Heather is grinding scales and bashing barroth in Monster Hunter World now on Twitch. If you have a Ps4, you can join with session ID 3kmci8KCFaBh.

A Clash Between Two Fighting Game Legends Ends In Tears And Resolve

At last night’s Kemonomichi 2, two of Street Fighter’s best-known players played an exhibition set. It was a clash of the giants that ended in emotion, laughter, and tears. It was one of the best fighting game sets I’ve seen in some time. Daigo Umehara and Hajime “Tokido” Taniguchi are eminent within the fighting game…

Battlegrounds‘ Latest Anti-Cheat Patch Is Causing A Lot of Problems [UPDATE]

On Friday night, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds received a patch dedicated to anti-cheat measures. Many players are reporting that this patch has resulted in their inability to launch the PUBG client. Others are saying that the game has taken a massive performance hit. As of this morning, it still seems that PUBG Corporation are trying to figure…

This Week In The Business: Violence, Shame

QUOTE | “Every shot is in colossally bad taste and everyone associated with those games should be ashamed of themselves. They hurt us.” – Deus Ex and System Shock developer Warren Spector was upset by the White House’s video game violence montage produced for a meeting with industry leaders and critics. QUOTE | “We appreciate…

Dark Souls Expert Beats Entire Series Without Getting Hit

Back in 2016, streamer The_Happy_Hob pulled off the world’s first no-hit run of Dark Souls, a feat that left series director Hidetaka Miyazaki in a state of disbelief. Now he’s topped himself—three times over. After 12 months of work and some crushingly painful setbacks, The_Happy_Hob has completed Dark Souls 1, 2, and 3 back to back…

Popular Twitch Mod Is Sorry For All The Revenge Porn [UPDATE]

This past Wednesday, a former moderator for Overwatch League’s Twitch channel who goes by the handle Uncleswagg posted about having been unceremoniously demoted from his duties with no explanation from Blizzard. On Thursday, former Blizzard employee and World of Warcraft streamer Cher Scarlett came forward to say that Uncleswagg had non-consensually posted naked photographs of…

All The Times Valve Has Said Vague Things About Making Games In The Past Decade

Valve is back in the news again for a presentation it recently gave about its new Dota-inspired card game Artifact and its plans for the future. In addition to explaining how the new game will work, CEO Gabe Newell said the company is definitely still making games, adding to a litany of past statements about…

Dragon Ball Super Action Figures Play Well With Others

Bandai America’s Dragon Ball Super Dragon Stars action figures have been flying off the shelves since the release of Dragon Ball FighterZ earlier this year, as fans and collectors scramble to pick up their favorite characters. I got hold of the first three waves, tore them open, and made them do stuff. Fun stuff. The…

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

The weekend is for bribing yourself to do laundry by promising yourself cookies. Also, video games. Snowy battle royale game The Darwin Project is in early access now, which means I can play it whenever I want! I’m pretty excited to lose terribly but hilariously. To my great shame, I have yet to play Gwent’s…

I Played Super Seducer So You Don’t Have To

Dating is supposed to be fun—in theory. In practice, it can alternate between being frustrating and boring, punctuated with moments of pure distilled anxiety. This is never more true than when you don’t feel like you know what you’re doing. Suddenly, every option feels like it leads to the option where you change your name,…

Magic: The Gathering Is Getting Some Big Changes

As Magic: The Gathering approaches its 25th anniversary, head designer Mark Rosewater is perched at a crucial point between past and future. The game’s next set of cards will reprise Magic’s classic Dominaria setting, with the game’s original creator Richard Garfield tag-teaming design with Rosewater. But while it looks back, it will also look forward,…

A Quick Roundup Of The Overwatch League’s Latest Punishments

Overwatch League just announced a couple of punishments for several players, including two of Dallas Fuel’s notorious troublemakers. Timo “Taimou” Kettunen has received a $1,000 fine for calling another player a “fucking faggot kid” on his personal Twitch channel this past January. Félix “xQc” Lengyel has gotten hit with a $4,000 fine and a four-match…

How Fortnite Streamer Ninja Suddenly Took Over Twitch

When Tyler “Ninja” Blevins hit 100,000 subscribers on Twitch, he could barely form words. The streamer, sporting his trademark yellow headband, broke out into a fit of incredulous laughter before howling at the top of his lungs. But he had every right to lose his shit: after all, he’d just broken the all-time overall subscriber…

Nintendo’s New Rewards Program Is Actually Pretty Good

This week Nintendo finally rolled out its new rewards program. After a year of only letting players redeem coins for discounts on Wii U and 3DS games, people can finally start leveraging their purchases to save money on Switch games. Compared to the rewards programs elsewhere in gaming, it’s actually pretty good. The updated version…

Google Maps Gets Its Very Own Mario Kart

Google’s already tossed Pac Man into its maps—now it’s Mario’s turn to shine. To celebrate Mario Day, users of the Google Maps phone app can now send their favorite plumber karting around their neighborhood. Leading into March 10th–whose abbreviation Mar. 10 looks like the most l33t spelling of Mario ever–anyone using the Google Maps app…

The NBA 2K League’s Combine Probably Wasn’t Rigged, But Didn’t Do Itself Any Favors Either

In a more open approach than most franchised esports leagues, the draft process for the NBA 2K League was open to any and all challengers who met a small set of requirements. Win 50 games in January’s online qualifiers, and you move on to phase 2: the combine. That combine then whittled 72,000 applicants down…

Kotaku XP: Nintendo Direct, Call of Duty, The Division 2

Last week we started a new weekly series called Kotaku XP. Being the first episode, it technically wasn’t “weekly” yet. Well, it’s exactly one week later. Surprise! It’s the second episode. We are officially weekly. In Kotaku XP, Gita Jackson and I discuss 10 Kotaku stories for around 30 seconds each. This week, we got…

Fortnite Seems To Be Overtaking PUBG 

For a long time, the love affair between PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds and Twitch looked like it was meant to last. The blockbuster survival shooter captured the hearts of Twitch’s biggest streamers all through 2017, and, in August, finallydethroned Twitch mainstay League of Legends in the “most hours watched” category (73.7 million to 71.9). Now, Battlegrounds is…