Two Of BlazBlue‘s Best Go The Distance In Evo Championship Match

In a grand finals match that almost went the full distance, Ryusei Ito has emerged as the victor of Evo 2017’s BlazBlue Central Fiction tournament. After a litany of technical woes plagued the game’s pools yesterday, the top eight that took the stage at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas were some of Japan’s finest. Ryusei…

Arc System Works Announces BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle At Evo 2017

The company is working on a new BlazBlue game. Why should you care? Well this one will include Persona 4‘s protagonist, Yu Narukam, from the Persona 4 Arena fighting game in addition to a bunch of other characters. Showing off in-game footage after the BlazBluegrand finals at this year’s Evo, Arc System Works revealed that the…

Artist’s Doodle Captures The Beautiful Absurdity Of Splatfest

Ahead of Splatoon 2‘s release this week, Nintendo hosted a Splatfest event this weekend where players competed on either Team Ice Cream or Team Cake to decide which was best and collect in-game rewards. Team Ice Cream finished with more points, but the real winner was this rad sonic meme. In Splatoon 2 you can…

What High-Level Players Think Of Dragon Ball FighterZ So Far

Dragon Ball FighterZ made a huge impression when it was first revealed at E3 in June, but it’s currently undergoing the greatest test of all: Rigorous competition from some of the fighting game community’s best players. Bandai Namco Entertainment brought the early preview shown at E3 to Evo 2017, the world’s largest fighting game tournament,…

Dramatic Finish Cements Pro’s Legacy As Final Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 Evo Champion

Marvel vs. Capcom has always been known for its flashy style and brutal comboing, two things that were on full display at the game’s final Evo tournament. Prior to the grand finals, many suspected that the contest might ultimately come down to Ryan “RyanLV” Romero and Christopher “NYChrisG” Gonzalez, and sure enough, the game’s two…

Man Solves Rubik’s Cube In 5.4 Seconds At World Championship

Amidst a weekend of fighting game championships and other major tournaments, the world’s finest Rubik’s cubers have descended upon Paris for a record-breaking world championship. The world championships fall under the WCA, or World Cube Association, regulations. All puzzles have to have colored parts and must be scrambled before competition using computer-generated random scramble sequences.…

Sunday Comics: This Is An Emergency 

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 15. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published July 10. Read more…

Player Offers Opponent Cash To Stop Infinite Combo

Step three of getting infinite combo’d: Bargaining. At AnimEvo, a side tournament was held for one of the most hype games ever made, Hokuto no Ken. Based on the Fist Of The North Star anime, this game has everything from one-hit instant kill moves to dribbling, and of course, infinite combos. In the grand finals,…

Armada Wins Second Evo Melee Championship, Makes It Look Easy

Going late into the night, the Smash Bros. Melee championship at Evo 2017 saw Sweden’s Adam “Armada” Lindgren silence any remaining critics as he battled his way to a second ever victory at the event. Stacking up one commanding performance after another in the winners bracket, if anyone could beat the Peach player it would…

Yellow Card Ruling On Melee Coaching Stirs Controversy

Super Smash Bros. Melee players Juan “Hungrybox” Debiedma and Zachary “SFAT” Cordoni both accrued yellow cards for receiving mid-set coaching TKduring their match in the top 16 at Evo 2017. The first instance occured when Debiedma called up his coach, Luis “Crunch” Rosias, after a game one win. After Cordoni bounced back to tie the…

BlazBlue Players Get Second Chance After Console Issues Plague Evo Pools

Every fighting game competitor wants to play under optimal conditions, or at least as close to their home training experience as possible. But what are they to do when an event’s setups begin to fail? And how do the organizers rectify such a situation? These questions became incredibly important during the BlazBlue: Central Fiction tournament…

Street Fighter V Pro’s New Best Friend Is An Aluminum Can

That guy on the right is Lee “Infiltration” Seon Woo. You might remember him from last year’s Evo Street Fighter V tournament,which he won. A veteran of the scene who’s been competing since 2010 with Super Street Fighter IV, he’s now housing energy drinks in-between matches to help pay the bills. It was during a…

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Kingdom Hearts III Coming 2018, Has A Toy Story World

In 2012, longtime Kingdom Hearts director Tai Yasue told us his dream world would be Toy Story. Now it’s happening. Buzz Lightyear, meet Sora in Kingdom Hearts III, which finally has a release window: 2018. Of course, knowing series director Tetsuya Nomura, “2018″ could turn into 2024 pretty quickly. Kingdom Hearts III, the third mainline…

Surprise Character Pick Wins Evo 2017’s King Of Fighters XIV Tournament

This year’s Evolution Championship Series started with a bang last night as King of Fighters XIV wrapped up its one-day competition with an intense finals bracket. Spectators crowded the exhibition hall to see the weekend’s first champion crowned among the impressive mix of players from across Taiwan, China, Mexico, Pakistan, Japan, and the United States.…

Evo’s Catherine Tournament Is Off To A Dramatic Start

While the main event continues today, AnimEvo is going strong with its many side tournaments, including the puzzle game Catherine A 2011 game made by Atlus, the story-driven game’s competitive mode has a cult following that culminates each year at Evo. This year’s event is already off to a strong start, with Geordi (called the…