Ethan Gach

The Week In Games: Breath Of The Horizon

Who will wear the fighting lizard-like, arthropodic creatures better: Link or Aloy? It’s hard to remember what life was like back before we had big, beautiful fields in which to fight giant monsters and loot their corpses for crafting materials. There was a time when it was enough simply to move a few blocks into…

The Switch’s Neon Joy-Con Point Toward Nintendo’s Colorful Past

With just under a week left until the release of the Nintendo Switch, it’s time to talk about the system’s beautiful, neon-colored Joy-Con. The name might be silly and the way they have a knack for losing sync with the system is no small thing, but the mini-controllers mounted to the side of the Switch…

PlayStation VR Is Doing Better Than Expected, Sony Says

PlayStation chief Andrew House told The New York Times late last week that PlayStation VR has sold 915,000 units as of February 19. That puts the device on a path to exceed the company’s goal of one million sold in the first six months. It’s not difficult to meet expectations when they’re set low, and…

After Three Years Speedrunner Finally Beats All 714 NES Games

Piotr Delgado “The Mexican Runner” Kusielczuk has been trying to beat every NES game ever since 2014, and earlier today he finally succeeded His journey ended after completing the final world of Super Mario Bros. 3, three years since he originally took up the challenge after a friend jokingly suggested he try it. To celebrate…

A King’s Tale: Final Fantasy XV will be free to download on PS4 and Xbox One March 1 according to a report by DualShockers. The side-scrolling beat-em-up was originally a pre-order bonus for buying Final Fantasy XV from Gamestop. The art looks better than the gameplay, but at least it’ll be available to everyone now.

Sunday Comics: A Wild Yungoos Appeared!

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 February 22. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published February 20. Read more…

This is what it looks like when the Ghost Recon Wildlands open beta launches you across a ravine into a pond. It sounds like the game still has some kinks to work out, but ridiculous rag doll physics are half the fun of any open world game. The beta is available for the rest of…

Dota 2 Pro’s Best Just Isn’t Good Enough

Team Secret’s Clement “Puppey” Ivanov made a great play call only to have the enemy team do him one better. Sometimes, despite a team’s best efforts to win, the esports gods have other ideas. It was that kind of day for Team Secret during the StarLadder Season 3 group stage when, even after outplaying opponents…

Talking To The Composer Behind Night In The Woods

In development for over three and a half years, Night in the Woods came out last week and has been making waves with its unique art style and intimate take on daily life in a small, stagnant town. The game’s soundtrack, which Riley MacLeod called “intensely beautiful” in Kotaku’s review, is a big part of…

The Newly Discovered TRAPPIST-1 Star System Was Hiding In Elite: Dangerous All Along

NASA had some big news this past week. No, it wasn’t aliens. It was the next best thing: the discovery of seven new “Earth-sized exoplanets,” a few of which could be hospitable to life. Now, it turns out that Elite: Dangerous actually predicted the existence of the TRAPPIST-1 star system where they’re located. Elite: Dangerous,…

Odd Tales’ The Last Night gets a new teaser trailer and Raw Fury has signed on to publish it. The work of Tim and Adrien Soret, which originally grew out of the 2014 Cyberpunk Jam, The Last Night is inspired by the brooding sci-fi aesthetics of games like Another World and Oddworld and the pixel…

The Weekend In Esports: Upsets Rock StarLadder While Mexico Hosts Halo 5 Qualifiers

With DreamHack Las Vegas and the Dota 2 Asia Championship qualifiers behind us, all eyes are on the start of 2017’s Intel Extreme Masters in Katowice, Poland and the conclusion of Dota 2‘s StarLadder Season 3. Below you’ll find where and when you can catch all the weekend’s biggest events in competitive gaming. Let us…

Overwatch Mom Is Really Stoked For Her Son’s Team

It’s not easy being a competitive gamer or a college student at an elite university, and especially not both. Fortunately, Overwatch player SlurpeeThief has the support of both his teammates and an extremely enthusiastic mom to pull from. At the Tespa Collegiate Series finals for Overwatch last night in California, Berkeley put the kibosh on…

Oikospiel Is A Surreal Game About Work And Play From The Composer Of Proteus

If you’ve ever played Dyad, Proteus, or Panoramical, you’ve heard David Kanaga’s work before. He’s one of the smartest people in game design and his latest work, Oikospiel, is his most mind-scrambling creation yet. Book I of the game was released late last week alongside a trailer that left me as intrigued as I was bewildered.…

The Week In Games: Into The Night

The Nintendo Switch is less than two weeks away, but meanwhile here’s a bunch of games that aren’t Breath of the Wild Enjoy the reprieve while you can, and be sure to check out some of the lovelier treasures nestled in the list below before the onslaught of March begins next week. Tuesday, February 21…

In Guilty Gear It’s Never Over Until The Vampire Sings [Update]

Guilty Gear Xrd – Revelator – is just one of the many fighting games being showcased at this weekend’s Anime Ascension 2017, but damn it’s one of the most intense. We’ve all been there. You’re completely controlling a match, out maneuvering your opponent and constantly one-step ahead. Until you’re not. And then, somehow, in the…

Track: Jaded | Album: Reality Testing | Artist: Lone Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

Just Dance‘s Best Player Is A 16-Year-Old Kid From Turkey

Just Dance has a new World Cup champion, and it’s not who anyone thought it would be. Somehow breezing past stiff competition from around the globe, high school-aged Umutcan managed the biggest upset in the game’s short competitive history. I know what you’re thinking: there’s a World Cup for Just Dance? Yes, there is. That…

Sunday Comics: Just A Dog

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 February 17. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published February 13. Read more…

Quote Is An Action RPG That Takes Aim At Books

Quote is a game about eradicating knowledge. Specifically the knowledge locked away inside books. Why bother re-writing history when you can just destroy it instead? In Quote you play as a young girl named Novella. She’s the priestess for Bliss, the god of ignorance. In practice, this means exploring different towns and dungeons in search…