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…

World Of Warcraft: Legion Progress Report: One Last Dance

I’d originally planned to run our World of Warcraft: Legion review today, but due to circumstances firmly under my control, it’s now going to run Monday morning. The fact that I’m still playing the game every night probably didn’t help. Yes, three weeks and change later, I’m still pretty heavily invested in World of Warcraft’s…

VR Developers Speak Out About Oculus Founder’s Support Of Trump Trolls [UPDATE]

Following last night’s newsthat Oculus founder Palmer Luckey is helping fund a troll army of Trump supporters, several VR developers have decided to pull Oculus support for their titles. UPDATE – 9/23, 10:30 PM: Palmer Luckey posted a statement to Facebook in which he claimed he’s not a Trump supporter and instead plans to vote…

Destiny Team Beats Rise of Iron‘s Raid In Two Hours

Clan Redeem is the world’s first Destiny team to complete the new Rise of Iron raid, Wrath of the Machine. The raid launched at 1pm Eastern, and they completed it a bit past 3pm. Nice work, Clan Redeem.

Twelve Of The Best Gaming Episodes In Cartoons

The worlds of gaming and animation have been living in harmony for over 30 years. There have been plenty of shows based on gaming’s greatest icons and plenty of games based on classic cartoon characters. Sometimes it worked and sometimes it didn’t. This post originally appeared 9/7/15. Animated programs that were modeled after specific games…

Mystery Game Inspired By The X-Files Does A Lot Without Words

Virginia is a narrative game developed by Variable State out now for the Playstation 4, Xbox One, and PC. It lasts about two hours and has no dialog but it might just be one of the best stories I’ve encountered in games this year. Taking the role of a rookie FBI agent Anne Tarvers, you…

Onward!

This is a piece of concept art for the upcoming Dishonored 2 It’s by Sergey Kolesov. You can see more of Sergey’s work below, as well as at his blog and ArtStation page To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in the top-left corner. Fine Art is a celebration…