of Marvel’s Black Panther

Marvel’s most important black superhero has evolved a lot over 50 years. The Black Panther has gone from being an under-utilized figure in the background of Avengers group shots to arguably being the most fearsome strategist in the Marvel Universe. His elevation to Marvel’s top tier is a fascinating meta-story. [This post originally ran on…

Forza Motorsport PC Has A Really Smart Way Of Keeping Your Frame Rate Constant

One of the reasons people love playing games on the PC is because of how many options it gives you, but that can be overwhelming, too. Forza Motorsport 6 Apex tries to split the difference by offering to handle the hard work for you. Forza Motorsport 6 Apex represents another attempt by Microsoft to take…

Activision Responds To The Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare Mass-Dislike Campaign

Since Monday, YouTube users have been flooding the reveal trailer for Call of Duty Infinite Warfare, mashing the dislike button in what appears to be a game to see how high a number they can hit. As of publication time, the trailer’s got 447,096 dislikes, but that number is likely to skyrocket. And Activision’s aware…

World Record Carcassone Game Used 10,000 Tiles

Well, this is just ridiculous. A group playing at GothCon in Sweden earlier this year set a world record for the biggest ever game of Carcassone, assembling a board made out of 10,007 tiles. 10,007. The game was put together by Paul from Carcassone Central, and was inspired by a digital mock-up he made showing…

Custom Dark Souls 3 PS4 Was Crafted Using Wood and Metal

A Dark Souls 3-themed Playstation 4 can’t just be a generic plastic box. it has to be faithful to the game, either made of wood or metal. Or both. Belgian console wizard Vadu Amka used polished rosewood and brushed aluminium to give this lucky PS4 a dark, medieval Dark Souls look with coppery reflections. Looks…

Hearthstone Animation About Silly Game Mechanics Is Spot On

A Hearthstone match between Rexxar and Thrall would be a bit more intense on an open field with living, breathing creatures. Also the game mechanics would ruin everything. The clip was made by Wronchi, who is a well-known animator in the Dota community, but his rapid-fire jokes work with Hearthstone as well. It’s the small…

Now You, Too, Can Own The Best Dragon Age Party Member. For $500.

Iron Bull is probably the single most memorable character from Dragon Age: Inquisition, or perhaps even the entire series. So it’s good news that for the low, low price of $470 to $500, you can turn your desk into a collectible statue-adorned Iron Bull Appreciation Station. As we have seen time and again from Gaming…

Real Water Makes Cosplay Wetter, I Mean Better

We’ve seen how there are cosplay events in Japan with real explosions and fire to make photos dramatic. But, as pointed out on 2ch, there is also a studio in Sapporo that has a water room, so cosplayers can get drenched and splashed for pics. The basement of Studio Parfait houses a “water arena,” which…

YouTube Isn’t Easy So Stay in School, Says Japanese YouTuber 

Some kids might think being a YouTuber looks like a blast, especially if you become famous and make tons of cash. But, recently, one Japanese YouTuber busted out some real talk. Some study talk. Earlier this year, Mainichi News, one of Japan’s biggest newspapers, published the results of a poll taken by fourth grade boys…

Grasshopper Manufacture is remaking The Silver Case for PC, reports Famitsu. The game was originally released in Japan back in 1999, and the remake is slated to release this year worldwide.

Nintendo just announced that on May 10, it’s releasing “new info” about the upcoming Pokémon Sun and Moon Will we get screens? A new trailer? Gameplay? Hrm.

3030 Deathwar Redux looks cool! There’s space combat, adventure gaming, open exploration stuff, a nice soundtrack and some solid pixel art. It’s available now on Early Access

Giant 1920s Mechs: The Video Game

Normally, a concept artist’s job is to work on a game that already exists. In this case, a concept artist’s personal work has proven so popular that it’s inspired its own video game. That artist is Jakub Rozalski. We featured his badass “1920s Polish mechs” works a few years back on Kotaku, and while in…