As awesome as owning Pokémon would be, it would undoubtedly come with some drawbacks—just like owning real pets would. But if the newest Pokémon trend is anything to go by, it would be kind of hard to stay mad at our Pokémon. » 7/14/14 7:45pm 7/14/14 7:45pm

If you're a lover of niche video game Tumblrs, here's a fantastic one: Video Game Foliage. "A blog dedicated to the beautiful and weird approximations of plants found in video games." » 1/20/14 1:00am 1/20/14 1:00am

Are you surprised? I'm not surprised. I don't think anyone is surprised. Pokémon is one of the more popular franchises on Kotaku, too, especially in recent days since the release of X and Y. » 12/03/13 12:30pm 12/03/13 12:30pm

Biggest fear for Season 2 of The Legend of Korra: so much this. Probably not unreasonable either, given that in interviews, the writers highlighted Mako and Korra's relationship as a point of tension in the upcoming season. (GIF via avataraang) » 8/16/13 9:00pm 8/16/13 9:00pm

One of my favorite Tumblrs—next to Sports Balls Replaced With Cats, of course—is this one where Mike Rosenthal draws people's silliest, funniest, downright weirdest tweets. » 4/24/13 12:45pm 4/24/13 12:45pm

Woah we broke 100,000 followers on our Tumblr today! Thanks, guys. We <3 you, too. » 4/11/13 5:45pm 4/11/13 5:45pm

All that 'officially' exists of this anime is about 30 seconds of young, hunky swimmers. That's it; the anime isn't real. It doesn't even have a name. The clip is a promotional thing for the Kyoto Animation studio, but that hasn't stopped anyone from falling in love with the idea of the anime according to The Daily… » 3/11/13 9:30pm 3/11/13 9:30pm

Unlike the Pokémon games before it, Pokémon Black/White almost explored something interesting: why we catch Pokémon, and whether or not keeping/battling with them is "okay." But before the games said anything meaningful or deep, they took the easy route and made Team Plasma—the group intent on "liberating" Pokémon… » 2/11/13 2:00pm 2/11/13 2:00pm

Horse_ebooks, the automated spam Twitter account that promotes e-books by quoting random lines from them, is one of the most famous Twitter accounts out there. Much of the appeal is that despite being complete word salad, it manages to say absurd if not insightful things. But it's not stuff that would get you a… » 2/06/13 10:30pm 2/06/13 10:30pm

Did you know we kept our Tumblr site after Hurricane Sandy? We fill it with pretty pictures now. Go take a look. » 1/10/13 3:15pm 1/10/13 3:15pm

Turns out we liked our Tumblr so much we couldn't bear to part with it. So we kept it around. » 12/06/12 5:50pm 12/06/12 5:50pm