Pro League of Legends Match Has A Whole Lot Of Baron Stealing

The Baron is League of Legends’ biggest monster (besides Teemo). It holds dominion over one alcove of the map, rewarding a boon to any team that can best it. And in today’s match between Roccat and Splyce, the two teams repeatedly stole that advantage from one another. Baron buff is key to making mid and…

Magic Leans Into 25 Years Of Telling Stories With Cards

Magic: The Gathering has its 25th anniversary this year, and Magic has been using its upcoming Masters 25 set to pull together some really neat narrative threads from throughout the game’s long history. While it’s mostly understood purely as a competitive card game, Magic has a deep and complex narrative that stretches back to its…

We’re stomping bug and saving timelines in Into the Breach right now on Twitch. Everything will go smoothly and no one will die.

The Weekend In Esports: Tekken Team Tournament 

We really need to talk about Gon. This weekend, cable television tackles Tekken with the Eleague Tekken Team Takedown. While the games won’t actually hit the telly until March 16, matches start today on Twitch. And frankly, all this Tekken talk has me thinking: where is Gon? We have King, Heihachi, Hwoarang, the classics. Akuma…

Wow, A New Weekend Editor Is Here!

Hello. I’m Cameron Kunzelman. I’m your new Weekend Editor. I guess this intro post is supposed to function like a dating profile in the 1980s. I write all sorts of deep personal details into a text document, I ship it off, and then I wait for those sweet, delicious comments to roll in telling me…

Just A Totally Normal Start To An Overwatch League Match

There was totally nothing abnormal or strange about the start of map 4 between the Los Angeles Gladiators and Seoul Dynasty last night. Jump scares happen when you least expect ‘em.

Battlegrounds Player Heroically Battles The Ground

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds forces all of us to make bad decisions sometimes. You might make a bad run for it when pinned between a wall and some enemies, or you might even drive a truck off a cliff to escape some pursuers. It’s a game about making choices that you never feel 100% about. Reddit user…

This Week In The Business: Let’s Get Political

QUOTE | “The president will meet with a number of stakeholders next week. He’ll also be meeting with members of the video game industry to see what they can do on that front as well. This is going to be an ongoing process, and something that we don’t expect to happen overnight… to make sure…

After The Loot Box Fury, The People Behind The Next Battlefield Are Being Very Cautious

The people who make Battlefield, just like many other developers across the video game industry, have heard the loot box furor loudly and clearly. The next Battlefield’s microtransaction plans remain in flux, as they are in many games until close to release, but it’s unlikely they’ll inspire as much anger as Star Wars: Battlefront II’s…

Introducing Kotaku XP, Our Weekly Video News Show

Hello! We are going to be doing a weekly news video show from now on. This is the first episode. The name is Kotaku XP. What does that mean? I can’t just tell you. It means whatever you want it to mean. Every week, we’ll pick 10 Kotaku posts. Gita Jackson or myself will talk…

The Switch Apparently Stops Counting Your Play Time After A Year [UPDATE]

Switch users are discovering that the console has reset their logged playtime a year after purchase. Although the Switch didn’t come out in the U.S. until March 3, 2017, players who received Switches prior to then have been noticing an unwelcome surprise next to their Legend of Zelda “Profile” entries. The Switch tracks users’ playtime…

Normal Human Stands Up

Today on Highlight Reel we have normal human standing, Fortnite moments, PUBG sadists, 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 all…

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

The weekend is for being torn between wanting to go outside to experience whatever the hell the weather is doing and never wanting to leave the house again. Also, video games. It’s the one year anniversary of the Switch, which has reminded me how badly I fell off my Zelda playing. This seems like the…

The Makers Of Castle Crashers Have A New Game And It’s Great

Pit People is finally out of Early Access and officially released on both Steam and Xbox One and if you haven’t already tried it out you should. Pit People is part comedy show part tactical beat ‘em up. The Behemoth made it, the same studio that made Castle Crashers, one of those original XBLA indie…

Kotaku Reacts To Into The Breach

Since we’ve gotten our hands on Into The Breach over at Kotaku, we haven’t been able to stop playing and talking about it. Here’s a selection of our best tweets, stories, and screenshots. On February 8th, apropros of nothing, news editor Jason Schreier said this in Slack: He had gotten an advance copy of the…

Kingdom Come Owes Its Popularity To ‘Realism’ And Conservative Politics

Kingdom Come: Deliverance has sold more than one million copies in less than a month. Its all-time concurrent player peak is higher than The Witcher 3‘s. So why is a janky role-playing game set in the Holy Roman Empire so popular? Because, on the surface, it rejects tired fantasy RPG tropes, but underneath it all,…

The Butler Does Everything In This Ridiculous Free Murder Mystery

Looking for a good old-fashioned point-and-click adventure to while away a couple of hours over the weekend? How about the tale of an exasperated British butler attempting to prove the worst person possible innocent of murder? That’s The Adventures of Nick and Willikins, a very funny, very free PC game available now from Pinhead Games.…

The Philadelphia Fusion Are Real Frisky Now

Coming into last night’s matchup, the Houston Outlaws and Philadelphia Fusion were both undefeated in the Overwatch League’s second stage, and the Outlaws were particularly hot, going from an 0-2 start to a 9-3 record. But Philadelphia can’t be beaten in seemingly anything right now. When the Fusion took the stage, star newcomer Eqo wasn’t…