Ethan Gach

Dragon Ball FighterZ Beta Hides More Classic Moments From The Anime

Over the weekend players got to spend time with Dragon Ball FighterZ during an open test beta. It turns out the game still looks gorgeous and, if you’re huge fan of the source material, even has pre and post-fight scenes that reenact the anime. While most of Dragon Ball FighterZ’s fight introductions are quick and…

The Week In Games: Cyber Sleuthing The Winter Away 

Who needs a Breath of the Wild-style Pokemon game when we’ve got a new Digimon to look forward to? The annual slow start to game releases that is the month of January always manages to catch me off guard. While it’s still port season for the Switch and a quiet week overall, the release of…

Bandai Namco Offers To Extend Dragon Ball FighterZ Beta If Network Issues Continue [UPDATE]

Due out January 26, Dragon Ball FighterZ had its open beta this weekend. Unfortunately, network errors and disconnects have plagued much of the second half of it leading publisher Bandai Namco to discuss extending it beyond Sunday. Early access to the beta started for players who pre-ordered the game yesterday, with everyone else on PS4…

The Salvaged Guts Of Old SNES Consoles Look Great Inside These New Cases

These transparent SNES shells have circulated around for a couple years. As they’re complete, Rose Colored Gaming sells them almost immediately so it’s worth keeping an eye on these beauties as they become available. Instead of creating a cheap SNES emulator and housing it in a sleek new body, RCG actually uses real SNES parts.…

Awesome Games Done Quick Raises Over $2.2 Million For Charity For The Second Year In A Row 

Awesome Games Done Quick (AGDQ) is a week long slumber party where some people beat all kinds of video games super fast while thousands more watch. Now in its ninth year, the marathon wrapped up early today after raising a record breaking $2,263,093 for the Prevent Cancer Foundation. Beginning last Sunday with Crash Bandicoot 3…

David Cage’s Quantic Dream Accused Of Being A Toxic Workplace [UPDATE]

Reports in three separate French outlets depict a pattern of inappropriate behavior, sexist and homophobic jokes, and an overall toxic environment at Quantic Dream, something the video game studio’s executives strongly deny. UPDATE (3:05pm): In response to a request for comment, co-CEO Guillaume de Fondaumière gave Kotaku the following statement: “QD categorically denies the allegations.…

Sunday Comics: The Power Of Friendship 

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 January 13. Read more of Nerf NOW!!  Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published January 8. Read more…

Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition arrives on January 16 and brings with it a bunch of new stuff including cross-over costumes like a Captain Commando skin for Nash. A new post over at the PlayStation Blog details other stuff that’s in the latest version, but honestly all I really care about is Nash’s Saiyan armor.

Eurogamer’s video producer Ian Higton recounts a heart wrenching discovery he made when going through some of his old ZX Spectrum games in a recent article. It’s an extremely intimate and emotional (and brief) glimpse into how gaming as a hobby insinuates itself into our lives in unexpected ways.

Splatoon 2‘s Next Update Could Finally Fix Some Issues With Its Warehouse Map 

Nintendo has been keeping up with Splatoon 2‘s development and as such the game’s new version, 2.2.0, is scheduled to go live on January 16 and address a number of existing problems, including imbalances on its Walleye Warehouse map. Following the game’s initial release in July of last year, Splatoon 2 has been getting substantial…

Hyperkin’s new Duke Xbox controller will arrive at the end of March and cost $70. CNET reported the news yesterday, including details on the central OLED sphere which is in fact a working screen that shows the original console startup animation via a video file.

Guy Plays Retro Indie Game The Messenger Using Only His Feet 

You never know who’s going to want to come and demo your game at a convention like PAX South. The Messenger is a modern homage to Ninja Gaiden. As such, it’s a pretty challenging action platformer. But that didn’t stop a streamer who goes by the name Jrocthegod from trying to demo the game at…

BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle is coming to PS4, Switch, and PC on June 5. Arc System Works’ fighting game currently has a revealed roster of 20 characters but plans to add 20 more, starting with Blake Belladonna from RWBY, through DLC. That’s outraged a number of fans although it’s unclear how it will all be…

Super Meat Boy Is The Latest Port To Sell Better Than Expected On The Nintendo Switch 

Super Meat Boy’s first day of sales on the Nintendo Switch were apparently “shockingly close” to how the game performed when it was originally released on Xbox 360 back in 2010 according to the game’s developer. The platformer debuted on the Switch last Thursday alongside lots of other games including Furi and Escapists 2. While…

The Weekend In Esports: Wrapping Up The Overwatch League’s First Week 

OWL got off to a cracking start last Wednesday and hasn’t slowed down since. In addition to introducing esports to a larger audience and sparking important conversations about diversity and team management, there were also a bunch of really great games. Hopefully the quality continues today as the league’s last three matches of the inaugeral…

Tips For Playing They Are Billions

They Are Billions is an Early Access PC strategy game about trying to build a city while fighting off hordes of zombies. It’s surprisingly fun and polished, but also incredibly brutal. If you want to have any chance of not dying right away, I’ve got some tips for you. If you’ve played an RTS like…

Well That Was A Weird Way To Do A Nintendo Direct

This morning, Nintendo dropped a 15 minute “Nintendo Direct Mini” out of nowhere, detailing some new games, ports, and DLC coming to the Switch in the first half of the year. The video, which was pre-recorded and came with no official advance notice, capped off a week of fans losing their minds waiting for the…

Assassin’s Creed Rogue is getting remastered and coming to Xbox One and PS4 on March 20. The game was a direct sequel to Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag and Ubisoft’s gift to PS3 and Xbox 360 owners who hadn’t yet upgraded the year Assassin’s Creed Unity released only on next gen consoles. It was also…

How Warframe Players Got Taylor Swift Lyrics Etched Permanently Onto Its Map

A joke from years ago has been permanently etched into Warframe. Here’s why players are still faced with the Taylor Swift lyrics that lit up the billboard charts back in 2014 every time they grind for loot on Mars. Warframe’s star map is a lot like the one in Destiny You choose a planet and…

PUBG Devs Publish Drop Rates For New Loot Boxes

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has outlined new additions to its loot box system to go live on the game’s test server. In addition to disclosing the odds of getting different cosmetics, the patch notes also point toward a new type of microtransaction that will be making its way into the game in the future. Loot boxes have…