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UncategorizedOld Elder Scrolls Game Takes Over 60 Hours To Walk Across
For those playing (or re-playing) Skyrim right now and thinking, gee, this sure is a big game world, remember: for 1996’s Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall, Bethesda weren’t feeling quite so constrained Recalling that it’s one of the biggest game maps ever made, How Big is the Map? decided to do his thing and walk from…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 13, 2016 - Uncategorized
Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Mask-uerading
What can I say? Dishonored 2 has me at a bit of a loss honestly. Watching Corvo don the mask again simply didn’t have the same effect on me as it did in the first game. In fact, it felt kind of…ridiculous? I mean, after murdering that many people and more or less completely changing…
By Ethan Gach Published November 13, 2016 - Culture
The Week In Games: Who Watches The Watch Dogs?
Only in the glorious and all-too-bizarre world of video games could something be named Watch Dogs, and then eventually get a sequel called Watch Dogs 2 I guess it’s not altogether different from calling your movie Must Love Dogs, a phrase which, out of context, makes no sense and left me feeling more than a…
By Ethan Gach Published November 13, 2016 -
UncategorizedDid Ubisoft Sneak A New Game Announcement Inside Watch Dogs 2?
In Watch Dogs 2, there’s a mission about stealing a video game trailer from an in-game version of Ubisoft. With WD2 almost out, footage from that trailer has leaked online, and we’re wondering… is it actually a real game? I mean, my first thought watching this was: I would actually play this. Those spaceships, that…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 13, 2016 -
UncategorizedThe NES Classic Carries Over Classic Glitches
If you were one of the few people lucky enough to get your hands on the recently released NES Classic, than you’ve probably already been relishing its retro aesthetic and extensive library, even as you curse its short controller cords But what you might have forgotten is that, because the NES Classic simply acts as…
By Ethan Gach Published November 13, 2016 - Esports
League Of Legends Teams Call For Changes In New Letter To Riot
A rift between the developers at Riot Games and the competitive scene around their game, League of Legends, has been growing for some time. A new letter addressed to the company and signed by 18 different professional League teams shows it’s only getting worse. According to the letter, obtained yesterday by Slingshot, several team owners…
By Ethan Gach Published November 13, 2016 -
UncategorizedDark Rose Valkyrie, Hakuoki: Kyoto Winds, and Mary Skelter: Nightmares are all coming West in 2017 according to an announcement earlier this week by developer and publisher Idea Factory International. Word came alongside some nifty new trailers for each game
By Ethan Gach Published November 13, 2016 - Esports
Shaq’s Rocket League Team Wins North American Championship
Yesterday evening, NRG eSports took a best-of-seven series 4-2 against rivals Orbit eSports to become the North American Rocket League champions. The win cemented their bid for top-place seeding at the global championship later this fall in Amsterdam, as well as earned them $13,500 for their talents at using rocket-propelled cars to smash giant inflated…
By Ethan Gach Published November 13, 2016 - Culture
Sunday Comics: Look Carefully!
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 November 10. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published November 7. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…
By Ethan Gach Published November 13, 2016 - Esports
Watch The King Of Catherine Tournament Going On Right Now
Atlus released Catherine over five years ago on Xbox 360 and PS3. The game was never ported to PC or the current generation of consoles, and the 360 version still isn’t backwards compatible on the Xbox One. Despite all of those obstacles, however, there’s still a thriving competitive community around the game. In fact, there’s…
By Ethan Gach Published November 12, 2016 - Uncategorized
New concept art shows what a successor to The Swindle might look like. The original game was about thieves trying to break into Scotland Yard. Imagining a “not-a-sequel” to that game, Dan Marshall worked with artist Gareth Davies to create some concept art for a more sci-fi take on The Swindle’s core concepts.
By Ethan Gach Published November 12, 2016 - Culture
Fans Race To See Who Can Beat NES Classic Games The Fastest
The Best of NES routinely gets some of the most veteran speedrunners of old NES games together to have them compete against one another and share their love of old games. At the end of October, it hosted a three day marathon, and before that, a back-to-back race through 20 different NES games. Last night,…
By Ethan Gach Published November 12, 2016 - Uncategorized
Kotaku Shop Contest: Sombra’s Day Job, Winners!
In the latest Photoshop contest I asked for images of Sombra from her day job before getting the call up to join the rest of her Overwatch comrades.. The contestants apparently took this very literally. As the game’s hacker extraordinaire, she no doubt probably spent at least a few of her days refreshing Newegg while…
By Ethan Gach Published November 12, 2016 - Esports
The Weekend In Esports: Rocket League Regional Championships Are Here
With both BlizzCon and Worlds 2016 behind us, there’s finally a free weekend to catch our collective breath. (Breathes in, breathes out, breathes in, breathes out). Ah, that was nice! With the world championships for Blizzard and Riot’s biggest games behind us, a number of others are here this week to pick up the slack,…
By Ethan Gach Published November 12, 2016 - Uncategorized
Guy plays Overwatch‘s Genji With Wiimote Sword
You’ve never seen Genji like this. Louis, a 24-year-old game developer in Texas, recently rigged up a sword-shaped Wiimote to control Genji’s sword in Overwatch Using Bluetooth, Louis connected his Wiimote to his PC. A program called Touchmote lets him use his Wiimote like a PC mouse and, “with a little computer science magic (and…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published November 12, 2016 - Culture
This Week In The Business: No Country For Kool-Aid Men
QUOTE | “If you’re going to be the Kool-Aid Man, you need to be able to bust through everything. There’s nothing worse than saying, ‘Oh, you can do all this stuff except when it’s actually important. And then we’re going to put up unbreakable walls.’” – Stellar Jockeys’ Hugh Monahan explains the fruit drink-inspired design…
Brendan Sinclair Published November 12, 2016 - Uncategorized
Don’t Sweat Tyranny‘s Daily Rewards
Tyranny is an RPG that hearkens back to the good old days of games like Baldur’s Gate and Planescape Torment. It’s weird, then, to see it offering mobile-game-like daily rewards for regular play. Turns out, Obsidian and Paradox are offering “daily rewards” if you play while logged into a Paradox account for consecutive days. These…
By Nathan Grayson Published November 11, 2016 - Uncategorized
Want to listen to a bunch of people talking about video game music? You’re in luck. Last week I stopped by the Portland-based podcast The Future of What to talk about music and video games. It was a really fun chat! Listen below or on Soundcloud. My segment’s at the 13-minute mark:
By Kirk Hamilton Published November 11, 2016
