All Hail Queen Zelda

It’s been 12 months since Holly Wolf floored us with her Zelda cosplay from Breath of the Wild. She now returns as the same character, only now with a more regal take. This is Zelda as she’d appear were she Queen of Hyrule, not Princess Trapped In Ghost Realm Who Should have Been Playable In…

Fan Creates Beautiful Fire Emblem Board Game

Fire Emblem Heroes is a successful money sink/mobile video game for Nintendo. It’s not available as an official board game, though, which is where fan Brother Ming decided to step in. A budding board game designer, he says his Fire Emblem Heroes adaptation is “inspired by the board game design philosophy of quick, fast, but…

Overwatch Pro Called An Opponent A “Fucking Faggot”; ESPN Reporter Who Broke Story Immediately Caught With Racist And Sexist Tweets

According to an ESPN report, someone filed a support ticket with Blizzard after Overwatch League player Taimou called another player a “fucking faggot kid” on a Twitch stream on January 23. The Overwatch League has yet to comment publicly, while his team, the Dallas Fuel, sent this statement to Compete: In regards to the Dallas…

Plop Is The Most Important Element In A City-Builder

For me, the most important part of city-builders is the plop. Plop is that feeling when a prefabricated building hits the ground, and it takes a great animation design to really sell the feeling of a godlike hand descending to drop a building onto the ground. Kingdoms and Castles really sells that plop. Plop isn’t…

Siege of Dragonspear Is Coming To Mobile As A Standalone Release

On Friday, Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition developers Beamdog announced on a livestream that Siege of Dragonspear, their follow-up to the original Baldur’s Gate that they released back in March of 2016, is coming to the iOS and Android platforms on March 10th. Siege of Dragonspear takes place immediately after the events of Baldur’s Gate, and…

Hunters Plan To Repopulate Bloodborne With A Return To Yharnam

From Software’s Souls games and Bloodborne have online co-operation, but some areas become more abandoned as time goes on. Return To Yharnam is a community event set to start on March 10th that’s working to revitalize Bloodborne’s online world of bell-ringing hunters. Demon’s Souls, the Dark Souls franchise, and Bloodborne all have the same general…

Dota Pro Goes Galaxy Brain On Opposing Team

Group stages for the Bucharest Major have begun and in OG’s first match, support player Jesse “Jerax” Vainikka pulled some serious mind games. One of Jerax’s best-known heroes is his Earth Spirit, a warrior of stone that has a lot of mobility and some tricky abilities. During a lull in the action in OG’s match…

Overwatch Pro Lands The Dream Charge

Muma may have lost, but he won the hearts of many a Reinhardt in last night’s game against the New York Excelsior with one incredible charge. In last night’s match against the NYXL, Austin “Muma” Wilmot was leading the charge as the ironclad Reinhardt. Seeing enough of the New York players clumped up, Muma dropped…

Battlefield 1‘s New Dog Tags Are Almost Impossible To Get

Battlefield 1’s final expansion, fittingly called Apocalypse, released during the last week of February. Alongside new guns and maps, the content pack also contains some very difficult unlockable dog tags. Reading over them, I wondered what it would take to get them. For the most part, the tasks that you have to do to unlock…

The Secret Hunters Of Destiny

Imagine there’s a video game that you’ve played for hundreds and hundreds of hours. It’s the only game you really play. You think you’ve seen everything there is, and then one day, you see a YouTube video, or a thread on Reddit, or maybe a tweet. Someone says they’ve found something new. Someone says they’ve…

Sunday Comics: Protect This Timeline

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 February 26th. Read more of Awkward Zombie Corpse Run by Alex Di Stasi. Published March 1st. Read more of Corpse Run Double XP by…

Overwatch League Bites Down Hard On Some Lemons For A Good Cause

Host Malik Forté came on during a halftime break in today’s Overwatch League to take a chunk out of a lemon in front of a live audience. Don’t worry, it’s for a good cause. Lemons For Leukemia is a campaign started by two friends, Dillon Hill and Chris Betancourt, the latter of which was diagnosed…

I Can’t Let Go Of Into The Breach’s Starter Squad

Into The Breach is a great strategy game, but I can’t seem to translate the skills I learned with the starting team into any of the more advanced ones. The basic game design of Into The Breach rewards you for learning general strategies. As you play through your first few attempts at the game, you…

Enjoy This Video Of A Small Simulated Airport

Slated for a release sometime in 2018, Sky Haven is an airport simulation game being developed by Real Welders. I’ve watched this video of a little simulated airport something like five times now, and it has made me absolutely crave the ability to plan and build my own airport. Like most people, I do not…

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.