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Borderlands 2 Developer Explains Why The Game Is Filled With Weird, Hidden Cubes

Popular YouTube channel Boundary Break, who has popped up on Kotaku multiple times, has released a new video where he explores Borderlands 2. But this time the channel was able to get a developer from the studio behind Borderlands, Gearbox, to actually help explain some of the more strange out of bound secrets and discoveries.…

Hajime “Tokido” Taniguchi has been eliminated from Street Fighter V competition at Evo 2019, ending his weekend at 49th place. A perennial favorite, Tokido won the event in 2017 and placed second in 2018.

Seon-woo “Infiltration” Lee is Evo 2019’s Samurai Shodown champion. Typically a Street Fighter player, Infiltation is currently on hiatus from official competition after an investigation into domestic violence allegations against him.

The Voice Actor For Seteth In Fire Emblem: Three Houses Is Now Performing Popular Seteth Memes

Quickly after the release of Fire Emblem: Three Houses, fans of the game began creating memes focusing on the character of Seteth. And now Seteth’s voice actor is actually reading and voicing some of these memes on Twitter. Seteth holds a lot of power in the game and doesn’t like the player character at first.…

The next iteration of the Under Night In-Birth franchise, the bafflingly named Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late [cl-r], is coming in early 2020. It will include balance changes and at least one new character.

Clearlamp is the very first Evo champion in Under Night In-Birth He outlasted several of his fellow Japanese competitors (and one Canadian) to win, all of whom provided further proof that this unique game absolutely deserved its spot at Evo 2019.

Finally, You Can Purchase The “Yellow Dog With Cone” Statue In GTA Online

Grand Theft Auto Online players waited years for the casino to open and the latest large update finally did just that. Players have been excited. But not all was well. You see, there was still something missing. But finally, our nightmare is over. After first being teased on the official website for the newly open…

Yuta “Yuttoto” Sudo is Evo 2019’s Soulcalibur VI champion. He fended off a fierce challenge from runner-up Zain “Bluegod” Tibeishat to become the game’s first official Evo champion.

9-year-old Japanese prodigy Tsuyoshi made it out of his Dragon Ball FighterZ pool at Evo 2019 without losing a single match His dad did too, but c’mon, let’s hear it for the kid.

I Fixed Madden NFL 20‘s Opening Cinematic

I found that Madden NFL 20‘s intro lacked both The Monday Night Football Theme Song and vocabularic loquaciousness. So I made this. Well, bye. (Oh. You can also watch it on YouTube, and subscribe to our channel, if you want. Anyway, bye. Have a fun weekend everybody. Don’t get hurt playing too much football.)

The Wig Joke In Ninja’s Mixer Announcement Sucked

Superstar streamer Ninja is leaving Twitch for Mixer. This afternoon, he’s been serving up his first Mixer stream, broadcasting in front of a live crowd at Lollapalooza and also garnering tens of thousands of online viewers. The move to Mixer was announced yesterday in a short ad full of light-hearted jokes aimed at the hype…

Former Rising Thunder dev Tom Cannon announced at Evo 2019 that his studio is working on a fighting game for Riot Games. The studio was acquired by Riot in 2016

Evo has free water refill stations this year, which is a godsend. Probably my favorite Evo 2019 moment so far.

I’m here at the Evolution Championship Series 2019 for Kotaku, and I’ll be covering the largest fighting game tournament in the world from the show floor. Stay tuned!

Spooky! Riley and I are streaming the stealthy cult thriller The Church in the Darkness right now on Twitch. Come join chat for good times, creepy cult stuff, and probably off-topic Fire Emblem chat.

Genshin Impact was announced at E3 and now has a gameplay trailer that debuted at ChinaJoy 2019. The open world JRPG has been described as anime Breath of the Wild, which I can totally see, and which I’m totally here for. It’s supposed to come to PS4 sometime next year.  

EVE Online‘s Developers Want A ‘Chaos Era’ For The Game

EVE Online’s developers have talked a lot recently about bringing some changes to the game. On a recent episode of player-created podcast Talking in Stations, CEO of CCP Games Hilmar Pétursson called for a “chaos era” to be ushered in for EVE Online and warned players to brace for impact. If other changes from this…

If Only This Pikachu Painting Was Pokémon Card Material

Gomi Kuzu Tarou is a talented artist. He recently did a painting of Pikachu, but he says he hasn’t heard back from the Pokémon people. Hachima reports that submissions were accepted with the winning art being turned into cards. Here are said winners. I guess his painting wasn’t picked because it’s freaky. Then again, so…

A Straight-Up Bug Hunt

Sonech is a designer and artist based in Japan. You can see more of Sonech’s stuff at their ArtStation and Tumblrpages.

Eliza is a visual novel from Zachtronics, developer of Opus Magnum and EXAPUNKS, coming to Steam August 12. If you’re familiar with Zachtronics’ games, you know they always have a weird twist, and sure enough Eliza revolves around an AI-powerd counseling app and the human forced to be a proxy for it.