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Sunday Comics: Eggnog Stranding 

Welcome to Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira. Published December 16. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published December 12. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…

Rob Corddry And Al Madrigal Host Most Cringe-Worthy Esports Tournament In Recent Memory

Backstabx just won $15,000 and took first place at this year’s Crown Duel, Clash Royale’s biggest tournament of the year. But Rob Corddry probably still doesn’t remember his game, despite chatting with him several times throughout the two-hour event. The tournament was co-hosted by both Corddry and fellow former Daily Show correspondent, Al Madrigal, two…

Overwatch Doesn’t Like It When You Stack Mei’s Ice Walls

We all knew Mei’s ice walls could be deadly as hell, but what happens when multiple Meis start placing frozen barriers one on top of the other in rapid succession? A short video uploaded to Reddit by user Mitsiee explores the issue in the interest of science and furthering the understanding of human kind. You…

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Original The Legend of Zelda Map Gets Printed In 3D

The Legend of Zelda on NES had a sprawling world by the standards of 1980s console games. While decades ago people used to draw their own maps to try and keep track of where each dungeon and secret, alternative methods now exist. Like, for instance, 3D printing a replica of the game’s entire overworld. Willard…

The Weekend In Esports: Intel Extreme Masters, Smash Bros, And Rob Corddry

The last Intel Extreme Masters event of the year is taking place this weekend in Gyeonggi, Korea, featuring a host of tournaments ranging from StarCraft II to Overwatch. But there’s lots of action this weekend to be found in the ELEAGUE for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive as well as little mobile game called Clash Royale. You…

Our First Good Look At Dragon Quest XI

An opening cinematic for Dragon Quest XI as well as some gameplay were both shown off by Square Enix at this year’s Jump Festa. The company also confirmed that the game is scheduled to release in Japan sometime in 2017. The above trailer shows what the Dragon Quest XI world, called “Lotozetasia,” will look like…

The Week In Games: Get In The Car And Drive

The year is almost over, but there are still a few games left to come out, including the trippy, mind-bending racer Drive!Drive!Drive! The premise is that you drive along multiple tracks at once, learning to feel the road beneath you, where it exists, on multiple levels at once. The Pittsburgh synth duo Zombi created the music…

Speedrun’s Unique Idling Requirement Leads To Temporary Twitch Ban

The third day after embarking on a multi-week speedrun of Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean, a streamer who goes by the name Baffan woke up to continue streaming his attempt only to learn that Twitch had temporarily suspended his account for “non-gaming content.” That’s because he had left the game idling all…

Best Buy Employees Surprise Teen Who Visited Store Every Day To Play Smash Bros.

Some store associates at the Best Buy in Valley Stream, New York took it upon themselves to purchase a Wii U for one of their customers after seeing him come in on most days to play Smash Bros. on the display version of the console located in the store’s game section. The early Christmas present…

Kojima Calls Guerrilla’s Decima Engine A ‘Rocket’ That Can Take Death Stranding To Jupiter

Hideo Kojima likened the development of Death Stranding using Guerrilla’s Decima Engine to the Space Race during the Cold War in a series of recent tweets. The collaboration with the creators of Horizon Zero Dawn, in Kojima’s words, “enables us to go to the mars but even to the Jupiter.” Metaphorically speaking, at least. While…

Valve Reveals Sweeping New Patch 7.00 For Dota 2

Valve released notes on Dota 2‘s latest upcoming patch, 7.00, earlier today. The site originally crashed when the notes were first supposed to go live, but is now back up and running with full details on a list of extensive changes that will be coming to Valve’s free-to-play MOBA. Did I say extensive? I meant…

Valve’s Dota 2 Boston Major Ends Like The Battle Of Thermopylae

An epic game three between OG and Ad Finem in the Grand Finals of this weekend’s premier Dota 2 tournament showed both teams were going to leave everything they had on the stage that night. While the superior OG eventually took the series 3-1, winning $1,000,000, it wasn’t before their Greek opponents could etch their…

Sunday Comics: Get Back To The Mines

Welcome to Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira. Published December 9. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published December 5. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…

A Quick Look At Why Everyone Just Lost It At This Weekend’s Dota 2 Tournament 

A giant Dota 2 tournament wrapping up tonight in Boston just reached a dramatic peak after favorites OG fell to underdogs AD Finem in a stunning game three that went into the 80th minute. The match ended when one of AD Finem’s players managed to sneak into the enemy base undetected using an invisibility buff…

3D Printed Case Makes Your Smartphone More Like A Game Boy

Reddit user Gabbelago likes to play games on their smartphone, so they decided to 3D print a case for it that had buttons. The resulting prototype is both practical and elegant. Gabbelago documented the project, titled “EmuCase,” in a series of images uploaded to Imgur yesterday evening “As to if it was designed for Pokemon,…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Ellie And Garfunkel, Winners!

Holy Clickers, Batman! Everyone really went above and beyond this week. You took the a not-obviously exciting ‘Shop proposition and turned out some really rad mash-ups. And a million and one props to people like Orionsangel and others who shared their much better cutouts with the crew. Also, Orionsangel won. Sorry! It was just too…

New Update Makes It Even Easier To Play Mini Games Like Skee Ball Inside Halo 5

J. Dickinson Este invented the first Skee Ball machine in 1909, and just over a century later, the game has finally made its way into Halo 5 Reddit user AllAboutPenguins tried to recreate the classic arcade variation on bowling using Halo’s now robust level editing tools, and said “I started building a skeeball map before…

New Trailer Shows Skyblivion Fan Project Is Still Alive And Well

The folks over at TES Renewal Project released a new trailer yesterday updating fans on their progress with Skyblivion, a mod aimed at recreating all of Oblivion inside of Skyrim In a four minute video depicting a trip through Cyrodiil, the capital province of the Empire in Tamriel featured in Oblivion, we see everything from…

A new trailer shows both Kuma and Panda will be in Tekken 7. The two bears are mainstays of the fighting series and were revealed during this morning’s The King of Iron Fist Tournament 2016 Tekken tournament in Japan. Between Panda’s style and Kuma’s fish, the two look as ferocious as ever.