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Conan O’Brien Visits A Korean Gaming Café 

During his recent trip to Korea Conan O’Brien stopped by a PC bang, a place where teens and young adults gather to play bizarro Counter-Strike and really old StarCraft Originally published 4/10/16 I couldn’t decide which moment was weirder—Conan somehow getting a headshot or the moment the blue bear with the axe shows up, so…

Severed, the next game from the creators of Guacamelee will be coming to PlayStation Vita on April 26.

My Quest To Kidnap Every Guard In Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes

My parents didn’t like video games; I was forbidden from playing them when I was growing up. So, most of the “games” I played as a kid were demos. I learned to get a lot out of those abbreviated pieces of video games, developing a taste for playing the same content over and over again,…

Players Keep Finding Secret New Fatalities in Mortal Kombat X

Fighting game enthusiasts have been going over Mortal Kombat X with a fine-toothed comb ever since the game’s first iteration almost a year ago. Tons of secrets and easter eggs have been discovered but fresh ones keep popping up. It’s been one big gory treasure hunt. NetherRealm have pumped out a bunch of periodic updates…

World of Warcraft Is Getting New Challenge Modes, Similar To Diablo‘s

A new, revamped Challenge Mode is coming to dungeons in World of Warcraft: Legion, with multiple difficulty levels and some really nasty affixes. It’s something similar to Diablo III’s Greater Rifts. Right now players can run 5-man dungeons on Normal, Heroic and Mythic difficulties. These are all relatively easy once you have the gear and…

Ratchet & Clank Strikes A Perfect Balance Between Old And New

In the middle of my second play through of Ratchet & Clank I realized the re-imagined version had begun to infect my memories of the original, and I was okay with that. The realization actually began on my second trip to Planet Veldin, where the Lombax with dreams of high adventure first encounters the reject…

Tetris, Running On A Tiny LCD

Besides Doom, Tetris is one game that gets all kinds of silly ports all the time. Enthusiast Numeric compressed the game into a 10×16 frame and made it work on a very tiny character display. A number of these displays let users upload custom characters, and if someone’s into coding in C, and has an…

Codemasters Acquires Recently Shut Down Driveclub Studio

Codemasters, the British publisher and developer behind the F1 and Dirt racing series, among a long list of other games, is joining forces with DriveClub’s recently shut down developer, Evolution Studios. In addition to Codemasters taking on “most” of the studios’ staff, former Evolution Group Director Mike Hocking will also become the company’s new VP…

Minecraft Times Square Is Way Less Crowded

And, since the Minecraft version of Times Square is not an absolute clustereff of pedestrians, you get to hang around and enjoy the sights. Yay! Built by PlanetMinecraft’s qq1394236817 for a larger city map, this recreation needs a little bit of tweaking to run on your copy Minecraft. By default, when you download the map,…

Gears Of War 4: The First Trailer

It’s time for Gears of War: Son Of Marcus Fenix Sorry Mike, no more statues of Marcus in this debut trailer for the game. But we do get a continuation of the series’ penchant for covers (complete with bad timing), so there’s…that. To refresh, some gameplay was shown off at E3 last year Gears of…

The Fix Is A Comic Book About The World’s Worst Criminals

The Fix starts with a great high-concept opening: the march of technology has made reliable, old-school, brute force law-breaking obsolete. So, how can a thug indiscriminately shoot and rob people and get away with it nowadays? The Fix answers this conundrum in a way that makes it the most hilarious comic of 2016. Originally posted…

A 3D-Printed Xbox One Controller, Made Of Wood

I did not know you could 3D print with wood. Now I do, and given my fetish for the stuff when it comes to video games, I am very interested in mods like this. Adam Griesermade the controller by taking some replacement Xbox One controller shell models from Thingiverse and running wood through a 3D…

Over the weekend Hasbro was at Botcon 2016 showing off new toys. LEGO builder Joe Perez prefers the classics, like this transformable LEGO Soundwave compete with cassette companions. Check out his Flickr for the whole set (via The Brothers Brick.)

The World’s Greatest Scientists Kick Each Other’s Ass In This 2D Fighting Game

Oh man. Remember that idea to make a 2D fighter out of some of the world’s greatest scientists? Well, your dreams came true, it’s now a functional and playable video game. Built in Unity, and hosted on the same site that ran the original gifs (Brazil’s Superinteressante magazine), there are a range of fighters available,…

Anti-Trump Rallies Are Much More Entertaining In Second Life

Within hours of posting a video of my visit to the Second Life Trump Mansion, the forces of chaos organized a rally. Warning: The video above contains mild nudity, harsh nudity, exposed teeth, one of those meme dogs, suggestive violence, dissuaded violence, strong language and quiche. “HADET: Making Heresy Great Again” read the signs posted…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Ditto: The Winners! 

I know it feels like we’re piling up on Trump a little today, but in a Photoshop contest about a Pokemon that can copy anything, lharm explained so much with a single image it had to win. As many readers pointed out, the Ditto that’s been delighting and creeping out Pokemon fans and appearing on…

The folks at Polygon have posted over an hour of English language footage of Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness, well ahead of its June 28 North American release. I’ve been agonizing over whether to import the Japanese version for a week and a half. This should help tide me over.

Marcus Fenix Deserves All The Statues He Gets In Gears Of War 4

A teaser for the Gears of War 4 reveal happening during tomorrow night’s Fear The Walking Dead features the second statue of Gears hero Marcus Fenix since the marketing team’s gears started turning earlier this week. News of Gears of War 4‘s October 11 release date gave us a look at our first statue of…

Ta-Nehisi Coates Is Trying To Do Right By Marvel Comics’ First Black Superhero

It’s 2 A.M. on March 20 in France and Ta-Nehisi Coates is not sleeping. “I’m up learning to make maps so I can make one of Wakanda, believe it or not.” Originally posted 4/6/16 The award-winning writer who’s steering the future of one of Marvel’s most important characters is taking his job very seriously. “I’ve…

And Then I Got Banned From Donald Trump’s Second Life Mansion

Following news that the recreation of Donald Trump’s Florida mansion in virtual playground Second Life was owned by an anime schoolgirl, I decided to take a tour. It was lovely, until I was forcibly ejected by security. Just when I thought I’d gotten Second Life out of my system, Trump drags me right back in.…