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StarCraft: Brood War Remains Great In 2016

StarCraft and longtime esports fans got a rare treat this weekend: an English-language cast of a major StarCraft: Brood War final between two of the game’s biggest stars. In its heyday, Brood War was practically a Korean national pastime, with finals selling-out huge arenas and major corporations sponsoring some of the best esports teams and…

By Rob Zacny Published January 25, 2016

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Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam: The Kotaku Review

When you think of sensational action sequences and explosive setpieces, your mind may jump to big-budget productions like Uncharted or Tomb Raider. Allow me to present a dark horse contender: the unassuming Mario & Luigi series, with its goofy animations and sight gags, which has carved out its own healthy niche in the realm of…

By Jason Schreier Published January 25, 2016

Culture

For Years, A Few Steam Games Seem To Have Been Hiding A Larger Secret

Throw your detective hat into a pile of rotting fish after that whole Steam winter sale sorta-kinda-not-really alternate reality game? Well, snatch it out. Intrepid sleuths have uncovered evidence of something much larger: a series of symbols and puzzle pieces that span multiple seemingly unrelated games. People are only just now beginning to piece together…

By Nathan Grayson Published January 25, 2016

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Guitar Hero Player Finds Perfect Way To Get Around YouTube’s Bullshit

GuitarHeroFailure says he uploaded “Bark at the Moon” to YouTube, but the song was taken down—presumably due to YouTube’s automated copyright system. As you may already know, YouTube is particularly aggro about music. It’s cool, though. GuitarHeroFailure re-uploaded the video with a different audio track, and honestly? I think this is wayyyy better. Make sure…

By Patricia Hernandez Published January 25, 2016

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TotalBiscuit Quits Social Media With Emotional Goodbye

John “TotalBiscuit” Bain is not the first to struggle with social media as he’s become more popular, nor is he the first to announce he’s quitting a service like Twitter. But uniquely, the YouTube star is living with terminal cancer, and his statement on why he’s leaving is gut-wrenching and understandable. Bain first discussed his…

By Patrick Klepek Published January 25, 2016

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Five Nights at Freddy’s RPG Pulled Off Steam Due To Bad Reviews

Last week, FNAF World launched on Steam early, surprising everyone. A day later, Scott Cawthon, its developer, apologized for rushing the game and pushing it out on Steam without important features. And today, the game has been taken off of Steam entirely. Writing on the Five Nights at Freddy’s 4 news page, Scott Cawthon said…

By Patricia Hernandez Published January 25, 2016

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The X-Files Premiere Was Terrible And I Still Loved It

It’s easy to sneer at Hollywood’s obsession with sequels and reboots, but eventually, the dice rolls in your direction. One person’s cynicism is another’s nostalgia. For me, it’s The X-Files, a show that defined my childhood. Last night was a big deal—The X-Files was back. It kinda sucked, and I definitely don’t care. Now nearly…

By Patrick Klepek Published January 25, 2016

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Mortal Kombat X’s New Tri-Borg Is Really Four Robots in One

One of the new characters coming to Mortal Kombat X is an amalgam of three man-machine characters from the fighting game franchise’s history. But it turns out that there’s another robot ninja lurking inside that chassis. One who makes things a whole lot cooler. During the Season 2 Finals of competitive gaming promotion ESL, fans…

By Evan Narcisse Published January 25, 2016

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Super Bowl Commercial Shows Pokémon Would Look Amazing In Real Life

Up until the very end of this commercial, the entire thing comes across as a Nike ad—not something about Pokémon. That’s just how fierce it is. As of late, Pokémon advertisements have really stepped up their game. I think back on the stuff for Pokémon Go, the upcoming mobile spin-off for example…. Both of these…

By Patricia Hernandez Published January 25, 2016

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Acer Predator 17 Gaming Laptop: The Kotaku Review

