Overwatch 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…

Attack 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…

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…

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…

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…

Zelda 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,…

Office Space Video Game Puts A Modern Spin On Old Drudgery

The movie Office Space struck a chord with just about everyone working in a cubicle environment in the late ‘90s, nailing the ridiculous of the everyday grind. Office Space: Idle Profits, out now for iOS and Android from Kongregate, nails the grind in a different sort of way. In the film, disgruntled Initech office workers…

Starbucks Trolled In China With Ridiculous Containers 

Photos have been circulating online showing people in China bringing bowls and pots to Starbucks. While there’s more going on than what first appears, it certainly looks like some people were trolling the coffee chain. The recent Earth Day campaign was actually for free 12 oz. coffee for those who brought their own cup, which…

Sailor Moon Still Works As A Figure Skating Routine 

This isn’t the first time Evgenia Medvedeva has done a Sailor Moon routine, and it’s probably not the last time, either. In 2016, the Russian skater did a Sailor Moon themed routine, which made big waves in Japan. This year, she’s brought it back. Kotaku previously reported how Medvedeva is a huge anime fan. In…

Gaming Themed Drinks “HP” And “MP” Launched In South Korea

Not only were the drinks HP and MP created for those who enjoy gaming, but also as a way to help cut sugar consumption. The Korea Times reports that the drinks, created by Kwangdong Pharmaceutical, have 120 kilocalories each, and the company says this is 30 percent lower than other carbonated drinks available in South…

The Live-Action Gintama‘s Debut Trailer

This summer, the live-action Gintama movie rolls into Japanese movie theaters. So, let’s check out the flick’s first trailer. The movie stars Shun Oguri as the titular Gintoki Sakata. Joining him is Masaki Suda as samurai-in-training Shinpachi Shimura and Kanna Hashimoto as the main female protagonist Kagura. Well, what do you think? The Gintama movie…

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Colossal Iron Man “Figure” Costs $8000

I’ve got an Iron Man figure from Hot Toys on my shelf. It’s 1:6 scale, and is worth a couple hundred bucks. This one is 1:1 scale, and costs almost $8000. Called theIron Man Mark III Life-Size Figure and built by Sideshow, it’s not really a figure, in that you can’t pose it. It’s not…

North American League Finals End In A Barnburner

Two games in, Team SoloMid looked poised to deftly sweep the number-two seed Cloud9 in the finals of the North American League Championship Series Spring Split. Cloud9 would not cede so easily, however, and rallied back to push it to a climactic game five, where a single clash would decide the champion of the split.…

Vinyl Takes Video Game Music Appreciation To New Levels

Vinyl’s not just a fad, it’s a fundamentally unique way of interacting with music and art. So it makes sense that fans of the medium would want to re-introduce video games to the wonderful world of spinning records that preceded them. Take Rez for example. Released in 2001, it was one of the first games…