Finally, A Tool For Figuring Out How To Jump In Dungeons & Dragons

Dungeons & Dragons has some complex rules, and a studious fan has created a tool to help you figure out exactly how jumping works. There are a few things in 5th Edition Dungeons & Dragons that are tough for a Dungeon Master to handle. Last night, for example, I had to figure out the a…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Amiibo Gold Rush, Winners!

The triumphant return of the ‘Shop Contest brought many entries, but the capricious soul of victory chooses the best of the best! Thanks to everyone who spent the last week making images of amiibos. I don’t own any of those fun little toys, but I would be more likely to buy them if they were…

Sunday, Sunday, Sunday! Jason Schreier and I (Kirk) are going to spend the day streaming video games from my place in Portland. Schedule is above; tune in to the Kotaku Twitch channel to watch.

Two Dragon Ball FighterZ Pros Finally Settle The Score

After a few public call-outs, two fighters finally clashed last night in Atlanta, Georgia. Dominique “SonicFox” McLean and Goichi “Go1″ Kishida met in the ring at Final Round 2018 for a first-to-10 wins exhibition. The result was electric. McLean has been dominant in the western Dragon Ball FighterZ, and after a win at Winter Brawl…

The Creatures of Dark Souls Look Silly While Falling

Players digging through the animation files of Dark Souls have found some very funny falling animations for creatures that rarely fall in the game. A user named DarkSoulsJunk has posted an album of gifs made from some little-seen fall animations from Dark Souls enemies. They are, in a word, hilarious. There’s something fulfilling about seeing…

The Weekend In Esports: Another Season, Another Reason To Love Blanka

It’s the start of a new season for the Street Fighter V pro tour. Players have been (mostly) taking a breather since MenaRD took the Capcom Cup title. But the leaping green monster has returned, heralding the start of a new season of competitive Street Fighter. Some big names are heading to Atlanta to carve…

This Week in the Business: Microsoft’s Head In The Cloud

QUOTE | “The premium living room experience today is on Xbox One X, and we hope to continue that for years to come. But when you think about how we are going to broaden our business, we need to think beyond console to be successful.” – Microsoft GM of gaming cloud Kevin Gammill says the…

Valve Is Quietly Deleting Hate Groups, But It Isn’t Solving Steam’s Big Problem

Valve is notorious for a lot of things, but beyond not releasing Half-Life 3, one thing stands out: its hands-off, often silent approach to running the world’s biggest PC gaming platform, Steam. This has landed the company in hot water in the past, but in the face of calls to crack down on user groups…

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

The weekend is for hoping the bar under my house doesn’t get rowdy for St. Patrick’s Day because I’m cranky and old. Also, video games. I’m excited to play more Surviving Mars this weekend. I think my second colony is already on the rocks, so I might start over (again). Gotta get that perfect start.…

Overwatch Coach Issues Apology For Being Kind Of Clumsy

David “dpei” Pei, head coach for the LA Gladiators Overwatch League team, bumped into two Houston Outlaws players backstage last night and issued a real head-scratcher of an apology for it: “Yesterday during the Outlaws match, I inadvertently bumped into two of the Outlaws players. I hadn’t been watching where I was going. I was…

Fans Discover Game-Changing Typo In Civilization VI‘s Code

Religion has been a powerful motivating force throughout human history, but some Civilization VI AIs are a little too into religion, at the expense of, well, pretty much everything else. It’s a real bug, and it’s all because of a typo. Earlier this week, a Something Awful thread pointed to a bizarre irregularity in Civilization…

Britain Is The Latest Country To Ban A Sexy Dungeon Crawler

The roguelike dungeon crawler Omega Labyrinth Z is coming to the West sometime this year on PlayStation 4 and Vita—but not in the United Kingdom., nor in a handful of other countries that have banned it. According to the BBC, the U.K. has added its name to a list of countries that have refused to…

Paul and Heather are streaming Yakuza 6: The Song of Life right now on YouTube. Join the stream while we explore the amazing seaside town of Onomichi, punch people, and sing the sweetest karaoke.

Ghost Of A Tale Is This Year’s Second Really Good Game About A Mouse

It’s been an outstanding couple of months for mouse-based video games. In February we gotPlayStation VR adventure Moss, and now we have the PC release of Ghost of a Tale, an action RPG about a mouse bard slinking through a dangerous fantasy world in order to save his true love. It looked outstanding in 2016.…

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds Mobile Is A Pretty Decent Port

In the past 24 hours, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds Mobile has soft-launched on Android devices in Canada, presumably to test things out before the wider launch. While Kotaku UK’s office is not in Canada, we did manage to get our hands on a build of the new game, and have spent this morning trying our very best…

Burnout Paradise Didn’t Need A Remaster, But It’s Nice

I’ve played hours of the remastered version of Burnout Paradise prior to today’s release of the game on Xbox One and PlayStation 4. So how are the higher resolution textures and enhanced lighting effects? I don’t know, man. I’m just playing Burnout Paradise again, and it’s as wonderful as it ever was. Burnout Paradise has…

Video Game News Of The Week, March 16, 2018

How many times more than twice will we mention Fortnite on this week’s Kotaku XP? Click “play” to find out! In Kotaku XP, Gita Jackson and I discuss 10 Kotaku stories for around 30 seconds each. I did not get a haircut yet. I promise I will do so very soon. I’m waiting until I…

Players Are Putting Fortnite‘s New C4 Explosive To Good Use

Fortnite’s new remote minesare incredible fun, unless, of course, you’re on the other end of one. Released last night, the C4 mines are inspiring strategies that take down huge player-made buildings and wreck existing zones in exciting battles for area control. Detonating a C4 mine is simple. I’ve picked them up in packs of 4…