Massive Crowds Gather To Watch Dragon Ball Super Together

Over the weekend, anime fans in Latin America gathered to watch Dragon Ball Super’s 130th episode streamed in stadiums, plazas and parks. The Dragon Ball Super TV anime will come to an end for the time being. However, a Dragon Ball Super movie will hit theaters later this year in Japan. Toei Animation sent out…

Foggy Night. Bangkok, Thailand. By Zack Lowe. JPGs is a photo peek into wherever gamers might find interesting. If you’re a photographer and have images you want to share, drop us a line! 

Girl Shot In The Head By Her Brother During Argument Over Video Game Controller [Update]

A 13 year-old girl from Monroe County, Mississippi has been shot in the head by her 9 year-old brother during an argument over an unspecified video game controller. The Associated Press reports that the incident took place on Saturday, when the girl “wouldn’t give up the video game controller when her brother wanted it.” It’s…

Street Fighter II Sure Looks Inspired By This 1975 Charles Bronson Movie

Here’s something I’d never noticed before: two of the most memorable stages from Street Fighter II are likely a tribute to Hard Times, a 1975 Charles Bronson movie about…street fighting. There are multiple fights in the movie, but as Guerilla’s Dennis Zopfi pointed out in the tweet below, two in particular influenced the design of…

Shadow Of Mordor Cosplay Is A Twofer

This is not photoshop, this is Jechtssplitting himself in two for some A++ Shadow of Mordor cosplay. The results are even more impressive when you see the rest of him. Photos by Britany Quin

Suspected Drug Dealers Arrested Hiding Cocaine, LSD Inside Fake Nintendo Cartridges

Four people were arrested in The Netherlands last week after a police raid on a premises that had been using 3D printers to create fake Nintendo cartridges, inside which were hidden a variety of drugs like LSD, cocaine and MDMA. As De Telegraaf report, Dutch police raided a dark web drug dealing setup last year…

Some absolutely jaw-dropping Zelda cosplay here from Hannah Éva

Anastasia Is The Duchess Of Cosplay

Taking inspiration from actual royal photo shoots, these Anastasia shots by Alexandra Lee are a sight to behold. The incredible cosplay—check out the detail on that dress—is by JediManda You can see more of Alexandra’s photography at her Patreon page

Dragon Ball FighterZ Titans Collide Again In Extraordinary Finals

It was only fitting that Dominique “SonicFox” McLean and Goichi “Go1″ Kishida meet again in this weekend’s Dragon Ball FighterZ tournament. Avoiding each other all the way until the grand finals, it was the anime legend Goichi who managed to edge out the young prodigy and cement his status at the top of the FighterZ…

Historians Discuss The Real-World Inspirations For The New Colossus

2017’s Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus is a game that trades on the grand spectacle of alternate history. Like Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the High Castle or Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Years of Rice and Salt, it asks us to consider a bombastic “what if” that is, nonetheless, grounded in some kind of…

Pokkén Player Invades Broadcast, Cuts Fire Promo, Loses Every Match

During pool play at Final Round 2018 yesterday, one Pokkén Tournament player took the opportunity to take the mic and deliver some choice words for his next opponent. Whether a work or a genuine mic-grab, Franke “2PlayRough” Sisto delivers a WWE-caliber promo about determination and proving his mother wrong. “I’m put up against an opponent…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: A New Challenger Appears

Geralt is coming to Soulcalibur VI, and that means that anything is possible. What other characters could be coming to the beloved franchises of your dreams? Fighting game crossovers are nothing new. I fondly remember fighting through Soulcalibur II on my original Xbox as the beloved Todd McFarlane creation known as Spawn, and I’ve even…

Watch Us Play Video Games All Day

Today from 10am to 6pm Pacific (1pm-9pm Eastern), Kirk and I will be streaming video games. We’ll be speedrunning Super Mario World, killing bosses in Mega Man X, and trying to figure out if Red Dead Redemption is a good enough real-life version of Westworld You can watch it all on our Twitch channel right…

Yakuza Kiwami 2 is headed to PS4 on August 28, 2018 for $49.99. A recreation of 2008’s Yakuza 2, it will also feature new minigames and an additional campaign in which you play as Majima. Check out the trailer

The Texas Overwatch League Teams Are Having A Rough Go Of Stage 2

The Dallas Fuel and Houston Outlaws both had matches to play last night. Both teams needed a win, and neither found one. It was a tough evening for Texas fans that highlighted both teams’ ongoing issues in the second stage of the Overwatch League. The Houston Outlaws had an incredible showing in stage one, surging…

It’s Finally Time For Telltale To Shake Up Its Formula

Today in Austin, Texas, we put on a live episode of Kotaku Splitscreen to talk about Telltale’s formula and much more. Joining me and Kirk on stage was Kotaku freelancer and The Guardian games editor Keza MacDonald as well as Telltale’s vice president of creative, Leah Hoyer. We talked about storytelling in video games, games…

Sunday Comics: Betrayer Toad

Hello! It’s time for Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published March 12. Read more of Awkward Zombie Corpse Run by Alex Di Stasi. Published March 15. Read more of Corpse Run Double XP by…