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The Weekend In Esports: DreamHack Atlanta, Counter-Strike Finals In Poland, And More

With Evo now in the rear-view mirror, the focus this weekend shifts to the Poland for a major Counter-Strike tournament and Atlanta for the latest DreamHack LAN. Below you’ll find where and when you can catch all the weekend’s biggest events in competitive gaming. Let us know what you’ll be watching in the comments or…

Record Breaking Portal Speedrun Is Even Better With Classical Music

A sub-eleven minute run of the original Portal is a big deal for the game’s speedrunning community, but the accomplishment is even better when viewed listening to Franz Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2. BiiWiX set the game’s new 10:58 world record for inbounds this week with a dramatic escape from the Aperture Science that ultimately…

American Truck Simulator To Close Major Highway For As Long As It Stays Closed In Real Life

Some games focus on escapism while others seek to render the world with some semblance of digital realism. American Truck Simulator falls in the second category, which is why in its next update the game will be closing players’ access to California’s coastal Highway 1 for a portion near Big Sur. That’s because a landslide…

Crash Bandicoot Remaster Trilogy Gets Long Lost Level As DLC

Stormy Ascent was a level in the first Crash game that originally got scrapped because it was ultimately considered too difficult. During a panel at San Diego Comic-Con, Vicarious Visions revealed that the lost level would be available as a free download via the PlayStation Store. Taylor Kurosaki said in a conversation with N. Sane…

Here’s Our First Look At Call Of Duty: WWII‘s Zombie Mode

Activision showed off the trailer for the zombie mode in Call of Duty: WWII at a San Diego Comic-Con panel this afternoon and, surprise, there are a lot of Nazi zombies! The zombie mode will include an original story that features the voice acting talents of Dr. Who’s David Tennant and Daredevil’s Elodie Young, among…

Smash Bros. Fan Game Takes The Characters Back To Their 8-Bit And 16-Bit Roots

Super CLASH Bros is rough and unfinished, but look and sounds alone will win you over. In the game, created by Jeremy Eden, up to four players can choose from a roster that includes Mario, Mega Man, Knuckles and others, and battle one another in a fever dream of retro nostalgia. Unlike other Smash Bros.-inspired…

The Destiny 2 Beta’s Toughest Boss Is A Sci-Fi Turbine 

Ever since the Vault of Glass raid, Bungie has reserved its right to torture players with platforming puzzles that are a lot harder than they look. Near the end of the Destiny 2 beta’s “Homecoming” mission you have to take down the shields on a Cabal ship. Shields run on generators, so naturally this meant…

These Shoes Have Mega Man On Them And Somehow Don’t Look Terrible 

Ubiq, a high-end footwear store based out of Philly, is collaborating with Capcom on some video game-themed kicks that look a little more stylish and reserved than your average Mega Man sneakers Long gone are the days of scrounging through Hot Topic for anything with a Triforce or Mario face on it. Uniqlo put together…

Yakuza Kiwami’s latest gameplay trailer shows off fighting styles and arcades. A remake of the first game in the series, Kiwami has me excited to finally see where all the weirdness started but with, like, updated graphics and stuff. It’s coming to PS4 on August 29.

Street Fighter V‘s Newest Character Is Slightly Less Bulky Than He First Appeared

Final Fight’s Abigail is now the biggest character to ever appear in the Street Fighter series, and fans aren’t pleased with his grotesque stature. But it turns out that Abigail’s beefy appearance in the reveal trailer show just prior to the end of the Evo 2017 Street Fighter V tournament was somewhat embellished. Abigail actually…

Evo Tekken 7 Tournament Ends In Seven Game Slugfest

There are a lot of great Tekken 7 players, but the masters of the game still hail mostly from South Korea. In a grand finals that pitted countrymen and fellow Echo Fox players Jin Woo “Saint” Choi and Hyun Jin “JDCR” Kim against one another, it was the latter who managed their first Evo championship…

Fatal Fury’s Geese Howard will be Tekken 7‘s newest character. The above trailer dropped after the Tekken 7 grand finals at Evo 2017. The SNK character will be available late in 2017.

The Week In Games: Inking The Town Red

The time has come, the inkling said, to splat of many things, like how there aren’t many games coming this month besides Splatoon 2 Nintendo sure timed this release well. It makes up for the Super Mario Odyssey coming out on the same day as Assassin’s Creed Origins and Wolfenstein 2 I suppose. I’m of…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: The Last Of Hot Dogs 

These are strange times we live in. One of the only things keeping me sane is that Snapchat hot dog. If this meme was already a played out by the end of last week it will be a pile of ashes by next Saturday. I refuse to let this little guy go into the night…

Street Fighter EX Developer’s New Game Is Coming In 2018

Here’s an official trailer for that new fighting game from Akira Co., the company behind the Street Fighter EX series. Originally teased on April Fools’ day, the game still doesn’t have a name. But it does have Skullomania, the failed businessman who tries to take out his capitalist-fueled frustration on criminals as skeleton suit wearing…

Arc System Works Announces BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle At Evo 2017

The company is working on a new BlazBlue game. Why should you care? Well this one will include Persona 4‘s protagonist, Yu Narukam, from the Persona 4 Arena fighting game in addition to a bunch of other characters. Showing off in-game footage after the BlazBluegrand finals at this year’s Evo, Arc System Works revealed that the…

Artist’s Doodle Captures The Beautiful Absurdity Of Splatfest

Ahead of Splatoon 2‘s release this week, Nintendo hosted a Splatfest event this weekend where players competed on either Team Ice Cream or Team Cake to decide which was best and collect in-game rewards. Team Ice Cream finished with more points, but the real winner was this rad sonic meme. In Splatoon 2 you can…

Dramatic Finish Cements Pro’s Legacy As Final Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 Evo Champion

Marvel vs. Capcom has always been known for its flashy style and brutal comboing, two things that were on full display at the game’s final Evo tournament. Prior to the grand finals, many suspected that the contest might ultimately come down to Ryan “RyanLV” Romero and Christopher “NYChrisG” Gonzalez, and sure enough, the game’s two…

Sunday Comics: This Is An Emergency 

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 July 15. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published July 10. Read more…