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People Are Mass-Disliking The Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare Trailer

It may surprise you to hear that YouTube, a place well-known for civility and intelligent discussions, is full of people saying mean things about the new Call of Duty trailer. As of right now, the video has 221,657 dislikes, and that number is going up by a few hundred every minute. This mass-dislike campaign has…

Spider-Man And Iron Man Have Beef Now

Spider-Man and Iron Man have been on-and-off allies for decades and worked in close partnership on the Avengers. Nowadays, they’re more like frenemies. It used to be that Peter Parker and Tony Stark saved the world in differently scaled adventures. The wall-crawler was more of a street-level guy while the armored genius fought everywhere from…

The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth, a major expansion for the game that adds tons of new areas and items, hits PS4 on May 10 for $10.99. It’s supposed to arrive on the same day for Xbox One, as well. No word yet on a Vita version.

Just Like That, Battleborn‘s Prologue Is Now Replayable

YesterdayI complained about not being able to replay the animated intro and prologue mission in Battleborn. Now I can, thanks to a game update so stealthy I didn’t even have to reboot. 2K senior communications manager Scott Pytlik dropped us a line to let us know the opening bits of Battleborn, previously inaccessible after completion,…

The Makers Of Titanfall Are Working On A Star Wars Game

Clearly not busy enough with Titanfall 2, the developers at Respawn are working with EA on a new Star Wars game, they announced today. EA says it’ll be a third-person action-adventure game, just like the one that’s currently in development at Visceral (Dead Space). Says the company: Today, I’m thrilled to be able to announce…

Star Wars: The Force Awakens LEGO Game Shows Us What Happened Before The Movie

Episode VII left fans with many unanswered questions. How did Lor San Tekka get part of Luke’s map? What were Han and Chewie doing alone on a ship full of deadly Rathtar? The answers to these and other burning questions arrive next month in LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Like previous games in the…

Fallout 4‘s Biggest DLC Will Be Out This Month

Far Harbor, the next downloadable content pack for Fallout 4, will be out on May 19, Bethesda said today. And, hey, is our buddy Nick Valentine about to get an upgrade? The DLC looks promising, and Bethesda has promised it will be more substantial than the last two (Automatron and Wasteland Workshop). It’s also pricier,…

The Flash‘s Best Character Has A Leeroy Jenkins Moment

Super-genius, gamer and lover of all things geeky, Cisco “Vibe” Ramon is our best friend in the Arrowverse. He’s the kind of guy I’d love to hang with, as long as he doesn’t go full Leeroy like he did last night on a regular basis. For reasons best left in spoiler territory, last night’s episode…

Google’s Self-Driving Car Goes Wild In GTA V

An autonomous, self-driving car in Los Santos? What could go wrong? YouTuber pizzaforbreakfast made a clip imagining how this new technology would work in the precisely designed environment of GTA AI drivers. It’d be a disaster. Although, on second thought, it’s not much different from GTA Online To contact the author of this post, write…

No One’s Missing From This Fan-Made LEGO Mos Eisley Spaceport

A wretched hive of scum and villainy. LEGO and Star Wars enthusiast I Scream Clone and his friends built a quite busy and enormous blocky version of Mos Eisley, including pretty much everything that can show up in a desolate place like this. The cantina with the main characters is in the center of the…

Enormous, Beautiful Minecraft Map Took 400 Hours To Build

Pictured above: six kilometers by six kilometers of pure magnificence, in Minecraft map form. Called Phain, or Game Board of the Ancients, this map is another one from the incredibly talented Darastlix, whose work we’ve featured on Kotaku three times before. Phain, which took 400 hours of work over a year to make, is the…

That’s No Moon…It’s A Video Game Space Station

Space combat/trading MMO EVE Online has a new expansion called Citadel. Even as someone who doesn’t play the game, I am very impressed by the scale of what’s going on here. I mean…look at the size of those stations. These are things that groups of players in the game can actually build, own and use,…

An MMO Where Your Character Can Grow Old And Die

No one lives forever. In Chronicles ofElyria, even video game characters’ days are numbered. In this age of survival games like Ark: Survival Evolved and Rust, plenty of large-scale multiplayer games have made death a thing of grave consequence. Usually, though, it’s pretty binary: you’re either alive or you’re (perma) dead. In Elyria, even if…

Oculus Rift Pre-Order Issues Have Only Gotten More Confusing

Even though Oculus is woefully behind in shipping Rift pre-orders to customers, the company has courted more controversy by moving forward with its retail plans, which includes letting people buy Rifts at places like Best Buy. “For many, this is a first chance to jump into truly immersive VR,” reads a company blog post explaining…

Indie Shooter Alien Wasteland Hit With Cease And Desist By Wasteland 2 Devs

Alien Wasteland is a rudimentary looking first-person-shooter made by a single person. It looks pretty darn different from Wasteland 2, the gritty strategy game from inXile Entertainment. Nonetheless, the developer behind Alien Wasteland was recently issued a cease and desist from the creators of Wasteland 2 Alien Wasteland’s new name is Action Alien after nXile…

Marvel’s New Punisher Comic Gives Frank Castle Big New Problems

Frank Castle doesn’t say a word in the first issue of his new series. He really doesn’t need to. At the height of his popularity in the 1980s, the Punisher’s war on crime was shown in stories that were almost exclusively narrated by the lead character. Frank Castle would tersely describe his worldview and methodology…

LEGO Avengers‘ Black Panther DLC Really Milks The Whole Cat Thing

The Black Panther downloadable content for LEGO Marvel’s Avengers dropped today. It features several panther idols and a panther-headed monorail, along with several less interesting things. Available today for $2.99 or free with the $9.99 season pass, the Classic Black Panther Pack for LEGO Marvel’s Avengers is worth it just to run around LEGO landscapes…

League of Legends Champ Designer Gives Some Real Talk On Sexy Characters

Yesterday, Riot introduced the world to Taliyah, League of Legends’ next playable champion. For the most part, people responded very positively toward Taliyah. Champion designer Daniel Klein responded to the vocal minority against Taliyah, however, by stating that “Restricting body types is limiting to us as creators.” Taliyah, for those that don’t know, looks like…

The Division‘s Daily Missions Keep Disappearing

Is a Daily Mission really daily if it doesn’t happen every day? That’s the new philosophical dilemma facing The Division, an online shooter in which players travel through New York City wishing they were traveling through space. Early this morning, The Division players discovered that today’s Daily Missions—regular activities that grant credits and crafting materials—are…

Overwatch Won’t Launch With Competitive Mode

Toward the end of its closed beta, Overwatch got an update that included ranked play and seasons. For some, it was the final piece of the puzzle, the competitive aspect that’d keep them coming back. Blizzard, however, is revamping it. Overwatch game director Jeff Kaplan explained in a forum post: “We worked extremely hard to…