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Chinese Esports Team Has An Amazing Training Facility
China’s OMG (Oh My God) dominates not only dominates League of Legends and PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, but also esports compounds. Check out its training facility. The digs were designed to look like a spaceship (success!) and were completed last year. Recently images have been circulating on websites like Sohu.com, HK01 and Dexerto Here are more photos…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 30, 2018 - Esports
Street Fighter Pros Appear On Prime Time Japanese TV
Yesterday, popular Japanese sports talk show Junk Sports featured Street Fighter pros Momochi and Chocoblanka. Professionally gaming still doesn’t quite get the respect it deserves in Japan, so for fighting game fans, simply seeing these two on mainstream Japanese TV was a big deal. Junk Sports features a handful of guests, and this episode featured…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 30, 2018 - Uncategorized
Unlike in Pokémon, Digimon Humans Keep Aging
In the Pokémon anime, Ash is ten years old. Eternally. But in the Digimon anime, the human characters are getting older. The upcoming Digimon movie, which marks the franchise’s 20th anniversary, stars a 22-year-old Taichi (“Tai”) and Yamato (“Matt”) When the anime started, both characters were boys and now, years later, they’re adults The fact…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 30, 2018 -
CultureCosplayGallerySome Of The Best Cosplay From The 2018 San Diego Comic-Con
Comic-Con, the biggest nerd show on Earth, wrapped up earlier this month, and aside from over-priced toys and exhausting panel talks there was also a ton of cosplay present. Mineralbluwas there braving the crowds for us to bring you this showcase of some of the best of it, featuring everything from very good cosplay dogs…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 29, 2018 - Culture
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Grafit Studio is an outsourcing and production company based in Russia, who have worked on games like Gwent and The Elder Scrolls: Legends. You can see more of Grafit’s work at their company site and ArtStation page Fine Art is a celebration of the work of video game artists, showcasing the best of both their…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 29, 2018 - Uncategorized
Adidas’ First Two Dragon Ball Sneakers Are Goku & Frieza
OK, we’re pretty much done with leaks: these are some of the first official shots of Adidas’ anticipated upcoming collaboration with Dragon Ball Z, and they show the first two pairs are running with a Goku vs. Frieza theme. As Sneaker News reports, the Goku shoe is a modified ZX500 RM, which is not just…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 29, 2018 -
UncategorizedCivilization IV’s Theme Was On America’s Got Talent, And It Was Excellent
Last week, the procession of pop songs on TV show America’s Got Talent was interrupted by a massive group performance of Baba Yetu, the Grammy-award winning Civilization IV theme Sung by the Angel City Chorale, it’s one hell of a performance of Christopher Tin’s work, which despite its surprise contemporary prominence (it won its Grammy…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 29, 2018 -
UncategorizedRemembering Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 4‘s Most Bogus Mission
Before the twitch-restarting of Super Meat Boy or weird hacks of Super Mario Bros. built for maximum frustration there was the San Francisco level of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 4. It was here that this manual-gap-manual combo reduced me to a broken teen. I’ve recently set up a “game room” in part of my office…
By Cameron Kunzelman Published July 29, 2018 - Uncategorized
Stained Glass Inspired By Magic: The Gathering Is Extremely Good
I like Magic: The Gathering, and I have extreme respect for stained glass as an art form, so this stained glass rendition of the elder dragon Nicol Bolas is something I am way into. In a Reddit thread about the piece, poster Alexm920 explains that the piece is made with their significant other who “got…
By Cameron Kunzelman Published July 29, 2018 - Uncategorized
Fan Recreates The Most Emotional Moment In Cinema History In Fortnite Tribute
Reddit user WintrrShadow has memorialized the the recent map and gear changes in Fortnite by editing a video to the style and tone of the final scene of Furious 7 The ending of Furious 7 is, as far as I am concerned, the most emotional moment in cinema history. Actor Paul Walker tragically died while…
By Cameron Kunzelman Published July 29, 2018 - CultureShop Contest
‘Shop Contest: It’s Their Sky Now
No Man’s Sky’s NEXT update dropped this week, and people are owning the sky. They’re commanding freighters and scooting ships around the galaxy. But deeper evils exist, and this week’s ‘Shop Contest is about finding them. I want you to ‘shop me up some cosmic terror. The core of movies like Alien is that the…
By Cameron Kunzelman Published July 29, 2018 - CultureSplitscreen
What Makes A Game ‘Perfect For Switch’?
Everyone wants pretty much every game to come to Switch, but what are the criteria for the Perfect Switch Game? On this week’s Kotaku Splitscreen, let’s discuss. Journalist and producer Alanah Pearce joins the show this week to talk about the big new No Man’s Sky update, the director of Guardians of the Galaxy losing…
By Jason Schreier Published July 29, 2018 - Culture
Sunday Comics: Cute Tent Upgrade
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 July 23. Read more of Awkward Zombie Corpse Run by Alex Di Stasi. Published July 26. Read more of Corpse Run Double XP by…
By Cameron Kunzelman Published July 29, 2018 - Esports
London Spitfire Wins The First Overwatch League Finals, $1,000,000
The first-ever winner of the Overwatch League season playoffs is the London Spitfire. After a rocky season spent wobbling between commanding victories and unexpected defeats, the Spitfire earned a $1,000,000 prize, as well as a silver gauntlet in the style of publisher Blizzard’s sword-and-sorcery roots. Their underdog opponents, the crowd-favorite Philadelphia Fusion, retreated with the…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published July 28, 2018 -
UncategorizedStreamer Explains How To Play Overwatch With One Hand
Streamer apotatomaybetwo has created a video explaining, point by point, how to play Overwatch if you only have access to a single hand. It’s educational. The video largely focuses on how to use either the Razer Naga Trinity or Logitech g600 mouse, both of which feature a large pad of buttons that are accessible via…
By Cameron Kunzelman Published July 28, 2018 - Uncategorized
A Dungeons & Dragons Supplement Makes Your Players Feel Like Witchers
100 Monster Hunts is a simple idea. As a Dungeon Master, you can roll on a giant table and get a random “monster hunt,” or a small designed encounter with a monster. Players then go deal with that monster. It’s clean, it’s simple, and it’s helpful. Every DM runs into moments where they need to…
By Cameron Kunzelman Published July 28, 2018
