The International 7 Ditches Dota 2‘s Confusing Underwater Map After Fans Complain

This year’s theme for The International is all about the ocean: there are aquatic cosmetics and a campaign about a sea-dwelling monster called Siltbreaker. But this year’s special map, Reef’s Edge, caused a stir in the Dota 2 community during TI7’s kickoff. As the group stage matches commenced yesterday, it became clear that all games…

Final Fantasy XV‘s Multiplayer Has A Ridiculously Detailed Character Creator

Final Fantasy XV’s multiplayer beta went live today, and in it, you can hack-and-slash through a few short quests. You can also spend hours creating your very own avatar, adjusting everything from facial tattoos to, uh, lower jaw width. There’s a lot of detail in this thing, to the point where you can actually choose…

Rash’s Smash Hits Will Leave ‘Em Cold

Sam Chester is a character artist at Rare, where he’s currently working on Sea of Thieves You can see more of Sam’s work at his personal site 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…

Adam Ruins Everything (Except Our Podcast)

Adam Conover, creator and star of the excellent show Adam Ruins Everything, joins us on this week’s very special episode of Kotaku Splitscreen First Kirk and I talk about Pyre, Battlegrounds, and Dream Daddy before jumping into this week’s news (29:07) on GameStop’s Thanksgiving hours, Unsung Story’s Kickstarter disaster, and a gamer cruise that lost…

Playing Video Games On 16 Monitors At Once

Here’s Linus Tech Tips with a chiropractor’s dream: playing a single PC game across 16 monitors at the same time. First they try Minecraft: Then Tomb Raider, which didn’t really work. So it was off to Half-Life 2: Then PUBG, which didn’t work either, but Civ V sure did. Please note the hilarious placement of…

Aztez Is What Happens When Strategy Meets Brutality

Released this week on Steam, Aztez is a single-player strategy board game in which the ancient Aztecs attempt to survive and thrive until the Spanish invaders arrive. It just happens that surviving and thriving involves lots of bloody black and white beat-em up action. The two-man development studio known as Team Colorblind first introduced Aztez…

Guile Is Now Selling Hair Gel In Japan

Guile. Hair. Gel. It makes sense that the Street Fighter character would now be a hair product pitchman in Japan. Guile is the new spokesperson forJ-Gelfrom Yanagiya, a company that’s been making cosmetics since 1615. The official site has a humorous interview with Guile in which he says nuggets like this: “Disheveled hair is connected…

Danganronpa V3 Is Banned In South Korea [Update]

Released earlier this year in Japan, Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony has been rejected by South Korea’s Game Rating and Administration Committee. Update August 3 – 6:00AM: Sony Computer Entertainment Korea released a statement saying that due to the Game Rating and Administration Committee’s decision, it will not be releasing Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony in South…

“Nintendo” Probably Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Does

The common assumption is that “Nintendo” (任天堂) means “leave luck to heaven” or even “to leave one’s fortune in the hands of fate.” Those assumptions, however, could be wrong. In Japan, Nintendo’s official logo still uses the kanji characters 任天堂, so it’s important to understand what they could have originally meant to company founderFusajiro Yamauchi.…

The Dock. Fårö in Gotland, Sweden. By David Olsson. JPGs is a photo peek into wherever gamers might find interesting. If you’re a photographer and have images you want to share, drop us a line! 

Dhalsim Cosplay Is Suitably Serene

You don’t see much Dhalsim cosplay. Let’s fix that, with this killer effort from Nein & Hex as the character’s Street Fighter V incarnation. Vid by Eighty Sixed

Look At This Nintendo Switch Cup Holder

Internet Guy Does What Nintendon’t. Thingiverse user sanzliot, aka Tripwire Interactive’s David Hensely, is to thank for this custom Nintendo Switch drink holder, which is available here to make if you at all have access to a 3D printer Those 1-2 Switch drinking games are about to get messy

If Game Of Thrones Was A Cartoon

Game artist Ramón Nuñez actually had his work featured on Fine Art earlier this year, but this new round of Game of Thrones caricatures was too good to pass up sharing. You can see more of Ramón’s work at his personal site and ArtStation page. To see the images in their native resolution, click on…

Genesis Flashback Review Units Were Faulty, Maker Says

Samples of the upcoming Sega Genesis Flashback console sent to media outlets last month had outdated firmware that caused game glitches, according to the manufacturer. It will send updated hardware to those outlets soon, it said. Much like the SNES Classic, the Sega Genesis Flashback is an HDMI-enabled, $79.99 console that plays emulated versions of…

Comedy Game Will Let A Live Audience Heckle Your Bad Jokes

Stand-up comedy can be a fraught profession. If you’re not knocking the audience dead after a minute or two, you’re dying up there. Sometimes, you even get hecklers. If, however, you think you’re funny enough to do stand-up on the internet, where everyone’s a heckler, Comedy Night might be up your alley. Comedy Night is…

Purrblind as P5’s protagonist, photo by Con Mom