You Are Not Looking At A Manga Drawing Of Cars

This isn’t an Initial D drawing. It’s not a page from the manga. You are looking at model cars painted like manga or anime art. Incredible, no? This is the work of a talented Twitter user named Shinga, who says he painted them in the style of Initial D creator Shuichi Shigeno. Here’s a look…

Why People Keep Saying “Perfect Body” In This Twitch Streamer’s Comments

Actor Kane Kosugi recently started streaming League of Legends on Twitch. His comments section filled up with people saying “Perfect Body.” On Twitter, “Perfect Body” even started trending in Japan. The US-born Kosugi has starred in an array of films, including Godzilla: Final Wars, the live-action Terraformars, DOA: Dead or Alive and Tekken: Kazuya’s Revenge.…

Spoilers Leak About Dragon Ball Super‘s Last Episode

On March 25, Dragon Ball Super’s last episode will air, bringing to an end the series which debuted in June 2015. Warning: This article has spoilers. According to an Animage magazine scan, which was linked by Hachima but which Kotaku hasn’t confirmed firsthand, the episode’s title is apparently “A Miraculous Conclusion! Farewell Goku! Until The…

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Overwatch League’s Dallas Fuel Is Not Having A Good Time Right Now

It’s been a rough past few days of a rough month of a rough first season for Dallas Fuel, the Overwatch League’s most star-studded team. Today alone, one member, Timo “Taimou” Kettunen, finally apologized for using a homophobic slur on stream, while another, Félix “xQc” Lengyel, said he might quit the team entirely. Taimou used…

Yes, Give Mercy Two Guns

I used to main Mercy. Now I don’t even play Overwatch. Partly because the growing obsession with the game’s meta among friends was poison to my casual Overwatch habits, but also because Mercy only had one gun. As a Battle Mercy guy, healing always came secondary to the accuracy and range of her pistol, and…

Do Not Call Yourself ‘Fuck,’ Spider-Man Doesn’t Like It

As long as there have been video games that let you enter text, there have been people using rude words. Many just let you use them, others will block them, but Spider-Man on the PS1 did something a bit different. At the player name entry screen, it would detect naughty words and as voice actor…

Fortnite Is Coming To Mobile, Will Support Cross-Platform Play

Epic just announced that Fortnite: Battle Royale is coming to Android and iOS. It’s not a weird conversion, or downsized experience either. Epic says “Fortnite is the same 100-player game you know from PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC, and Mac. Same gameplay, same map, same content, same weekly updates.” There’s even talk of letting mobile…

The Internet Reacts To Smash Bros. For Switch

Super Smash Bros. is finally coming to the Switch and the announcement is blowing minds. We all knew it was inevitable, but still: Smash Bros.! On the Switch! The race to comb through footage for some clue about who will be in the game has begun. Nintendo Directs these days always elicit lots of reactions,…

Nightmare Man, You Take The Right Flank

Today on Highlight Reel we have Rainbow Six nightmares, touch of death combos, stab trains, 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…

Trump Meets With Game Executives, Watches Clips Of Violent Video Games

President Donald Trump spent an hour today talking to partisans on both sides of the violent video game debate, without any sort of conclusive outcome. The White House also ran a reel of violent video game footage. The meeting was held following the president’s remarks linking video games to violence in the wake of the…

Japan Is Getting Some Switch Games We’re Not (Yet?)

We just got a whole bunch of awesome Nintendo Switch game announcements in today’s Nintendo Direct, but as usual, Japan got a little bit extra. Here are the announcements you didn’t see if you only watched the U.S. Direct. SaGa Scarlet Grace, the latest in Square Enix’s long-running series of really complicated RPGs originally released…

Everything Announced During Today’s Nintendo Direct

Today, Nintendo officially announced that Super Smash Bros. is coming to Switch. Equally exciting: the original Luigi’s Mansion is getting a 3DS remake! It was a port-heavy Direct this time around, with some cool news tucked in around the edges. Here’s everything Nintendo showed. Super Smash Bros. is coming to Switch. Not the most surprising…

Smash Bros. Is Coming To Switch, With Squid Kids

Rejoice, Switch fans: Nintendo’s iconic platform brawler is finally confirmed for the portable console. Now that we’ve got the obligatory announcement of of the way, we can proceed to argue about what characters should totally fight one another. In the CGI trailer there’s a big new surprise—you can play as a character from Splatoon! And…

Crash Bandicoot Trilogy No Longer Exclusive, Coming To Switch, Xbox One And PC

Released last year as a PlayStation 4 exclusive, remastered versions of Crash Bandicoot, Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back and Crash Bandicoot: Warped are coming to Switch on July 10. Update: And Xbox One and PC as well. The Crash Bandicoot series was a PlayStation exclusive when it debuted back in 1996, but these days…

Undertale, South Park, And Other Games Are Coming To Switch

A sudden Nintendo Directbrings with it a handful of ports that you can play on the subway or while laying in bed. Here’s a list of all of the fresh ports making their way to the Switch. Okami HD Capcom’s cult classic Zelda-like brings gorgeous art and extremely pet-able wolf gods to the Switch. It…