Overwatch League’s Eqo Faces Punishment After Making Slant-Eye Gesture On Stream

Josh “Eqo” Corona of the Philadelphia Fusion is in hot water with his team and maybe the Overwatch League after making a slant-eye gesture about Korean players during an Overwatch stream last weekend. After someone compared his skill to a Korean player’s, Corona (who was born in Colombia and raised in Israel) said “I am…

League Of Legends Star’s Brother Charged With Stabbing Their Parents, Murdering Their Mother [UPDATE]

Yihong Peng, older brother of League of Legends superstar Yiliang “Doublelift” Peng, was arrested and charged with the murder of his mother and assault of his father on Saturday in San Juan Capistrano, California. According to a statement by the Orange County Sheriff’s Department, Peng’s 59-year-old mother Wei Ping Shen was stabbed to death. His…

I Try To Play Super Mario Bros. 2 Once A Year

I try to play Super Mario Bros. 2 every spring. The game’s bright colors, whimsical level design, and obsession with weeding make it feel right at home around the time of the the vernal equinox, and it’s also one of the easiest to pick up and play. It’s not as challenging as the original Super…

After Ten Years, SpyParty Will Finally Be On Steam Next Week

It’s been nearly a decade since designer Chris Hecker announced the subterfuge multiplayer game SpyParty, and it’s been even longer since he first started working on it. In just a week, short of a meteor strike or other cataclysm, SpyParty will finally hit Steam. Well, technically the April 12 Steam release of SpyParty will be…

The Week In Games: Wait A Minit

After a week of cult fighting, we’ve got a slower, more contemplative week of new games coming down the pipe. Minit, a game where you’ve only got a minute to live, is arriving on a plenitude of platforms this week. The MMORPG TERA is coming to consoles, and King of Fighters ‘97 Global Match is…

StarCraft As We Know It Exists Because Of A Terrible Game’s Demo

StarCraft’s visual style was once very different, and if not for a spectacular demo for a horrible game called Dominion: Storm Over Gift 3, we might still remember it as purple Warcraft In a great piece over at The Ringer, journalist Ben Lindbergh details the making of StarCraft, which came out 20 years ago. The…

Here Are The Biggest Selling Games In Japan In 2017

A few years back, traditional games and game hardware were not doing so hot in Japan. That has started to change. As Kotaku reported earlier this year, the Japanese console game market grew for the first time in 11 years. This came after the Nintendo Switch had an incredible 2017 in Japan. According to Famitsu,…

Politicians Should Always Cosplay As Dragon Ball Characters 

This is Shigeru Ishiba. He was previously Japan’s Minister of Defense. But here he is dressed as Majin Buu from Dragon Ball Ishiba recently appeared at the opening ceremony for the Enkei Gekijou Kurayoshi Figure Museum in Kurayoshi City, Tottori Prefecture. The city’s mayor also dressed up. Politicians should always cosplay as anime characters. If…

Japan’s Best April Fool’s Day Jokes

Today is April 2. But let’s look back to yesterday and round up the best April Fool’s Days gags Japan had to offer. Such as… The Dragon Ball Super vs. Pretty Cure Super Stars mash-up we’ve all been waiting for. Kagawa Prefecture, aka “Udon Prefecture,” is changing its name to Yadon (Slowpoke) Prefecture. Vegetable flavored…

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Rocket League Match Ends In Game Of Keepie Uppie

Cloud9 has secured a neat 3-0 at the end of its match yesterday against Out of Style in the Rocket League championship series. Mariano “Squishy” Arruda was not content to let the game end at the zero, however, and caught the ball at just the last second for a game of keepie uppie A game…

Breaking Mario Party 8 Reveals The Importance Of Camera Positioning

The art of game creation is always interesting, but looking behind the curtain of Mario Party 8 is a particularly wonderful experience that shows the power of a highly controlled camera. In the newest episode of Boundary Break, a show dedicated to moving cameras around to find the hidden things in games, we get to…

A Japanese Virtua Fighter Tournament Returned From Hiatus, And It Was Rad

Amid all the pro circuits and premiers for games like Street Fighter and Tekken, you might have forgotten about another classic: Virtua Fighter. Last night in Japan, 510 entrants gathered in Tokyo to play some Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown and y’all, it was pretty rad. To boil it down, Virtua Fighter is a very…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Give Me All The Dogs

We’ve talked a lot about dogs a lot this week. We appreciated them in Divinity: Original Sin 2, praised them in Far Cry 5, and got sad when they were hurt. This week, I want you to put dogs in every game. There are plenty of dogs in video games. The problem is that they…

What If A Video Game Knew People Were Streaming It?

Would you play a video game that reacted to being streamed? One that could be influenced by audience reactions? On Kotaku Splitscreen, we explore the possibility. Last week in San Francisco, we spoke to SOS designer Ian Milham about what it’s like to develop a game that’s heavily integrated with Twitch, and what he wants…