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EsportsA Tekken 7 Round So Close, It Needs Two Slow-Mo Cams
Slow-mo is one of Tekken 7‘s most hype features, slowing the critical moment of a fight down to mere frames. In last night’s Tekken World Tour Korea grand finals, the two fighters were so close that it came down to the slow-mo cam twice in a single round. Though Evo 2017 is in the rear-view…
By Eric Van Allen Published August 6, 2017 -
UncategorizedAn In-Depth Look At Mario Kart 8‘s Detailed Maps
If you’ve played Mario Kart 8 you were probably so focused on trying to finish in the top four that you never had time to look around and take in the view. Fortunately, the latest Boundary Break video will give you a chance to do just that. YouTuber Shesez has an ongoing series where he…
By Ethan Gach Published August 6, 2017 - Culture
Sunday Comics: Suspend Your Disbelief
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 August 6. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published July 31. Read more…
By Ethan Gach Published August 6, 2017 -
UncategorizedSquare Enix Announces Dragon Quest Builders 2, Shows Off Hang Gliding
The company revealed the game at the Dragon Quest Summer Festival 2017 going on in Japan this weekend and even teased some early gameplay footage. The first Dragon Quest Builders took the Minecraft formula and applied it to a beloved RPG series with a surprising balance between a guided story and open-ended simulation. Apparently, the…
By Ethan Gach Published August 6, 2017 - Uncategorized
Mayo Won Splatfest, But Some Splatoon 2 Players Worry The System Is Broken
The Splatfest festivities are over and the results are in: mayo may have lost the popular vote, but it still managed to take home the prize. And yet, many salty ketchup players are calling shenanigans. This is a good chunk of the Splatoon fandom right now: Splatfest, as many of you know, is an event…
By Patricia Hernandez Published August 6, 2017 - Esports
Alright Valve It’s Time To Buy Some New Furniture
This is the panel for the Group Stage of the biggest Dota 2 tournament of the year. The one that’s sponsored by Valve and has a prize pool of nearly $24 million. I think it’s time the multi-billion dollar company splurged on some upgrades. Video games have never been known for their style, and among…
By Ethan Gach Published August 5, 2017 -
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
