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Charlie Murder and The Dishwasher Vampire Smile are now on Steam. Ska Studios’ indie beat-em-ups finally made it off of Xbox Live Arcade and onto PC yesterday, and if you enjoyed Salt and Sanctuary or like the idea of Edward Gorey meets violent side-scroller, definitely check them out.

Apparently Barcelona’s Soccer Team Loves To Play Mario Kart 8 On The Switch

Four out of seven Barca players give it a thumbs up. What better way for some of the best soccer players in the world to mentally prepare themselves for Sunday’s match against Las Palmas than a little battle mode? The Catalan team’s captain, center-mid veteran Andrés Iniesta, tweeted the below while en route to the…

The Weekend In Esports: League Of Legends, Madden 17, And The Gwent Challenger Finals

The weekend’s competitive gaming starts with a card game inspired by a Polish fantasy series and ends with two people calling last-minute plays in a virtual recreation of NFL football. Aren’t esports great? 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…

The Binding Of Isaac Dev Releases Second Mod Pack And Teases New Project

It turns out that Edmund McMillen will not in fact spend the rest of his life making expansions for 2011’s macabre roguelike, The Binding of Isaac. In a post describing the latest fan mods to be added to the official version, McMillen said he and programmer Tyler Glaiel have spent three months in crunch time…

The Secret Ending That Helped Redeem Tactics Ogre: The Knights of Lodis

Not many games get a stinger this good, so it’s a shame so few people remember it. Ask someone about their favorite turn-based tactical role-playing game and they’ll probably start talking about Final Fantasy Tactics or Fire Emblem. Maybe even Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together. But what about the Ogre series spin-off Knights of…

The Week In Games: Back For Blood

They just don’t make first-person shooters like they used to. Except for Strafe I actually don’t really remember how they used to make video games. Firing laser beams at motherboards? The 90s are almost two decades old, so who knows what they were really like, but the uber-violent shooter-throwback Strafe seems like as good an…

Counter-Strike Caster Gets Tossed Into Giant ‘Pie’ After Loss 

This is what happens after you shout “Fuck you all, god save the queen” to a crowd full of Aussie Counter-Strike fans. In a showmatch prior to the IEM Sydney grand finals for CS:GO this morning, analyst Chad “SPUNJ” Burchill led his Australian team to a dominating win over British caster Henry “HenryG” Greer’s UK…

Trippy Fan Game Transforms Donkey Kong Country Into Vaporwave 

This jenky ode to a dead music genre lets you collect bananas while trampling through a glitched-out Jungle Hijinxs as a slowed-down, reverb-infested remix of the DKC soundtrack plays in the background. Any questions? DonkeyKong.exe resulted from a very small game jam taking place in Gothenburg, Sweden. The group, Indie Games Gothenburg, decide to work…

Ark: Survival Evolved Gets Sharks With Frickin’ Laser Beams After Latest Patch

Ark: Survival Evolved mutates again with its new v257 patch released on Friday. Among other things, it adds lasers to sharks. About time honestly. The patch also introduces new creatures, including giant bees, something called a Liopleurodon Magicus, and “hell pigs,” as well as a cloning chamber and of course the mysterious Tek cave dungeon…

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Brazilians Prove Unstoppable At Australian Counter-Strike Tournament

The hierarchy of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive gets a shakeup at the IEM XII Championship in Sydney, Australia as the European powerhouses make room for the resurgence of South America’s SK Gaming. Even Nikola ‘NiKo’ Kovač, bought earlier this year for $500,000, couldn’t save FaZe Clan. The shadow hanging over the IEM Sydney grand finals was…

Sunday Comics: Mario And Friends 

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 2. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published May 1. Read more…

Announcers Rib Pro Madden Player For Chewing On Bottle Caps

This is Anthony “Misery” Pulli, a young pro Madden player from Pennsylvania who spent today fighting for a shot at the 2017 Championship. He also spent all of game two gnawing on a chunk of plastic, mesmerizing sportscasters in the process. Misery had a good first game against number two ranked Trueboy, but fell flat…

Slime-san Is A Lo-Fi Platformer That Wants To Sweep You Off Your Feet

Slime-San is the type of twitchy, lighting-quick platformer I‘m happy to spend hours dying in. Filled with micro levels similar to Super Meat boy, the fourth project from the New York studio Fabraz takes the labyrinths of classic games like Super Mario Bros. and Donkey Kong Country and condenses them down into a single screen…

There’s Finally Another Dancing Skeleton Theme On The PS4

The Playstation Store has tons of themes for you to choose from and one of the newest includes a reggae skeleton shaking his bones and dreads to some chill Jamaican beats. The theme comes from Mass Creation, but it’s not the outfit’s first time. They released one last December that featured not one but THREE…

Overwatch Team Wastes Four Ultimates Trying To Take Down Roadhog

Pro tip: don’t engage your ultimate unless you’re sure you’ll actually get to use it. It seems like the best Rodhog players are always playing for the other team, and I’m sure that’s how the Soldier 76, Genji, and McCree felt when they and their fellow Roadhog got absolutely destroyed in Massev’s recent Play of…

The Weekend In Esports: Rocket League Finals, IEM Sydney, And More

Are you ready for some rocket ball? The Intel Extreme Masters takes Counter-Strike to Australia and two mid-tier League of Legends teams battle it out for a ticket to the Mid-Season Invitational in Brazil, but not to be outdone Psyonix’s Rocket League will see it’s second annual spring championship crown victors for both America and…

Player Spends A Decade Polishing Epic Theme Park In Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 

The game came out in 2002, but up until yesterday, I-am-Prime was still working on fine-tuning an isometric amusement park that was years in the making. As Prime mentioned in a Reddit post, the park contains 34 roller coasters, 255 attractions and shops, and nearly 8000 guests. To-date, the park’s monorail has been ridden by…

The Late Team Fight That Spun The Dota 2 Kiev Finals On Their Head

OG might have been favorites heading into Valve’s Dota 2 Major hosted in Kiev, but they certainly didn’t look it by game five of the grand finals. Arguably the more talented team, and certainly the more experienced, it wasn’t until a fateful team fight in the 39th minute of the final match that the European…

The Week In Games: Preying For More 

It feels like only yesterday a giant open-world game was coming out every week. But alas here we are, inching towards the summer drought like a caterpillar in a cabbage patch. The Nintendo Switch is getting a game, which is good. And the NeoGeo compilations continue on a pace. Otherwise beyond Bethesda’s Prey it’s slim…