Ethan Gach

Comedian Speedrunner Will Tell you Everything You Wanted To Know About Paper Boy 

Usually speedruns are about breaking the game to reveal hidden secrets that help players finish it as quickly as possible. Speedrunning Paper Boy, on the other hand, means delivering every single bundle of newsprint with precision and grace. If you’ve ever played Paper Boy, one of the first ever management sims to appear on a…

Wolfenstein 2 Collectible Mocks Progressive Magazine Over Its Coverage Of White Nationalists 

There are a ton of things to pick up in Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus, ranging from postcards and vinyl albums to newspaper clippings. Most of them are simply there to build out the game’s Nazi-ruled America, but one in particular makes fun of the magazine Mother Jones for a profile of Richard Spencer it…

Sunday Comics: Video Game Themed

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 October 27. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published October 23. Read more…

Track: The One To Wait| Artist: CCFX | Album: CCFX EP Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Super Mario Land 2‘s Wonderful Halloween Levels

Out twenty five years ago next month, the second entry in the handheld Mario spin-off series was significant for a number of reasons, but perhaps none as timely as its Halloween world. The Pumpkin Zone is one of Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins’s more festive levels. While some of the game’s worlds are…

The Papers, Please film adaptation now has a trailer. If you were wondering what a game about reading through documents would look like as a movie, the question has now be answered. Created by Nikita Ordynskiy with the full support of developer Lucas Pope, the short film is due out in 2018. 

The former Director of Xbox Live Policy, Stephen Toulouse, passed away at the age of 45. Toulouse, also known as Stepto, was instrumental to shaping the platform’s approach to online community building and policing. He left Microsoft in 2012 after 17 years with the company.

Wolfenstein: The New Colossus Has Already Been Beaten In Under Eighty Minutes 

The newest game in the Nazi-slaying series is pretty short, at least if you’re a speedrunner. Released only a day ago, The New Colossus digs deep into American politics and the country’s legacy of racism and bigotry. The game doesn’t pull many punches, right from the very beginning. Of course, you could also blaze through…

Minecraft now has Stranger Things costumes. Actually, Stranger Things skins to be more precise. The game’s latest pack will let you explore and build as up to fifty different characters from the show, including from season two, so be warned, the DLC does include spoilers

The Weekend In Esports: ESL One Hamburg, Canada Cup, And More

It’s a packed weekend with the last of the Worlds 2017 semifinals and a Dota 2 Major in Germany leading the way. Those events are followed up closely by the Canada Cup fighting game event, the Heroes of the Storm HGC Finals, and Epicenter 2017. Below you’ll find where and when you can catch all…

The Week In Games: Day Of Reckoning 

There are definitely some games coming out this week. Fortunately, they’re all so different it should be easy to choose between them. Do you sometimes just need to dance? Then maybe forgo the Nazi bloodbath simulator. Are you afraid of anthropomorphic hats? In that case it’s possible you might prefer taking a tour of ancient…

A New World Record Means Super Mario Bros. Speedrunners Are Running Out Of Options

The game has a new world record of 4:56.528. Speedrunner Darbian reached it late last Friday night on his 27,474th attempt. It’s a big milestone in an important game, but it also signals the possible beginning of the end for the race to beat Super Mario Bros. as quickly as possible. It was last October…

Gears of War 4‘s latest update drops October 23 and adds two new maps and Xbox One X support. It adds Fuel Depot from the first Gears game as well as Lift Apex, an evolution of the existing Gears 4 map. It will also pave the way for the Halloween event later this month that…

Wulverblade Is A Brutal But Irresistible Brawler On The Switch

The feel is instantly recognizable. Whether the phrase “beat-em up” takes you back to Castle Crashers, The Death and Return of Superman, or the original Double Dragon, Wulverblade will channel your nostalgia and love for those games, but in a way that remains distinctly its own. Fully Illustrated’s game hit my radar back at the…

Track: Tinseltown Swimming in Blood | Artist: Destroyer | Album: Ken Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

At Long Last, Two Classic Psychedelic Shooters Are Coming To The Atari Jaguar

Llamatron 2112 and Revenge of the Mutant Camels are finally getting proper re-releases. It just happens to be on a system that came out nearly a quarter century ago. Jeff Minter has been designing games for over three decades. Odds are you’ve played, or at least laid eyes on, some of his work, including Tempest…

Sunday Comics: Reaper’s New Costume

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 October 17. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published October 16. Read more…

Which Original Xbox Games Do You Most Want To See On The Xbox One?

With new speculation about which games Microsoft will have available at the start of it’s Xbox to Xbox One backward compatibility program, it’s a good time to remember just how many great games were exclusive to the old platform. Earlier today Twitter user h0x0d leaked twelve different games they claim to make up the first…

Track: Daydream | Artist: Tatsuro Yamashita | Album: Ride on Time Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Mario Odyssey Comes With Its Theme Song Lyrics Printed On The Inside Of The Case

“Jump Up, Super Star!” is both incredibly corny and hard not to love. Nintendo is apparently in love with it as well, having not only made it available to download on iTunes but also gone to the trouble of printing all the words to it on the inside of the game’s case. The game, which…