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Father Asks Final Fantasy XV‘s Prompto To Give Daughter A Special Holiday Message

Robbie Daymond, the voice behind Prompto from Final Fantasy XV, helped make one little girl’s Christmas extra special by recording a personalized greeting for her as one of her favorite characters. Euphrates’ father had originally asked the voice actor what his rate would be to record the message, but rather than quote him, Daymond simply…

Sunday Comics: Hey Big Boo!

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 December 22. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published December 24. Read more…

The Week In Games: We Dream Of Half-Genie

The end of 2016 is nearly upon us, which means there are hardly any games left to come out. A few still remain, however. We searched long and hard, and managed to scrape together something resembling a list of games coming out this week. Fortunately, the rest of the year was filled with so many…

Nappa’s Beard Totally Does Grow When He Goes Super Saiyan

Almost a decade since Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3 was released, we now know the answer to an age old question, originally poised by Nappa, of whether the big, burly, bald fighter’s goatee would grow if he went Super Saiyan. The answer, of course, is yes. The revelation comes by way of Twitter user MrTrikey…

Watch The MLG Overwatch Invitational Going On Right Now

The Major League Gaming Las Vegas Invitational for Overwatch is about to resume with the semifinals of the winners bracket. Powerhouse Team EnVyUs is facing Cloud9, followed by FaZe Clan vs. Fnatic. The winners of those games will than face each other later today in the grand finals with a $100,000 prize pool at stake.…

Redditor Signs Up For Secret Santa, Gets Bill Gates

A few days ago, user Aerrix posted on Reddit that she had won Secret Santa. That’s because she had taken part in Reddit’s annual gift exchange, and instead of receiving a nice holiday gift from just any old stranger on the Internet, she got a package in the mail from the richest person in the…

Samsung Galaxy beat Kongdoo Monster 3-1 in the League of Legends finals at IEM Gyeonggi. They managed to meet expectations coming off of a solid performance at Worlds 2016, with Lee “Crown” Min-ho showing he continues to be one of the best mid-laners in the world, going on to win MVP of the tournament

We Almost Got A Watchmen Game From The Designers Of The Mark Of Kri

You might remember that the Watchmen movie was accompanied by a video game tie-in. It was called Watchmen: The End Is Nigh, and it was terrible. But Warner Bros. Interactive was apparently also pitched on a number of other possibilities, including one from the developers who worked on 2002’s The Mark of Kri The latest…

Night In The Woods has a new trailer ahead of its January 10, 2017 release. Maybe you already saw it. Maybe you didn’t. Either way, you should watch it, again, or for a third time, or however many times it takes to soak up all of its precious little details

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…