Ethan Gach

It’s Nice To See Daigo Win A Major Street Fighter Tournament Again

It’s been almost a year since Daigo “The Beast” Umehara has won a premier level SFV tournament. That changed earlier today when he took first place at the Hong Kong Esports Festival, a victory many in the fighting game world were glad (and possibly relieved) to see the aging star a achieve. Ever since the…

What Are You Dreading About Tonight’s Game Of Thrones Season Finale?

Season seven wraps up tonight. What’s the worst thing that could happen? I started out extremely hopeful for the show’s developing third act back in July. It seemed like the boulder set in motion all the way back in season one had finally picked up enough momentum to start moving things along to the many…

Final Fantasy XIV Director Uses Kinky Meme To Congratulate Cosplay Winner 

Toward the end of Games Com this past week in Germany, there was a cosplay contest for Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn. Naoki Yoshida, the game’s director, helped judge it. “Step on me, please,” he told the winner. Let me explain. Stormblood was released earlier this summer. The expansion included new job types, locales,…

This Guy Prefers To Play Smash Bros. Melee With The Controller Upside Down 

And it’s mesmerizing. Nooch is a sixteen-year old burgeoning speedrunner and Smash Bros. enthusiast. He was attending Shine 2017 this weekend, his first ever major Smash tournament, when god-tier Melee pro Juan Manuel “Hungrybox” DeBiedma spotted him on the floor and took this short video. Nooch apparently plays at lot of games with the controller…

Battlegrounds Now Has The Second All-Time Highest Concurrent Player Count On Steam

Last year around this time no one would have understood what you were talking about if you muttered the word PUBG. This weekend it was the most played game on Steam. With a twenty four hour peak of just north of 870,000 concurrent players, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds sat at the top of Steam’s “Current Player Count”…

Sunday Comics: It’s A Solar Eclipse

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 August 24. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published August 21. Read more…

Square Enix’s Library Is Full Of Games Worth Remastering 

After the success of Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age and Square’s announcement that Secret of Mana will be getting remade for the PS4 and Vita, it’s clear the company wants to see its deep back catalog live on, but there are a few games in particular Square Enix should think about reviving sooner rather…

Nobody Has Time For Walking Simulators In Halt And Catch Fire‘s Season Premier 

Halt and Catch Fire has always been less about the big tech ideas themselves than the people struggling to discover them. While the burgeoning internet sets the backdrop for season four, the first couple episodes show Cameron’s struggle to get Atari to publish her high concept walking sim. When I wrote last week’s post about…

Track: Land of Feeling | Artist: Here We Go Magic | Album: Pigeons Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Horror Fighting Game People Thought Didn’t Exist Finally Surfaces [Update]

Do you remember Death Cargo? The obscure Mortal Kombat-inspired brawler from an Italian studio Necrostorm known for indie slasher flicks? Well after disappearing a few years ago it’s back. Sort of. The YouTubers behind Super Best Friends Play channel got their hands on a version of the game and uploaded it for today’s episode of…

The Weekend In Esports: The Summer Grinds On

Outside of some fighting tournaments, this weekend’s goings-on are mostly confined to play within each game’s respective summer league. You’ll find teams from across the likes of Overwatch, Heroes of the Storm, and Counter-Strike focused on grinding out victories in their respective tables, while in the world of fighting games pros face-off in New England,…

Sega also revealed a trailer for the remake of Yakuza 2 earlier today. Like the remake of the first game, Yakuza: Kiwami 2 will see the second game in the series recreated in the Dragon Engine used for Yakuza 6 and features some additional missions and playable characters. It’s out in Japan this December.

The Yakuza Developers Are Working On A Fist Of The North Star Game

Beginning as a manga back in the early 80s, Fist of the North Star is basically Japanese Mad Max. As such it’s a perfect subject for the stylish sensibilities of the developers behind Sega’s Yakuza games. The game was announced earlier today during a live-stream event which showed off a trailer and story details for…

The Week In Games: Standalone DLC

What a time to be alive! People want more Uncharted and Naughty Dog didn’t have to go and create an entirely new game to deliver it. Why are we even calling The Lost Legacy DLC? After all, what’s standalone DLC if not, well, a game? It even comes on a disc in a box. And…

Microsoft Announces ‘Project Scorpio’ Edition Xbox One X 

Xbox One X will have a limted “Project Scorpio” edition available when it launches this fall Microsoft announced today at its pre-Gamescom briefing. What’s so special about the $500 Scorpio edition, which leaked last Friday, you might ask? Well there’s the box which was made to resemble the original Xbox and also has the name…

Here’s a bunch of the stuff you can kill in Middle-earth: Shadow of War. The game’s latest trailer has Talion bend the knee to a tree spirit, ride on the backs of dragons and trolls, and even face-off against a fire-whipping Balrog.

Assassin’s Creed Origins has a new CGI trailer. That means none of this is real, but hey it still looks pretty. Aired at Microsoft’s pre-Gamescom event, the new footage shows Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, and Ptolemy will all play a role in the game. Also there will be pink and purple dye pits. 

Jurassic World Evolution Is A Theme Park Building Game Coming In 2018

Announced during Microsoft’s pre-Gamescom briefing, Jurassic World Evolution will let players build their very own deadly theme parks. The game is being created by the developers behind the space exploration sim Elite Dangerous, Frontier Developments, and will be based around the island from the 2015 movie. That means bioengineering new kinds of deadly prehistoric creatures,…

Ahead of this week’s Gamescom, Microsoft is holding a news event at 3:00PM EDT today where the company will reveal new information about the Xbox One X (like pre-orders finally going live) as well as show off some new game trailers. You can watch the press briefing live right here

Halo Fan Loves The Warthog So Much He Built His Own

Halo 3 came out almost ten years ago, and one dedicated fan has spent seven of them attempting to build his very own Warthog. As Bryanthavercamp’s project has reached its final stages, his friend CAPNJ1mmy took to Reddit to upload the results. You can see the vehicle’s early progress in a YouTube video here. Driving…