Hammond Debuts In Overwatch Pro Scene, With Mixed Results

Despite his penchant for crashing into the thick of things and leaving craters in his wake, Wrecking Ball has yet to make a huge impact on Overwatch’s meta. Then again, he only just got added to the game. Last night, though, the hamster hero showed squeaky inklings of his potential in two Overwatch Contenders playoff…

GTA Player Is Basically Baby Driver

Today on Highlight Reel we have Ansel Elgort GTA moves, orbital skydives, basketball defenses, and much more! Watch the video then talk about your favorite highlight in the comments below. Be sure to check out, like, and share the original videos via the links below. Subscribe to Kotaku on YouTube for more! Catch up on…

Madden NFL 19‘s Story Mode Sequel Lacks The Spark Of The Original

Last year, Madden NFL 18 featured the series’ first-ever story mode, “Longshot.” It took four years to make, featured the acting talents of Moonlight’s Mahershala Ali and Friday Night Lights’ Scott Porter, and broke up its poignant cutscenes with interactive dialogue trees, practice challenges, and football games. One year later, Madden 19 has a sequel…

Tips For Playing Monster Hunter: World [Updated]

Welcome, new hunters. Let me guide you through your first few hours with Monster Hunter: World. Whether you’re a veteran wanting to know what’s changed or entirely new to the series, you’ll find these tips useful. This post originally appeared on 1/26/2018. We updated it in February with some new and advanced tips, and are bumping…

Overwatch Heroes Are Looking Sporty For Summer

The Overwatch Summer Games event is now live, and as we’ve come to expect, it’s accompanied by a bunch of new skins. This time, all your favorite characters are playing sports ⚾️. The internet already went wild for the latest D.va skin, but the new skins for Roadhog, Reinhardt, Winston, Ana, Moira, Brigitte, Sombra and…

Quiz: Which Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Character Are You?

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate has a whopping 73 characters. From standard picks like Luigi or Ness to newcomers like Castlevania’s Simon or Metroid’s Ridley, players will have a bounty of characters to try and best their friends with. Which one are you?

Fortnite Comes To Android Today, But There Are Catches

The last major gaming platform without Fortnite: Battle Royale will get an invite-only beta version of the ultra-popular multiplayer shooter starting today. It’s just not coming to every Android user yet. First catch: At first, beta invites are only going out to people who own Samsung Galaxy phones, surely the sign of an exclusivity deal…

I’ve Picked My Side For World Of Warcraft‘s Battle For Azeroth

It’s been years since I gave a damn which World of Warcraft faction I was playing. Horde? Alliance? Whichever. But now, as the Battle for Azeroth expansion rapidly approaches and substantial chunks of the world are getting set on fire and plagued beyond habitation, it’s time I took a stand. Now that we’ve gotten over…

Our First Look At Red Dead Redemption 2 Gameplay

Rockstar today showed off a first look at the western Red Dead Redemption II, which comes out October 26 for PS4 and Xbox One, and it looks like a fascinating evolution of the first one. Most importantly, this time you can brush your horse. Here’s the video: It’s all very pretty, and seems to include…

Minit is out on Nintendo Switch today. Check out our impressions from the PC launch back in March in the video above.

Discord Is Launching Its Own Curated Game Store

Back in June, ubiquitous chat company Discord launched a games tab that bore a slight resemblance to Steam’s front page. Now it’s launching its own store that resolutely refutes Steam’s anything-goes approach. Valve recently said that it’s opening Steam’s floodgates wider than ever before. Discord, on the other hand, says it is hoping its store…

Sony Is Releasing A Gorgeous Translucent PS4 Console

To commemorate 500 million PlayStation consoles sold over the last couple of decades, Sony will be bringing back that 90s styling and releasing this blue, transluscent PS4 Pro. Both the console and controller are see-through, letting you peek through the casing to see the guts inside, while the surrounding plastic is a very fetching shade…

This Cat Does An Excellent Cosplay Of Beerus From Dragon Ball 

There is no need for anyone anywhere to ever do a Beerus cosplay again. Twitter user Sun_ikuto posted this photo of his friend’s cat cosplaying as Beerus It’s no accident that this feline friend is such a good Beerus. Akira Toriyama partly based the character’s design on the Cornish Rex cat he had at the…

For an Anime Studio, This Looks Nice 

Many anime studios tend to look like regular, bland offices. They’re functional, which is fine, but lack personality and style. The headquarters for anime studio P.A. Works is functional, too, but it also looks quite nice. P.A. Works is known for anime like Shirobako, Haruchika, and Kuromukuro. Boat aside, the anime studio portrayed in Shirobako…