Ethan Gach

The Week In Games: Lend Us Your Energy 

In this week of being thankful, let me just say what I am thankful for: 30 years of Dragon Ball video game adaptations. Some of them have been great, most have not. But just like no amount of being pummeled could ever truly finish Goku off, no amount of duds or weak annualizations could ever…

Unicorns Of Love Show Why Competitive Gaming Needs Mascots 

Unicorns of Love are a European League of Legends team. They also just defeated North American’s Team Solo Mid in the semifinals at the Intel Extreme Masters XI season tournament going on right now in Oakland, California. As a result, the team known for its quirks and unpredictability will go on to the finals to…

The Latest Chapter In Jimmy Fallon’s Ongoing Love Affair With Mario Kart

This weekend, the Tonight Show posted a video on YouTube in which host Jimmy Fallon challenged some of NASCAR’s best drivers to a game of Mario Kart. Ahead of today’s final Sprint Cup race of the season, Jimmie Johnson, Carl Edwards, Kyle Busch and Joey Logano went head-to-head to see who would face the Fallon…

University Rivalry Grows Beyond Football To League Of Legends 

Last night, Stanford came out on top in its “Big Game” against California rivals Berkeley. They finished two touchdowns ahead of the Golden Bears at 45-31. But that wasn’t the only game Berkeley lost to Stanford last night. Before kick-off at Memorial Stadium, the two schools’ collegiate League of Legends teams met in Oakland at…

Video game composer Saki Kaskas passed away earlier this week at the age of 44. Kaskas’ work appeared in games including the Need for Speed series, Sim City 4, and Mass Effect 2. The news was made public by friend and collaborator, Rom Di Prisco in a Facebook post. “His guitar work, synth work, audio…

One-Man Wrecking Crew Wins Titanfall 2 Match Without Help From Team

We’ve all been there: you’re sitting there with your friends in an online match against some random person getting completely demolished no matter what you do. It’s painful. Every fiber of your being is raging. You’re not just losing. You’re not just getting humiliated. You’re getting completely shutdown no matter what you do or how…

Nintendo registered a trademark for “Wave Race” in Europe on November 17. That’s according to a document filed with the European Union Intellectual Property Office. The request is class 9, meaning it’s related to computer software. The series has been dormant since Wave Race: Blue Storm was released in 2001.

Sunday Comics: Just Crouch Down

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 November 16. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published November 14. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…

Kotaku Shop Contest: Mask-uerading, Winners! 

Week two after the Photoshop contest was resurrected from an Internet black hole, everyone has contributed some of their best (and worst) ideas in an effort to rediscover the contest’s former glory. I asked for you to share some alternate masks for Corvo and Emily on their campaign for blood thirsty revenge. We got some…

Modder Destroys Zombies With Water Gun In The Last Of Us

Most people have fond memories of the water gun fight from The Last of Us: Left Behind. A nice break from the grim, apocalyptic weight of the rest of the game, that section of the DLC lets Ellie and her newfound friend, Riley, get to pretend for a just a few moments that they’re just…

Pro Counter-Strike Bobbleheads Look As Creepy As You’d Imagine

Bobblehead figurines have been a staple of professional sports ever since they were first introduced in to the world of baseball fandom in the early 1960s. So naturally, esports are attempting to emulate big brother once again by borrowing the idea for this weekend’s Intel Extreme Masters Counter-Strike: Global Offensive tournament in Oakland, California. The…

Find Adam Jensen In This Where’s Waldo Of Sci-Fi Characters

A number of different artists showed off their work at the Hero Complex Galaxy gallery in Los Angeles last night for its Sci-Scapes event. Among them were Laurie Greasley and Josan Gonzalez, whose collaboration featured below drew inspiration from almost every corner of sci-fi pop culture you could imagine. The piece, a combination of several…

Dishonored 2 Master Makes Chaos Run Worth The High Body Count

You might remember StealthGamerBR from his murderous tributes to the first Dishonored. The Brazilian YouTuber is well known for videos showing off his ability to manipulate time and space to delivery maximum carnage throughout the streets of Dunwall. Now he’s returned with his first video of Dishonored 2. Rather tha rampaging through the sun bathed…

The Last Guardian gets a new cinematic trailer and creative director Fumito Ueda shares some final thoughts on the game before its release next month. He considers Virtua Fighter a big influence on The Last Guardian, and says his hope is that the player “feels the existence of Trico,” by the end of the game.

The Weekend In Esports: Lights, Camera, Counter-Strike

After a slight lull last weekend, almost every big game you can imagine is back today with tournaments and matches playing in cities near and far. While the Counter-Strike and League of Legends headline the action with Intel Extreme Masters tournaments, Smash Bros., Dota 2, and few others return as well. Details on when and…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Mask-uerading

What can I say? Dishonored 2 has me at a bit of a loss honestly. Watching Corvo don the mask again simply didn’t have the same effect on me as it did in the first game. In fact, it felt kind of…ridiculous? I mean, after murdering that many people and more or less completely changing…

The Week In Games: Who Watches The Watch Dogs?

Only in the glorious and all-too-bizarre world of video games could something be named Watch Dogs, and then eventually get a sequel called Watch Dogs 2 I guess it’s not altogether different from calling your movie Must Love Dogs, a phrase which, out of context, makes no sense and left me feeling more than a…

The NES Classic Carries Over Classic Glitches

If you were one of the few people lucky enough to get your hands on the recently released NES Classic, than you’ve probably already been relishing its retro aesthetic and extensive library, even as you curse its short controller cords But what you might have forgotten is that, because the NES Classic simply acts as…

League Of Legends Teams Call For Changes In New Letter To Riot

A rift between the developers at Riot Games and the competitive scene around their game, League of Legends, has been growing for some time. A new letter addressed to the company and signed by 18 different professional League teams shows it’s only getting worse. According to the letter, obtained yesterday by Slingshot, several team owners…

Dark Rose Valkyrie, Hakuoki: Kyoto Winds, and Mary Skelter: Nightmares are all coming West in 2017 according to an announcement earlier this week by developer and publisher Idea Factory International. Word came alongside some nifty new trailers for each game