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Blizzard Channels Pixar In The First Overwatch Short
Back in November I said I was more excited about the upcoming Overwatch animated shorts than the actual online shooter. Now that the eight-minute short teased at Blizzcon is here, I stand by that statement. This is wonderful. Valve did some amazing things with its Team Fortress 2 character movies, but this is on a…
By Mike Fahey Published March 21, 2016 -
Nintendo Deletes Every Stage By Prominent Mario Maker Speedrunner
Nintendo has a real problem on its hands with Mario Maker. Left and right, creators are seeing their levels removed from the online servers without an explanation. David “GrandPOObear” Hunt, a speedrunner who makes a living streaming games, is the latest victim. All of his levels have vanished. (We last featured Hunt after he pulled…
By Patrick Klepek Published March 21, 2016 -
Mod Lets You Play As Dogmeat, The True Hero of Fallout 4
Who’s a good boy? WHO’S A GOOD BOY? I’m…the good boy….? Forget the boring humans of Fallout 4. Thanks to the Be The Dog mod (via VG247), you can now take to the wasteland as man’s best friend. Obviously, Fallout 4 was never meant to be played this way, which means the mod gets weird…
By Patricia Hernandez Published March 21, 2016 -
Shitty Voltron Turns Four Players Into a Shitty Defender of the Universe
This weekend, a video game made me realize how hard it must be to be part of the Voltron team. I played a game called Shitty Voltron on Saturday. Created by Portland, Ore.-based game developers Jack Meade, Oliver Smith and Terence Lee for the Tinderbox arcade cabinet, the multiplayer game tasks four people with controlling…
By Evan Narcisse Published March 21, 2016 -
19 Years Later, Man Pays Diablo Dev For A Game He Pirated As A Teen
Turns out, it’s never too late to do the right thing. Last week in San Francisco, the Game Developers Conference held a postmortem for Diablo, the classic PC game released in 1996. Headlined by David Brevik, a co-founder of Blizzard North, the presentation gave a fantastic behind-the-scene look at how the action role-playing game came…
By Patricia Hernandez Published March 21, 2016 -
Big New Division Patch Will Eliminate Farming Exploit, Improve Dark Zone Rewards
Over the weekend, you could’ve been forgiven for confusing The Division with Stardew Valley. Because both games were about farming! Get it? Heyo! Rimshot! Tip your waiter! A lot of us may have spent some time getting familiar with the Bullet King, but after the server maintenance on the 22nd, it’ll be time to say…
By Kirk Hamilton Published March 21, 2016 -
Blade & Soul’s First Expansion Arrives Just Two Months After Launch
It’s really hard to find a stopping point to review Blade & Soul when new content keeps coming out. Today Ncsoft announced the first expansion pack for its massively multiplayer martial arts role-playing game is launching in two days. Sheesh. I guess with Blade & Soul having been active in Asia since 2012 means Ncsoft…
By Mike Fahey Published March 21, 2016 -
Super Metroid: Zero Mission And Other Neat SNES Repro Carts
On Saturday, while driving on Long Island with a few hours to kill, I stumbled upon a video game store in Stony Brook called The Revolution. I don’t hang around game stores much—when you spend most of your waking hours playing and writing about video games, the stores aren’t quite as appealing—but something about this…
By Jason Schreier Published March 21, 2016 -
Syfy’s Face Off Does World Of Warcraft This Week
On Wednesday’s episode of Face Off a group of special effect artists attempt to do something World of Warcraft cosplayers have been nailing for over a decade. To be fair, cosplayers have plenty of time how to work out things like troll skin tones and hair styles, while the challengers on Syfy’s competitive effects makeup…
By Mike Fahey Published March 21, 2016 -
The Legend of Zelda As Renaissance Art
Interesting concept with an awesome execution. Artist Ástor Alexander made some Zelda fan-art, inspired by 17th century art, and put some of the series’ characters in the role of Renaissance figures. That’s Ganon, Zant and Midna in the top pic, posing as strangers who lived hundreds of years ago. And below is Link with his…
By Gergo Vas Published March 21, 2016 -
Diablo III Player Reaches Level 70 In 33 Seconds
Boosting a character got a lot easier in Diablo III since the introduction of Paragon levels and Seasons, and it always was quick playing as a level 1 character in an otherwise max level party of four. Still, reaching the non-Paragon level cap in 33 seconds is still pretty impressive. It’s not necessarily the best…
By Gergo Vas Published March 21, 2016 -
Gametrailers Staff Return With New Site
In February,the long-running video game site Gametrailers was shut down. A month later, the staff have regrouped and launched a new team called Easy Allies They’ve hit the ground running, with a Twitch site, YouTube page, Twitterand—most importantly for their continued operation—a Patreon account Things will start out slowly, with plans for a weekly podcast…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 21, 2016 -
Modded Deer Is Running Buck Wild In GTA V
Welcome to San Andreas Streaming Deer Cam, where viewers can watch a very special deer wander the wilds (and streets) of Los Santos. Frolicking along the sidewalk, stopping traffic, getting shot up by the cops, he does it all. The deer is actually running on a slightly modified version of GTA V, which replaces the…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 20, 2016 -
(Maybe) Your First Look At Pokémon Go
John Hanke, CEO of Pokémon Go developers Niantic, gave a talk at SXSW Gaming over the weekend on the future of AR (Augmented Reality) games. Shortly afterwards, this video showed up. Of course, with no official video of the talk available (or a transcript), we can’t be 100% sure that this is something actually shown…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 20, 2016 -
Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Bring Back The Beard
I promised myself I would never give our readers my picture to play around with, but the reaction to my recent beard loss was too much to ignore. The facial hair is gone but you can rebuild it. Make it strong. Faster. You have the technology. I’ve been a beard man for several decades, having…
By Mike Fahey Published March 20, 2016
