Ethan Gach

Noctis Whacks People With His Sword In Latest Dissidia Final Fantasy Gameplay 

Tekken 7 isn’t the only fighting game Noctis is headed to these days. He’ll also be gracing Dissidia Final Fantasy with his presence. Square Enix showed off the young prince’s moves in a two year anniversary stream for the game earlier today. The game is currently out in arcades in Japan, but will also be…

Guy Wins Mobile Game Tournament, Has Nothing To Say

Tomato, the Shanghai finalist for Summoners War, went on to become its first world champion after a full day of harrowing matches against other elite players. When asked if he had anything to say to fans in the audience and online, he said “No.” The $61,000 prize pool World Arena Championship took place on Saturday…

While there are a lot of great custom designs for the Switch popping up every week, the Funtastic N64-inspired ones are my new favorite. Nintendo started releasing translucent colored variants for the N64 back in 1999 with the release of Donkey Kong 64. What console mods currently have you excited?

Sunday Comics: That’s No Turkey

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 November 25. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published November 20. Read more…

The Black Friday Backlog Of Shame  

I bought XCOM: Enemy Unknown five years ago and still haven’t touched it. It was Black Friday 2012 and there were deals. Lots of them. The one that hooked me was from Amazon though. The online retailer was offering a number of games that had come out that year at $25 a piece with free…

Track: Old Friends | Artist: Simon & Garfunkel | Album: Bookends Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

If Dark Souls Was Animated To Look Like Cuphead 

Dying would look a lot cuter. The mashup was created by the YouTube channel 64 Bits and shows just how limitless the possibilities are for Cuphead DLC. It turns out anthropomorphic cups aren’t the only thing that look cooler when animated. “We just love Cuphead (and Dark Souls!) So we animated you this mashup!” the…

Breath Of The Wild‘s Horses Do The Darndest Things 

It’s been a good year for games. Trying to arrive at a shortlist for the best ones to come out in 2017 is going be tough. But every time I think I’ve finally started to cool on The Legend of Zelda: The Breath of the Wild, it finds a new way to warm my heart.…

The Weekend In Esports: European Counter-Strike And Hadocon VIII

It’s a relatively quiet weekend in competitive gaming given the American holiday and the general winding down of the year over all. As a result, Europe takes center stage with the conclusion of the Blast Pro Series and WESG 2017 qualifiers. Below you’ll find where and when you can catch all the weekend’s biggest events…

Witcher 3 Development Is Over, But One Of Its Designers Is Still Making Mods

In the two and a half years since it was released, The Witcher 3 has received hundreds of mods from enthusiastic fans. Some were silly, others were deadly serious, but the latest is a litany of unofficial improvements done as a side project by one of the game’s original developers. Andrzej Kwiatkowski, a Senior Gameplay…

The Electronic Musician Inspired By Anime And Dragon Age

It turns out if you want to get the LA-based musician Will Wiesenfeld, stage name Baths, talking about video games, you should ask him about Diablo 2. In video game circles he’s known for the theme song for this summer’s Dream Daddy, as well as the understated trailer music for Hyper Light Drifter’s stunningly successful…

Gwent’s single-player campaign has been delayed until 2018. CD Projekt Red announced the news, breaking millions of hearts the world over. “Thronebreaker,” the card game’s 15 hour story mode was supposed to hit in December. Gwent’s also still in beta, because that’s what you do with games in 2017.

This Parody Of Battle Royale Games Looks Really Fun

A bunch of white dudes sit in an office, all of them wearing black suits and white collared shirts. Everyone sits in the same lime green swivel chairs. For a video game, Last Man Sitting sounds really boring. Add shotguns and ragdoll physics, though, and you have a recipe for the only battle royale game…

Narita Boy just released its first gameplay trailer. The 80s cyberpunk beat’em up is infused with nostalgia for old tech and according to this latest footage at least, pretty violent. Wespoke with the developer when the project was Kickstarted earlier this year, which originally aimed for a release in late 2018.

Square Enix Puts Sky Pirate’s Den Back In Final Fantasy XII Remaster

When Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age released this summer it came with a new set of PSN trophies instead of the game’s original, unique achievement system. Square Enix announced earlier today that the feature will be returning with the game’s November 22 patch 1.04. While some people were no doubt hoping for new content…

The Week In Games: River City Giving 

They are still making these games. The Kunio-kun series has been going on for over two decades now and shows no signs of slowing down. Whatever other strange projects Ark Systems gets itself involved it appears little pixel dudes beating up each other will remain constant. Rival Showdown is the latest game in the series…

Rainbow Six Siege‘s Operation White Noise Adds Invisible Cloaks And Phone Hacking 

Rainbow Six Siege is getting three new characters and a new map as part of its Operation White Noise update that hits the game’s test servers on November 20. The details surrounding Rainbow Six’s last content drop before 2018 came at the season 3 championship tournament going on today in Brazil. The new map called…

Guy Finally Tries To Decode Skyrim Note Two Years Too Late

Sometimes you’re in a relationship with someone. Sometimes that someone decides to give you a note written in cryptic dragon runes from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. If that happens you should probably get to translating that note as soon as possible. Over the weekend, a person who goes by byeblee posted such a note…

Someone At A Smash Bros. Tournament Paused A Bunch Of The TVs On Donkey Kong Shrugging 

The Super FamiCon convention is a celebration of Nintendo and gaming culture. It also hosts a number of competitive tournaments in the Greensboro Marriott’s conference rooms. This morning an attendee who goes by Mossy showed up early only to find someone had put Donkey Kong performing his taunt on as many of the gaming stations…

CD Projekt Red Says Cyberpunk 2077 Will Be ‘No Bullshit’ Story-Driven RPG

The Polish game studio tweeted earlier today that its upcoming scifi game would be “nothing less than” The Witcher 3. The statement was aimed at quelling fears Cyberpunk 2077 might include microtransactions after studio CEO Adam Kicinski said “there will be a certain online element related to Cyberpunk” in an interview earlier in the week…