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Alaska Man Arrested After Hitting Roommate With Zelda Sword

Ancohrage police were called to an apartment near the University of Alaska last Friday after a group of roomates got into a fight involving their fists, a knife and a replica Master Sword. 22 year-old Jeremy Tazruk was arrested after the fight—which Anchorage Daily News reports he did not begin—escalated from some pushing and shoving…

Players Have To Fight To Unlock Dissidia Final Fantasy NT‘s Story Mode 

Dissidia Final Fantasy NT, out today for the PlayStation 4, is a game primarily built for competitive online play. It has a story mode, but each chapter has to be earned in battle. When I hear “story mode” in regards to a fighting game, I imagine a short-ish narrative dotted with battles against AI opponents,…

Guinness Officially Nixes Todd Rogers’ Dragster Records

The Guinness Book of World Records has confirmed to Kotaku that it has removed Todd Rogers’ record Dragster high score from its database, as well as his record for the longest-standing video game high score, following Rogers’ disqualification from the Twin Galaxies scoreboards yesterday. Todd Rogers has long been credited with setting the world record…

Atlantis Cosplay Took Like What? Ten Seconds? Eleven, Tops.

Here’s AtelierMarinerwith not one but two awesome pieces of cosplay from the best movie Disney ever made, Atlantis First up, Vinny: And then Milo: You can see more of AtelierMariner’s cosplay at his Instagram page

Next Month’s Hearthstone Nerfs Were Way Overdue

There comes a time when every Hearthstone metagame grows stale and players get tired of seeing the same competitive decks over and over. We hit that point with the latest expansion Kobolds and Catacombs a while ago, but now, with the announcement of a new set of balance changes, we may be in for a…

People Are Putting Video Game Faces On Real Porn, The End Is Nigh [UPDATE]

Fake porn has been around since time immemorial, but recent months have seen the practice take an unsettling leap forward thanks to AI-based video technology that allows people to easily map other people’s faces onto bodies that aren’t their own. Now video game characters’ faces are getting stitched onto IRL bodies as well. Warning: the…

BioWare’s Anthem Officially Delayed To 2019

EA said today that BioWare’s Anthem will be out in early 2019, confirming our report last week that the upcoming multiplayer action game will not make it this year. “It’s not a delay,” EA’s Blake Jorgensen told the Wall Street Journal, despite the publisher previously announcing the game for a “fall 2018″ release. Merriam-Webster defines…

A Guide To Understanding Monster Hunter: World’s User Interface

Monster Hunter: World might be full of dragons, but the hardest enemy for new hunters to slay is the UI. This quick guide should help you focus on what’s important. When you’re in the field, it’s crucial to know exactly what’s going on. Monster Hunter: World covers the screen with a ton of widgets and…

Players Find Subnautica Time Capsule With Early Dev Ideas

Underwater survival game Subanutica came out of early access last week. The full version includes time capsules, which are pods containing notes and gear that players can leave in each other’s games. One of the game’s developers left an early-game sketch in theirs, revealing some of the thought process behind Subnautica’s creepy alien world. Some…

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Blizzard Nerfs Mercy’s Rez

After weeks on Overwatch’s public test realm, Blizzard’s big Mercy nerf has gone live. The controversial set of changes centers around the effect Mercy’s ult, Valkyrie, had on her resurrect ability. Previously, Valkyrie took away resurrect’s cast time. Now it doesn’t. It also granted a bonus resurrect. It doesn’t do that anymore either. In addition,…

Behind The Wheel With GTA Online’s Most Hardcore Gearheads

A line of sleek sports cars pulls into a small parking lot outside of a Los Santos Customs garage. The drivers get out, take photos, and boast about their cars. This is the beginning of a car meet, a type of event enjoyed by thousands of GTA Online gearheads who love racing, customizing and showing…

Anime Film Mary and The Witch‘s Flower Is Just Okay

The new anime movie Mary and the Witch’s Flower, released earlier this month in the U.S., pitches itself as a whimsical, enchanting film that could fit right in with the Studio Ghibli family of classics. Its dazzling animation almost obscures a plot with holes large enough to fly through with a broom. For kids, that…

Divinity: Original Sin 2 Is One Of The Best RPGs I’ve Ever Played

One Saturday a couple of weeks ago, I woke up around 8:30am excited for what I knew would be a productive day. I’d get some errands done, do laundry, and maybe even start outlining my next book. But first, I thought, I’ll play some Divinity: Original Sin 2. At 4pm, I knew I had made…

You Can Now Battle Kefka In Final Fantasy XIV

Everyone’s favorite demonic clown is now a boss in Final Fantasy XIV, a hodgepodge of Final Fantasy fanfiction that also substitutes as an MMO. Today’s patch 4.2 adds a bunch of new content to the game, including our lord and savior Kefka. Of course, people have already found and defeated FFXIV’s version of Final Fantasy…

1985’s Premier Insect-Based Toy Line Is Staging A Comeback

Released by Coleco in 1985, Sectaurs: Warriors of Symbion was a children’s toy line about a planet where giant insects and arachnids roam free and humans mutated with bug DNA wage war over control of a mysterious “ultimate power.” Toys included action figures and giant ride-able spider hand puppets. They were terrifying. Now Zica Toys…