Dota 2 Team Fights While Its Ancient Falls To Pieces

A last-ditch effort or just an oversight, one Dota 2 team forgot about the sixth man in every match: the creeps. The post-International lull is over, Dota 2 is back in business, and the ongoing StarLadder i-League Invitational 3 qualifiers are an opportunity for teams to get their first competitive matches under their belts. In…

Finally, A Use For All Of Those Donkey Kong Country Returns Banana Cases 

Your Joy-Con controllers will fit in here. That’s what Reddit user Zefipalu discovered when they decided to try and answer the immortal question, “Hey, would my Nintendo Switch Joy-Con fit in here?” The limited edition banana holder was released around the time of Donkey Kong Country Returns for the Wii (which was later ported to…

The Weekend In Esports: The 2017 League World Championship Arrives 

The nearly month long, biggest esporting event of the year is upon us. League of Legends teams kicked off the play-in stage earlier today with matches set to continue throughout the rest of the weekend. Elsewhere there’s the SoCal Regionals for tournaments in games from around the fighting games community as well as qualifiers for…

EA Says It’s Fixing Formation That Baffles Madden‘s AI

Madden 18’s artificial intelligence is designed to react to every play, simulating live football right down to the human error. One formation, however, has puzzled the computer-controlled defense, and players are using that mismatch for easy, consistent yardage. The “Gun Monster” formation is a bastardized shotgun formation that puts only three offensive linemen—the center and…

This Week In The Business:  Good News For People Who Like Bad News

QUOTE | “Never fear! Battleborn is here to stay.” – Battleborn creative director Randy Varnell, immediately after announcing that the Fall Update is the final planned content for the game, and immediately before announcing he’s going to work on some other project now. QUOTE | “I would have liked to see them leave it on.”…

Sonic The Hedgehog Is Teaming Up With Hooters (Yes, Hooters)

While Sega says it’s created guidelines for Sonic, the assumption would be that promoting-Sonic-with-Hooters falls under them. I guess? Today at the Tokyo Game Show, Sega announced that it will be collaborating for a Sonic Forces promotion. Staring this October, as reported by 4Gamer, there will be a Sonic Forces promotional tie-up at Hooter restaurants…

The Littlest Cloud Strife Cosplayer Needs A Small Chocobo

This just might be the best cosplay at this year’s Tokyo Game Show: A little Cloud Strife from Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children riding a small Chocobo. It even stands out among all the terrific Final Fantasy cosplay at this year’s TGS.

Good Luck Playing Monster Hunter: World At The Tokyo Game Show

Today is the first public day at the Tokyo Game Show. Meaning? Throngs of people have descended and are lining up to play games. There is one title in particular people want to play, and that is Monster Hunter: World. But they probably won’t be able to! At least, not today. The show opened at…

How Sega Tries To Stay True To Sonic 

“Besides Nintendo, there really aren’t that many character-type games in Japan,” says Sega’s Shun Nakamura. Sonic is one of the remaining few Japanese characters that isn’t from Nintendo. During the 1980s and 90s, Japanese gaming was dominated by characters. “As graphics got better, I think game companies have moved away from stylized characters to more…

Today the Tokyo Game Show is opening its doors to the general public. Lots and lots of people are showing up, ready to play games.

Survival Game About Genetics Is Cute But Cruel

In most games, the permanent death of a player character is a big deal, a matter of pomp, circumstance, and occasionally people arguing on forums for decades about how to get her back. In Niche, I watched the progenitor of my entire species drop dead after a few minutes of play. One second he was…

Maybe Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds Is The Game Of The Decade?!

One of the 10 million people playing Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds just so happens to be me, and so I am now qualified to assess it in a video. I promise I’m being sincere when I say I consider it “The Game Of The Decade.” As of Fall 2017, anyway. Heck, Fall 2017 is practically 2018, and…

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

The weekend is for making a curry because Kotaku features editor Chris Kohler won’t stop posting pictures of the curries he’s eating in Japan right now. Also, video games. I’m going to try to work up the courage to play more Echo, because that game rules but I can only handle it in small, stressful…

The Four-Year Journey Behind Madden’s Great Story Mode

Longshot, the interactive drama this year’s Madden, tells the story of a man who tries to beat the odds to accomplish an impossible dream. The tale behind the making of Longshot is similar. Mike Young started working as an art director on Madden in 2007, and even then, he was dreaming of adding a story…