Junior High School Student Wins $46,000 Game Tournament, Doesn't Get Any Money

[Kotaku]( September 18, 2019 [Junior High School Student Wins $46,000 Game Tournament, Doesn't Get Any Money]( [During the Tokyo Game Show, legendary Street Fighter player Momochi forfeited tens of thousands of dollars in prize money because he doesn’t have a pro-gaming license in Japan. He wasn’t the only one who lost out on money. The winner of the Puzzle & Dragons tournament did, too.]( [[Twitch](](@feature1LinkUrl) [Twitch's Latest Crackdowns On 'Sexual' Content Are Leaving Streamers Baffled]( [Earlier this week, Twitch suspended a streamer named Quqco for wearing a cosplay of Street Fighter heroine Chun-Li on stream, deeming her outfit “sexually suggestive.” This took Quqco—and many others—by surprise, given that the outfit was not overtly risqué. But this was not an isolated incident. In the past few...]( [[eve online](](@feature2LinkUrl) [Two Months After Turning Off Local Chat And Angering Players, EVE Online Is Back To Normal]( [After 66 days in darkness, EVE Online is turning the lights back on: The infamous Nullsec blackout came to an end on Monday, enabling players to once again use the “local” chat channel to see other nearby players. The blackout was one of the first changes implemented in the game’s...]( [[Features](](@feature3LinkUrl) [Developers Cash In By Selling Their Switch Games For Pennies]( [Every few days, I tap the eShop icon on my Nintendo Switch. I’ll look at the new games released that week, but honestly, I just want to see what’s on sale. I especially want to see what’s really on sale.]( [[News](](@feature4LinkUrl) [Long-Rumored Apex Legends Hero Apparently Spotted In Game]( [Apex Legends added its first new hero, the speedy Octane, early after launch. The electric-fence-dropping Wattson followed at the start of Season Two in July. Since then, there’s been supposed leaks and speculation about the next hero. Most folks believe it will be a sneaky hacker named Crypto, and he...]( [[Impressions](](@feature5LinkUrl) [The First Puzzle Quest Is Still The Best]( [2007's Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords combined tile-matching puzzles and role-playing game mechanics to create an incredibly compelling hybrid game that was near impossible to put down. One sequel, several spin-offs, and countless copycats later, the Switch version of the original Puzzle Quest is just as captivating as it...]( [[Japan](](@feature6LinkUrl) [Why The Most Recent Tales Game Is Taking So Long]( [Between 2002 and 2012, Bandai Namco released a mainline Tales game almost every year, save for 2006 and 2010. After 2012, there was a two-year gap before Tales of Zestiria. The following year, Namco Bandai released Tales of Berseria. But since then, there hasn’t been another Tales game. The next one,...]( [[Review](](@feature7LinkUrl) [NBA 2K20 MyCareer: The Kotaku Review]( [NBA 2K20 is one of the best sports games I’ve played in a long time. It’s also a giant scam that is perpetually gross, and sometimes even terrifying, to be around.]( YOU MAY ALSO LIKE [[Jalopnik](](@rec1LinkUrl) [Watch A Six-Wheeled Ford Super Duty Fail At Climbing A Slight Incline]( [Everyone loves to see a big, burly truck fail at accomplishing a basic task that even a tiny city car could handle, which is why this video of a six-wheeled Ford F-250 struggling to climb a slight incline is so satisfying.]( [[The Takeout](](@rec2LinkUrl) [Pizza Hut’s Stuffed Cheez-It Pizza tests the limits of snack food fusion]( [There was great curiosity in Takeout land when we learned that Pizza Hut was planning to release a Stuffed Cheez-It pizza. Would the Cheez-Its be scattered across the top, like Doritos on a Quad Cities pizza? Or would they be pulverized and pressed together to form the base, like a...]( [[The Inventory](](@rec3LinkUrl) [Wednesday's Best Deals: $120 Surround Sound, Kate Spade Surprise Sale, LEGO Saturn V Apollo, and More]( [A Kyoku Daimyo 8” Damascus Chef’s Knife, a Surprise Sale at Kate Spade, and LEGO Saturn V Apollo lead off Wednesday’s best deals from around the web.]( [[Deadspin](](@rec4LinkUrl) [The Yankees Are Cursed]( [The Yankees, who spent the first week of the season getting everybody hurt, and then a few months later, did it again just to set some all-time IL records, are getting healthy. Just in time for the playoffs, but also just in time to get injured again.]( [[Gizmodo](](@rec5LinkUrl) [U.S. Air Force Warns There's a Chance an American and Russian Satellite Could Collide Overnight]( [Earlier today, the private American firm Bigelow Aerospace was notified by the U.S. Air Force that its Genesis II spacecraft has a slim chance of smashing into a dead Russian spy satellite.]( You made it to the end. Thanks for reading our newsletter! [Visit Kotaku]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [YouTube]( [Terms of Use]( | [Privacy Policy]( | [Unsubscribe]( [Profile Center]( © 2019 Gizmodo Media Group 1540 Broadway, 27th Floor New York, NY 10036