Ethan Gach

Splatoon‘s Tradition Of Annual Hologram Concerts Continues

Pearl and Marina showed up at this year’s Niconico Tokaigi Smash Bros. tournament in Japan for the latest in a series of hologram concerts dating back to the first Splatoon. Taking over for the Squid Sisters from the first game, the two characters sang songs for an audience of adoring, human fans. Not to be…

Track: All The Stars | Artist: Kendrick Lamar, SZA | Album: Black Panther Soundtrack Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

TinyBuild Announces Six New Ports For The Nintendo Switch

During a livestream today, indie publisher Tinybuild announced six more games that will be heading to Switch later this year. All of the games have been out for a few years now and are available on PC and other consoles, but the magic of the Switch so far has mostly been showing that that doesn’t…

Watch A Crowd Lose Its Mind Over Dramatic Fortnite Finish 

It’s not every day you get to see a battle royale match come down to the wire. With the storm that constricts players having closed in as much as possible and only two players left, the would-be victor had few options at their disposal. Hundreds of feet above their opponent, they did the only thing…

Doom on the Switch will finally be getting patched sometime this month. Despite running well overall, the game’s players have had to put up with audio issues and wonky menus at times, all things the upcoming patch is intended to fix. Players will soon be able to hear those demons coming on a consistent basis.

The Weekend In Esports: CS:GO, Smash 4, And More Overwatch

Between Frostbite in Michigan and Dota 2 qualifiers in Eastern Europe, the esports action continues across the globe this weekend, including some big matches in the lead-up to the Overwatch League’s first mini-tournament championship. Below you’ll find where and when you can catch all the weekend’s biggest events in competitive gaming. Let us know what…

The Video Game Version Of A Haiku

I downloaded and played Indecision on a whim. The unassuming pixel art and straightforward presentation didn’t prepare me for all of the weird little platforming vignettes inside. It only took a few seconds for me to fall completely in love with it. Had I read the game’s Steam page I would have had a better…

Gwent‘s Latest Patch Makes Ciri Less Powerful

A princess who’s also a witcher, Ciri is far and away one of the best characters in The Witcher 3. She’s pretty great in Gwent as well. In fact, she’s recently become so popular that CD Projekt Red has decided to nerf her in the game’s latest update There are currently three different Ciri cards…

Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom is coming to Switch and PS4 this summer with Sega publishing a physical version. It’s a spiritual successor to the original beloved Sega series whose third game, Wonder Boy: The Dragon’s Trap, got an excellent remake last year.

Creator Of Amazing Division Screenshot Mod Swiftly Banned For Life [UPDATE]

At the beginning of the month a modder from Finland updated a program that lets players of the 2015 game The Division take jaw-dropping screenshots. On Tuesday of this week, just over a week later, he was informed by the game’s publisher that he’s been banned from the game forever. Cinematic Tools is a program…

Ubisoft says For Honor will get dedicated servers for PC on February 19, shortly after the season five update arrives. Unfortunately, console players won’t get dedicated servers until “soon after” with exact release dates to come later.

Dr Disrespect Calls Criticism Of His Mock Chinese Accent ‘Laughable’

Possibly the most popular streamer on Twitch, Dr Disrespect was called out yesterday by musician Jimmy Wong for acting racist based on a series of clips compiled by the latter in which Disrespect caricatures Chinese accents and language. During a recent stream, Disrespect fired back by saying that some of his best friends are Asian.…

Rare Dragon Ball FighterZ Glitch Makes Tien’s Opponents Invisible

Tien’s a dude with three eyes whose best friend is a ghost child and maybe a vampire. That’s pretty weird on its own. It turns out he can turn people invisible too, by way of a recently discovered glitch in Dragon Ball FighterZ A Player who goes by RZampa demonstrated how it works, or at…

How To Organize Your Cords

I bet you own a few cords. You might have so many cords that they burst out behind your TV stand or below your desk. Play video games for any length of time and you’ll acquire all sorts of cords you don’t know what to do with. For just a few bucks you can rein…

The Surge 2 is happening and aiming for release on PC and consoles sometime in 2019. Deck13, the game’s developer, is touting the sequel’s expanded world and limb targeting system. That’s good news as the first game’s levels were a bit claustrophobic. Still, the robot dismemberment system was pretty great

The Week In Games: Colossi Get A Makeover 

It’s a credit to how far video games have come that there are now so many of them worth remaking and updating. I’ve been skeptical of the Shadow of the Colossus remake since it was announced. Having replayed the original recently, I can say it still holds up, even if the controls are a mess.…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Shadow Of The Tingle 

The world’s a different place than it was back in 2005. Maybe it’s time we had some new colossus to fight as a result. In celebration of Shadow of the Colossus’s stellar remake coming out this week, I thought it was time for us to think about what new, towering monsters we’d like to see…

Streets of Red is a retro beat ‘em up headed to PS4 and Switch on February 27. There are a lot of side-scrolling brawlers that aim to capture the original arcade experience, but Streets of Red really commits by not allowing you any continues or saves. When you die, it’s game over and you have…

Rogue One Actor Says Sleeping Dogs Movie Is Still Happening 

Donnie Yen of Ip Man and Rogue One fame said the Sleeping Dogs movie no one’s heard anything about for some time is still in motion on social media yesterday. “Sometimes great things take a bit of time,” the actor and martial artists said in an Instagram post. “Sleeping Dog is motion, you guys ready…

Super Metroid‘s Elevators Are No Joke 

Speedrunning is often best known of the amazing records it produces. The practice that goes into producing those moments can be grueling though, like when you’re trying to set a new personal record in Super Metroid only to get stuck on an elevator. UNHchabo had that exact thing happen while working on a new personal…