Uncategorized

Totally 100% Reasonable Mashup Combines Frozen Songs With Amnesia: The Dark Descent

What makes this even better is that the video series started in 2014 and only wrapped up today It’s Friday, which means news can be a little slow. While poking around Twitter for story ideas, I came across this stray tweet from Amnesia: The Dark Descent designer Thomas Grip. (You might know him more recently…

Watch People Lose Their Shit Trying Out VR Porn

The Looming VR Revolution™ may not completely change the world, but it at least promises to change how we think about video games and porn. Here at Kotaku we’ve played plenty of VR games, and some on our staff have tried out various types of VR Porn. The games are generally cool; the porn is…

‘The Big Erect One Looks Weird’: Adding Dicks To Fallout 4

Female nudity mods, Fallout 4 already has covered. Male nudity mods are a whole other story, though. When I last spoke to Fallout 4 modders,they alleged that making nudity mods for male characters was more difficult than female nudity mods. A month later, it seems that some progress has been made, though it’s coming slowly.…

A Good Way To Name Saves in XCOM 2

You can save at any time in XCOM 2, and you can name your saves. This is, unquestionably, a good thing. I’m not exactly a rampant XCOM save-scummer, but I do save often, and I’m not above reloading an old save if I lose a soldier that I can’t bear to lose. Like its predecessor,…

The Real Malware Messages Hackers Used To Leave On Computers

The 80s and 90s were a different time, especially when it comes to computer viruses. It’s pretty cool to look back now, when we’re safe from being infected by these old-school nefarious programs. Archive.org has a new collection called ‘The Malware Museum,” and it lets you look through the messages and animations that viruses left…

Rise of the Tomb Raider has gotten its first PC patch. The patch fixes some bugs, adds a bunch of small graphics tweaks and optimizations, and remedies Endurance Mode stuttering, among other things. Full patch notes here

The first woman League of Legends Championship Series player, Maria ‘Remi’ Creveling, has stepped down from the Renegades team due to stress and anxiety, according to the Daily Dot.

The Depressing Story Behind The Making Of Whac-a-Mole

Friday has rolled into town, which means it’s time for another Worth Reading, our weekly roundup of the best games writing on the Internet. Hey, You Should Read These Image Credit: Allie Brosh “The Intervention” by Julian Murdoch Julian Murdoch was depressed and didn’t know it. Or, at least, he didn’t know the extent to…

H1Z1 Is Splitting Into Two Games

Online zombie game H1Z1, one of the many survival games that’s been on Steam Early Access for what feels like decades now, is splitting into two games later this month, developer Daybreak said today. Starting February 17, Daybreak will start selling a spinoff called H1Z1: King of the Kill, which they say is a “large-scale,…

Remember When Madden Predicted The Exact Score Of Last Year’s Super Bowl?

We’re two days away from the annual Big Football Game, where the Panthers and Broncos will face one another in a match that would be extremely lopsided if they were actual animals (and may be just as lopsided regardless). If you’re an NFL fan, you already know all the storylines: Peyton’s last rodeo; Cam’s ascendance;…

We already knew XCOM 2 wouldn’t support traditional game pads, like the Xbox 360 controller, but it will work with the Steam Controller. They’ll tweak the way it works over time, and consider this an “initial implementation.” Gotta admit, I’m still bummed I can’t play XCOM 2 on my big TV!

Doom‘s Cover Fits Perfectly With Every Game

Yesterday, alongside the announcement of Doom’s release date (May 13), Bethesda showed off the cover for id’s next big shooter. It’s… generic. From the drab space marine to the piss-yellow background, everything about the new Doom’s cover feels kinda cookie-cutter. Just look at it: In fact, as NeoGAF poster shagg_187 points out, a cover like…

U.S. Version of Fire Emblem Fates Ditches The Petting Mini-Game, Keeps The Talking

Unlike the Japanese version of Fire Emblem Fates, you won’t be able to “pet” your fellow soldiers, Pokemon Amie style. But that’s OK. You still get something! Slight spoilers for Fire Emblem Fates here! Basically, the way it works is, once the player gets to chapter seven of Fire Emblem Fates, the game introduces its…

An Early Glimpse of Unreal Engine’s VR Editor

The Unreal Engine will soon get VR content creation tools, and while it might sound an impractical feature at first, the live demo Epic Games shared looks quite interesting. Here’s Epic Games’ Tim Sweeney and Mike Fricker showing this new way of content creation, using a HTC Vive and an Oculus Touch, and basically building…

90s Toys Invade In Silly Independence Day Clip

Instead of an alien comeback, in Darren Wallace’s version of the Independence Day sequel, creepy toys of the same era attack our planet. Computer viruses won’t work against a crazy Barney or Troll dolls. And they’re all animated and inserted into the original trailer pretty well! To contact the author of this post, write to:…

Reminder: The Basic Wii U Sucks

The Wii U itself is terrific. Great console. But whatever you do, do not buy the 8GB version. This week’s Smash Bros. patch and DLC provided a reminder that its lack of storage space stinks. This week’s update addednew characters Bayonetta and Corrin as well as a new stage, new tracks and other tweaks. (You…

Seven-Foot Batman “Action Figure” Costs $8000

Hot Toys make some of the best 1/6 scale action figures on the planet. But with this new Batman figure (from the upcoming Batman v Superman movie), they’ve lost their goddamned minds. This isn’t 30cm tall. When it’s attached to its base (because Hot Toys figures always come with bases) it stands 2.2m/7.2ft. Take it…

Yakuza, Explained In Four Minutes

Yeah,this is pretty much the entire series, in a nutshell.

People Can’t Stop Seeing The Witness’ Puzzles, Even In The Real World

The Witness is a very good puzzle game. So good that folks just can’t get its puzzles out of their head. At the airport, at a nice restaurant, everywhere Crazy. I mean, it’s not anyone sane would ever- *looks down at keyboard while typing, sees illuminated lines making patterns, breaks into a cold sweat* Shit.…

Marvel’s Super-Hero Hip-Hop Covers Are Available For Free

For the past few months, Marvel Comics has been covering some of its comics in images that reference album art from old- and new-school hip-hop classics. This week, you can get a bunch of those variant covers for free. The new Hip-Hop Variant Guide doesn’t have all of the boom-bap/House of Ideas mash-ups on its…