Ethan Gach

Glitchy Roach Card Is Too Good Not To Leave In The Witcher 3‘s Gwent Spinoff

At PAX East this weekend, members from CD Projekt Red working on Gwent showed off four new animated cards, including one starring everyone’s favorite Witcher steed. Gwent is a standalone collectible card game being developed based on The Witcher 3 mini-game of the same name. The game’s been in beta for sometime, with CD Projekt…

The Week In Games: Reload That Teddy Bear 

It turns out the future has been delayed, so let’s play with some psychopathic stuffed animals instead. [Correction: Bridge Crew was indeed delayed, several times. Guess we’re stuck here in the present for a few more months.] Rejoice! You have a week off to enjoy every amazing game that’s come out this winter before getting…

Rocket League is all about being in the right place at the right time. No one wants to play with someone who’s constantly going out of position. Unless, that is, they can pull this off

A Game Jam About Watermelons All Started Because Of A Joke

There are game jams about all kinds of things. The subject doesn’t really matter so much as the constraints introduced and the creativity that flows from game designers working to overcome them together. So why not a game jam about watermelons? It was originally born from an inside joke that began at last year’s A…

Painting Nintendo Switch Joy-Con Different Colors Isn’t As Scary As It Looks

Truly painting your Joy-Con controllers will require taking them completely apart. The process looks gnarly but the people who have done it say it’s not that bad. Take Imgur user Retaihec for instance. Not satisfied with the neon-colored Joy-Con that arrived with the Switch they took to disassembling them so they could spray paint both…

Anime, Video Games, And Funk Flow Together In Thundercat’s Drunk

Thundercat is a bassist who blends video games into everything he does, and whose latest album situates references to Mobile Suit Gundum and Sonic at the heart of new electronic soul music. Drive around Grand Theft Auto V’s Los Santos for long enough and you might hear Thundercat’s falsetto blurt out “I’m on ecstasy.” Possibly…

Sunday Comics: Your Shield Is Damaged

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 March 5. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published March 6. Read more…

Zelda: Breath Of The Wild Players Are Tricking Amiibos To Grind For Rare Loot

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is amazing in its own right. Its world is breathtakingly gorgeous and bursting at the seams with surprises. So why am I and other players wasting so much time resetting the Nintendo Switch’s clock so we can keep spawning new treasure chests with our Amiibos? For me…

Singer At French Street Fighter Tournament Screams ‘Hadoken’ Into The Void

“If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you,” wrote Friedrich Nietzsche. I think this guy who screamed “Hadoken” over and over again at the Street Fighter V French Cup crowd might have some idea what that feels like. Apparently, a musical group called Neko Light Orchestra was asked to play…

Quake Champions will be free-to-play but charge players for characters, the game’s creative director told Polygon. While you can play the Ranger class for free, unlocking others will cost you. The game’s director said this was a way of compromising between satisfying stalwart fans and inviting newcomers.

The Highs And Lows Of Hearthstone, Embodied In One Turn

Disguised Toast did nothing to disguise is joy and disgust at a particularly torturous turn of luck during last night’s stream Soaking up damage throughout a match against a Priest deck, Toast finally unleashed Twisting Nether to clear the board and relieve some pressure. He also had Atiesh equipped, a weapon that summons a random…

Overwatch Glitch Lets Mercy Unleash Her Inner Phoenix 

In the latest version of Overwatch, using Mercy’s “hello” emote while floating through the sky can yield some wicked results The discovery was shared on Reddit by user Rosilia who was able to help the beloved healer nearly double her wing span and also make it glow bright green by quickly deploying the emote while…

The Weekend In Esports: The World Cup Of Killer Instinct Returns

This weekend Killer Instinct fighters across the country will descend on the Tobin Center in San Antonio, Texas to rip each other’s digital guts out. But no tea bagging please, that would be disrespectful. But qualifiers for Dota 2‘s Kiev Major, Street Fighter V’s Final Round 20, and the last qualifiers for the next season…

Nintendo Switch’s HD Rumble Helps Wife And Blind Husband Enjoy Gaming Together 

Playing video games as a couple can be hard enough, but try finding something for two people to play when one of them is blind adds a whole new set of considerations. Enter 1-2 Switch, the interactive party game that finally gave a wife and her blind husband something they could enjoy together. At 23,…

The Week In Games: Going In Blindfolded 

Sunglasses are out, protective leather coverings are in. Only after the launch of a new console and two gigantic open-world games could a week that includes both Nier: Automata and the latest Ghost Recon feel like a break. Tuesday, March 7 Atelier Firis: The Alchemist and the Mysterious Journey — PS4, Vita, PC Lego Worlds…

Speedrunners Compete To See Who Can Beat Samurai Pizza Cats And Other NES Games The Fastest

Speedrunner Coolkid, aka DaBiGBoOi, won this weekend’s sixth ever Best of NES Big 20 Race, a competition in which players see who can finish a bunch of old NES games the fastest. His time? 2:44:11. It was over ten minutes ahead of the second place finisher, Jaguar King, and better than anything the players had…

Fans Are Still Trying To Recreate An Expansion For Ocarina Of Time That Probably Never Existed

Ura Zelda was originally supposed to be an expansion for the The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time that would add new new dungeons to the base game. It was never completed though, so naturally there’s an entire community of fans based around trying to revive it. Intended as disk for the 64DD peripheral that…

Halo 5 Skee Ball Games Keep Getting Better

People have made all kinds of things inside Halo 5 using the game’s Forge mode, but Skee Ball seems to have a special place in the hearts and minds of the game’s players. The latest mod to recreate the analog arcade game comes from user Spartan 106473. Called Arcade Tokens, the mini-game allows up to…

Sunday Comics: Camping Out

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 March 3. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published February 27. Read more…

She Remembered Caterpillars Is Perfectly Precious

In a world filled with information overload and digital noise from every direction, She Remembered Caterpillars is a tranquil puzzle game that will test your brainpower while still soothing the soul. In the game, released earlier this year on PC, you control different little fungal dudes, trying to get them onto white landing pads where…