FIFA 17 vs PES 2017: Which Is Better?

Welcome to the next generation, FIFA. What took you so long? Most video games, even blockbuster sequels, exist in a kind of isolation. You treat each one like a self-contained entertainment experience. Football/soccer games, though, live in a very different reality than most video games. For one, they’re sports games, which means a new one…

Stan Bush Creates A Brand-New ’80s Anthem For Shadow Warrior 2

How does one craft a new anthem for a decade some 30 years past? I have no idea, but Stan Bush has done it. The man behind “The Touch” contributed a new track to a special limited edition Shadow Warrior 2 vinyl EP, and it’s so inspirational ‘80s rock it feels awesome. According to Stan,…

Overwatch Player Finds Devastating Use For Mei’s Ice Wall

Today we have Fallout animations, Overwatch surges, awkward tranquilization and much more! Watch the video then talk about your favorite highlight in the comments below. Be sure to check out, like, and share the original videos via the links below. Subscribe to Kotaku on YouTube for more! Halo V – SausageGobblin Batman: The Telltale Series…

Destiny‘s New Raid Has A Chest No One Can Open Yet

With every new Destiny raid comes all sorts of potential new secrets, and Wrath of the Machine, which launched last week alongside Rise of the Iron, follows the trend. Over the past few days, the raid has inspired countless Reddit threads about what might be hidden in the depths of the Cosmodrome. One thing that…

World Of Warcraft: Legion: The Kotaku Review 

Over the course of the first five expansion packs, Blizzard has slowly evolved World of Warcraft into something very different than the MMO that launched back in 2004. The Legion expansion feels like an entirely new game. After 12 years of performing outrageous acts of heroism in the name of the Alliance or Horde, it’s…

Banned From Twitch, ‘Bikini Streamer’ Finds Success (And Haters) On YouTube

Zoie Burgher knows exactly what you see when you tune into her Call of Duty streams. She knows that viewers judge her and people assume the worst because of how she presents herself. Burgher is currently blowing up on YouTube anyway, thanks to a recent ban on Twitch. Twitch, a popular livestreaming service, has rules…

That’s a lot of D.Va. Blizzard recently gave Overwatch’s D.Va an in-game stream overlay for her sitting emote, which GraphicFeedback recreated for their friend, streamer Hanaday. The result? D.Va streaming D.Va, who is, in turn, also streaming. Perhaps we’re all being streamed by larger, realer versions of ourselves. A chilling thought.

20 Years Later, The N64 Still Amazes Me

Today marks the 20th anniversary of the Nintendo 64 in North America. A chiefly innovative console as games made the jump between 2-D and 3-D, the Nintendo 64’s release was one of the most important gaming moments of all time. The Nintendo 64 was originally released on June 23, 1996 in Japan before seeing a…

New WWE Star’s Ring Entrance Is Straight Out Of A Video Game

It looks like WWE cruiserweight champion TJ Perkins is going to give Xavier Woods a challenge for the title of top video-game-crazy pro wrestler. Woods may have a popular YouTube gaming show, but Perkins now has a killer gaming-themed ring entrance. Perkins’ new entrance was part of Sunday night’s Clash of Champions WWE special. Note…

Lil B Talks About Dragon Ball Z

Rap and anime are like salt and caramel—not an intuitive match, but a delightful one. Most referenced among rap superstars like Lupe Fiasco, Soulja Boy and RZA is the classic ‘90s staple Dragon Ball Z, your childhood five o’clock Toonami fixture. “Bitch, I look like Goku”: Soulja Boy “I push ki likeDragon Ball Z”: Lupe…

The Last NBA Player From The 16-Bit Era Has Retired

Kevin Garnett’s retirement from the NBA on the weekend was a sad day for Timberwolves fans, but it’s also a big deal for sports video game trivia nerds, because with KG out of the game there is no longer a link between the 16-bit era and the modern NBA. Having jumped straight out of high…

Indie Game Devs Move Studio To Tropical Island For Three Months

Broforce developer Free Lives Games have stolen away to a tropical island refuge along with other developers for three months. The entire experience is being documented in a series called Game Jam Island The team has moved out to a house on Mauritius, splitting their time between hunching over at their work stations and spreading…

A Look At How Zelda Dungeons Are Designed

Zelda dungeons are, as a general rule, extraordinarily well-designed. Everyone knows that. What you might not know is just why they’re so well-designed. For a few months now, critic Mark Brown has been putting out a great YouTube series called Boss Keys. In it, he digs into Zelda dungeons and tries to figure out what…

Sundered Is Hand-Drawn Lovecraftian Horror From the Makers Of Jotun

Following up on the success of Norse mythology action RPG Jotun, Thunder Lotus Games goes back to the drawing board with Sundered, a replayable Metroidvania heavily inspired by the writings of H.P. Lovecraft. The hand-drawn art that drew so many eyes to Jotun returns, only what we’re seeing in the first trailer and screens posted…

The Horrible World Of Video Game Crunch

In February of 2011, fresh off nine months of 80-hour work weeks, Jessica Chavez took a pair of scissors to her hair. She’d been working so hard on a video game—14 hours a day, six days a week—that she hadn’t even had a spare hour to go to the barber. This piece originally appeared 5/15/15.…

The Philadelphia 76ers Buy Two Esports Teams

Hot off one of the worst seasons in NBA history, the Philadelphia 76ers invests in a different sport entirely. The team has purchased controlling stakes in Team Dignitas and Apex, merging them into a single esports team managed and maintained by the professional sports organization. Team Dignitas, an esports powerhouse founded in 2004, and League…

It’s Dash Vs. The Shadowbolts In Chapter One Of The Guardians Of Harmony Comic Book

The somewhat more action-oriented My Little Pony: Guardians of Harmory line launches this fall, and it’s getting a matching comic book series from IDW later this year. We’ve got the first chapter of the first issue, in which Rainbow Dash meets up with some old illusionary enemies. The Guardians of Harmony line,revealed at Toy Fair…