Fnatic Upset Top European Team In League Playoffs

This weekend marked the kickoff of the League Championship Series’ spring split playoffs, and in the European region, top team H2K finally met its match against a revitalized Fnatic. H2K was a clear favorite in today’s match, with a 10-3 record for the season compared to Fnatic’s 6-7. Having beat Fnatic 2-0 in regular play,…

Heroes Of The Storm Matchmaking Helps Two People Get Hitched In Real Life

You never know where you might meet that special someone who makes you want to spend the rest of your life with them. For SadJetsFan and Venus1812, that place turned out to be a match in Heroes of the Storm “Against all odds, two people from different countries and cultures were able to find each…

Random Encounters Are The Bane Of A Final Fantasy Speedrunner’s Existence

The Final Fantasy Series Relay Race III is going on right now, with three teams of seventeen people competing to see which can beat every game in the series first. Begun back in 2015, the annual event is streamed across several days with speedrunners on each team dedicating themselves to completing a specific Final Fantasy…

Paradigm Wants You To Confront The Ruling Class 

Paradigm looks bonkers and it is. Released on PC early last week, it pokes fun at the systems we’re all constrained by, inspired by classic point-and-click games. A surreal adventure game set in a post-apocalyptic Eastern European country, Paradigm explores the theoretical use of genetics technology by the rich and powerful to help them spawn…

Sunday Comics: Zelda Economics

Welcome to Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics that usually occurs on Sunday except when it doesn’t. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira. Published April 6. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published April 3. Read more…

Salt And Sanctuary‘s Claustrophobic Exploration Is Perfect For The Vita

It took Ska Studios just over a year to get its side-scrolling action game onto the Vita, but the wait was worth it. Salt and Sanctuary takes the best of Metroidvania-style games and Souls-likes and condenses it into the ideal portable experience. Thanks to Sickhead Games, a developer who has ported games like Axiom Verge…

Bizarre Modes Lead To Insane Rocket League Goals

We’re halfway through season three of the Rocket League Championship Series, and to celebrate, several teams are participating in an invitational today where the maps and settings were determined by viewers. Opening the action were Atelier and Denial Esports, who would soon be plunged into the sound and fury of community-nominated novelty game modes. Game…

Goodbye Sweet Nomad

Things get weird on Mass Effect: Andromeda’s desert world of Eos when you start pushing the Nomad over 160 kilometers per hour. As several players have reported on Reddit, the glitch happens while zooming around the planet’s surface at high speeds. The DeLorean-like teleportation doesn’t send the Nomad into the past or future, however. Instead,…

Celebrate The Most Famous Egg In Gaming With Mystery World Dizzy 

It only took a little over two decades to arrive, but Mystery World Dizzy, the NES port of the arcade game Fantasy World Dizzy, which was supposed to come out back in 1993, is now available to play for free in honor of the character’s 30th birthday. Created by programmer twins Philip and Andrew Oliver,…

The Nintendo Switch Joy-Con Look Way Better With SNES-Themed Buttons

The Nintendo Switch grey Joy-Con controllers are pretty nondescript all by themselves, but you can throw a few SNES-themed buttons on there to spice things up if you’re brave enough. YouTuber JordiPower decided he didn’t want to wait for Nintendo to release its own SNES-themed buttons for the Switch and so went ahead and inserted…

The Weekend In Esports: Tecmo Super Bowl Returns

Tecmo Super Bowl is back! Re-live the glory of the most beloved sports game of all time by watching its top players face-off this weekend in the game’s annual Madison Bowl. Below you’ll find where and when you can catch all the weekend’s biggest events in competitive gaming. Let us know what you’ll be watching…

RunAway Blows 3-1 Lead In Overwatch Apex Finals

OGN, a Korean esports organization, hosted the grand finals for Overwatch Apex Season 2, and it was a barn-burner. RunAway, a Cinderella story team with no organization, met the titanic Lunatic-Hai, a team whose only loss in the group stage was to RunAway. A mixture of revenge and underdogs, and a grand finals that went…

GameStop Acknowledges Possible Breach Of Customers’ Credit Card Information

If you’ve shopped at GameStop.com between mid-September and early February, it’s possible your credit card information has been compromised according to a report by the web security blog, KrebsOnSecurity. After reaching out to the video game retailer about the breach, GameStop confirmed to KrebsOnSecurity that it had been notified by a third party that possible…

This Week In The Business: Scorpio’s Price May Sting

QUOTE | “I estimate the basic hardware will cost around $650, so if Microsoft wants any kind of margin at all, Scorpio will have to retail for $700 or more.” – IDC analyst Lewis Ward is bracing for a bit of sticker shock on Project Scorpio QUOTE | “At the end of the day we…

Cattails looks like Stardew Valley, except cats. You play as a feral cat exploring an open land, developing relationships, combating cats from rival colonies, and yes, romancing other cats to start a family. No farming, though. Cats are hunters, not gatherers. The game is on Kickstarter

A Look At Super Mario Bros. 3’s Secret Glitch Levels

It’s been almost 30 years since Super Mario Bros. 3 released for the NES, but we’re still discussing its secrets in 2017. In this case: glitch levels that are hiding within SMB3. Perhaps you’ve seen them before. Shesez runs Boundary Break, a YouTube show that’s kind of exactly what it sounds like. Using special tools…

King of Fighters XIV Puts New Spin On Countering Fighting Game Fireballs

The fireball is perhaps the most iconic move in fighting games. Along with the uppercut, it forms the basis of the genre’s most foundational strategies. As such, fighting games have evolved so that one or two characters in any given release usually have interesting ways to counter them. The PlayStation 4 game King of Fighters…

Three Recent Games On Switch That Are Worth A Try

There aren’t a lot of exclusive games on Nintendo Switch right now. But games are trickling out. I played three recent ones that are worth your attention—and worth checking out on other platforms, too. We livestreamed all three on Facebook earlier this week. You can watch an archive of that above. Or, for fans of…

Battlegrounds Player Writes Live Song For Partner, Partner Dies Anyway

They say music soothes the soul. They do not, however, say anything about music saving the soul. Or the body, for that matter. Scene Of Action was playing a PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds match, and he died, like you do. It was a duos game, so his partner was left to fend for themselves. Possessed by very…