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EsportsThe Sneakiest Score In Today’s Splatoon 2 Tournament
This is why you always ink the side of the ramps. As the Splatfest rages on into the night, InkTV is hosting one of the first tournaments for Splatoon 2, the G7 Splatoon Series. In today’s match between Nosebreathers and Nsquared Squid Squad, one player made quite an impressive Rainmaker run. If you haven’t jumped…
By Eric Van Allen Published August 5, 2017 - Uncategorized
Everything’s Better With An N64, Including Ridesharing
Scott Malsin was headed home after work last Wednesday when he got into car that had an N64 in it. He then shared a picture of his journey on Reddit to make everyone else jealous. His Juno driver was a apparently a big fan of 3D Mario. Big enough, at least, to go through all…
By Ethan Gach Published August 5, 2017 -
UncategorizedThere’s A Guy Doing Classical Piano Covers Of All The Levels In Super Smash Bros. Melee
He goes by the name BearKeys and the self-proclaimed “child prodigy” has recently decide to dive into the world of video game music. Specifically, the GameCube version of Smash Bros. His most recent entry is a classical piano rendition of music from the game’s Break The Targets challenge. Before that he took stabs at Corneria,…
By Ethan Gach Published August 5, 2017 -
EsportsNumber One Dad Subs In For Son’s Rocket League Match
NBC is hosting a 2v2 Rocket League tournament this weekend, a big deal for 2v2 players like Josh “JumpOnStuff” Russo who could potentially make a national broadcast debut. But when Russo’s teammate couldn’t make it down to the open, one man was willing to take up the controller and fill in: his dad. Russo hinted…
By Eric Van Allen Published August 5, 2017 - Uncategorized
You can now battle Takashi Tokita’s party in the Switch version of I Am Setsuna’s Temporal Battle Arena. Tokita, a Square Enix veteran, was one of the directors on Chrono Trigger and until August 10 you can actually snag I Am Setsuna for 33% off on the eShop.
By Ethan Gach Published August 5, 2017 -
EsportsAll These Ultimates Aren’t Enough To Stop South Korea’s Overwatch Team
An onslaught of ultimates, rebuffed by a lineup featuring some of South Korea’s best. This weekend’s Overwatch World Cup qualifiers hosts some strong international talent, but South Korea has been dominating their group stage matches so far. It’s little surprise, after last year’s South Korean squad took first in the World Cup in an undefeated…
By Eric Van Allen Published August 5, 2017 - Esports
The Weekend In Esports: Dota 2 Bloodbath
The International, one of pro gaming’s biggest events of the year, started in earnest this week as an around-the-clock group stage has left teams scrambling to lock down top seeding for next week’s Main Event. Fnatic and HellRaisers already sit at the bottoms of Groups A and B respectively with elimination from the tournament potentially…
By Ethan Gach Published August 5, 2017 - Culture
This Week In The Business: Bungie Vs. Crunch
QUOTE | “The Halo 2 crunch almost killed Bungie as a company. It is the most I’ve ever seen humans work in a year and a half. It was brutal. It almost killed us, and those of us that were left basically vowed, ‘never again.’ Never again can we put ourselves through that.” – Bungie…
Brendan Sinclair Published August 5, 2017 -
CultureI Ate My Parents In A ‘Scientifically Accurate’ Dinosaur Survival Game
I opened my “eyes.” I was a baby dakotaraptor striding behind my parents with my siblings, like a flock of ducks. My parents would hunt and provide for me, I thought. Nurture me until I was strong enough to fend for myself. Maybe even love me, in their own simplistic dinosaur way. About a minute…
By Nathan Grayson Published August 4, 2017 - Culture
Battlegrounds Skirt Going For Nearly $500 On The Steam Marketplace
In the year 2017, games either die in obscurity, or they live long enough to see players spending $486.93 on a purple mini-skirt. This week, the wildly popular online shooter PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds added a handful of paid cosmetic items as a “test” of a key and crate system that’ll be added to the game when…
By Nathan Grayson Published August 4, 2017 - Uncategorized
Playing Nicely With Transformers’ Biggest Decepticon Ever
Back in 2015, Hasbro asked Transformers fans to choose between Autobot Omega Supreme and Decepticons Scorponok and Trypticon as the next massive titan-class toy. City-sized T-rex Trypticon won, and now he’s on my desk, with a friend ready to help open him up. Honestly I was pulling for Scorponok, the Decepticon scorpion/base/robot who served as…
By Mike Fahey Published August 4, 2017 - Culture
What Are You Playing This Weekend?
The weekend is for a second try at meal prep, since your first try last week wasn’t so hot. Also, video games. I finished the first episode of The Long Dark’s story mode last night, so this weekend I’m on to the second episode and to check out more of the changes to the sandbox…
By Riley MacLeod Published August 4, 2017 - Culture
Stick A Jet Engine In A Train, What Could Go Wrong
Miloš Belanec is a 3D artist from Slovakia. You can see more of Miloš’ work at his ArtStation page To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in the top-left corner. Fine Art is a celebration of the work of video game artists, showcasing the best of both their professional…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 4, 2017 - Esports
GameCube-Only Controller Rule In Smash Melee Competition Raises Eyebrows
Five prominent Super Smash Brothers: Melee tournament organizers and players have formed a competition committee and released a recommended ruleset for tournament play, including a lengthy section imposing a “tentative ban” on the use of non-Gamecube controllers. The ruleset writers explained that the 16-year-old classic Gamecube controller is “somewhat intrinsic to what we consider ‘playing…
By Maddy Myers Published August 4, 2017 -
UncategorizedFinal Fantasy VII Retrospective: Great Because It’s Weird
Before I played Final Fantasy VII, I didn’t think it was going to be very good. I don’t remember how I was introduced to the game—maybe it was a store ad, or a magazine, or that wild 1997 TV commercial—but I do remember hating it. This is part seven of Kotaku’s Final Fantasy Retrospective, in…
By Jason Schreier Published August 4, 2017 - Culture
Dream Daddy’s Mini Games Are Awful
Dream Daddy is a cute game about cute dads that’s marred by some really uncute mini games. Gita Jackson: I’m here with Chloe Spencer, Kotaku’s summer intern, to talk about Dream Daddy—more specifically, the horrible, awful, no good mini games. Chloe, you’re a big fan of the game, right? Chloe Spencer: Big fan, yeah! Damien…
By Gita Jackson Published August 4, 2017 - Uncategorized
Fortnite Developers Apologize For Surprise Change That Wiped Out Several Players’ Bases
Developer Epic Games issued anapology this morning after several fans of Fortnite, a surprisingly cute player vs. environment game about surviving the apocalypse, were caught off guard when their labored-after bases disappeared. The unannounced change was a part of an early morningpatch for the Early Access game. Players say they spentseveral dozen hoursconstructing bases on…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published August 4, 2017 - Uncategorized
This Is How It Begins
Look, not everyone sets out to have a massive Amiibo collection. A lot of people start out like I just did: with one. At the start of this week, I didn’t own a single Amiibo. Nintendo’s little chip-enabled figures just didn’t appeal to me. Unlike some of my colleagues I’ve never been a big toy…
By Kirk Hamilton Published August 4, 2017
