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If you’re gonna be a dick about winning, you probably shouldn’t do it to someone whose best friend is waaaaaaaaay better than you. In the above video, MrGrawrD witnesses his friend get mercilessly pummeled and then tea-bagged—that most disrespectful of video game victory gestures—by some jerk online in Mortal Kombat X. So what does MrGrawrD…
In this line of work, you see a lot of trailers. Almost all the trailers. So it takes a lot to make me sit up and go “wow, that’s a good video game trailer”. That’s pretty much what happened with Not A Hero’s launch clip, though. The narration is a masterpiece, a priceless work of…
There’s one Fire Emblem crossover coming already, but this one—if it was actually real—would be way more interesting. Randy Nova’s excellent video reimagines LoL as a Fire Emblem game, complete with soundtrack, grid, turn-based combat and pithy combat chatter. I’m not the world’s biggest LoL fan, but joke video or not, I would play the…
I’ve tried watching DOTA 2 online. I’ve tried playing it. It just wasn’t for me. Going to a big pro event changed that. Walking into the Red Bull Battlegrounds DOTA 2 event at The Warfield in San Francisco (it’s a venue, not a, er, field of war) was kinda surreal. For one, I’d seen countless…
Burnt out and tired of playing for a losing team, professional League of Legends player Austin “Link” Shin announced last night that he was leaving the game. He did so in a bombastic way: writing an 18-page screed that called out nearly all his former teammates, coaches, and ultimately the game itself. Link retired from…
With Fallout 4 excitement reaching a fever pitch recently, it seems like a good time to look back on the things that made Fallout 3 so great. I speak, of course, of many amazing missions hidden inside of the Capital Wasteland. Here are our picks for the most memorable quests in Fallout 3. Future Imperfect…
Surprise: Nintendo just released a new Pushmo game. It’s called Stretchmo, and it’s on the 3DS eShop today. The first seven puzzles are free; you can buy the rest separately, or as a bundle for $10. (Pushmo, of course, is one of the 3DS’s best games.)
UPDATE (7:12pm): Well now here’s an interesting addendum. Earlier today, following a number of video leaks from a wide-scale beta test of the upcoming Gears of War remake, the game testing company VMC said in a memo that Microsoft had both permanently banned the leakers from Xbox Live and temporarily disabled their consoles, rendering them…
Heads-up: retrolicious metroidvania Axiom Verge is now available on Steam It’s basically a nostalgia volcano, so beware of nostalgia lava, which corrodes new ideas. However, it’s still quite good, as our own Mike Fahey explained in his review
I never knew I wanted a Western-themed rhythm game with rock paper scissors until just now. Sifting through game jam entries can be thrilling and boring, a chance to explore an endless sea of creativity and an opportunity to drown in games with interesting ideas but poor execution. Now, however, the games have been voted…
Sometimes, the stars align a little too perfectly. The Magic Circle, from former BioShock 2 director and recent Kotaku Asks participant Jordan Thomas, is now on Steam Early Access. This means that it’s unfinished, which is wonderful when paired with the fact that the game is about these things: “You are the protagonist of an…
The latest seasons of the Flash and Arrow TV series have been throwing new heroes like Firestorm, the Atom and others at viewers left and right. Now, a bunch of them are forming a team. It’s not the Justice League, but it’s damn close. More like a modern-day Justice Society? Legends of Tomorrow will assemble…
Fresh-faced League of Legends champion Ekko hasn’t shown up in the game yet for most people. Those that do have access to the guy have been bringing back tales of his time-bending aventures from the game’s public beta. They make him sound exciting. And scary. Very, very scary. Yesterday, Ekko was revealed to be an…
Rainbow Six Siege—the newest entry in the Tom Clancy-branded tactical action series—comes out on October 13 for PC, PS4 and Xbox One. Contact the author at [email protected]
We met on Tuesdays and Thursdays on the muddy shores of Lakeshire. There were 40 of us, alternatives in tow, laughing, buffing, flaunting. We exorcised our pre-raid jitters as best we could. North of Lakeshire lay the sinister Burning Steppes, home of Blackrock Mountain and home of our hopes and dreams. Blackwing Lair lingered at…
Uh oh. A number of reports around the web are claiming one thing: people are using GTA V mods to distribute malware. GTA Forums member aboutseven wrote a post this morning detailing their discovery of an errant program on their computer. Looking into it further, they found that the file came from a GTA mod—and…
Just days ago, Konami issued a takedown notice for a YouTube video that was critical of the company. Then, the ban was reversed. The video’s creator still isn’t quite sure what happened. George “Super Bunnyhop” Weidman published “Kojima vs. Konami: An Investigation”more than two weeks ago, in which he alleged an insider at the company…
The Sims 4 is releasing its first “Stuff Pack” next week on May 19th for $10, EA has announced. It’s a “Luxury Pack,” which means it adds a bunch of fancy high-end furniture and clothing to the game, as well as two objects with new Sim actions associated with them: a drinking fountain and a…
We’ve heard tales of cats rampaging through GTA V’s city of Los Santos. But what about people rampaging by way of cats? Like: using a gun that fires fuzzy little monsters instead of bullets? Once again, your wish is a modder’s command. YouTuber taltigolt published a video last night showing Franklin rampaging through Vespucci beach…
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