Ethan Gach

YouTuber JonTron Tries To Clarify His Controversial Views On Race

Last week, YouTube personality Jon Jafari made a series of offensive remarks about race during a debate over on Steve Bonnell’s Twitch channel. Earlier today, he released a video on the Jon Tron Show YouTube channel to try and set the record straight. “I said lots of stuff that could be misconstrued in all sorts…

Sunday Comics: The Hyrule Guide To Food Preperation

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 14. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published March 13. Read more…

Scumbags Harass Woman For Working On Mass Effect: Andromeda‘s Animations

Internet cretins engaged in a harassment campaign against a woman who worked for Electronic Arts this weekend, flooding her social media and various internet profiles with vitriolic, often misogynistic messages. Her sin, it appears, was working on animations for the game Mass Effect: Andromeda Allie Rose-Marie Leost, who worked for EA’s motion-capture labs in Vancouver,…

This is the first 35 minutes of Prey, the not really a Prey game that’s nevertheless called Prey being developed by Arkane Studios and published by Bethesda. Come for the monkey wrench melee bashing and stay for those slick, Brazilian cherry hardwood floors.

Dota 2 Pro Goes Undercover As A Tree, Dies Anyway 

Ludwig “Zai” Wåhlberg isn’t even 20-years-old and he’s already won over $1.1 million in esports prize money. In an exhibition match on Friday against recently formed Onyx, the Evil Geniuses player decided to transform into a tree and try to mess with his opponents just for the hell of it. Monkey King is the latest…

Horrifying MLB The Show Glitch Is Not Okay

There’s a lot of stuff you can do in MLB The Show 17. You can throw balls, swing bats, and up until recently, create unholy baseball abominations like the above. Life was breathed into those demons when when a glitch with the game’s hair slider turned custom players into human wicker statues. Sony San Diego,…

Future Unfolding came out earlier this week for PC and looks like the perfect way to spend the weekend unwinding. An exploration game that finds inspiration in The Witness, Unfolding takes a lush painter’s brush to randomly generated environments filled with unique, non-repeating puzzles.

The Weekend In Esports: Duty Calls In Texas 

Call of Duty returns in a big way this week with the World League Open for Infinite Warfare in Dallas. The last chance for teams to earn a spot in stage 1 of the Global Pro League, competitive Call of Duty’s big spring event, all eyes will be on Northern Texas to see who can…

American Says In 2007 It’s His Dream To Work At Nintendo, Winds Up In Credits For Breath Of The Wild

Everyone has a dream. Corey Bunnell’s was to one day work for Nintendo. But he wasn’t sure how to make that happen so he asked for advice one day on a forum. That was ten years ago. This month, Nintendo shipped The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild with his name in the credits…

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…