Sunday Comics: Competitive Classics

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. Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published September 24. Read more of Awkward Zombie Corpse Run by Alex Di Stasi. Published September 27. Read more of Corpse Run Double XP by…

Dark Souls 3‘s Cut Environment Effects Look Amazing

Data digger Lance McDonald has worked through the game files in the original alpha for Dark Souls III and has discovered some radical environmental changes that were implemented then cut from the game. The key to changing environment effects in the game has to do with what is labeled in the game files as “ceremonies.”…

The Perfect Beer Pairings For Magic Cards

An Instagram account called “jokulhops” is pairing specific Magic cards with beers that seem to go with them. This is the kind of Magic content that I enjoy. As you can see in the header, the delicious peach fruit that the Spike Feeder is, well, feeding on looks juicy and amazing. What better way to…

Grand Theft Auto V Mod Lets You Become The Predator

The Predator has fascinated us since its film debut all the way back in 1987, and now, through the power of modding, you can play as this intergalactic hunter in Grand Theft Auto V The Predator mod is developed by JulioNIB, who created the amazing Magneto mod that we featured a few weeks ago. While…

Pandas are coming to Minecraft. Pandas are coming to Minecraft! Pandas! Are! Coming! To! Minecraft! They were revealed in a Minecon World stream today, and they are “lazy and playful.” They will appear in the holiday update coming to Minecraft later this year.

Minecraft: Dungeons Is The New Game Set In The Minecraft Universe

Minecraft: Dungeons, a new game set in the Minecraft universe, was announced during the Minecon Earth livestream this afternoon. While details on the game are slim, the developer interviews in a short video that played before the official trailer claimed that Minecraft: Dungeons is an adventure game where up to four players can team up…

‘Shop Contest: Make Sense Of Death Stranding, Winners!

Last week we got to see some new stuff from the upcoming Death Stranding, but it was confusing. So I asked you to ‘shop up some explanations for me, and you did a great job. Hideo Kojima, one of the key talents behind Death Stranding, has always leaned pretty hard on questions of “who the…

This Week In The Business: The Walking Dead

QUOTE | “We’re currently still working to find a way to hand off production of episodes 3 and 4 so that the season can be completed.” – Telltale Games reassures fans that it is still trying to finish the final season of The Walking Dead QUOTE | “By keeping the Company open in some capacity,…

Professor Layton On Mobile Could Really Use A Stylus (Or An iPad)

The first game in the Professor Layton series, 2007’s Curious Village, is now out in a beautiful HD version for smart devices. It’s a nice way to revisit this excellent puzzle game, but trying to play something designed to use with the Nintendo DS precision stylus on a phone with a finger can be annoying.…

Video Game Wikis Abandon Their Platform After Year Of Problems

After a year of issues, the Runescape wiki is leaving the Fandom platform, and more may follow suit. If you need to look up a video game factoid, you’re probably going to end up on a site owned by Fandom, which provides a free-to-use online encyclopedia framework called Wikia. Starting last year, these video game…

For Some Reason, Soulcalibur VI‘s Tira Is In The Beta, But Still Sold Separately As DLC

Last month, Soulcalibur fans were disappointed to learn that longtime series regular Tira was not on the main roster for Soulcalibur VI, instead relegated to day one paid downloadable content. She did, however, make it onto the roster for this weekend’s free network test. Great. It’s understandable that fans of the series would be upset…

Valve Renames Artifact Card To Make It Not Sound Racist

Valve’s card game Artifact is coming out in November. Recently, the Artifact Twitter account has been tweeting out designs for some of the cards alongside explanations of how they work. On September 26, that included a card called “Crack The Whip,” the text of which begins “Modify a black hero…” Today the name of the…

PlayStation Experience Is Skipping 2018, Sony Says

For a while now PlayStation fans have been wondering what’s up with 2018’s PlayStation Experience, PlayStation’s annual fan event, since Sony still hadn’t announced dates for it. Today, Shawn Layden, the head of Sony Interactive Entertainment Worldwide Studios, explained that it’s not happening this year. “For 2018, I know this is going to be a…

CBS Shuts Down Ambitious Fan Effort To Make A Virtual Starship Enterprise

Before there was Star Trek: Bridge Crew, Ubisoft’s game about piloting the original Enterprise, there was Star Trek Stage-9, a fan project recreating the Enterprise-D from The Next Generation in Unreal Engine. This week the project is no more, following a cease and desist demand by CBS. One of the leads on the project, who…

Sims 4 Staffer Urges Fans To Stop ‘Attacking/Insulting Our Dev Team’

Once again, Sims fans have brought up old grievances to the game’s developers, leading one to take repeated Twitter breaks and a community manager to issue a plea for decency and patience on the part of the fans. The Sims 4 got off to a rocky start, and its reputation among fans has not quite…