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Blizzard Teases New Lore Surrounding Overwatch‘s Enigmatic Doomfist 

An update on Blizzard’s Overwatch blog adds more more details about Doomfist, long suspected to be the game’s next hero. Pointing to an “incident at Helix Security International’s classified maximum security installation,” the post states, “it can now be confirmed that what occurred was an attack by the Talon organization with the express purpose of…

Devs Conspire With Twitch Viewers To Troll Clustertruck Speedrun

097Aceofspades currently holds the world record for beating Clustertruck, a game where you hopscotch across a death course of rampaging semis and pileups, so naturally during his attempt at Summer Games Done Quick the game’s devs collaborated with the Twitch chat to fuck with him. Clustertruck is notorious for a backdoor that allows its developer,…

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is getting a new desert map. The developer tweeted as much yesterday, revealing two screenshots of the new battle royale locale. It looks beautiful and was probably inevitable.

Rebellion Is Working On A Sequel To Evil Genius

The cult-PC classic came out in 2006, and in a video interview released today, Rebellion CEO Jason Kingsley announced that Evil Genius 2 is currently in the works.  Kingsley says that development only began last spring but wanted to stress the upcoming game is not simply a remaster of the original. “Evil Genius 2 will…

Valve Announces Big Changes To Dota 2‘s Tournament Structure Going Forward

The biggest Dota 2 event of the year is next month, but that hasn’t stopped Valve from announcing a major overhaul of the esport’s competitive scene to take place after the $20+ million tournament is concluded in August. “For the next year we will be taking a more organic approach to growing the competitive ecosystem,…

Here’s A Closer Look At That Nuclear Bunker Filled With Mario Murals

Foxtrot-01 is one of several Minuteman Missile Launch Sites, a series of facilities dedicated to launching inter-continental nukes in the event that the U.S. comes under attack. It’s also filled with Mario murals. The bunker’s fascination with Mario first surfaced (as far as I can tell) back in 2014 after it was pointed out in…

FLCL is getting two new seasons to air on Toonami in 2018. It will be twelve episodes total, split across FLCL 2 and FLCL 3 with the news and teaser coming out of this year’s Anime Expo. If you like puberty, aliens, and giant robots, the original series is streaming at on various platforms.

A Prototype Build Of The Never Completed SNES Rayman Game Is Now On The Internet 

Once upon a time there was going to be a Rayman game for the SNES. Series creator Michel Ancel was one of two people working on it, but the project never came to fruition. A prototype build of the game that surfaced last fall, however, has finally made it onto the Internet thanks to game…

Five Nights At Freddy’s Fans Are Convinced Its Creator Is Trolling Them Again

Scott Cawthon is the creator of Five Nights at Freddy’s a series of horror games with a big cult following behind them. His latest game was expected to be the sixth main entry in the series, but now Cawthon says he’s canceled the project and turning to work on other things. Nobody believes him, of…

Valve Tinkers With Dota 2 Ahead Of TI7 In Latest Patch

Last night, Valve pushed out a small update for Dota 2. Patch 7.06etweaks a slew of heroes ahead of the game’s biggest tournament of the year in August, including Alchemist, whose base agility jumped nearly 50%. Here’s the full list of changes: Neutral small camps: gold bounty increased by 10% Veil of Discord: Recipe cost…

That Is One Fancy Zelda-Themed Switch 

The people over at MakoMod have put together a Switch that looks like it came straight out of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. It’s pretty meta. In the game, Link uses the Sheikah Slate to take pictures, look at maps, and figure out where he needs to go. It was pretty clearly…

There will be a Nintendo Direct July 6 at 10am Eastern focusing on Splatoon 2 ahead of the game’s July 21 release. Nintendo says the stream will show off features new to the game.

Popular GTA V Modding Tool OpenIV Is Once Again Being Distributed [UPDATE]

OpenIV, the popular modding tool for games like Grand Theft Auto V, appears to be getting back to business as usual weeks after it was shutdown due to a cease and desist letter issued by Take-Two, GTA’s publisher. Over the weekend, a download button for the software returned to OpenIV’s website. First removed on June…

Bayonetta On The Switch Would Be Great

This is an image the newly opened Platinum Games Twitter account put out earlier today, compliments of artist and designer Yusuke Hashimoto. It shows Bayonetta 1 & 2 split into what looks like the Nintendo Switch’s neon-colored Joy-Con. Or maybe we’re just seeing things. Bayonetta 2 did’n sell all that well. Mostly because it was…

The Week In Games: Get Your Cringe On

It’s the start of July and release schedule has gone on vacation. Unless awkward party games are your thing, in which case That’s You! has things covered. You might have missed it among all the other news, but at this year’s E3 Sony announced its new PlayLink project, an initiative to release downloadable party games…

Player Clips Through Wall In Breath Of The Wild DLC And Discovers Hidden Area

Included in the first Zelda: Breath of the Wild DLC are the Master Trials, a sixty level challenge where players fight enemies in search of an upgrade for the Master Sword. That’s what Reddit user Sharkystheshotty was doing when they unexpectedly stumbled into an alternate, lo-res world. “Was on trial three on the Medium trials…

Speedrunner Kicks Battletoads‘ Ass, Sets New World Record

Earlier this year, Piotr Delgado “The Mexican Runner” Kusielczuk completed his quest to beat every NES game ever made. Today, he made history by beating one of its most difficult, Battletoads, and setting a new world record in the process. Shaving just two seconds off the previous record, Kusielczuk managed to finish the game earlier…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Arms And The Helix, Winners!

The mystery of Helix has been solved. Nintendo claims he was created in a lab but Kotaku’s ‘Shop contestants know better. This contest was intended to the ongoing debate around whether ARMS’ Helix is totally rad or actually a creep. Jabberwocky’s entry transcended the question entirely. Helix might not be a real human being, but…

Sunday Comics: Three-Player Secret Of Mana

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 July 1. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published June 26 Read more…