Experience Being Poked By An Anime Girl

Starting tomorrow, a VR title is coming to Steam that lets folks experience what it’s like to be poked by an anime girl. It seems to just be poking. No wonder it’s called Tsun-tsun VR or “Poking VR.” While the download is free, players will need to shell out a couple hundred bucks for a…

Fist Of The North Star Takes Over Japanese Trains And Train Stations

Iconic manga and anime Fist of the North Star is celebrating its 35th anniversary. Keihin Kyuko trains have been covered with Fist of the North Stars characters. Inside the train. A couple stations have been renamed So Keikyu Kamata Station is now Keikyu Kaamatatatataaa Station The “atatata” is the sound Kenshiro makes when punching the…

Nintendo’s Best Selling Switch And 3DS Games To Date

Nintendo has released sales data for its biggest selling Nintendo Switch and 3DS games. Which ones do you think came out on top? Oh, the suspense! Here are the Switch games. And the 3DS ones There shouldn’t be any surprises, no?

R-Type Is Getting An Excellent Statue

Classic side-scrolling shooter R-Type is getting immortalized in a poseable Figma statue. Of course, that’s Dobkeratops, which is R-Type’s most infamous boss. This is an unpainted prototype. According to Figsoku, the final piece doesn’t yet have a release date. Pricing is also TBA. Kotaku East is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the…

Lifetime Sales For The Nintendo Switch And Nintendo 3DS

Wonder how Nintendo’s current gen game machines are doing? The Kyoto-based company just released life-to-date tallies for both the Switch and 3DS, as well as software totals for each. For comparison’s sake, Nintendo included lifetime sales figures for its other game hardware. Have a look.  

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Oh Boy Look At This Doomfist Cosplay

Or, more specifically, just look at the metal arm on this guy. This is Zibartaswith a truly astonishing piece of work, replicating Doomfist’s artificial limb from the lights to the mechanics Yes, I know it’s not the same size as Doomfist’s actual arm. But this is the price you pay to actually make the thing…

Overwatch League’s TV Ratings Were Low, But It Doesn’t Matter

If you followed the Overwatch League’s first season, odds are good that you mostly did it on Twitch. Over the weekend, the grand finals got airtime on television networks, too, and they didn’t exactly draw a Beholder-load of eyeballs. The Nielsen overnight estimates for Overwatch League’s grand finals broadcasts on ESPN and ABC are in,…

All Hail Crab Tank

Ben Mauro is an artist who has worked on a ton of stuff in both video games and movies, from BioShock to The Hobbit to Call of Duty to Elysium The images you’re about to see below are some recent personal pieces, mostly spaceships and some ideas on what war looks like in the not-too-distant…

Man Beats Fallout: New Vegas Without Getting Hit Even Once

T Ronix has managed to complete Fallout: New Vegas—and the game’s DLC—without taking a single hit, all the while playing on Very Hard difficulty. The whole run took around six-and-a-half hours, and included some basic ground rules. T Ronix couldn’t: Take a hit from an enemy, whether it be melee or projectile Take a direct…

EA Kills “Open Source” Version Of SimCity 2000

Earlier this year, a game called OpenSC2K was released on GitHub, claiming to be a free, open source version of Maxis’ classic. Turns out it wasn’t as open source as it could have been, though, because EA have had the game removed from the platform. As TorrentFreak report, the art assets used in OpenSC2K were…

Hell Is Watching Smash Bros. Characters Dance Like They’re In Fortnite

Our time on this planet is limited, but please spend a moment of it feasting on the internet’s latest abomination. YouTuber Master0fHyrule has made a lot of videos about Super Smash Bros. Usually they’re just lists, like this one showing off every character’s taunt or this other one showing off every character’s taunt in reverse.…

Annual EVE Online Tournament Kicks Off With A Daring Bluff

On the opening day of EVE Online’s annual Alliance Tournament, one team used a clever bluff to secure its first win. The official once-a-year tournament is unlike all other EVE Online combat, since all competitors start with the same set of equipment. The fights take place on the main EVE server, but in unreachable star…

No Man’s Sky Horror Seems Friendly

Today on Highlight Reel we have No Man’s Sky NEXT clips, impressive Battlefield maneuvers and much more! Watch the video then talk about your favorite highlight in the comments below. Be sure to check out, like, and share the original videos via the links below. Subscribe to Kotaku on YouTube for more! Catch up on…

Steam Game Vanishes After Players Accuse It Of Mining Bitcoins On Their Computers [UPDATE]

For the past couple weeks, players of a PC platformer called Abstractism have suspected that something is amiss. The game has been accused of “cryptojacking” people’s machines, or clandestinely using their resources to mine for cryptocurrency. Today, after sustained outcry over the weekend, Abstractism was removed from Steam. Abstractism appeared on Steam on March 15…

Ask Dr. NerdLove: I Keep Chasing ‘Manic Pixie Dream Girls’

Hello all you post-singularity sex marmosets, and welcome to Ask Dr. NerdLove, the only dating advice column that’ll patch in co-op multiplayer two years after launch. This week, we’re doing some relationship detox. How can a guy shed toxic beliefs about relationships, about women and what he needs to be a “real” man? And when a…

Five Ways Video Games Make Failure Matter

Video games are constantly trying different ways to make you feel like the game you’re playing has exciting, tangible stakes. Some are more creative about it than others. Without some sort of stakes or risk, victories in a video game feel hollow and unexciting. That can be fine for a low-stakes, low-impact game, but can…

Speedrunner Beats The Wind Waker HD In Under One Hour

Most players will take days to complete The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, but speedrunners do it much faster. Thanks to a year full of new discoveries and attempts by hard-working runners, The Wind Waker HD has been completed, for the first time ever, in under an hour. The new Any% world record—a speedrun…

A Team Of Role-Players Is Transforming Destiny Into A D&D Game

A group of intrepid Dungeon Masters are building a Dungeons & Dragons campaign based on the world of Destiny, a sci-fi franchise about shooting aliens in space and hoping that they drop things that will let you shoot aliens in space even more efficiently. The project, D&Destiny, aims to be a totally free guide to…