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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 -
UncategorizedOverwatch Player Uses Sombra Glitch To Go Skydiving
Sombra is a free spirit, a rebel. You can’t put her in a box. I mean that literally, by the way. So, for the uninitiated (or those who’d rather not venture to the unruly Wild West that is Overwatch’s PTR), Sombra can teleport. She has a translocator device, which she can lob pretty far. Wherever…
By Nathan Grayson Published November 11, 2016 - Culture
What Are You Playing This Weekend?
What a week. I’m a little burned out on drinking and crying, so this weekend I’m going to play some games. I’m all about Dishonored 2 this weekend (not just so I can have some tips for you!). I spent about 80 hours in the first Dishonored creating awesome Rube Goldberg machines of death, and…
By Riley MacLeod Published November 11, 2016 - Uncategorized
Nintendo’s NES Classic Is A Great Console With One Huge Flaw
The first thing you should know about the NES Classic, aka the Mini-NES, is that it does exactly what it’s supposed to do. The second thing you should know is that it’s kind of a pain in the ass. Let’s start with the bad part: Nintendo’s newest system, a $60 box that can play 30…
By Jason Schreier Published November 11, 2016 - Uncategorized
I Have Some Questions For The Shirtless Luchador Who Showed Up In My Sims 4 Game
In my game of The Sims 4, there’s an NPC named Bruce Biggs. I first met him as he wandered over to a park bench, shirtless, wearing basketball shorts and a luchador mask. He promptly fell asleep. The Sims is a bizarre, unpredictable game, and the randomly generated outfits for townies are often weird as…
By Gita Jackson Published November 11, 2016 - Uncategorized
Pokémon’s Most Useless Move Is Actually Good In Sun and Moon
“Splash” has traditionally been a move of total disappointment, hence why people associate it with Magikarp. Splash usually does absolutely nothing. Well, not in Sun and Moon. Sun and Moon introduces something called “Z-Moves,” which are high-powered moves that can only be used once per battle, provided you have the right item. As the official…
By Patricia Hernandez Published November 11, 2016 -
ReviewsShould You Buy A PS4 Pro?
Short version: The new PS4 Pro is a more powerful version of an already good console.We like the PS4 a lot, and the Pro doesn’t do anything to diminish that. However, it’s going to be a while before we know just what that added horsepower will be used for. Sony’s new console is out this…
By Kirk Hamilton Published November 11, 2016 -
UncategorizedA Board Game Version Of 2D Fighting Games
2D fighting games are a very video game kinda thing, but where there’s a will, there’s a Way of the Fighter, an upcoming board game that tries to replicate the digital genre on a tabletop. It looks like a pretty decent attempt at an adaptation. There’s a stage that players move back and forwards across,…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 11, 2016
