Ethan Gach

The Tradition Of Terrible Esports Champagne Celebrations Continues 

The players on Team Liquid just won the most money for a single match in the history of esports, but at the staged champagne celebration they stumbled around like sleep deprived zombies. This is Ivan Borislavov “MinD_ContRoL” Ivanov, a truly inventive player who was nothing short of integral to the team’s success at this year’s…

Fan Video Recreates Old Character Intros In Street Fighter V

Capcom abandoned most of the Street Fighter series’ iconic character intros over time, so one fan decided to recreate them using the latest game. SigmaG19 makes a lot of Street Fighter V videos, including this one critiquing a lot of the Capcom’s choices with the game. The latest tries to recreate some of the series’…

Dota 2‘s Furion Will Wreck You

He’s the most bad-ass tree in video games and today’s lower bracket finals at this year’s International showed-off everything that makes the hero one of Dota’s best. Team Liquid has never made it to the top four at the game’s biggest annual tournament before, but today they made it all the way to the grand…

Canceled PS4 Game Would Have Let You Play Team Deathmatch As Gnomes

Did you know a game about gnomes killing each other almost made it to the PS4? In the latest Unseen64 video, Liam Robertson reports that a shooter with the working title “Gnomageddon” was in development at Sony San Diego up until late last year. Originally rumored to be a new game from Sucker Punch, the…

An AI Is Beating Some Of The Best Dota Players In The World 

OpenAI used the action at this year’s Dota 2 championships as an opportunity to show off its work by having top players lose repeatedly to its in-game bot. Dota’s normally a team game with a heavy emphasis on coordination and communication, but for players interested in beefing up their pure, technical ability, the game also…

The Weekend In Esports: TI7 Grand Finals, Call Of Duty Championship, And More

A year of practice and a week of stiff competition in the main event all comes down to this as Dota 2‘s TI7 closes in on a winner later today. While home soil favorites EG were tossed out of the proceedings earlier on, a resurgent Team Liquid who has managed an inspiring run through the…

The Week In Games: The Master Detective Returns

It’s time to go back to Gotham. Who else is going to solve all those Riddler boxes and quick time events? There’s a lot of other small stuff coming out this week, including ports of indie games. Miss Graceful Explosion Machine on the Switch? Well now you can play it on PS4! Miss Elminage Original…

Classics Of Game Returns After A Two And A Half Year Hiatus

This is Weird Dreams, a Rainbird Software game for MS-DOS that eventually got ported to the Atari, Amiga, and C64. It’s about a dude who, as the title suggests, has really weird dreams thanks to his girlfriend who’s possessed by a bored demon, and fortunately we can all relive its haunting glory thanks to the…

Lyconroc will be getting a new Dusk Form in Pokémon Ultra Sun and Moon. It evolves from Rockruff at level 25 into slightly different forms depending on the version of the game you’re playing. The orange-furred, green-eyed wolf will be capture-able once the games are released on November 17.

Players Hone In On The Perfect Playthrough Of Marble Madness

What started as something of a gamified tribute to M. C. Escher has been reduced, in recent years, to dazzling, minutes long dance thanks to modern speedrunning. Marble Madness was in many ways a forerunner to the art, and this summer the players who know the game best are closing in on its limits. “I…

Japan’s latest Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy cross-over Fortune Street got some new trailers and a fall release date. The news came earlier today and although there’s no word on if it will get localized, the chibi rendering of some of my favorite JRPG characters was too much to ignore.

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An In-Depth Look At Mario Kart 8‘s Detailed Maps

If you’ve played Mario Kart 8 you were probably so focused on trying to finish in the top four that you never had time to look around and take in the view. Fortunately, the latest Boundary Break video will give you a chance to do just that. YouTuber Shesez has an ongoing series where he…

Sunday Comics: Suspend Your Disbelief 

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 6. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published July 31. Read more…

Square Enix Announces Dragon Quest Builders 2, Shows Off Hang Gliding 

The company revealed the game at the Dragon Quest Summer Festival 2017 going on in Japan this weekend and even teased some early gameplay footage. The first Dragon Quest Builders took the Minecraft formula and applied it to a beloved RPG series with a surprising balance between a guided story and open-ended simulation. Apparently, the…

Alright Valve It’s Time To Buy Some New Furniture

This is the panel for the Group Stage of the biggest Dota 2 tournament of the year. The one that’s sponsored by Valve and has a prize pool of nearly $24 million. I think it’s time the multi-billion dollar company splurged on some upgrades. Video games have never been known for their style, and among…

Everything’s Better With An N64, Including Ridesharing 

Scott Malsin was headed home after work last Wednesday when he got into car that had an N64 in it. He then shared a picture of his journey on Reddit to make everyone else jealous. His Juno driver was a apparently a big fan of 3D Mario. Big enough, at least, to go through all…

There’s A Guy Doing Classical Piano Covers Of All The Levels In Super Smash Bros. Melee

He goes by the name BearKeys and the self-proclaimed “child prodigy” has recently decide to dive into the world of video game music. Specifically, the GameCube version of Smash Bros. His most recent entry is a classical piano rendition of music from the game’s Break The Targets challenge. Before that he took stabs at Corneria,…

You can now battle Takashi Tokita’s party in the Switch version of I Am Setsuna’s Temporal Battle Arena. Tokita, a Square Enix veteran, was one of the directors on Chrono Trigger and until August 10 you can actually snag I Am Setsuna for 33% off on the eShop.

The Weekend In Esports: Dota 2 Bloodbath

The International, one of pro gaming’s biggest events of the year, started in earnest this week as an around-the-clock group stage has left teams scrambling to lock down top seeding for next week’s Main Event. Fnatic and HellRaisers already sit at the bottoms of Groups A and B respectively with elimination from the tournament potentially…