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Namco Is Offering $10,000 To Anyone Who Can Actually Explain Dark Souls‘ Story

Dark Souls fans are trying to win $10,000 by making videos attempting to explain the game’s confusing narrative, and a few of them are pretty brilliant. The “My Dark Souls Story” contest, which concluded last night, is supposed to help explain Dark Souls 3 to a player who hasn’t played the previous two games. As…

How A Fake Video Game Screenshot Is Made

A look at the work that goes into building and then using 'bullshots'

Descent‘s Original Developers Want To Make A Successor

Descent co-creators Matt Toschlog and Mike Kulas want to make a spiritual successor to the “six-degree of freedom” shooters they released back in the 90s. And they’re asking for $300,000 to help make it happen. Overload, which went live on Kickstarter this morning, has a relatively simple pitch: The creators of Descent are proud to…

Telltale’s announced their three-part Walking Dead mini-series will premiere on February 23 on every platform but mobile, where it hits on February 25. The whole series will cost you $15. The other Michonne-focused episodes will come out in March and April. Is Telltale getting on a normal release schedule?!

No one told me Gravity Rush has a flaming windmill: I was expecting Gravity Rush Remastered to be a game about flying, walking on walls and kicking enemies in mid-air. I was even expecting a cat. But this windmill? No wonder Kirk and Evan like the game so much. A good addition to my PS4.

That’s Not How Naval Battles Work

The pirates try everything to sink the Swedish ship in Naval Action, but it’s not enough. It’s certainly entertaining though. Naval Action is a sandbox sailing game on Steam. It’s in Early Access, which is probably the reason for the unusual combat, and not reading the wrong book about the Age of Sail. via r/gamephysics…

Custom Undertale Amiibos Are Works of Art

Graphic designer Sara created some really nice Undertale Amiibo figures. Even though the game only has a PC version, these would still make sense and would look cool next to all the Nintendo ones. All the main characters are there and Sara even made custom boxes for them. Here are some close-ups, and you can…

An Iconic Dark Souls Location, in Minecraft

Dark Souls’ Anor Londo is known for its terrific atmosphere, and its infuriating archers. This Minecraft build has one of those things. Well, two, if you spawn some skeletons. It’s a large build: According to the sole creator, LNeoX from PlanetMinecraft, it’s on a 1200 by 1200 block map. With some good-looking terrain, I might…

If HBO Made a Witcher 3 Series

If, the keyword is if. Perhaps, it would look something like this. Via AngryRedditorsBelow at /r/witcher, we have the following actors penciled in: [Image via AngryRedditorsBelow | /r/witcher] To contact the author of this post, write to bashcraftATkotaku.com or find him on Twitter@Brian_Ashcraft

What a world we live in.

Firewatch’s Fancy “Screenshot” Mode Is Fantastic

Maybe this is a spoiler? I don’t think it is, but if you’re concerned about that kind of thing with regards to Firewatch, then…be warned. Still with me? OK! So there comes a point fairly onin this excellent video game where you get hold of a camera. Not a fancy digital camera, not a smartphone…

UFC Champ Wants To Become A Full-Time Video Game Streamer

Demetrious “Mighty Mouse” Johnson is the UFC’s flyweight champion and arguably one of the greatest fighters on Earth. He blends speed and technique in ways that’ll make your eyes say, “huminahuminahwhaat?” Naturally, he wants to play video games for a living. Speaking on a recent episode of the Three Amigos Podcast (as transcribed by Bloody…

Rocket League is finally coming to Xbox One this month. February 17, to be exact.

Glad to see Dying Light’s graffiti game is still on point in the new expansion. I liked this one in particular. Never forget, indeed.

Fallout 4 Rocket Jump Mod Looks Like A Blast

For the Commonwealth wanderer who wants to get around in style. Here’s an early look at an in-development mod by EzPlays, which allows the player to use rockets to launch themselves into the air, TF2 style: Making this even cooler is that, the more powerful your rocket is, the more distance you can vault. So…

Amazon’s New Engine Has A Zombie Clause

Today, Amazon announced their new proprietary game engine, finally confirming Kotaku’s report that they had spent big bucks on Crytek’s technology back in 2014. They also did something pretty amusing. Buried in the engine’s new Terms of Service page, way down in section 57.10, is this paragraph: 57.10 Acceptable Use; Safety-Critical Systems. Your use of…

XCOM 2‘s Random Mission Names Are Really Great

I knew I liked XCOM 2 a whole lot pretty much from the moment I started playing it. I knew I loved it when I embarked on a mission called “Operation Tomb Fist.” XCOM 2 randomly generates a lot of things, characters and level designs being the most prominent. But the mission naming system? Criminally…

You Used To Play Me On Your PS4…

Destiny has some new emotes for Crimson Days. (Taken from this clip).

Motiga, the developers behind cute-as-heck MOBA Gigantic, have announced “significant, temporary studio layoffs.” The company claims it’s in discussions with “promising investors,” but the money hasn’t come through yet. That doesn’t sound very good. Gigantic is still in a closed beta. Contact the author at [email protected]

The FBI Made A Video Game And It Sucks

This might look like a cute video game about a goat dodging objects, but it’s actually a video game made by the FBI to (apparently) help educate people about “the slippery slope to violent extremism.” Gizmodo wrote about the “Don’t Be A Puppet” website yesterday, comparing it to an “awful, out-of-touch 90s educational game.” I’m…