The Week In Games: Hit That Man

Can you believe it? Hundreds of ice-cold bodies later, the fifth episode of Hitman is upon us! What better way to greet the cool autumn air and crackling foliage then with the deadly silence of a flawless assassination. Other than that, uh, well, let’s call this a nice pale September reprieve from the glut of…

Smash Bros. Player Shuts Down Heckler, Goes On To Win Tournament 

On an autumn Sunday before a Patriots game, you won’t find Tom Brady coming through the front entrance to get onto the field. You won’t find him in any of Gillette Stadium’s public restrooms taking a leak at half time. In fact, unless you are part of a very small and select cadre of people,…

Remembering The Brutality Of Meridian 59 On Its 20th Anniversary

Before the recent wave of excitement around new virtual reality technology convinced everyone that the future was inside of a headset, people longing to escape the constraints of their everyday lives invested their hopes and dreams in ugly looking worlds housed on distant computer servers. Massively multiplayer online games offered a meaningful substitute to the…

Perfect Rocket League Save Gets Denied By The Plunger

Ever since Psyonix introduced Rumble mode into Rocket League, the nonsense has been taken up a notch. Every few seconds, random power-ups spawn on the field of play giving each car a different special ability for a limited amount of time. For most people, the results are a mess. Regular Rocket League can get sloppy…

Overwatch Pro Rips Through The Other Team As Tracer

Tracer is probably one of Overwatch’s most fun heroes to play. The way she can manipulate time and zip around maps, darting behind enemy lines and catching the other team off-guard, is a perfect example of what makes Blizzard’s game a different kind of competitive shooter. Kevin “AZK” Larivière demonstrated this perfectly in Team Liquid’s…

Sunday Comics: Food For Thought

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 September 24. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published September 19. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…

Race Into The Wilderness With Dog Sled Saga 

In a genre dominated by games about building cities or tending farms, Dog Sled Saga is a refreshing fusion of unlikely ideas and personal details. In developer Trichotomy’s game, the bustling metropolises are replaced with wintery cabins and side-scrolling tundras. Instead of harvesting crops, you train and nurture snow pups. There are no spreadsheets of…

Destiny’s New Raid Shows What Bungie Can Do By Ditching Last-Gen

Since Destiny launched in 2014, we’ve wondered what the game might look like if it didn’t have to run on PS3/Xbox 360 as well as PS4 and Xbox One. The new Wrath of the Machine raid, which is part of the current-gen only Rise of Iron expansion, gives a pretty good idea. If you want…

Bayonetta Player Humiliates Opponent In Japanese Smash Bros. Tournament

Hiro didn’t win the Shulla-bra VIII Smash 4 tournament in Japan earlier this morning. That honor went to Shuton who, playing as Olimar, was able to come back from an initial loss to convincingly triumph in the grand finals. Hiro did, however, get the consolation prize of completely disrespecting the tournament’s third-place finisher, Chanshu. There…

Destiny Group Beats New Raid With Only Three People

Destiny’s latest raid, Wrath of the Machine, went live yesterday at 1:00PM EST as part of the game’s Rise of Iron expansion. Two hours later, Clan Redeem had already beaten it Now, less than 24 hours after it launched, one group was able to beat the raid with only three people. xDom, Epicookiez, and sc…

Street Fighter V Update Pulled Because It Made PCs Vulnerable To Malware

Thursday night’s Street Fighter V update added stage KOs, among other things, like Express Men’s bad-ass, Urien, and a little thing called Versus CPU mode. The update also installed some more shocking, however: a rootkit for PC versions of the game. As The Register reported late yesterday, A fresh update for Capcom’s Street Fighter V…

The Weekend In Esports: Smash Bros. And Cruise Ships

It’s finally fall, and as if there weren’t already enough games coming out to play, there’s plenty of big things going on in competitive gaming to watch. This weekend, Europe will crown a Hearthstone champion to send to BlizzCon later this season, and a slew of Chinese Dota 2 teams will compete to see who…

This Week In The Business: Caveats In 4K

QUOTE | “I think there are a lot of caveats [Sony’s] giving customers right now around 4K.” ­– Albert Penello, senior director of product management and planning at Xbox, commenting on how PS4 Pro compares to Microsoft’s upcoming Scorpio console Elsewhere in the business of gaming this week… QUOTE | “I think there’s going to…

Palmer Luckey Comments On His Political Involvement, Says He’s Voting Libertarian

As Kotaku noted this week, The Daily Beast reported that Oculus Rift founder Palmer Luckey has been “secretly funding” Nimble America, which it called “an unofficial Donald Trump group dedicated to ‘shitposting.’” Tonight, Palmer has commented on Facebook about his involvement. Here is Palmer’s statement in full: The original article stated, “The 24-year-old told The…

Blubber Busters is a combat platformer about venturing inside space whales to cure their illnesses. Seriously. You lead a crew of intergalactic infection fighters, and you can swap between and upgrade them. It comes from devs who worked on League of Legends, Darksiders 2, and Enter The Gungeon. It’s on Kickstarter

Star Citizen‘s First-Person View Is Based On Birds

Star Citizen’s first-person view isn’t like other games, where you’re essentially in control of a floating camera. That approach is tried and true, but not wholly realistic. In the preposterously ambitious space game, your view and your body are one-in-the-same, just like in a real human body. Problem: turns out, human bodies have a lot…