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Let’s Appreciate This Fine Video Game Hair
Johan Lithvall is a character artist at Starbreeze who specialises in hair. Which sounds crazy, until you take a moment to appreciate just how much hair a modern video game character has, and how good it looks blowing in the breeze. Lithvall got to work with Guerrilla on Horizon Zero Dawn, which means he’s one…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 7, 2017 - Uncategorized
The Secret Ending That Helped Redeem Tactics Ogre: The Knights of Lodis
Not many games get a stinger this good, so it’s a shame so few people remember it. Ask someone about their favorite turn-based tactical role-playing game and they’ll probably start talking about Final Fantasy Tactics or Fire Emblem. Maybe even Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together. But what about the Ogre series spin-off Knights of…
By Ethan Gach Published May 7, 2017 - Uncategorized
Diego Maradona And Konami Are Now Best Friends
What a difference a couple of months makes. In March, football legend Diego Maradonawanted to sue Konami for including a digital version of himself in PES 2017 without his permission. Now, in May, he’s signed on to become an ambassador for the series. El Eco reportsthat the agreement comes after an out-of-court settlement, in which…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 7, 2017 - Culture
The Week In Games: Back For Blood
They just don’t make first-person shooters like they used to. Except for Strafe I actually don’t really remember how they used to make video games. Firing laser beams at motherboards? The 90s are almost two decades old, so who knows what they were really like, but the uber-violent shooter-throwback Strafe seems like as good an…
By Ethan Gach Published May 7, 2017 - CultureSplitscreen
Podcast: Should Nintendo Make Switch VR?
Should Nintendo make a VR peripheral for Switch? What would Kirk and I do if we were put in charge of Bungie? Get the answers to those questions and many more, on today’s Kotaku Splitscreen I just started Nier: Automata, so Kirk and I talk about that for a bit (7:17) before jumping into the…
By Jason Schreier Published May 7, 2017 -
EsportsCounter-Strike Caster Gets Tossed Into Giant ‘Pie’ After Loss
This is what happens after you shout “Fuck you all, god save the queen” to a crowd full of Aussie Counter-Strike fans. In a showmatch prior to the IEM Sydney grand finals for CS:GO this morning, analyst Chad “SPUNJ” Burchill led his Australian team to a dominating win over British caster Henry “HenryG” Greer’s UK…
By Ethan Gach Published May 7, 2017 -
UncategorizedTrippy Fan Game Transforms Donkey Kong Country Into Vaporwave
This jenky ode to a dead music genre lets you collect bananas while trampling through a glitched-out Jungle Hijinxs as a slowed-down, reverb-infested remix of the DKC soundtrack plays in the background. Any questions? DonkeyKong.exe resulted from a very small game jam taking place in Gothenburg, Sweden. The group, Indie Games Gothenburg, decide to work…
By Ethan Gach Published May 7, 2017 -
EsportsTop Smash Player Lands Perfect Donkey Kong Combo
At this past weekend’s Umebura Japan Major, Jason “Mew2King” Zimmerman clinically executed a “ding-dong,” a combo that has elevated DK into the competitive meta-game. A play on words that references Diddy Kong’s “hoo-hah” combo, “ding-dong” is jargon for a combination where Donkey Kong players use his throw to launch someone up in the air, then…
By Eric Van Allen Published May 7, 2017 -
UncategorizedArk: Survival Evolved Gets Sharks With Frickin’ Laser Beams After Latest Patch
Ark: Survival Evolved mutates again with its new v257 patch released on Friday. Among other things, it adds lasers to sharks. About time honestly. The patch also introduces new creatures, including giant bees, something called a Liopleurodon Magicus, and “hell pigs,” as well as a cloning chamber and of course the mysterious Tek cave dungeon…
By Ethan Gach Published May 7, 2017 - Esports
Brazilians Prove Unstoppable At Australian Counter-Strike Tournament
The hierarchy of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive gets a shakeup at the IEM XII Championship in Sydney, Australia as the European powerhouses make room for the resurgence of South America’s SK Gaming. Even Nikola ‘NiKo’ Kovač, bought earlier this year for $500,000, couldn’t save FaZe Clan. The shadow hanging over the IEM Sydney grand finals was…
By Ethan Gach Published May 7, 2017 - Esports
Smash Pro Wins Japan Major By Going Back To His Roots
At the Umebura Japan Major, Kengo “Ken” Suzuki was on a tear through the winner’s bracket. MkLeo, his opponent, was down one elimination and needed a new plan to take the grand finals, and he found a winning strategy in the strangest of places: his old main. Leonardo “MkLeo” Perez was the banner carrier for…
By Eric Van Allen Published May 7, 2017 - Culture
Sunday Comics: Mario And Friends
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 May 2. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published May 1. Read more…
By Ethan Gach Published May 7, 2017 - Esports
Announcers Rib Pro Madden Player For Chewing On Bottle Caps
This is Anthony “Misery” Pulli, a young pro Madden player from Pennsylvania who spent today fighting for a shot at the 2017 Championship. He also spent all of game two gnawing on a chunk of plastic, mesmerizing sportscasters in the process. Misery had a good first game against number two ranked Trueboy, but fell flat…
By Ethan Gach Published May 6, 2017 -
CultureSlime-san Is A Lo-Fi Platformer That Wants To Sweep You Off Your Feet
Slime-San is the type of twitchy, lighting-quick platformer I‘m happy to spend hours dying in. Filled with micro levels similar to Super Meat boy, the fourth project from the New York studio Fabraz takes the labyrinths of classic games like Super Mario Bros. and Donkey Kong Country and condenses them down into a single screen…
By Ethan Gach Published May 6, 2017 - Esports
Demolition Paves Way For Rocket League Team’s Clean Sweep
Among the similarities between Rocket League and soccer is the physicality of the game, though rather than red cards, Rocket League opts to simply have cars explode when they collide with enough velocity. Today was Selfless’ first time competing in the North American Rocket League Championship playoffs, and coming in as the no. 5 seed,…
By Eric Van Allen Published May 6, 2017 -
UncategorizedThere’s Finally Another Dancing Skeleton Theme On The PS4
The Playstation Store has tons of themes for you to choose from and one of the newest includes a reggae skeleton shaking his bones and dreads to some chill Jamaican beats. The theme comes from Mass Creation, but it’s not the outfit’s first time. They released one last December that featured not one but THREE…
By Ethan Gach Published May 6, 2017 - Uncategorized
Overwatch Team Wastes Four Ultimates Trying To Take Down Roadhog
Pro tip: don’t engage your ultimate unless you’re sure you’ll actually get to use it. It seems like the best Rodhog players are always playing for the other team, and I’m sure that’s how the Soldier 76, Genji, and McCree felt when they and their fellow Roadhog got absolutely destroyed in Massev’s recent Play of…
By Ethan Gach Published May 6, 2017 - Esports
PlayStation Player Finally Wins A FIFA Regional
In Madrid today, some of Europe’s best virtual footballers gathered to determine who would move on to Berlin for FIFA 17 championship and for once, a PlayStation player pulled out the win. The bracket of each regional is divided by platform, Xbox One and PlayStation 4. Once a champion for each has been determined, they…
By Eric Van Allen Published May 6, 2017
