Players Dig Their Own Goal In Rocket League‘s Dropshot Mode

Arriving alongside the launch of competitive season four on March 22, Rocket League’s free new Dropshot mode sees players smashing open the ground underneath their opponents in order to score. Dropshot takes place in a hexagonal arena called Core 707, which doesn’t feature any traditional goalposts. Using an electrified ball that grows stronger as it’s…

Dota 2 Player Gets Put In Cliff Timeout By Enemy Team

Dota 2 uses terrain height in a unique way: depending on the distance, it can cause attacks to miss, provide a vision advantage, or in this case, trap an enemy player on a cliff for a long, long time. In the winner’s finals of the CIS regional qualifiers for the Kiev Major, Virtus.pro and Team…

Making Your Own Metal Gear Solid Ninja Helmet Looks Tricky

Cosplayer Diegator’s Gray Fox helmet build sure is impressive. In a short clip he explains all the long hours that went into the project. Bravo! According to Diegator, this is seven months of work and lots of silicone. 

Hunter X Hunter Brings Its Ridiculous Hair To Monster Hunter

Out of all the Monster Hunter XX collaborations, this one is the silliest. Hunter X Hunter is teaming up with the latest MH release, bringing the iconic hair and threads worn by Gon after he transformed into an older version of himself in the manga. This outfit has already over-the-top cosplay, and now it’s doing…

A Better Look At Boruto, The New Naruto Spin-Off TV Anime

This isn’t the first Boruto TV anime trailer, nor is it hardly our first look at the character. It is, however, a better look at what to expect in the upcoming anime series. The teaser that hit last December didn’t quite set the tone like this latest trailer. Here’s the earlier teaser: Compare with the…

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What To Expect From Battlefield 1‘s First Expansion

Battlefield 1‘s first expansion, They Shall Not Pass, is just around the corner. It’s not about 32 Gandalfs fighting 32 Balrogs for 32 eternities, unfortunately, and instead focuses on the long-awaited French army. The expansion introduces the French army with four maps set on the Western front of World War 1. Fort de Vaux is…

Glitchy Roach Card Is Too Good Not To Leave In The Witcher 3‘s Gwent Spinoff

At PAX East this weekend, members from CD Projekt Red working on Gwent showed off four new animated cards, including one starring everyone’s favorite Witcher steed. Gwent is a standalone collectible card game being developed based on The Witcher 3 mini-game of the same name. The game’s been in beta for sometime, with CD Projekt…

The Week In Games: Reload That Teddy Bear 

It turns out the future has been delayed, so let’s play with some psychopathic stuffed animals instead. [Correction: Bridge Crew was indeed delayed, several times. Guess we’re stuck here in the present for a few more months.] Rejoice! You have a week off to enjoy every amazing game that’s come out this winter before getting…

A Game Jam About Watermelons All Started Because Of A Joke

There are game jams about all kinds of things. The subject doesn’t really matter so much as the constraints introduced and the creativity that flows from game designers working to overcome them together. So why not a game jam about watermelons? It was originally born from an inside joke that began at last year’s A…

Painting Nintendo Switch Joy-Con Different Colors Isn’t As Scary As It Looks

Truly painting your Joy-Con controllers will require taking them completely apart. The process looks gnarly but the people who have done it say it’s not that bad. Take Imgur user Retaihec for instance. Not satisfied with the neon-colored Joy-Con that arrived with the Switch they took to disassembling them so they could spray paint both…

Anime, Video Games, And Funk Flow Together In Thundercat’s Drunk

Thundercat is a bassist who blends video games into everything he does, and whose latest album situates references to Mobile Suit Gundum and Sonic at the heart of new electronic soul music. Drive around Grand Theft Auto V’s Los Santos for long enough and you might hear Thundercat’s falsetto blurt out “I’m on ecstasy.” Possibly…

Street Fighter V Player Delivers Epic Pop-Off After Crushing Rival

Rivalries drive esports, and there’s few places with better beef than the fighting game community, or FGC. Joshua “Wolfkrone” Philpot and Kenneth “KBrad” Bradley’s ongoing feud came to a head last night at Final Round 20 in Atlanta, Georgia, and the resulting conclusion could be called the “pop-off heard ‘round the world.” It’s hard to…

Drifblim Used To Be Terrible, But Now It’s Everywhere In Competitive Pokémon

Drifblim is typically not fast or strong enough to be offensive, and its base defenses are pathetic. Even though that hasn’t changed with the latest games, the the haunted balloon Pokémon’s usage has actually been surging significantly in 2017. Here’s why. Pokémon Sun and Moon introduce items called seeds, and they are consumables tied to…

Sunday Comics: Your Shield Is Damaged

Welcome to Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics that usually occurs on Sunday except when it doesn’t. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira. Published March 5. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published March 6. Read more…

Zelda: Breath Of The Wild Players Are Tricking Amiibos To Grind For Rare Loot

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is amazing in its own right. Its world is breathtakingly gorgeous and bursting at the seams with surprises. So why am I and other players wasting so much time resetting the Nintendo Switch’s clock so we can keep spawning new treasure chests with our Amiibos? For me…

Singer At French Street Fighter Tournament Screams ‘Hadoken’ Into The Void

“If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you,” wrote Friedrich Nietzsche. I think this guy who screamed “Hadoken” over and over again at the Street Fighter V French Cup crowd might have some idea what that feels like. Apparently, a musical group called Neko Light Orchestra was asked to play…