Bandai Namco is partnering with Twitch to host the Tekken World Tour. Starting with CEO 2017 on June 16, the $200,000 prize pool tournament circuit will run through November, culminating in the 16-player world finals.
Titanfall 2‘s latest piece of free DLC Monarch’s Reign releases on the 30th. It will include an all new Titan, the Monarch. It is a mid-range Titan that can upgrade itself by collecting new parts on the battlefield, hopefully combining into a massive Voltron-esque doom bot.
Magic: The Gathering is a very good card game that I am very picky about playing. I’m a casual player, more likely to challenge a friend at a bar than attend a local tournament. I’m not about to pore over apps and blogs to assemble some impenetrable, holy deck; I’d rather play Magic: The Gathering…
Jacky “EternaLEnVy” Mao, captain of Team NP, was coming off a loss in the team’s first game at the Dota 2 Manila Masters when even gravity seemed to let him down. During a break between games one and two, as both teams went over strategy and drafts for the coming, likely decisive contest, Mao got…
Magikarp Jump, a game about raising Pokémon’s most useless monster, is out today for iOS and Android. It is just as much a game about training Magikarp as it is a game about losing your Magikarp in horrible ways. I have been playing the game for about two hours, and I am terrified about making…
Injustice 2 is just a week old, but competition is already heating up thanks toDeadshot’s frustrating zoning gameplay. After losing to the character during a recent tournament, one player gave his controller a good bounce. As competition wound down on Saturday at the Toryuken tournament in Toronto, paths to the finals bracket became valuable commodities,…
Microsoft’s Twitch competitor Beam just got some new bells and whistles. Now rebranded as “Mixer,” the platform now offers co-streaming, which lets up to 4 streamers combine their streams into one broadcast, and a mobile streaming app, currently in beta.
Now that the movie is out, the artists who worked on Alien: Covenant are free to share their stuff. And regardless of your thoughts on the movie itself, it’s all very pretty. Note that this isn’t everything from the vault, nor is it encompassing the work of every single artist who contributed to the movie.…
Track: If You’re Here | Artist: Cornelius | Album: Mellow Waves Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.
Behold one of the most incredible do-it-yourself Voltron models I’ve ever seen. I’m willing to bet the same is true for you. Designed by a Korean model-maker known as “Juny,” this Voltron is made up of three hundred and forty 3D printed parts. The metallic paint job is, in particular, spectacular. Check out more of…
Bandai Namco announced BXD, a company that specializes in online games and smartphone compatible browser games. Three titles are slated for 2018 in Japan: a new Dragon Ball Z, a new Family Stadium, and a new Idolmaster. No word about international releases.
Wonder which shooters folks in Japan like best? Here’s a poll that might shed light on that question. As with the previous polls (here and here), each person was allowed to vote for up to three titles (though people could only vote for one or two if they wanted). Famitsu then calculated these votes as…
Ainokura Village. Toyama Prefecture, Japan. By Santiago Torres 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!
Here are two Chinese cosplayers—Omiya(2B) and Ichinosehikaru(9S)—going absolutely nuts with their Nier: Automata cosplay partnership. Before you say it, yes, these are heavily edited images. But hey, if you’re going to photoshop your cosplay images, you may as well go hard. And even if you’re the type to recoil at the thought of effects and…
Turns out, the keys to success in PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds and family life are one in the same. It’s all about communication. With your dad. PUBG is a game fraught with moments of panic and uncertainty. It’s hard to find a duos partners who can keep it together under pressure—let alone communicate effectively when shit is…
This is the world we live in now. Where even fan-made, multiplayer-only Halo games get four-minute cinematic trailers. This clip is for Installation 01, a back-to-basics Halo fan game for the PC that we first took a look at last year Looks like things are coming along nicely. Installation 01 is an attempt to get…
Jordan Vogt-Roberts, director of Kong: Skull Island, hid a bunch of video game tributes and influences throughout the movie so well that nobody noticed. So he’s now pointing them out. Some of the homages made it into the finished film: And some stuff didn’t: If you were going to ask “well why isn’t this guy…
This is one of the nicest video game surprises I’ve had in a long time. Stoic, creators of the excellent Banner Saga, dropped a game on Steam this week out of almost nowhere. And it’s pretty good! Killers & Thieves is a game made by Stoic co-founder Alex Thomas, and is all about the daily…
Announced earlier this year, here’s the first trailer for Netflix’s animated Castlevania series. There are whips and skulls, so it’s got that going for it. The series is due on July 7.
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