The Week In Games: Gimme Back That Sky

No Man’s Sky? Bullshit. I’ve got a deed and everything, and if there’s one thing I’ve learned from failed science fiction television show theme songs, it’s that you can’t take it from me. It seems like a challenge, this No Man’s Sky. Everybody’s Sky would have been a much nicer title. Or maybe Sky For…

Rocket League‘s Rumble Mode Brings The Goofy Power-Ups Next Month 

Giving players the ability to kick away other cars with giant boots or disrupt their driving ability are too silly for standard competitive Rocket League play, That’s serious business. Next month’s newly-announced Rumble mode looks to be anything but. Announced during the finale of the Rocket League Championship Series in Hollywood, California today, Rocket League…

AMD Radeon RX 470 Review: Almost The Next Best Thing

Looking to swipe some market share away from Nvidia before the arrival of its GeForce GTX 1060, AMD launched the Radeon RX 480 at the end of June. Codenamed Polaris 10, the company’s first fourth-generation GCN GPU appeared to have everyone rooting for it leading up to its release, and although we were largely satisfied…

A Bro In The Life Of A Steam Greenlight Developer

German independent developer Roman Uhlig recently had his excellent local multiplayer game 12 Orbits added to Steam Greenlight. He’s posted a lengthy, bro-packed conversation demonstrating the sort of attention such a move brings. 12 Orbits is a local multiplayer game for 2 to 12 players, currently available for free on iOS and Android. It’s good…

No Man’s Sky‘s Day-One Patch Will Make Some Huge Changes

If you’ve been playing or watching streams of No Man’s Sky over the past few days, you should know that things are about to get very different. Today on the No Man’s Sky website, director Sean Murray posted a list of the changes that will hit the game when the day-one patch goes live on…

What’s Up With World Of Warcraft‘s New Double-Jumping Fetish Elves

World of Warcraft’s second hero class goes live this week, and there’s a lot more to Illidan Stormrage’s elite Demon Hunters than meets the blindfold. Sometimes they can triple jump. Blizzard’s Demon Hunter developer preview will tell you all about them. The MMORPGs second hero class starts life at level 98 some ten years before…

Sunday Comics: You’re Mine

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 August 6. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published August 1. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…

Winston And Reaper Take On McCree In One Raw Overwatch Diss Track

YouTube’sCheezy McWiggles weaves together voice clips from Overwatch into a double-team takedown of the game’s resident cowboy, bluntly titled “Fuck McCree.” Warning: immature language, profanity, Reaper trying to be all cool. While some of the lyrics rub me the wrong way, I have to admit the technique Cheezy used to build words from sound slips…

30 Years Of Galactic Bounty Hunting With Metroid

Thirty years ago today the platforming of Super Mario Bros. and the exploration of The Legend of Zelda coalesced into science fiction action adventure starring a person in a powerful suit of armor. Shh. Don’t want to spoil the Metroid surprise. Launching in Japan for the Famicom on August 6, 1986, Metroid combined elements of…

You Can Only Hope To Look This Cool Wearing A Pokémon Z-Ring

Destructoid’sChris Carter inspired me to go shopping for one of those fancy Z-Ring bracelets being released withPokémon Sun and Moon, but after seeing the kids modeling them in the official product shots, I’m not so sure I can pull one off. Made by Tomy, the Z-Ring accessory features special crystals (most sold separately) corresponding with…

The Perfect Box Art For The Stanley Parable

Nothing evokes a life of cubicle-bound drudgery like a white box with four differently-colored things arranged in a square on front. It’s the oddly wonderful The Stanley Parable in box form. Also inside the box. With a tie. The IndieBox subscription service takes independent PC games there’s a good chance you already own and places…

This Week In The Business: “We Need To Make Money”

QUOTE | “We need to make money. That’s the motivation. Computer games make money.” – Seaman designer Yoot Saito, explaining why his company is returning to game development after several years building apps. Elsewhere in the business of gaming this week… QUOTE | “We don’t know much about monetisation, and quite frankly we aren’t interested…

Overwatch player acutefatcat lost their whole team, so the other team decided to be cool about it. I’ve heard a few stories like this, and it warms my heart each time. Overwatch can be toxic sometimes, but it’s fostered a uniquely rad community in some places. Here’s the full clip: And here’s a pic of…

What Are You Playing This Weekend? 

Whew. What a week, huh? Most of my weekend will be spent playing No Man’s Sky, so that we can get impressions to you on launch day. I’m hoping to maybe squeeze in at least one other smaller game into the mix, maybe Glitched, an RPG which looks heavily inspired by the likes of Earthbound…

Overwatch‘s First Competitive Season Ends In Two Weeks

Overwatch’s competitive mode has been a divisive subject for much of its first season, but Blizzard stated upfront that change is in the cards. Season two is just around the corner. Blizzard announced that season one will end on August 17 at 5 PM PT. Season two is currently scheduled to kick off on September…

Five Must-Watch Anime Of Summer 2016

Summer can mean a few things: Frolicking in unbearable humidity until your skin is a festering wreck, or cuddling up next to the AC and binge-watching anime. No judgment here. Kotaku East’s Brian Ashcraft wrote up our Summer 2016 Anime Guide last month with nearly 50 listings. Below, I’ve narrowed down this summer’s anime bounty…

Destiny’s Rise of Iron Expansion Sounds Promising

On this week’s Kotaku Splitscreen, Jason and I talked about one of our favorite subjects: Late 60s free jazz. No, wait, I mean Destiny! It was definitely Destiny. Specifically, we discussed next month’s Rise of Iron expansion. Game Informer ran a big cover-story blowout on the expansion, so Jason and I talked about some of…

We Named A Planet In No Man’s Sky [Update]

Rest in peace, buddy. The cosmos will never forget you. For what it’s worth, this is the dossier that No Man’s Sky gave us on the planet when we originally arrived: In other news there is also a Kotaku planet out there, which you’ll be able to discover once No Man’s Sky is officially out…