The 17-inch Predator gaming laptop is one of several new black-and-red gaming-focused products aimed at getting gamers to utter the words “Acer” and “badass” in the same breath. Let’s see if that trick works. Acer is not a brand I normally associate with gaming, which is strange considering I’ve been staring at an Acer monitor…

By Mike Fahey Published January 25, 2016

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Street Fighter V, Turned Into Nightmare Fuel

Things get pretty freaky when you switch up the movesets and animations available to your favorite Street Fighter character. Street Fighter V Mods ( SFV ) has spent some time messing with the fighting game, and the results are as strange as they are hilarious. Take, for instance, Laura. Typically, she looks like this: …but…

By Patricia Hernandez Published January 25, 2016

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Street Fighter V won’t have an in-depth story mode when it launches on February 16, but Capcom’s announced a “cinematic expansion” coming next June for free. It’ll apparently go “deep” into the series’ mythology, taking place between the events of Street Fighter IV and Street Fighter III Contact the author at [email protected]

By Patrick Klepek Published January 25, 2016

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Looks like Her Story 2 is a real thing that’s going to happen at some point. Neat. I loved the murder mystery at the heart of the first FMV game.

By Patricia Hernandez Published January 25, 2016

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Valkyria Chronicles Is Coming To PS4 In The West

The PlayStation 4 version of beloved strategy-role-playing game Valkyria Chronicles, previously announced for Japan, will also head west this spring, Sega announced today. This remastered version of Valkyria Chronicles will run at 60 FPS and cost $30. Says Sega PR: Valiant citizens of Gallia, to arms! Bid farewell to your loved ones, because it is…

By Jason Schreier Published January 25, 2016

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Series creator Toshihiro Nagoshi showed off some Yakuza 6 gameplay on a Sega stream last night. The upcoming installment of the under-appreciated series is a PS4 exclusive due out this fall in Japan. Who knows when it’ll get a western release? Contact the author at [email protected]

By Evan Narcisse Published January 25, 2016

Reviews

The Witness: The Kotaku Review

While playing The Witness for this review, I wrote an email to its lead creator, Jonathan Blow. It was a moment of weakness. I feared that Blow’s magnificent new puzzle game had deadended my ability to reach a solution. I sent it on a Saturday afternoon. “I’ve been playing for much of the day and…

By Stephen Totilo Published January 25, 2016

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Great World of Warcraft Tool Helps Managing Pets And Making Some Gold

With each patch and expansion, WoW is getting bigger and bigger, with more stuff to collect. It’s getting impossible to keep track of everything. Certain UI tweaks and plugins help, but managing hundreds of collected pets, for example, is still a chaotic process. A recently finished site called WoW-Pets helps a lot in this. Thanks…

By Gergo Vas Published January 25, 2016

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18,000-Piece LEGO Arkham Asylum Has A Cell For Everyone

This is a fantastic, giant LEGO version of Arkham Asylum, created by Australian LEGO enthusiast Dayton His model of the well-known institute (via Brothers-Brick) for DC villains has a whopping 18,000 blocks inside and took around 4 months to build and collect all the necessary pieces. I feel this was the milestone for me as…

By Gergo Vas Published January 25, 2016

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Morrowind, As Told By Facebook Posts

Morrowind, the third Elder Scrolls RPG, has a rich and somewhat complicated story. Luckily, now we have a Facebook timeline to simplify it all. Humorously. It was whipped up by redditor TheTitanova, using this Facebook wall generator, and posted to r/morrowind last week. Basically, it’s a cleverly written account of the backstory and the in-game…

By András Neltz Published January 25, 2016

Kotaku East

There’s a Ninja Academy in Japan

Of course, there is. According to Otakuma and Hachima, this “Ninja Academy” is in Nara Prefecture. You learn the art of handling a katana, shuriken throwing, dart blowing, how to shoot old-fashioned firearms, Japanese archery, and more. Think of these as your learning tools, because that’s exactly what they are. [GIF via gokurakumann] The lessons…

By Brian Ashcraft Published January 25, 2016