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Valve Reveals Sweeping New Patch 7.00 For Dota 2
Valve released notes on Dota 2‘s latest upcoming patch, 7.00, earlier today. The site originally crashed when the notes were first supposed to go live, but is now back up and running with full details on a list of extensive changes that will be coming to Valve’s free-to-play MOBA. Did I say extensive? I meant…
By Ethan Gach Published December 11, 2016 -
EsportsValve’s Dota 2 Boston Major Ends Like The Battle Of Thermopylae
An epic game three between OG and Ad Finem in the Grand Finals of this weekend’s premier Dota 2 tournament showed both teams were going to leave everything they had on the stage that night. While the superior OG eventually took the series 3-1, winning $1,000,000, it wasn’t before their Greek opponents could etch their…
By Ethan Gach Published December 11, 2016 - Culture
Sunday Comics: Get Back To The Mines
Welcome to Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira. Published December 9. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published December 5. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…
By Ethan Gach Published December 11, 2016 - Esports
A Quick Look At Why Everyone Just Lost It At This Weekend’s Dota 2 Tournament
A giant Dota 2 tournament wrapping up tonight in Boston just reached a dramatic peak after favorites OG fell to underdogs AD Finem in a stunning game three that went into the 80th minute. The match ended when one of AD Finem’s players managed to sneak into the enemy base undetected using an invisibility buff…
By Ethan Gach Published December 10, 2016 - Uncategorized
3D Printed Case Makes Your Smartphone More Like A Game Boy
Reddit user Gabbelago likes to play games on their smartphone, so they decided to 3D print a case for it that had buttons. The resulting prototype is both practical and elegant. Gabbelago documented the project, titled “EmuCase,” in a series of images uploaded to Imgur yesterday evening “As to if it was designed for Pokemon,…
By Ethan Gach Published December 10, 2016 - CultureShop Contest
Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Ellie And Garfunkel, Winners!
Holy Clickers, Batman! Everyone really went above and beyond this week. You took the a not-obviously exciting ‘Shop proposition and turned out some really rad mash-ups. And a million and one props to people like Orionsangel and others who shared their much better cutouts with the crew. Also, Orionsangel won. Sorry! It was just too…
By Ethan Gach Published December 10, 2016 -
UncategorizedNew Update Makes It Even Easier To Play Mini Games Like Skee Ball Inside Halo 5
J. Dickinson Este invented the first Skee Ball machine in 1909, and just over a century later, the game has finally made its way into Halo 5 Reddit user AllAboutPenguins tried to recreate the classic arcade variation on bowling using Halo’s now robust level editing tools, and said “I started building a skeeball map before…
By Ethan Gach Published December 10, 2016 -
UncategorizedNew Trailer Shows Skyblivion Fan Project Is Still Alive And Well
The folks over at TES Renewal Project released a new trailer yesterday updating fans on their progress with Skyblivion, a mod aimed at recreating all of Oblivion inside of Skyrim In a four minute video depicting a trip through Cyrodiil, the capital province of the Empire in Tamriel featured in Oblivion, we see everything from…
By Ethan Gach Published December 10, 2016 -
UncategorizedA new trailer shows both Kuma and Panda will be in Tekken 7. The two bears are mainstays of the fighting series and were revealed during this morning’s The King of Iron Fist Tournament 2016 Tekken tournament in Japan. Between Panda’s style and Kuma’s fish, the two look as ferocious as ever.
By Ethan Gach Published December 10, 2016 -
UncategorizedPlayer Has Spent A Year Modding Perfect Bow and Arrow Into Fallout: New Vegas
Xilandro had but one desire: to recreate Far Cry’s excellent bow and arrow experience in Fallout: New Vegas. Easier said than done. “It took a year of planning, testing, random burnouts, trashing the idea and deleting all the WIP files, tons of rage,” Xilandro said. In total, the mod encapsulates 2,000 lines of code—and it’s…
By Patricia Hernandez Published December 10, 2016 - Uncategorized
Pokémon Go Bug Is Turning Buddy Monsters Into Giants
Pokémon games tend to scale monsters down, so you don’t get a good sense of a creature’s true size (according to the lore.) A recent glitch within Pokémon Go presents the opposite problem: it is making Pokémon ENORMOUS. The glitch, which allegedly appears only to buddy Pokémon, makes monsters appear as big as the map itself.…
By Patricia Hernandez Published December 10, 2016 - Esports
The Weekend In Esports: Dota 2 Returns To Boston
As the year draws to a close, most of the bigger competitive gaming events of the year are behind us. All except for one: Dota 2‘s Boston Major. After a number of roster shuffles and evolutions to the game’s meta following the summer’s International 2016, the Boston Major is a chance for new teams to…
By Ethan Gach Published December 10, 2016 - Uncategorized
This Week In The Business: Wasting VR
QUOTE | “I wouldn’t want to see virtual reality wasted on a few hardcore gamers because it has such a big opportunity to offer something to everyone” – Resolution Games CEO Tommy Palm calls on developers to make VR games for wider audiences, saying it will be a long time before hardcore crowds get the…
Brendan Sinclair Published December 10, 2016 - Culture
What Are You Playing This Weekend?
It’s the weekend! I’ve had a heck of a week and am looking forward to only emerging from my bed when I absolutely have to. Though I also just got an iPad, which means I could technically play FTL in bed, so leaving bed at all is up for grabs. I’m going to (finally) make…
By Riley MacLeod Published December 9, 2016 -
CultureOneShot Is A Game Where The Main Character Knows Who You Are
OneShot first freaked me out when it said my name. My real name. I don’t know how it got my name. I didn’t give it my name. It’s not even part of my Steam profile. In OneShot, an adventure game that just came out on Steam, you play as a cat creature named Niko. However,…
By Nathan Grayson Published December 9, 2016 -
UncategorizedFive Great And Very Weird 2016 3DS Games You May Have Missed
You had your Pokémons and your Fire Emblems and your (really, really good) new Kirby game, but the games I most enjoyed playing on my 3DS this year were smaller, less hyped oddities. Do you like weird, great games? Here are some of my favorites from this year: Pocket Card Jockey From Game Freak, the…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 9, 2016 - Uncategorized
A Career Waiter’s Journey To Twitch Cooking Star
In 2014, it seemed like chef Justin Warner’s star couldn’t rise any higher. He was on Zagat’s 30 under 30, he had won season 8 of Food Network Star, which would net him at least a pilot of his own cooking show, and he ran a successful restaurant, Do or Dine. By 2015, he’d lose…
By Gita Jackson Published December 9, 2016 -
UncategorizedWhat Being On Fire In NBA Jam Would Really Be Like
Popular production company Rooster Teeth posted a new video in their Immersion series. Looking at game myths, this newest episode sees what would happen if one of the best things about NBA Jam was real. Rooster Teeth tossed Achievement Hunters Gavin Free and Michael Jones into flame retardant suits and covered some basketballs in rubber…
By Heather Alexandra Published December 9, 2016 - Culture
Building Some Of The Biggest Things In Video Games
EVE Online’s Citadels are some of the biggest, most impressive objects in all of video games, some of them designed to be 150km tall. Which presented quite a challenge for the people who actually had to design them. One of those people is artist Pavel Savchuk, who has shared some of his early work creating…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 9, 2016
