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The Weekend In Esports: IEM’s Battlegrounds Invitational

2017’s breakout battle royale game comes to the Oracle Arena in Oakland for its first Intel Extreme Masters tournament. Even if PUBG is all some people ever seem to talk about though it’s not the only thing going on this weekend. The Rainbow Six Pro League will have its third season championship while top Dota…

If The NES Had A Screensaver, It Might Look Like This

Alter Dark is a new project that lets you create your own screensavers out of NES ROMs. It was put together by Rachel Weil, an NES homebrew expert and glitch enthusiast, and recently shown off at NodeConf EU in Dublin. For Weil, it combines two of her favorite things: messing around with NES software and…

There are some great new Street Fighter II music remixes. They were put together by DJ Ryan Hemsworth, Knxwledge, Wavves and ASMARA for Red Bull’s Music Academy. They’re worth checking out and you can also download the song to make your own for a fan Street Fighter II remix contest.

The Call Of Duty: WWII Fiasco vs. The Star Wars: Battlefront II Mess: The Comparison We Had To Make

Call of Duty: WWII and Star Wars: Battlefront II are two giant games that have somehow both managed to spawn clusterfucks surrounding their release. It’s only natural that we try to do a thorough accounting of which one fucked up more. Activision’s WWII had massive server issues at launch leading the series’ most diehard fans…

Super Hexagon Developer’s New Game Creates Surreal Worlds Through Typing

“Type stuff in, see what happens!” is Terry Cavanagh describes his latest game, Constellation. It’s a simple pitch that belies a mind-bending journey of free association. The free, browser-based PC game was commissioned and created for Now Play This 2017, a small alternative gaming festival hosted at the Somerset House in London. For an art…

Players Are Having A Lot Of Fun With Vaulting On The Battlegrounds Test Servers

A recent update to the PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds’ test servers has added vaulting and climbing. The game’s island is now part morbid death trap and part playground for extras in an 80s buddy cop movie. I say that because vaulting in PUBG is almost exclusively about anxiously climbing over things the way you might if, like…

Bungie Details Destiny 2 Curse Of Osiris’s ‘Infinite Forest’ And ‘Raid Lair’

Today on a livestream, Bungie showed off footage and discussed some details surrounding Destiny 2’s next DLC, Curse of Osiris, which comes out December 5. Curse of Osiris will include “new raid content” and a new area called the Infinite Forest. The Infinite Forest is actually a simulation created by the Vex. Referred to by…

The mysterious new fighting game from Akira now has an official name and it’s…Fighting EX Layer There’s also a trailer. Akira Nishitani, the developer behind Fighting Layer andStreet Fighter EX announced the news over at PlayStation Blog. The game is also getting a two week beta test on PS4 starting December 11.

Russian Military Uses Video Game Screenshot To Allege US Support For ISIS

A post on the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation’s Facebook page earlier today purported to show photographic proof that the US was aiding ISIS fighters in Syria. It turns out that one of the photographs included was from a video game. According to the post, Russian air power was used to help Syrian…

It Happened To Me: I Kept My Redbox Game For Way Too Long

I just got totally owned by my local Redbox. I thought I was beating the system by enjoying a new game at a fraction of the cost of buying it. As it turns out, I’m a Redbox whale: one of those poor sops who’s helping prolong the company’s slow decline because I can’t keep track…

Report: Nintendo Making Animated Mario Movie With Studio Behind Minions

Nintendo is in talks to bring Mario back to Hollywood, according to a report today by the Wall Street Journal The paper reports that Illumination Entertainment and Universal Pictures are close to reaching a deal with Nintendo for an animated Super Mario Bros. movie. Illumination is the company behind Despicable Me—which foisted Minions on the…

Someone’s Making A Spiritual Successor To Theme Hospital

On the back of the recent revival of management sim games, a new studio out of Prague has decided to tackle healthcare with an upcoming game called Project Hospital As the name suggests, the game revolves around building and maintaining a hospital. Players will focus on identifying diseases, researching cures, and treating as many patients…

This Week In Games: It’s Star Wars Season 

Pew pew. We’re about a month out from The Last Jedi, which Disney is apparently so thrilled about they’ve decided to give director Rian Johnson his very own Star Wars trilogy to do what he will with. Until then there’s Star Wars Battlefront 2, the first game since Disney purchased the license to feature a…

The New Wave Of Indie Arcade Cabinets Continues To Look Beautiful

Fewer and fewer new releases find their way into arcades these days. Even the latest version of Street Fighter, a series synonymous with the scene, ended up forgoing an official arcade cabinet having settled instead solely on the virtual arena of online multiplayer. Fortunately, there are still people trying to preserve the feeling of local…

Looking Back On The Promise Of Second Life 

A year before World of Warcraft came out, Linden Lab released Second Life, a virtual world that was supposed to be an alternative to this one but became for many a hopeful replacement. Over a decade later it looks archaic and feels almost quaint, but for the hundreds of thousands who still live part-time there,…

Guy Celebrates Super Mario Odyssey With 148,777 Falling Dominoes 

It took him two months to set them all up with different configurations including everyone from Bowser to Pauline because Nintendo has a way of making people do weird things. This isn’t TheDominoKing’s first rodeo by any means. He was at itlast year as well putting together small scenes from Super Mario World with just…

Unlocking Heroes In Star Wars Battlefront II Could Take A Long Time [Update]

Players who have been spending time with Star Wars Battlefront II pre-release trial period have already started trying to calculate how long it would take to unlock every hero in the game without paying money and the results aren’t pretty. By some estimates, the likes of Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader could take close to…

Sunday Comics: Nesting With Sin 

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 10. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published November 6. Read more…

It’s Impossible To Separate Cuphead From The Era That Inspired It

Cuphead is a beautiful looking game with tight controls and grueling combat that culminates in game unlike many others. But as a throwback to the animation of the early 20th century, it finds its muse in a troubling past it never gets around to actually confronting. There’s a famous saying often attributed to Sigmund Freud…