Track: City Looks Pretty | Artist: Courtney Barnett | Album: Tell Me How You Really Feel Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.
A standard competitive Rocket League team has three players, but sometimes it only takes one to slam the ball into the goal, even past all three opposing players. During yesterday’s Rocket League regional championships, Garrett “GarrettG” Gordon took the game into his own hands. In quick succession Gordon beat one, two, three defenders on his way…
Here’s another friendly reminder to please ink your spawn Today is the open qualifiers for the Splatoon 2 Inkling Open, and teams all around North America are competing to earn a spot at the top and a shot at the world championship. Competition is fierce, and nowhere was this clearer than in a bout between…
Many eyes are on the Overwatch League right now, but while stage 3 carries on, the secondary Overwatch division is heating up. As the Overwatch Contenders playoffs come to a close, you should be watching. Contenders is a developmental subset, like a minor league for the Overwatch League. Players in each region compete in their…
Every competitive game has its more memorable maps. Blood Gulch, Facing Worlds, 2Fort, and also, de_dust2. More well-known as simply Dust II, the map has been around for most of Counter-Strike’s life and is considered one of the best, most balanced maps in the game. Now, it’s back in active duty. Yesterday’s Counter-Strike: Global Offensive…
Regional championships for the high-octane Rocket League kick off in earnest this weekend. This marks the fifth season for the Rocket League championship series, as teams battle it out to be one of four from their respective region to compete in the season five world championships. Hopefully we see some more incredible goals like the…
Niko “k1to” Gruhne has been suspended from the Faceit Pro League for a month after he made a racist comment during a pick-up Counter-Strike session. Gruhne was playing a pick-up Faceit game when he called Brazilian pro Joao “felps” Vasconcellos a “fucking monkey” after getting killed by him. The moment was caught on another pro’s…
This week, two fathers will make their way to the PlayStation 4, while Switch-owning fathers will have to deal with the cardboard machinations of their children. After playing God of War 3 again a couple years ago, I really didn’t think I could get excited about the series ever again. I was still cold on…
The most nightmarish moment of anyone’s Xbox Live session happened to Tyler “Spartan” Ganza during a world championship match. While he and his team were battling for a top three spot in the $1,000,000 tournament, his controller disconnected. Ganza and his team Reciprocity were on a decisive map 7 against Team Envy. He was on…
Controversial arcade game player Billy Mitchell released a statementtoday, responding to the recent disqualification of his records from both the Twin Galaxies leaderboards and Guinness World Records. Several of Mitchell’s high scores were disputed earlier this year by a forum poster claiming he used an emulator to record his scores, rather than a standard arcade…
Magic: The Gathering has been running for as long as I can remember. Even when I was young, going to the games store to pick out new Game Boy games, I could see the packs and decks hovering over me. It’s always seemed interesting but daunting. Arena makes those apprehensive first toes in the water…
Track: Old Town | Artist: Say Sue Me | Album: Where We Were Together Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.
Marie’s Room is set mostly in one room. It goes along like a stage play. Through objects and memories, you slowly unravel the story of two girls and a friendship gone wrong. And you have to do it all in one sitting. I was taking a look at the new releases on Steam yesterday, and…
Persona 5: Dancing Star Night is getting some Yakuza and Sonic crossover costumes. Announced at Sega’s FES 2018 event, the Persona 3 dancing spinoff will also have its own set of costumes from another Sega series, Virtua Fighter. Check out some footage of the costumes featuring Ann dancing in a Majima Goro outfit, complete with…
FIFA is a series of soccer games that does its best to emulate professional football in the virtual realm. A bit of tomfoolery in a live pro match really drives home that sense of realism. During today’s matches at the FUT Champions Cup Manchester, the in-game ref called a penalty on a defender that would…
Last night’s game between the Cleveland Indians and Toronto Blue Jays had some weather delays. So while the tarps were laid out across Progressive Field, some staff decided to make use of one of the otherwise-idling jumbotrons. Cleveland social media wasn’t clear on who exactly was playing Fortnite at the field, and no word yet…
There’s no shortage of battle royale-style games to sate my need to drop onto an island and fight to be last man standing. Yet I can’t help think about the one thing so many are lacking: an arena that wants to kill me as bad as the other players do. I re-watched the first couple…
It can be difficult to know when to activate that hard-earned ultimate, especially when you’re playing a lower-health hero like Genji. Luckily, the Los Angeles Gladiators’ own João Pedro “Hydration” Goes Telles has you covered. In an all-access Q&A last night, the Overwatch League pro was asked, “How do you manage Genji’s ultimate? What’s the…
Trends come and go in gaming. Right now, the big kid on the block is the battle royale game, but it wasn’t that long ago when everyone was looking to capture the MOBA lightning. Standing for “multiplayer online battle arena,” the vague term became a catch-all for anything involving heroes, levels, and lanes. From the…
Track: How Simple | Artist: Hop Along | Album: Bark Your Head Off, Dog Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.
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