Bethesda Is Advertising Fallout On Tinder

Vault Boy probably hopes you’re willing to swipe right. Reader Jason Mol sent us a curious screenshot earlier today of a profile he came across while using dating app Tinder. Turns out, Vault Boy himself is on the service. Apparently he’s age 25, and if y’all hit it off together, who knows, maybe you can…

Final Fantasy VII Cosplay, Take A Bow (Or A Gun)

It’s been a solid August for FFVII cosplay, as not long after that incredible Cloud+Aeris shootwe’ve now got one hell of a Vincent Valentine. The cosplayer is Yuri Narss, aka Narcisspuppet, someone we’ve featured before for his terrific Final Fantasy work. As with his last feature, you might look at these pics and scream PHOTOSHOP,…

YouTube Exploit Can Disable 3DS Region-Locking

3DS tinkerer extraordinaire Jordan Rabet, aka smea, has (with a little help) found a really easy way for Nintendo 3DS owners to get around the company’s region-locking. Previous attempts at breaking down Nintendo’s region restrictions have required buying certain games and the installation of custom firmware, but this new method—called tubehax—is much easier; installation is…

Batmobile Ride Was More Than This NPC Bargained For

Today on Highlight Reel we have exploding trucks, air dodges, flying batmobile rides and the conclusion to last week’s marriage cliffhanger! Watch the video above, then link any of your favorite highlights in the comments, and be sure to check out, like and subscribe the original videos via the links below. NHL 15 – I…

‘Realistic’ Mortal Kombat Fatalities Are Pretty Sick

After years of watching and playing Mortal Kombat, it’s rare to see a fatality that makes me go ‘holy shit.’ Most of them try a little too hard. Somehow, though, these folks have found a way to make fatalities shocking again. RackaRacka took it upon themselves to show us what some fatalities would look like…

The 11 Most Absurd Cards In Hearthstone‘s New Expansion

Over the past couple of weeks, Blizzard has been slowly showing off some of the new cards that will be added to Hearthstone with the next big expansion, The Grand Tournament, which goes live this month. Here are some of the most ridiculous ones, via Hearthstone’s Facebook page(where you can see them all). (Note: “Inspire”…

The Wicked + The Divine Is The Perfect Comic About Loving Something Too Much

I never thought a comic book would make me feel sorry for Katy Perry. But The Wicked + The Divine generated some real empathy for someone whose music I can’t stand. It’s that damn good. Written by Kieron Gillen and drawn by Jamie McKelvie with colors and letters by Matthew Wilson and Clayton Cowles, The…

A Heroes Of The Storm Wombo Combo In The Truest Sense Of The Term

“We’re in the lead,” my teammate said. “All we gotta do is defend,” he said. He was right. The only problem was we failed the defending part. In the clip above, you can see how my team in a recent Heroes of the Storm game went from having a slight but not insignificant lead to…

Hero Completes Fallout: New Vegas Run That Nobody Thought Was Possible

YouTuber Many A True Nerd did not rest on his laurels after beating Fallout: New Vegas on a single health bar last March. Instead, he upped the ante and decided to continue the run on New Vegas DLC. It seemed all but certain that he would die during this new portion of the run, given…

League Of Legends Pro Pulls Off Amazing Baron Steal

Earlier this year, the pro League of Legends team Team SoloMid (TSM) was sorely embarrassed when one of their opponents stole a baron right out from under them—with a blind shot, no less—during a tournament game. Now, they’ve finally had their revenge. Sort of. During the League of Legends Championship Series (LCS) semifinals this weekend,…

Teenage Girls Are Playing Video Games. You Just Might Not Hear Them.

A solitary, silent majority of teenage girls plays video games: often alone, rarely online. When teenage girls do venture online to play games—and a fair chunk of them do, quite regularly—they usually don’t speak. That’s how you go from a world where 59 percent of all girls between 13 and 17 play video games to…

The People Behind Red Ash Are Crowdfunding Yet Again

After last month’s disastrous gameand successful anime Kickstarter campaigns, the people behind Red Ash are asking for even more of fans’ money—this time to extend the anime from 12 minutes to 30. You can’t make this stuff up. This time, they’re using not Kickstarter but a facsimile of the popular crowdfunding service, using the Studio…

My Five Favorite Kotaku Stories From Last Week

Stephen’s out on a long overdue vacation this week, so this week’s hand-picked Kotaku stories will, of course, be all cat related. Though sadly I still don’t think Kotaku is meeting necessary cat coverage standards, so I guess I’ll have to settle with these. How Snoopy KilledPeanuts – Kevin Wong’s first time guest editing for…

When Combine posters pop up in your apartment building, you should think about moving. 3D artist Liam Tart, who’s worked as an environment artist on Alien: Isolation, is remaking a small, familiar section of Half-Life 2 in Unreal Engine 4 to get out of his “usual sci-fi comfort zone.” You can follow his progress here…