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The Week In Games: Titus Andromeda
When things in this galaxy get too predictable, it’s time to pick up and lift off for another. Maybe humanity can finally find peace outside the Milky Way. Unfortunately, I have a sneaking suspicion my instinct tells me bloodshed, destruction, and especially thinly veiled futuristic variants on traditional fire arms will follow us no matter…
By Ethan Gach Published March 19, 2017 - Esports
Player Lands One-Hit KO In Japanese Fighting Game Tournament
This weekend held many different events in some of the biggest esports, from League of Legends and Street Fighter to Call of Duty. In a small arcade tucked away in Akihabara, Japan, however, players were duking it out in some of the best bouts I’ve seen all weekend, in a language I don’t understand and…
By Eric Van Allen Published March 19, 2017 - Uncategorized
The Binding Of Isaac On Nintendo Switch Has A Gorgeous Instruction Booklet
In a world of big, empty video game cases devoid of instructions or interesting art, one game is fighting back in a small but beautiful way. The Binding of Isaac first came out back in September of 2011. Since that time, however, Edmund McMillen and his development team have been releasing expansions and add-ons for…
By Ethan Gach Published March 19, 2017 - Esports
Former Overwatch Teammates Reunite As “Laser Kittenz”
A new Overwatch team is set to make its debut on the international stage. Laser Kittenz is made up of the former Bench Boys roster and two other players, and the team will be looking to establish itself in the upcoming Overwatch League. In a report from ESPN Esports, the team says it is currently…
By Eric Van Allen Published March 19, 2017 -
UncategorizedYouTuber JonTron Tries To Clarify His Controversial Views On Race
Last week, YouTube personality Jon Jafari made a series of offensive remarks about race during a debate over on Steve Bonnell’s Twitch channel. Earlier today, he released a video on the Jon Tron Show YouTube channel to try and set the record straight. “I said lots of stuff that could be misconstrued in all sorts…
By Ethan Gach Published March 19, 2017 - Esports
Hearthstone Team League Finals Cap Off With Gimmicks And Miracles
Hearthstone is often thought of as a one-on-one card game, but in the Trinity Series, teams battle each other rather than single players. In last night’s final matches of the tournament, four teams converged to see whose decklist could outlast the others’. Where most Hearthstone tournaments bracket individual players into a best-of-five format, having to…
By Eric Van Allen Published March 19, 2017 - Culture
Sunday Comics: The Hyrule Guide To Food Preperation
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 March 14. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published March 13. Read more…
By Ethan Gach Published March 19, 2017 - Uncategorized
Scumbags Harass Woman For Working On Mass Effect: Andromeda‘s Animations
Internet cretins engaged in a harassment campaign against a woman who worked for Electronic Arts this weekend, flooding her social media and various internet profiles with vitriolic, often misogynistic messages. Her sin, it appears, was working on animations for the game Mass Effect: Andromeda Allie Rose-Marie Leost, who worked for EA’s motion-capture labs in Vancouver,…
By Ethan Gach Published March 18, 2017 -
UncategorizedThis is the first 35 minutes of Prey, the not really a Prey game that’s nevertheless called Prey being developed by Arkane Studios and published by Bethesda. Come for the monkey wrench melee bashing and stay for those slick, Brazilian cherry hardwood floors.
By Ethan Gach Published March 18, 2017 - Esports
Dota 2 Pro Goes Undercover As A Tree, Dies Anyway
Ludwig “Zai” Wåhlberg isn’t even 20-years-old and he’s already won over $1.1 million in esports prize money. In an exhibition match on Friday against recently formed Onyx, the Evil Geniuses player decided to transform into a tree and try to mess with his opponents just for the hell of it. Monkey King is the latest…
By Ethan Gach Published March 18, 2017 - Uncategorized
Horrifying MLB The Show Glitch Is Not Okay
There’s a lot of stuff you can do in MLB The Show 17. You can throw balls, swing bats, and up until recently, create unholy baseball abominations like the above. Life was breathed into those demons when when a glitch with the game’s hair slider turned custom players into human wicker statues. Sony San Diego,…
By Ethan Gach Published March 18, 2017 -
UncategorizedFuture Unfolding came out earlier this week for PC and looks like the perfect way to spend the weekend unwinding. An exploration game that finds inspiration in The Witness, Unfolding takes a lush painter’s brush to randomly generated environments filled with unique, non-repeating puzzles.
By Ethan Gach Published March 18, 2017 -
EsportsThe Weekend In Esports: Duty Calls In Texas
Call of Duty returns in a big way this week with the World League Open for Infinite Warfare in Dallas. The last chance for teams to earn a spot in stage 1 of the Global Pro League, competitive Call of Duty’s big spring event, all eyes will be on Northern Texas to see who can…
By Ethan Gach Published March 18, 2017 -
UncategorizedAmerican Says In 2007 It’s His Dream To Work At Nintendo, Winds Up In Credits For Breath Of The Wild
Everyone has a dream. Corey Bunnell’s was to one day work for Nintendo. But he wasn’t sure how to make that happen so he asked for advice one day on a forum. That was ten years ago. This month, Nintendo shipped The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild with his name in the credits…
By Ethan Gach Published March 18, 2017 - Culture
This Week In The Business: Switches Get Riches
STAT | 1.5 million – The Nintendo Switch global installed base after one week, according to Superdata. The firm also believes 89% of Switch owners purchased The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild to go with the system. STAT | 16 million – Nintendo’s planned production of Switch consoles for its next fiscal year,…
Brendan Sinclair Published March 18, 2017 - Uncategorized
EVE Player Gets Revenge On Griefer Four Years Later
They say revenge is a dish best served cold. In EVE Online player Darvo Thellere’s case, it was cold as the uncaring vacuum of space. Darvo’s story, which I verified via EVE war records as well as lengthy chat logs Darvo provided me, began back in 2013. He was just taking his first steps in…
By Nathan Grayson Published March 17, 2017 - Uncategorized
One Devious Microtransaction
The makers of the new mobile game Bit City have already tweaked one of their game’s microtransactions, just days after launch. I guess I wasn’t the only one who thought it was messed up, even by microtransaction standards. The game in question is called Bit City. It’s a cross between Sim City and clicker games…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 17, 2017 - Culture
Steam Group Helps Players Prevent Carpal Tunnel
PC games can confer all sorts of positive benefits: improved spatial reasoning, a sense of community, the best video games (don’t @ me), etc. They can also destroy your damn wrists. Carpal Tunnel Prevention is a handy Steam group dedicated to keeping your precious digits in working order. They send out regular alerts reminding people…
By Nathan Grayson Published March 17, 2017 - Culture
What Are You Playing This Weekend?
Weekends are for admitting that dish you made in your crockpot really didn’t come out well so you can give up on eating it and try something new. The crockpot is great because, while it does its thing, you can play video games! I’m almost done with the Hearts of Stone DLC for The Witcher…
By Riley MacLeod Published March 17, 2017
