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CultureBattlegrounds Player Takes Car On Underground Tunnel Rampage
Sometimes, it’s the little things in life that bring us the most joy. Other times, it’s big things, like cars, inside of things that should not be able to contain their screaming metal fury, like underground tunnels. Streamer Chris Grant managed to squeeze a PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds car into a bunker tunnel. He wasn’t expecting to…
By Nathan Grayson Published April 24, 2017 - Esports
TNC Is Rampaging Through Dota‘s Kiev Major
The four-month gap the Boston and Kiev Majors in Dota 2 has been especially vacuous, as precious few tournaments gave fans a chance to gauge each team’s potential headed into today’s Kiev Major group stage play. After Boston it seemed like TNC Pro Team was in disarray, but Kiev is showing that just might not…
By Eric Van Allen Published April 24, 2017 -
UncategorizedThe Best, Weirdest Mario/Zelda Crossovers
Late last year, it was revealed that Link would become a racer in Mario Kart 8. But that wasn’t his first Mario rodeo. Nor was it the first time Zelda crossed over into the Mario series—far from it. This post originally appeared 3/31/15. Since the late eighties, or more precisely, since the arrival of Zelda,…
By András Neltz Published April 24, 2017 -
CultureBattlegrounds Player Hits The Ground Running
Today on Highlight Reel we have motorcycle escape plans, Battlegrounds pan asses, Overwatch needle threading, and much more! Watch the video then talk about your favorite highlight in the comments below. Be sure to check out, like, and share the original videos via the links below. Subscribe to Kotaku on YouTube for more! Horizon Zero…
By Chris Person Published April 24, 2017 - Uncategorized
Swapping Keycaps Is The Key To Having A Pretty Keyboard
Between my keyboard-centric posts here on Kotaku and my Twitter feed, I’ve been posting a lot of pictures of very pretty keyboards lately, which leads to people asking me where they can buy those keyboards. For the most part, you can’t. You have to build them. I’m not saying you need to buy a kit…
By Mike Fahey Published April 24, 2017 - Esports
Pro Overwatch Team Can’t Shake Controversy, Loses Two More Players
Lunatic Hai is far and away one of the best Overwatch teams in the world right now. Despite (or perhaps, because of) that, they’ve recently become a lightning rod for controversy. Mere days after Lunatic Hai added two new alternate players, DPS Byeon “Munchkin” Sang-Beom and flex Lee “claris” Keon-Ho, both have stepped down due…
By Nathan Grayson Published April 24, 2017 -
UncategorizedTop For Honor Player Accused Of Rampant Rage-Quitting
CosmicSwordsman is one of the highest-ranked For Honor player on Xbox. Playing the Orochi class, they have killed 5,384 players and died four times, according to their For Honor tracker network page. They have lost once. Of course, there’s a catch: allegedly, and ironically, they got there by gaming For Honor’s ranking system. According to…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published April 24, 2017 - Uncategorized
Don’t forget that a game studio is only as good as the people who work there. “Bungie” means something different today than it did in 2004. Here’s an insightful, well-researched post by Redditor Forestl showing how many of the people who made Halo 2 are still at the iconic studio and how many have left…
By Jason Schreier Published April 24, 2017 -
UncategorizedBreath Of The Wild’s Best Rewards Aren’t Always ‘Useful’
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild does not dole out rewards predictably. Often you’ll spend an afternoon figuring out some elaborate puzzle, only to walk away with some rupees or a weapon you didn’t need. Other times the reward will be just as “useless,” but more special than any pile of loot could…
By Kirk Hamilton Published April 24, 2017 - CultureTotal Recall
Solving The Mystery Of Perfect Dark’s Hidden Passwords
The 2000 Nintendo 64 game Perfect Dark was full of secrets. There were cheat codes to find, hidden pieces of cheese scattered around levels, and special modes to unlock. One mystery remains, nearly two decades later, with only a few hidden passwords hinting at its existence. Unfortunately, even the game’s developers were not able to…
By Heather Alexandra Published April 24, 2017 -
EsportsOverwatch Pro’s Racist Tirade Ends His Career
Most pros’ careers end in injury, deteriorating mechanical skill, or just when their interest in competing runs dry. Toronto Esports’ Matt “Dellor” Vaughn opted for a different end: A very long, very public stream of racial slurs during an Overwatch game. Vaughn, a 28-year-old adult, was playing a ranked match in Overwatch. His opponent’s Widowmaker…
By Eric Van Allen Published April 24, 2017 -
UncategorizedAttack on Titan Fans Are Making Jokes About ‘Humanity’s Worst Fear’
Attack on Titan—is it a real, earnest anime or a super-efficient meme factory? Yesterday’s episode, and the reactions it inspired, brings us one stop closer to the answer. In the latest AoT episode, titan-fighting trainees are hiding from the naked giants in a castle when—spoiler—the titans breach it. Reiner, one of the trainees, discovers the…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published April 24, 2017 - Esports
Honorable Overwatch Pro Spares Apparently Lagging Opponent
Robert “shadder2k” Mocanu is one of the best Genji players in professional Overwatch. This weekend, he proved that he was not just a great player but also a pretty nice dude. shadder2k and his cohorts in Team Liquid faced off against EnVyUs on Watchpoint Gibraltar during this weekend’s HND Overwatch Invitational. The most remarkable thing…
By Heather Alexandra Published April 24, 2017 - Uncategorized
Since League of Legends migrated their servers from L.A. to Chicago, serious gamers in Hawaii have experienced bad latency, The Outline reported today. Hawaiian gamers are disadvantaged by the lag, and reportedly, there have been no internationally-competing professional Hawaiian LoL players since the switch.
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published April 24, 2017 - Culture
Finding True Love Through League Of Legends
Ayhan Aydogan is an artist at Riot Games. Which is normally where we’d end the introductions in Fine Art, but then, not every artist showcase involves true love. Below you’ll find examples of Ayhan’s work, both personal and stuff done for League of Legends But you’ll also find some 3D sculpts which Aydogan made and…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 24, 2017 - Reviews
What Remains Of Edith Finch: The Kotaku Review
What Remains of Edith Finch is a story about family, the nature of life, and the unknowability of mortality. In the end, whatever flaws Edith Finch may have are outshined by its imagination, wonder, and the sincerity with which it approaches these topics. You play as Edith, the last member of the Finch family, returning…
By Gita Jackson Published April 24, 2017 -
UncategorizedFrom Introversion Software, the makers of Prison Architect, comes Scanner Sombre, a game involving navigating an underground cave using a LIDAR (light detection and ranging) scanner. It looks really neat, and it’s out on April 26 on Steam, GOG and Humble.
By Mike Fahey Published April 24, 2017 -
UncategorizedZelda Fan Game Turns Breath of the Wild Prototype Into Thing You Can Play
Earlier this year, Nintendo showed off a 2D version of Zelda that it used to conceptualize some of the mechanics in Breath of the Wild. It was cool! No surprise, then, that a fan decided to recreate that prototype so that anyone could play it. Breath of the NES is available for download on itchio,…
By Patricia Hernandez Published April 24, 2017
