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EsportsBig Risks Don’t Pay Off In Last Night’s League Semifinals
It turns out Josh “Jatt” Leesman was right when he trolled the League of Legends World Championship audience with his prediction for the semifinal series between Samsung Galaxy and H2K Gaming. “H2 What?” the panel asked him. “H2…Korean teams in finals!” And the glibness of the joke was in many ways appropriate, as SSG went…
By Ethan Gach Published October 23, 2016 -
UncategorizedDestiny Player Destroys Latest Raid Boss All By Himself
Early Saturday morning, a Destiny player and YouTuber by the name of ScaRdrow accomplished the nearly unimaginable: he soloed the final boss in Wrath of the Machine and lived to tell the tale. Ever since the game’s latest expansion, Rise of Iron, arrived last month, players in Bungie’s online first-person shooter have been banding together…
By Ethan Gach Published October 23, 2016 - Culture
Sunday Comics: You’re Fired
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 October 21. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published October 17. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…
By Ethan Gach Published October 23, 2016 - Esports
Team Liquid Signs The First Pro Civilization VI Player
Stephen ‘MrGameTheory’ Takowsky will be Civilization VI’s first professional player. That’s according to an announcement Team Liquid made yesterday stating it has signed MrGameTheory to head up their new Civilization team and was embarking on “an initiative to launch Civilization VI into the world of competitive esports.” MrGameTheory, who previously competed in Clash Royale, had…
By Ethan Gach Published October 22, 2016 -
UncategorizedMan Vs. Snake Documents One Man’s Obsession With Nibbler
Nibbler is a snake arcade game similar to Pac-Man where the player grows longer the more things they eat. In Nibbler, however, there aren’t any ghosts chasing you. Instead, the only thing the serpent has to fear is itself. If it makes contact with another part of its body while zig-zagging through mazes, the game…
By Ethan Gach Published October 22, 2016 -
UncategorizedBattlefield 1 Medic Can’t Stop Stabbing People With Syringes
The Hippocratic Oath requires doctors to commit to a code of ethics about saving, and protecting life. Chief among its principles is “do no harm.” World War I was hell though, so the medics in Battlefield 1 can be forgiven for doing as much harm, if not more, than good. In the Latest Battlefield, players…
By Ethan Gach Published October 22, 2016 -
EsportsWhen An Unstoppable Force Meets An Immovable Object, SK Telecom T1 Wins
Despite an impressive first game from the two-time winners of the League of Legends World Championship, ROX Tigers looked set to beat their more senior South Korean rivals in the best-of-five semifinals against SK Telecom T1. It wasn’t until game four that SKT was able to claw their way back into things and tie the…
By Ethan Gach Published October 22, 2016 - Uncategorized
You can now get a lime green edition of the Nintendo New 3DS XL that comes pre-installed with Super Mario World The old-style 3DS isn’t able to play ports of SNES games, like Earthbound. Nintendo is selling the system exclusively through Amazon.
By Ethan Gach Published October 22, 2016 - Esports
The Weekend In Esports: Fakest Of Them All
“I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion,” wrote David Thoreau in Walden. This weekend is kind of similar. There might be a lull before BlizzCon 2016, and less action than usual in the fighting game community, but the final act of Worlds…
By Ethan Gach Published October 22, 2016 - Culture
This Week In The Business: Who’s Going To Switch?
QUOTE | “I am most concerned about the target group of the device: who else but die-hard Nintendo fans will buy the Switch? The Switch lacks a killer feature, and I think it will be very difficult for Nintendo to win back the casual gamers that are mostly on mobile now.” – Analyst Dr. Serkan…
Brendan Sinclair Published October 22, 2016 - Culture
Gal*Gun DLC Lets You See Through Clothes For Just $90
Gal*Gun: Double Peace is basically House Of The Dead, except anime boobs. It is in all ways shameless, a policy that extends to its DLC. The new DLC, called Pheromone Z, lets the game’s sight zoom “see through clothes instantly.” It costs a whopping $90, because we apparently live in a world where all the free…
By Nathan Grayson Published October 21, 2016 - Culture
What Are You Playing This Weekend?
The entire internet is broken. Hopefully it will be fixed this weekend so we can all play some games! Or we could go outside or something. People do that, don’t they? At long, long last, I have succumbed to my colleagues’ raving and praise and have purchased The Witcher 3, currently on sale on Steam.…
By Riley MacLeod Published October 21, 2016 -
UncategorizedNobody Tells Primal Kyogre What To Do
So Archie was all like, “Kyogre! Listen to my commands!” And Kyogre was all, “Haha, whut?” That’s pretty much the plot to episode eight of Pokémon Generations, “The Cavern.” It’s also the plot of Team Aqua, the group which, depending on if you’re playing Sapphire or Alpha Sapphire, wants to make the world better for…
By Mike Fahey Published October 21, 2016 - Uncategorized
The Debate Around Mafia III‘s Depiction Of Racism
Racism is everywhere in Mafia III, in a way never before seen in a major video game. It’s gotten people talking. The game is set in a fictional version of 1960s New Orleans. In it, white computer-controlled characters (NPCs) regard the player’s character, a black Vietnam veteran named Lincoln Clay, with suspicion and fear. Some…
By Nathan Grayson Published October 21, 2016 - Esports
Overwatch’s Upcoming Esports League May Struggle Against Disruptive Patches
Yesterday, Blizzard announced that an official Overwatch League is in the works. It’s an exciting moment for a game that, only six months post-release, already offers million-dollar tournament prize pools. Overwatch, though, is a volatile game. Today, Overwatch Game Director Jeff Kaplan said on Battle.net that hero-balancing will continue to be kinetic, a model that, as…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published October 21, 2016 - Uncategorized
Like The Rest Of The Internet, PSN Has Been Struggling Today
Half the internet has been unreliable today as the result of what seems to be a major attack by unknown parties. Adding to that list of annoying outages now is PSN, given that many users are reporting issues with it since this morning. If you’ve been having trouble connecting a PlayStation console to PSN today, you…
By Patricia Hernandez Published October 21, 2016 - Uncategorized
Soon, you’ll be able to buy indie games, in real life, at a local GameStop. Indie game distribution service IndieBox will be sending physical copies—in actual boxes—to 1,200 GameStops as a part of their GameTrust initiative. Nuclear Throne, Rogue Agency, Axiom Verge and Chariot (all $19.99) and others will be available with instruction manuals, discs, soundtrack…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published October 21, 2016 - Reviews
Battlefield 1: The Kotaku Review
Matthew McConaughey once said that sometimes you need to go back to move forward. The team at DICE must have been very moved by that sentiment. Taking it to heart and pushing the Battlefield series nearly 100 years back into World War I for this year’s release of Battlefield 1 was a gamble. It has…
By Heather Alexandra Published October 21, 2016
