Ethan Gach

Overwatch Player Drops Genji’s Dragon Blade Ultimate Within 15 Seconds Of The Match Starting

Dragon Blade is Genji’s ultimate. It grants the cyborg ninja 1.17 swings per second, 120 damage per swing, an eight meter per second movement speed and lasts just six seconds. Player KingFluffy was able to fill up the ultimate meter in scarcely twice that time to unleash a brutal onslaught that left the other team…

Whistleblower Chelsea Manning was released from military prison this week after being locked up for over seven years. This weekend she played Forza. Former President Obama commuted her 35-year sentence as one of his last acts in office, but not before years of inhuman treatment including solitary confinement

Price Of WoW Tokens Jumps To All Time High Following Destiny 2 Reveal

The in-game value of WoW Tokens jumped to a record high this past week after Activision announced that Destiny 2 would be available on PC exclusively through Blizzard’s game client. The news meant a lot of things. PC players would be able to chat with Destiny 2 players while in a Hearthstone or Heroes of…

Track: It’s Very Sunny | Artist: Casino Versus Japan | Album: Go Hawaii  Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Wrestlethon 2017 is going on right now. A three day streaming marathon celebrating the history of wrestling games while raising money for the Child’s Play Charity, the group will finish at 4:00PM EDT today with a WWE 2k17 tournament. You can watch here

Sunday Comics: Nothing Personal 

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 May 17. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published May 8. Read more…

Jury To Decide Whether Valve Actually Owns Dota 2

It probably does, but that hasn’t stopped a federal court from taking a closer look at the question. Two mobile developers, Lilith Games and uCool, have tried to make clones of Dota 2 for smartphones and been sued by Valve as a result. Their games, Dota Legends and Heroes Charge respectively, are slimmed down MOBAs…

Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 will Kamehameha its way onto the Nintendo Switch this fall publisher Bandai Namco tweeted earlier today. The game will include ad-hoc play, motion controls, and local, two-person multiplayer using the Joy-Con.

Vienna Game Developers Are Using The City’s Coffeehouse Culture To Create A New Kind Of Arcade 

The rise and fall of arcades have in large part shaped how we think about playing video games together in public places, but in their absence, young designers are finding new ways to bring social gaming out into the open. Austrian for “playing together,” zamSpielen is a small crew of designers and programmers trying to…

Track: Say Goodbye | Artist: Hiroshi Satoh | Album: This Boy Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

The Weekend In Esports: League of Legends‘ Mid-Season Invitational, Greninja Saga, And More

League of Legends’ Mid-Season Invitational look poised to be dominated once again by the unbeatable boys from South Korea while elsewhere in Smash Bros. Wii U players duke it out to unseat their own unbeatable champion. Below you’ll find where and when you can catch all the weekend’s biggest events in competitive gaming. Let us…

Negative World Of Tanks Video Gets Taken Down After Developer Threatens Copyright Claim

A prominent World of Tanks YouTuber who is a member of a promotional program for the game had to remove a critical video after developer Wargaming threatened a copyright strike against it. On May 18, SirFoch uploaded a video where he criticized the Chrysler K Grand Finals premium tank (a fully-loaded version of which is…

Dota 2 Commentator Reveals She’s Been Diagnosed With Cancer 

Jorien “Sheever” van der Heijden, one of Dota 2‘s most prominent casters and streaming personalities, revealed earlier today on her Twitch channel that she has cancer and will start undergoing treatment for it later this week. “Well I have breast cancer,” she told her viewers during her daily Dota 2 stream. “It hasn’t spread. It’ll…

The Week In Games: Injustice For All

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: who do you think would win in a fight, Batman or Superman? It’s been almost a decades since Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe first unleashed the Man of Steel and the Caped Crusader upon one another within the gritty context of the Midway fighter universe but the…

A new gameplay trailer for Sonic Mania shows Knuckles flying, climbing, and doing all the things you’d expect. Everything looks great and sounds even better. Too bad the game was delayed until an unspecified date later in the year.

The Moms In Chrono Trigger Had It Rough

How would you feel if your son had died trying to save the world and his best friends never told you? Chrono Trigger is one of the most famous video games ever made. You’d be hard pressed to find a top 100 list that doesn’t include it, and when it comes to the SNES’s library…

Here’s A Brief Look At The Maps Coming In Call Of Duty Zombie Chronicles 

Just over a week ago this guy revealed Black Ops III’s fifth and final Zombies DLC would be a collection of eight remastered maps from previous games by unzipping a hoodie. Set to release on Tuesday of this week, here are some videos showing just what they’ll look like. Three of the maps below are…

Pros Continue Reviving Old Rivalries At The Latest Smash Bros. Melee Tournament

This was the scene in the Tropicana Showroom Theater in Atlantic City last night after the day’s Smash Bros. Melee matches had wrapped up as some of the game’s beloved pros tried to resurrect a decades old rivalry between East and West coast players. In the middle was Ryan “The Moon” Coker-Welch, a top-ranked player…

Sunday Comics: Forced Fusion Tutorial

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 May 12. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published May 12. Read more…

Here’s To That Guy Creeping Around The Witcher 3 Card Game Tournament 

Meet Gaunter O’Dimm. Or at least some dude dressed as Gaunter O’Dimm, a mischievous, devil-like bloke from The Witcher 3 and competitive gaming’s own Vanna White. His job is to walk players to their seats and stare at the camera like that theater undergrad who is all about getting into character and strolling around the…