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Remilia, The First Woman To Compete In The League Of Legends Championship Series, Dies At 24

Twitch Streamer and former professional League Of Legends player Maria “Remilia” Creveling died on Friday at the age of 24, according to a tweet from her close friend and esports journalist Richard Lewis. “It is with great sadness that I inform you that my best friend Maria Creveling passed away peacefully in her sleep yesterday,”…

Sunday Comics: A Single Raw Egg?

Hello! It’s time for Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Corpse Run by Alex Di Stasi. Published Dec. 23. Read more of Corpse Run Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published Dec. 23. Read more of Awkward Zombie Clueless Hero by…

‘Shop Contest: Christmas 2019, Winners!

The holidays are over, the year is coming to a close, but like Christmas decorations on December 28, the holidays aren’t quite over yet. So let’s get a little festive one last time before we end the year and the decade. Our winning image this week comes from SuperSonicBryan, who creates a nice collage of…

What Did You Get For Christmas?

Christmas is over and a few days have passed since then. So most folks have, by now, finished all the other Christmas days that happen during this season. You know, stuff like going to multiple families homes across the week or visiting divorced parents separately. So, what did you all get? I don’t want a…

Girafarig Has A Second Head That Never Sleeps

Every Pokemon is interesting and worth talking about. I don’t play a ton of Pokemon, but I do enjoy the universe and I love learning more about the creatures in it. So, Here’s Another Pokemon! It’s Girafarig! Girafarig Details Type: Normal/Psychic Average Height: 4′ 11″ Average Weight: 91.5 lbs. First Added In Generation II Did…

What A Sad Way To Die

Hello! This week we say goodbye to 2019, figure out what the difference is between Outer Worlds and Outer Wilds, guess the wrong Pokemon, figure out what video game characters had the worse fashion crimes of the last decade and discover a PS3 sitting in the rain. Great Kotaku Content From The Past Week Video…

A Programmer Lost A Game He Made As A Kid, Until Someone Streamed It On Twitch

If you’re interested in game design, you’ve probably made a few side projects or prototypes. If you were lucky, you might have had the means to start early in life and made a few games as a kid. These usually end up deleted or lost on rotting hard drives. You definitely don’t expect them to…

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

The weekend is for needing to go to my pharmacy in a different borough, but also needing to go on a long run, so…running to the pharmacy? The fun never stops, kids. The weekend is also for playing video games. A friend of mine has just gotten into Red Dead Online, so I’d like to…

Bethesda Patches Fallout 76 Cheat After Hacker Uses It To Steal Players’ Items

Last weekend, someone managed to steal items from hundreds of players in Fallout 76 using a new hack. While Bethesda patched the worst parts of the exploit, some of the affected players are still waiting to hear if the company will be able to restore their lost loot. A video posted Sunday on YouTube showed…

My Favorite Casual Game Became My Hardcore Obsession

We all have games that we play to relax. They’re waiting for us when we get home, with low stakes and a casual atmosphere that invites us to unwind and forget our worries. For my mom, that’s Solitaire. For me, it’s Hearthstone. But its latest expansion has changed how I approach my long-time relaxation game.…

The 20 JRPGs You Must Play

There comes a time when every person must sit back, think about their life’s accomplishments, and wonder, “What JRPGs should I play?” Worry not. I’m here to help. This is a list of Japanese role-playing games that deserve your time. Some are new; some are old; all are excellent. Each of these is worth playing…

What’s The Worst Gaming Present You’ve Ever Gotten?

Did Santa leave a shiny new Ouya under your tree this morning? Or maybe aNanica Smitch? Inspiring! Tell us—if you can manage to somehow navigate the ads and actually get our comments to load—what’s the worst gaming present you’ve ever gotten?

Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker Is A Lot Like A Video Game

The new Star Wars movie is full of fetch quests and clearly went through some sort of development hell. Sounds a lot like a video game! On this SPOILER-FILLED bonus episode of Kotaku Splitscreen, we discuss. Seriously, don’t listen or read any further until you’ve seen Rise of Skywalker! In this two-hour bonus episode, we…

Outer Worlds Vs. Outer Wilds: The Comparison We Had To Make

2019 was a truly bountiful year for video games. We received countless games of peerless quality, some not falling far from the hoary old tree of Genre, with others inventing new genres all by themselves. It is not difficult to draw lines between some of these standouts: Dota Underlords and Teamfight Tactics, Sekiro and Jedi:…

Kotaku’s Witcher Nerds Talk About The Netflix Series

Monsters, sorceresses, ballads, and swords. Netflix’s The Witcher is fun high fantasy pulp, particularly if you’re already a fan. We sit down to talk about what we did and did not like in this latest adaptation of the classic book series. The Witcher is rough around the edges but it has a lot of heart.…

Call Of Duty Players Are Getting Quick Nukes Thanks To Spawn Camping On New Map

Tactical nuke kill streaks are supposed to be hard to get in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, but some players have been getting them incredibly fast thanks to bad spawn points on the game’s Shipment map. Over the weekend the TapXNation YouTube channel put up a video showing a player by the name of Streaking…

The Week In Games: One More Wii U Game…

It is nearly 2020 and yet, on this list of games releasing this week, you will find a Wii U game. It’s a Christmas miracle. Digging around for information about this Wii U game, it was released on the Wii U in Europe back in 2017. And for some reason, in 2019, it is finally…

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‘Shop Contest: Christmas 2019

Happy holidays! We have almost made it through 2019. What a year. A bad year, for most folks around the world. But we did it. Congrats. Christmas is almost here so let’s have some fun. Your challenge this week: Celebrate the holidays with video game characters. No other rules or requirements. A simple and open…

Cats Is Getting Patched Like A Video Game

Something very weird is happening. The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that the recently released Cats film is being updated, only a few days after it hit theaters. This new version of the film will fix CGI issues. According to THR, this is the first time a movie has been updated while still in theaters after…