Ethan Gach

The Video Game Version Of A Haiku

I downloaded and played Indecision on a whim. The unassuming pixel art and straightforward presentation didn’t prepare me for all of the weird little platforming vignettes inside. It only took a few seconds for me to fall completely in love with it. Had I read the game’s Steam page I would have had a better…

Gwent‘s Latest Patch Makes Ciri Less Powerful

A princess who’s also a witcher, Ciri is far and away one of the best characters in The Witcher 3. She’s pretty great in Gwent as well. In fact, she’s recently become so popular that CD Projekt Red has decided to nerf her in the game’s latest update There are currently three different Ciri cards…

Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom is coming to Switch and PS4 this summer with Sega publishing a physical version. It’s a spiritual successor to the original beloved Sega series whose third game, Wonder Boy: The Dragon’s Trap, got an excellent remake last year.

Creator Of Amazing Division Screenshot Mod Swiftly Banned For Life [UPDATE]

At the beginning of the month a modder from Finland updated a program that lets players of the 2015 game The Division take jaw-dropping screenshots. On Tuesday of this week, just over a week later, he was informed by the game’s publisher that he’s been banned from the game forever. Cinematic Tools is a program…

Ubisoft says For Honor will get dedicated servers for PC on February 19, shortly after the season five update arrives. Unfortunately, console players won’t get dedicated servers until “soon after” with exact release dates to come later.

Dr Disrespect Calls Criticism Of His Mock Chinese Accent ‘Laughable’

Possibly the most popular streamer on Twitch, Dr Disrespect was called out yesterday by musician Jimmy Wong for acting racist based on a series of clips compiled by the latter in which Disrespect caricatures Chinese accents and language. During a recent stream, Disrespect fired back by saying that some of his best friends are Asian.…

Rare Dragon Ball FighterZ Glitch Makes Tien’s Opponents Invisible

Tien’s a dude with three eyes whose best friend is a ghost child and maybe a vampire. That’s pretty weird on its own. It turns out he can turn people invisible too, by way of a recently discovered glitch in Dragon Ball FighterZ A Player who goes by RZampa demonstrated how it works, or at…

How To Organize Your Cords

I bet you own a few cords. You might have so many cords that they burst out behind your TV stand or below your desk. Play video games for any length of time and you’ll acquire all sorts of cords you don’t know what to do with. For just a few bucks you can rein…

The Surge 2 is happening and aiming for release on PC and consoles sometime in 2019. Deck13, the game’s developer, is touting the sequel’s expanded world and limb targeting system. That’s good news as the first game’s levels were a bit claustrophobic. Still, the robot dismemberment system was pretty great

The Week In Games: Colossi Get A Makeover 

It’s a credit to how far video games have come that there are now so many of them worth remaking and updating. I’ve been skeptical of the Shadow of the Colossus remake since it was announced. Having replayed the original recently, I can say it still holds up, even if the controls are a mess.…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Shadow Of The Tingle 

The world’s a different place than it was back in 2005. Maybe it’s time we had some new colossus to fight as a result. In celebration of Shadow of the Colossus’s stellar remake coming out this week, I thought it was time for us to think about what new, towering monsters we’d like to see…

Streets of Red is a retro beat ‘em up headed to PS4 and Switch on February 27. There are a lot of side-scrolling brawlers that aim to capture the original arcade experience, but Streets of Red really commits by not allowing you any continues or saves. When you die, it’s game over and you have…

Rogue One Actor Says Sleeping Dogs Movie Is Still Happening 

Donnie Yen of Ip Man and Rogue One fame said the Sleeping Dogs movie no one’s heard anything about for some time is still in motion on social media yesterday. “Sometimes great things take a bit of time,” the actor and martial artists said in an Instagram post. “Sleeping Dog is motion, you guys ready…

Super Metroid‘s Elevators Are No Joke 

Speedrunning is often best known of the amazing records it produces. The practice that goes into producing those moments can be grueling though, like when you’re trying to set a new personal record in Super Metroid only to get stuck on an elevator. UNHchabo had that exact thing happen while working on a new personal…

Sunday Comics: I Am Goku

Welcome to Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics that usually occurs on Sunday except when it doesn’t. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira. Published February 3. Read more of Nerf NOW!!  Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published January 29. Read more…

Dragon Ball FighterZ Does Some Weird Stuff Behind The Camera

Dragon Ball FighterZ is a polished fighting game with tight controls and a combat system that’s fast-paced but still approachable. It also looks amazing, which is why people have been sharing all of its scripted animations for weeks leading up to the release. It turns out there’s some really weird stuff happening during them though.…

Track: The Touch | Artist: Stan Bush | Album: The Transformers: The Movie Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

After Three Months, Pirates Say They’ve Finally Cracked Assassin’s Creed Origins 

The Italian hacking group CPY announced today it finally cracked Assassin’s Creed Origins meaning people with pirated versions of the game will now be able to bypass its DRM protections. The announcement from CPY cropped up on the CrackWatch subreddit earlier today where commenters have been speculating for months about when and if the game…

Nintendo Switch players were not happy after an ugly placeholder icon for Owlboy showed up on the eshop. Several discussions about it blew up on Reddit and Twitter because Switch owners take game icons very seriously. Owlboy being a gorgeous game, however, D-Pad Studio has a new icon on the way

The Week In Esports: Dota, League of Legends, And More Overwatch 

The LCS, OWL, and Dota 2’s Starladder I-League Invitational headline this weekend alongside a number of fighting game tournaments. If you’ve been digging Dragon Ball FighterZ as much as I have, be sure to check out Body Count Fighting 4 going on later today. Below you’ll find where and when you can catch all the…