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PUBG Pro Wins Match By Leaping Off A Cliff
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has so many issues that the ironic phrase “esports ready” is a meme in its community, but that doesn’t mean the game’s competitive scene can’t produce great moments every once in a while. Case in point: this match in which a player leaped off a cliff to secure a win. Here’s what’s happening…
By Nathan Grayson Published March 26, 2018 -
CultureThe Art Of Fortnite
It sometimes feels like Fortnite has come out of nowhere to become the biggest game on the planet, but of course it had to come from somewhere. Like the imaginations of these artists, who helped bring Epic’s shooter to life. Below you’ll find a selection of art involved in the production of Fortnite, not just…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 26, 2018 - Uncategorized
Designer Angelo Trofa is a football kit nerd, and since I am also a football kit nerd, I’ve long been a big fan of his work. So it’s nice to see that his contribution to the FIFA series—he designed the Ultimate Team Icons jerseys—are having their shirts brought to life.
By Luke Plunkett Published March 26, 2018 - Uncategorized
Civilization Player Gets Space Race Victory In 90 AD
Civilization IV player WastinTime has achieved something I would never have thought was even remotely possible: winning a space race victory in the strategy classic by launching a rocket two centuries before Jesus was born. It took an incredible amount of knowledge of the systems underpinning Civ IV for him to even attempt this, and…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 26, 2018 - Uncategorized
Netflix Is Making A Carmen Sandiego Movie
Gina Rodriguez (Jane the Virgin, Annihilation) is going to be playing mystery thief Carmen Sandiego in an upcoming live-action movie project for Netflix. Rodriguez will also be voicing the character in Netflix’s other Carmen Sandiego project,an animated series that’s due in 2019 Deadline reports that the movie “will be a standalone Carmen adventure that will…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 26, 2018 -
CultureYou Don’t Wanna Know How Sea Of Thieves Pirates Fit Into Cannons
Today on Highlight Reel we have tiny pirates, explosive entrances, unreasonable Far Cry 5 NPCs, 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…
By Chris Person Published March 26, 2018 - Uncategorized
Turns Out My Most Hot-Headed Overwatch Teammate Is A Therapist IRL
I recently found out that the most hot-headed guy in my Overwatch crew—who throws the biggest fits whenever we lose—is actually a professional therapist. Hearing him divulge this over Overwatch voice chat after only knowing him through his in-game persona, I couldn’t help but laugh. We’ve shared in some jubilant win streaks, yes, but on…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published March 26, 2018 - CultureSplitscreen
We Played A Delicious Edible Tabletop Game
I played several different games at the Game Developers Conference last week, but I only ate one of them. That game is The Patisserie Code, one of a series of edible games in the works by Jenn Sandercock, a designer who worked on last year’s delightful adventure game Thimbleweed Park. She came by the GDC…
By Kirk Hamilton Published March 26, 2018 - ReviewsMultiplatform
A Way Out: The Kotaku Review
A Way Out merges narrative games with couch co-op, and the result is a smart and emotional experience so good that it had to be reviewed by two Kotaku writers. We’ve never played a cooperative experience like it. The game cannot be played alone. It takes two players to guide a pair of convicts, a…
Heather Alexandra & Gita Jackson Published March 26, 2018 - Uncategorized
Of Course People Are Using KFC’s New Twitch Emote For Racist Jokes
Twitch, a platform that’s notoriously dealt with racist chat spam for years, recently added an official Kentucky Fried Chicken chat emote that depicts a bucket full of the Colonel’s original recipe. You can probably see where this is going. The emote launched over the weekend as part of a PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds promotion in which streamers…
By Nathan Grayson Published March 26, 2018 - Esports
Overwatch League Star Says He Missed Games With “Stress And Panic Disorder”
The New York Excelsior’s Kim “Pine” Do-hyeon was the star of the Overwatch League season’s first quarter, but conspicuously absent since. After the Excelsior won the second-stage title, Pine said that his absence from the team was because depression, stress, and a panic disorder stopped him from practicing. The English text reads: I feel very…
By Eric Van Allen Published March 26, 2018 - Uncategorized
Goodbye, Ice Block, And Burn In Hell
The object of Hearthstone is to bring your opponent’s life points down to zero, so it stands to reason that Ice Block, a Mage-specific card that makes that literally impossible to do for a whole turn, is pretty strong. So strong, in fact, that starting with the next expansion, Blizzard is moving the card out…
By Joshua Calixto Published March 26, 2018 - Uncategorized
Netflix’s Auto-Playing Trailers Are Just The Worst
It’s Friday night, and you’re browsing Netflix. You want to relax and watch something. What should be a chill time flipping through shows and movies is significantly less chill because these STUPID ADS KEEP PLAYING. Unfortunately, that’s just how Netflix apps work these days. As you browse, a trailer for the thing you’ve got selected…
By Kirk Hamilton Published March 26, 2018 - ReviewsMultiplatform
Far Cry 5: The Kotaku Review
I’ve spent a long time trekking across Far Cry 5’s fictional Hope County, Montana fighting the members of an apocalyptic cult led by a man called Joseph Seed, and I’m still not sure what their deal is. They drive around blasting weird Christian synth and shooting non-members on sight. It’s weird and terrifying and unsatisfyingly…
By Ethan Gach Published March 26, 2018 - CultureSplitscreen
Why One Indie Studio Gives Every Employee The Same Salary
There’s been a lot of talk in recent weeks about fairness and transparency in the video game industry. On Kotaku Splitscreen, we speak with a studio head who takes things to the extreme, paying every employee the same exact wage. Last week at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, we interviewed Tanya X. Short,…
By Jason Schreier Published March 26, 2018 - Uncategorized
Being A Sea of Thieves Pirate Sometimes Means Being An Asshole
Sea of Thieves is mostly about hunting down treasure with your friends, but every now and then things get ugly. In a game where everyone wants loot and crews can battle each other at the drop of the hat, the line between being a pirate and being a jerk feels razor-thin. There’s only a few…
By Heather Alexandra Published March 26, 2018 - Uncategorized
The New South Park DLC Is Short But Good
If you have ever wanted to dress up like a goth kid and eat dozens of sopapillas, South Park: The Fractured But Whole’s new downloadable content is for you. From Dusk Till Casa Bonita, which came out last week for $12, adds a new class, a new party member, and a new area to the…
By Jason Schreier Published March 26, 2018 - Uncategorized
Guess I’m Not Done With My 3DS
My Switch backlog is ridiculous. I’m busy juggling Ni No Kuni II and a review copy of Far Cry 5 on my PS4, neglecting the half-played Evil Within 2. I’ve got games to play on my Xbox One as well (some of them old). I figured it was at least okay to stop carrying my…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 26, 2018 - Culture
The Week In Games: Cults And ‘Coasters
This week we’ve got Far Cry 5’s cult-fighting open world coming to lots of platforms and Outlast 2 being ported to the Switch. There’s other stuff, too. This is a strong week for the PS Vita, a console that I thought had been mostly abandoned at this point. If you’ve yet to make the jump…
By Cameron Kunzelman Published March 26, 2018
