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Brock From The Pokémon Anime Might Have A Girlfriend
In the recent Pokémon Sun & Moon episode, Brock is back! And after getting turned down for years, he might finally have a girlfriend. During the show, Brock seems to have hit it off with Olivia. *Brock’s name is Takeshi in Japanese. Like, really hit it off Hope this works out because…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 8, 2019 - Uncategorized
Poop Emoji Reborn As Soft Serve Ice Cream
While poop ice cream isn’t new, here’s the poop emoji turned into soft serve ice cream. As Wired points out, Japanese telecom company KDDI first pushed out the unchi (poop) emoji in September 2000. And this month, IT Media and PR Times are reporting that snack shop SweetXO Good Grief in Tokyo is launching Unchi-kun…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 8, 2019 -
Kotaku EastJapanTV Series 24 Is Getting A Japanese Remake
Titled 24 Japan, it’s set for broadcast during the 2020 fiscal year. The drama will be a remake of season 1 but adapted for its new setting. Livedoor is reporting that TV Asahi is handling the remake, which will follow the same real-time format of the American series. TV Asahi negotiated with 20th Century Fox…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 8, 2019 -
Kotaku EastK-Pop Pick Of The Day: Snow
We’re in the thick of winter, so it only seems fitting to feature a track that embodies the season like few other songs do. SURL (설) is a Korean indie band that just released their first extended play last December, of which Snow is its title track. The band consists of four members: Seol Ho…
By Seung Park Published January 8, 2019 - Culture
The Best-Reviewed Steam Games Of 2018
More so than perhaps even playing them, Steam is a place where people go to yell about games. Here are the games they yelled most positively about last year. Steam reviews are kind of a mess. The positive/negative binary squelches nuance and doesn’t translate well into an overall percentage score, and the system is easily…
By Nathan Grayson Published January 7, 2019 -
UncategorizedGRIS Advertisement Rejected By Facebook For “Sexually Suggestive” Content
Only, there was nothing sexually suggestive about it. Earlier today Devolver Digital, the publishers of GRIS—one of our Games Of The Year—tweeted this: That scene is…not suggestive of sex. Especially once you see it moving, as part of the launch trailer the image is advertising: A Devolver representative tells Kotaku “this is stupid”. “We appealed…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 7, 2019 - Uncategorized
Giant LEGO Mario Is Also A Giant Amiibo
Reader Cody got a nice surprise for Christmas: this enormous Mario, which his mum made out of 6000 Lego bricks. And just so nobody could tell her that her baby boy’s new gift wasn’t practical, Cody went and added a base and chip so that it could function as an Amiibo as well. Actually…swapping that…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 7, 2019 - Uncategorized
Modder Releases Battle Royale Mode For Stardew Valley, But It’s Busted
Battle Royalley is a mod that asks a simple question: what would you get if you took Stardew Valley, the nicest thing ever, and added a ton of murder? I don’t know, because I haven’t been able to get it running. As reported by PC Gamer, the wonderfully calm and cheerful Stardew Valley apparently now…
By Heather Alexandra Published January 7, 2019 -
CultureCosplayGalleryEvery Christmas, There’s A Cosplay Spectacular In Florida
Holiday Matsuri has quickly grown to become one of the biggest and best cosplay shows in the US. And it’s not hard seeing why: who wouldn’t want to escape the winter chills for a resort in Orlando in the middle of December? Below you’ll find a selection of video and photos taken by Mineralblufrom the…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 7, 2019 -
CultureThe Internet Reacts To Soldier 76 And His Ex-Boyfriend
Tracer is no longer the only canonically LGBTQ hero in Overwatch. Today, Blizzard released a new short story focusing on steely sniper grandma Ana and grumpy military dad Soldier 76. The latter, it turns out, used to be involved with a man named Vincent. In the short story, titled “Bastet,” Ana encounters Soldier for the…
By Nathan Grayson Published January 7, 2019 - Uncategorized
Another Eden: The Cat Beyond Time and Space is a free-to-play JRPG coming to iOS and Android on January 28. It’s made in part by Chrono Trigger writer Masato Kato and composer Yasunori Mitsuda, and while it will have microtransactions and character rarities, it will also have a swordsman frog named Cyrus.
By Ethan Gach Published January 7, 2019 - Uncategorized
Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse‘s Best Moment Comes From A Heartbreaking Villain
Kids’ movies often have pretty black and white morality. The good people are good, and the bad people are bad. I enjoyed Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse a lot as a grown adult, and one reason the movie stands out is its portrayal of a more complex system of morality in a film geared towards a…
By Gita Jackson Published January 7, 2019 - Uncategorized
Sexy Medieval Men Are Waiting For You In Robin Morningwood
We’re all aware of the kind of tropes that porn scripts employ to get their actors from point A to point Fisting. Plumbers turn up to help out housewives with no cash; pizza delivery boys decide to take a different form of payment than monetary; your stepsister is weirdly into the idea of having sex…
By Kate Gray Published January 7, 2019 - Uncategorized
Soon, You’ll Be Able To Play Duck Hunt On Modern TVs
The NES Zapper light gun peripheral is an unfortunate victim of the relentless march of technology, rendered inoperable on modern flat-screen televisions. Retro console and peripheral maker Hyperkin aims to solve that problem with the Hyper Blaster HD, an NES light gun for the modern age. The Zapper doesn’t work on modern televisions because the…
By Mike Fahey Published January 7, 2019
