Ethan Gach

Police Mistake Fallout Cosplay For Bomb

We’ve all been there. Your Fallout costume just isn’t sitting right. It needs alterations. So you head to the nearest tailor looking like a poor-man’s storm trooper only to get hounded by the police who think you’re carrying a bomb on your back. That’s what happened to one cosplayer in Grande Prairie, Canada last Tuesday.…

The Week In Games: Shiny Collectibles On The Horizon 

Picking stuff up in games will never get old. Whether its coins in Super Mario Bros. or rings in Sonic, game developers learned a long time ago that we love grabbing stuff in games. It’s what made Pac-Man a sensation decades ago and what’s still driving the Ubisoft collectible-industrial complex. Instead of chomping on ghosts…

Hyper Dragon Ball Z is still getting new characters, stages, and move sets. The latest trailer for the fan-made fighting game that dumps everyone’s favorite DBZ characters into the Mugen engine used to make Street Fighter and Dark Stalkers shows off the progress made in the latest build now available to download.

Heroes Of The Storm Matchmaking Helps Two People Get Hitched In Real Life

You never know where you might meet that special someone who makes you want to spend the rest of your life with them. For SadJetsFan and Venus1812, that place turned out to be a match in Heroes of the Storm “Against all odds, two people from different countries and cultures were able to find each…

Random Encounters Are The Bane Of A Final Fantasy Speedrunner’s Existence

The Final Fantasy Series Relay Race III is going on right now, with three teams of seventeen people competing to see which can beat every game in the series first. Begun back in 2015, the annual event is streamed across several days with speedrunners on each team dedicating themselves to completing a specific Final Fantasy…

Paradigm Wants You To Confront The Ruling Class 

Paradigm looks bonkers and it is. Released on PC early last week, it pokes fun at the systems we’re all constrained by, inspired by classic point-and-click games. A surreal adventure game set in a post-apocalyptic Eastern European country, Paradigm explores the theoretical use of genetics technology by the rich and powerful to help them spawn…

Sunday Comics: Zelda Economics

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 April 6. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published April 3. Read more…

Salt And Sanctuary‘s Claustrophobic Exploration Is Perfect For The Vita

It took Ska Studios just over a year to get its side-scrolling action game onto the Vita, but the wait was worth it. Salt and Sanctuary takes the best of Metroidvania-style games and Souls-likes and condenses it into the ideal portable experience. Thanks to Sickhead Games, a developer who has ported games like Axiom Verge…

Goodbye Sweet Nomad

Things get weird on Mass Effect: Andromeda’s desert world of Eos when you start pushing the Nomad over 160 kilometers per hour. As several players have reported on Reddit, the glitch happens while zooming around the planet’s surface at high speeds. The DeLorean-like teleportation doesn’t send the Nomad into the past or future, however. Instead,…

Celebrate The Most Famous Egg In Gaming With Mystery World Dizzy 

It only took a little over two decades to arrive, but Mystery World Dizzy, the NES port of the arcade game Fantasy World Dizzy, which was supposed to come out back in 1993, is now available to play for free in honor of the character’s 30th birthday. Created by programmer twins Philip and Andrew Oliver,…

The Nintendo Switch Joy-Con Look Way Better With SNES-Themed Buttons

The Nintendo Switch grey Joy-Con controllers are pretty nondescript all by themselves, but you can throw a few SNES-themed buttons on there to spice things up if you’re brave enough. YouTuber JordiPower decided he didn’t want to wait for Nintendo to release its own SNES-themed buttons for the Switch and so went ahead and inserted…

The Weekend In Esports: Tecmo Super Bowl Returns

Tecmo Super Bowl is back! Re-live the glory of the most beloved sports game of all time by watching its top players face-off this weekend in the game’s annual Madison Bowl. 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…

GameStop Acknowledges Possible Breach Of Customers’ Credit Card Information

If you’ve shopped at GameStop.com between mid-September and early February, it’s possible your credit card information has been compromised according to a report by the web security blog, KrebsOnSecurity. After reaching out to the video game retailer about the breach, GameStop confirmed to KrebsOnSecurity that it had been notified by a third party that possible…

Take A Moment To Remember One Of The Best April Fools’ Gaming Hoaxes Of All Time

It was 1992 and print was still alive and well with most people relying on monthly magazines for their gaming info. As a result, a joke about a secret Street Fighter character called Sheng Long spread world wide. 25 years later, it’s time we poured one out for all those tortured souls who went looking…

The Week In Games: Back To School

It’s time to leave childish things like tower climbing, cyborg-dino slaying, and planet scanning behind and go hit the books. In case you weren’t feeling buried enough under the weight of all those open world RPGs, here’s another 100+ hour epic to eat away whatever remains of your time an sanity. I can’t wait to…

LucasArts Was Really Good At Canceling Star Wars Games

The latest video from GVMERS takes a look back at all of the Star Wars games that never saw the light of day. Consider it a eulogy for a galaxy far, far away still littered with what-ifs. Starting with Return of the Jedi: Ewok Adventure planed for the Atari and going all the way up…

You can now download 8-Bit Bayonetta on Steam and play it for free. Unfortunately, the demake which doubles as an April Fools’ joke is a bit feature incomplete. Bayonetta can only jump and fire at the oncoming enemies so there’s no side-scrolling exploration.

Speedrunner Gets Sabatoged By His Own Twitch Chat During Super Mario 64 World Record Attempt

This weekend a speedrunner who goes by Cheese broke the existing record for beating Mario 64 with all 120 stars with a time1:40:05. But his goal was to come in under 1:39, something he might have achieved if not for one of his spectators spamming a text-to-speech bot. Despite forgoing the LBLJ exploit, a backyards…

Track: Terminally Chill | Artist: Neon Indian | Album: Psychic Chasms  Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Blind Player Racks Up A Win At His First Street Fighter V Tournament

Competing in a Street Fighter tournament is hard, especially if you’re blind. But that didn’t stop a Dutch player by the name of “Sven” from managing to take a few sets off his opponents in the early rounds of Spain’s Sonic Boom tournament for Street Fighter V. Playing as Ken, Sven faced Musashi’s Akuma in…