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CultureThe ‘Fairy Trick’ In Wind Waker HD Shows The Brutal Role RNG Can Play In Speedrunning
Last Tuesday, the Any% speedrunning world record for The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD was about three hours. Now, less than a week later, it’s been cut in half, thanks in part to one super lucky fairy. The records for running Wind Waker HD first began collapsing thanks to the Barrier Skip, an…
By Ethan Gach Published April 16, 2017 - Esports
Wild Melee Match Decided By 1/60 Of A Second
Two giants of Melee met in the loser’s finals at today’s CEO Dreamland, and the match came down to the wire. Jason “Mew2King” Zimmerman and Juan “Hungrybox” Debiedma were tied at 2-2, each with only a single life left, vying for a spot in the grand finals when a single frame decided the outcome. Zimmerman,…
By Eric Van Allen Published April 16, 2017 - Culture
The Week In Games: Telltale Thanos
Some weeks are deader than others. Before the modern age of Marvel, whose recent gaming outings are monopolized mostly by Disney Infinity (RIP!)and the Lego series, there was Marvel Super Heroes, a Capcom fighter that came out a year before the first Marvel vs. Capcom. The Infinity Gauntlet arc’s only real game adaptation, Thanos finally…
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UncategorizedPlayer Shoves Zelda: Breath Of The Wild NPC All Over The Map
Breath of the Wild has a lot of NPCs. When YouTuber Nesis found out you could shove them, they decided to try pushing the minstrel bird Kass for a very long time. It turns out you don’t need to be aboard an United Airlines flight to get the crap knocked out of you in Hyrule.…
By Ethan Gach Published April 16, 2017 - Uncategorized
Let’s Talk About Our Favorite Spring Games
Some games capture the spirit of this verdant time of year in a way that can’t be matched. The April blossoms, holiday weekend, and unusually warm weather has me thinking of some of my favorite spring time games. The winter should be the best time to sit inside glued to an LCD screen, but I’ve…
By Ethan Gach Published April 16, 2017 - Esports
Car Crash Pile-Up Knocks Forza Racer Out Of Invitational
This weekend’s Forza Motosport 6 Invitational has showcased a solid amount of sim racing, but one pile-up led to a well-known racer missing the grand finals. Competitive Forza, at least in this tournament, enforces penalties for racers who get a little too close. After a few bumps and bruises during a semifinal race, the commentators…
By Eric Van Allen Published April 16, 2017 -
UncategorizedBlizzard Takes Game Servers Offline To Fix Login Issues [Update]
If you woke up this morning hoping to log some hours with Overwatch (or Hearthstone, or Heroes of the Storm), you probably had issues trying to login to Blizzard’s game client. Five hours later, Blizzard is still working on fixing the problem. [Update 12:59AM] Blizzard says the problems have been resolved Original story follows. The issues…
By Ethan Gach Published April 16, 2017 -
UncategorizedThe Rick And Morty Mods For GTA V Are Way Too Real
The mods transform Grand Theft Auto V into a bloodbath of surreal, familial dysfunction. Like the “Look Who’s Purging Now” episode from season 2, but way more fucked up. Every day without more Rick and Morty is a wasted day in my opinion. More episodes, more games, I want it all. Mods too! At least…
By Ethan Gach Published April 16, 2017 - Culture
Sunday Comics: Roommate Interviews
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 April 13. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published April 10. Read more…
By Ethan Gach Published April 16, 2017 - Uncategorized
A Look Back At Fez‘s Unsolvable “Black Monolith” Puzzle
Vibrantly-pixelated indie darling Fez turned five years old this week, so it’s the perfect time to celebrate the game’s strangest puzzle and the community of players who devoted themselves to solving it. Released in April of 2012 on Xbox Live Arcade, Fez seemed like a retro-throwback from an alternate reality; the kind of made-up game…
By Ethan Gach Published April 15, 2017 -
UncategorizedStar Citizen 3.0 Update Coming In June, Will Add Moons You Can Land On
The giant space-sim is getting its next big update on June 29 which will include, among a litany of other stuff, the ability for players to take their ships out into space and dock on of a handful of moons. The addition of this new “Planetary Tech” will help expand what players can do in…
By Ethan Gach Published April 15, 2017 - Esports
Duck Hunt Dogs Are Having Their Day At Smash Tournament
The snarky pup from Duck Hunt isn’t the most common competitor in Smash 4. Though he has his defenders, players like Raito have had to work to show that the dog’s D-tier ranking doesn’t prevent him from taking games off the best of the best. At CEO Dreamland, Raito and other Duck Hunt Dog players…
By Eric Van Allen Published April 15, 2017 -
UncategorizedTumbleSeed is coming to the Nintendo Switch, PS4, and Steam on May 2. The procedurally generated roguelike involves trying to balance a seed as untold horrors scroll on by. As you roll from side to side you’ll acquire different powers that can be used to defeat the weird creatures blocking your path.
By Ethan Gach Published April 15, 2017 -
UncategorizedEA Officially Reveals Star Wars Battlefront II, Single-Player And All
Star Wars: Battlefront II is definitely happening and it will have a single-player story (if you still had any doubts). EA officially “announced” the game at this year’s Star Wars Celebration, showing off the game’s protagonist and aerial combat. It’ll be out this year on November 17 for PS4, Xbox One, and PC. The trailer…
By Ethan Gach Published April 15, 2017 - Esports
Random Car Steals The Kill In Overwatch Tournament
Oasis’ active traffic, even in the face of an ongoing superhuman turf war, has led to some fantastic vehicular highlights. In a match between Detonator Gold and Hong Kong Attitude in the ongoing Overwatch Pacific Championship, pro player ManGoJai learned the hard way that you shouldn’t jaywalk. With DTN’s SamuraiD bearing down on him, ManGoJai…
By Eric Van Allen Published April 15, 2017 - Esports
The Weekend In Esports: Bow Down Before Whispy Woods
Pros from the far reaches of the less traditional fighting game community descend on Orlando, Florida this weekend to make sacrifices to that tree dude from Kirby. CEO Dreamland is the first event of its kind dedicated to brawl-style fighters and will give top talent across games like Melee and Smash 4 (Wii U) a…
By Ethan Gach Published April 15, 2017 - CultureCosplay
Police Mistake Fallout Cosplay For Bomb
We’ve all been there. Your Fallout costume just isn’t sitting right. It needs alterations. So you head to the nearest tailor looking like a poor-man’s storm trooper only to get hounded by the police who think you’re carrying a bomb on your back. That’s what happened to one cosplayer in Grande Prairie, Canada last Tuesday.…
By Ethan Gach Published April 15, 2017
