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Sunday Comics: Samus Gets The Call
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 June 13. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published June 12. Read more…
By Ethan Gach Published June 18, 2017 -
UncategorizedIn Super Mario Odyssey Gaming’s Original Damsel In Distress Might Finally Get Her Due
Over three decades ago she was stuck sitting atop steel beams waiting for “the plumber” to rescue her, but in 2017, Pauline has risen to the highest public office of New Donk City, the fictional urban backdrop for Super Mario Odyssey Looking back at the Donkey Kong arcade game from 1981, it’s hard not to…
By Ethan Gach Published June 17, 2017 - Uncategorized
Portal Looks Great As A Lego Diorama
Look at that orange hole in the wall! adBrickBuilder, who goes by Anthony Wilson on Flickr (where you can see other Lego creations), posted their latest project to Reddit. One commenter pointed out that this wasn’t the “correct solve” solve for the puzzle at hand, but it looks sleek and rad nonetheless. Just look at…
By Ethan Gach Published June 17, 2017 - Esports
Street Fighter Player Turns To The Book Of Daigo After Loss
In times of trouble, some players turn to a coach or fellow pro, possibly even to a higher power. This Street Fighter player chose to lean on the Good Book: namely, Daigo’s book, The Will to Keep Winning Daigo Umehara is among the pantheon of Street Fighter legends, with a long and storied career. His…
By Eric Van Allen Published June 17, 2017 -
EsportsTekken Pros Face WWE Star And The Game’s Producer In Royal Rumble Tournament
CEO’s Royal Rumble is always a good time and this year’s was no exception. The Royal Rumble features 30 contestants selected from the fighting game community battling for the title in an event full of pomp and circumstance that’s as much about showy entrances as deadly combos. Focusing on Tekken 7 in light of its…
By Ethan Gach Published June 17, 2017 -
UncategorizedNeuro Voider is coming to the Nintendo Switch later this year it’s co-creator confirmed on Twitter today. The colorful twin-stick shooter you probably missed when it came to Xbox One, PS4, and PC in March features four player coop and will have auto-aim for the Switch version.
By Ethan Gach Published June 17, 2017 - Esports
The Weekend In Esports: Call Of Duty Anaheim Open, DreamHack Summer, And CEO 2017
Watch all the weekend’s best pro gaming until your eyes bleed. 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 in the comments or if you think there’s something we might have missed. Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare It’s a…
By Ethan Gach Published June 17, 2017 - Esports
Long-Time Commentator Says Dota 2 Is Reaching A Breaking Point
Toby Dawson has been commentating in the Dota pro scene for over a decade, and has been the voice behind some of its biggest moments. In a recent post on the Dota 2 subreddit, Dawson voiced his concerns on the continued viability of the scene. It started with a tweet, where Dawson laid it out…
By Eric Van Allen Published June 17, 2017 - Culture
This Week In The Business: Xbox One Stand-Off
QUOTE | “We’re going to sell more Xbox One S’s next year than we will X. That’s always been part of the plan.” – Xbox boss Phil Spencer talking about the continued importance of the Xbox One S as it puts a focus on Xbox One X at E3 QUOTE | “I think that the…
James Brightman Published June 17, 2017 -
UncategorizedE3 Was Different This Year, And It Wasn’t Just The Crowds
It’s the first day of E3. I’m walking the show floor—or more accurately, oozing across it, slug-like, followed by a trail of my own sweat. I’m shoulder-to-shoulder with swathes of people. Across the way, crowds of people whoop and holler, each of them hoping to win swag they can stuff in their floor-length swag bags.…
By Nathan Grayson Published June 16, 2017 -
UncategorizedFinal Fantasy XIV’s New Expansion Off To A Predictably Rocky Start
Stormblood launched in early access today, and the servers are getting bodied. As I see it, we wouldn’t have constant lag, frequent disconnects and players forming massive lines in a desperate attempt to get a quest done if Final Fantasy XIV didn’t make such attractive expansion packs. What seems completely ridiculous to folks who haven’t…
By Mike Fahey Published June 16, 2017 -
UncategorizedA Moment That Captures Why Super Mario Odyssey Seems So Special
We’ve written a lot about E3 this week and covered a lot of games, including Super Mario Odyssey. Still, here’s one more post about that game, because it’s too cool not to share with you. The above video is from Nintendo’s Treehouse Live demo of Mario Odyssey’s forest level. In the first six minutes, the…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 16, 2017 - Culture
What Are You Playing This Weekend?
The weekend is for taking a long nap after E3. Also taking a break from hearing about video games to actually play some. I am so pumped for Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus, readers, because The New Order freaking ruled. (I even wrote a bloga while back about BJ [and other dudes] taking a bath.)…
By Riley MacLeod Published June 16, 2017 - Esports
Tekken 7 Player Turns Down Tournament’s T-Mobile Phone Prize, Because He Uses AT&T
Tekken 7 player Bronson Tran lived up to his nickname “the mouth of NorCal” this past Wednesday night when he received and rejected the MVP prize at E3’s Twitch Esports Arena invitational. Fans nominated the MVP via Twitter hashtag, and the winner was supposed to get a T-Mobile phone. Except, as Bronson explained while standing…
By Maddy Myers Published June 16, 2017 - Uncategorized
E3 2017’s Best Dressed Video Game Characters
We’ve seen all the E3 trailers, announcement and gameplay demos, but one question remains: which game characters were the best dressed? Here’ a few of my favorite looks from the games we saw. A Way Out 70s looks are coming back in a big way, and the two main characters from A Way Out embrace…
By Gita Jackson Published June 16, 2017 -
UncategorizedHow Many Games At E3 2017 Had Guns? A Scientific Investigation
Clifford “Cliffy B” Bleszinski once described video game guns’ profound appeal with this simple sentiment: “reach out and touch someone . . . with your gun.” Since the early 1990s, guns have pretty much been the telephone of choice for video game characters: they speak to their rivals with bangs, booms, and headshots. Now, however,…
By Tim Rogers Published June 16, 2017 - Esports
Nintendo Responds To Smash Bros. Pro’s Callout, Wants To Keep Scene Grassroots
One of the world’s top Super Smash Bros. players recently knocked Nintendo for not sufficiently supporting the scene and said he hoped that Nintendo heard him. This week in Los Angeles, they did—after we played a clip of his speech to Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime. Juan “Hungrybox” Debiedma, a top-three-ranked Super Smash Bros.…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 16, 2017 -
EsportsThe 15-Year-Old Smash Pro Who Finds Confidence In Dancing Like Bayonetta
It’s Tuesday, and Zack “CaptainZack” Lauth is waiting on a plane. His flight’s been delayed twice. At 15 years old, he’s one of the youngest signed players in Super Smash Bros. For Wii U, and one of the best Bayonetta players in the world—a character as strong as she is controversial. Lauth, like his other…
By Eric Van Allen Published June 16, 2017
