Amazon Kills Unpopular Anime Strike Service

After just a year, Amazon has gutted its hard-to-loveanime service Anime Strike, rolling the dozens of anime shows and movies Anime Strike offered into Amazon Prime’s general offerings. Reached for comment, an Amazon representative told Kotaku, “We have decided to move the curated catalogs of Anime Strike and [Bollywood channel] Heera into Prime Video so…

A Look Inside Eiichiro Oda’s House

Eiichiro Oda, the creator of One Piece, has an interesting house. Let’s have a peek! Previously, we saw Oda’s studio, which is also located in his house. After checking out that, other parts of his house, which were recently introduced on Japanese TV, shouldn’t come as a total surprise. For example, he has a crane…

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A Collection Of Incredible Character Designs

Sangsoo Jeong is an artist working at Chinese gaming giant NetEase, and the pieces you’re about to see are some of the best character design we’ve ever featured on Fine Art They’re for a concept he was working on from 2015-17, and are just…ungh, just look at them. I wish Final Fantasy XV could have…

Watch A Man Spend 350 Hours Drawing All 807 Pokémon 

Here’s a timelapse video of reader Christopher Cayco drawing all 807 current Pokémon. It took him 350 hours over a span of 42 days. Actually, there are more than 807 Pokémon: while he’s got all of them accounted for, he’s drawn some of them more than once, so there’s actually over 1100 pocket monsters in…

How Not To Stop Your Nerdy Child From Becoming A Pro Gamer

Pro gaming has yet to become normalized enough for the parents of America to feel proud of their offspring for pursuing it professionally. At least, not until those children defy all expectations and start making hundreds of thousands of dollars in tournament winnings. Parents of pro gamers told the Wall Street Journal all the tactics…

One Of Steam’s Hottest Games Is A Zombie RTS

They Are Billions pits a steampunk village against a giant zombie horde. While it might look like a reskinned Age of Empires, that surface hides a strategy game that strikes all the right balances. Every time a wave of undead obliterated my encampment, the only thing I wanted to do was restart and try again.…

Riot Games Unbans Tyler1, A Player It Once Called A ‘Genuine Jerk’

Riot Games confirmed to Compete that it has lifted the indefinite ban on Twitch League of Legends streamer Tyler1. Initial news of the ban came from Tyler1’s Twitter account, where he said that, “AFTER 613 DAYS OF INTENSE REHAB I AM FINALLY UNBANNED FROM LEAGUE OF LEGENDS.” Tyler1—a talented player who specializes in playing as…

Neko Atsume Developer’s New Game Is About A Traveling Frog

The makers of cat-watching mobile game Neko Atsume dropped a new game about a frog that goes on adventures. It’s very cute. Even before Neko Atsume had an english translation, people were taken by its cute art and low pressure game play. You put out food, cats come by, and they leave you presents. They’ll…

Two Japanese Guilty Gear Stars Shit-Talked Their Way Back Into The Spotlight

Fighting game veteran Daigo Umehara hosted a series of high-level exhibitions earlier this week as part of his new Kemonomichi event series, and one matchup became the perfect opportunity for two stars with personal grudges to settle their differences in Guilty Gear Xrd Rev 2 While trash talk is a regular part of the fighting…

Eleven Observations From Rewatching Most Of Lost

On a whim a couple of months ago, I decided to start rewatching Lost, a show about people on an island eating fish biscuits for nourishment. Sadly, ABC pulled it from Netflix today, choosing instead to put it all on Hulu. But I got through most of it, and I have a lot of thoughts.…

5 New Hearthstone Cards That We Totally Underestimated

Now that Hearthstone’s latest expansion Kobolds and Catacombs has been out for a few weeks, we’re seeing the metagame start to calcify as people begin to realize which decks and cards reign supreme. In the process, many cards that went under the radar in the lead-up to Kobolds’ launch turned out to be a lot…

Mad Catz Is Coming Back, Sort Of

Gaming peripheral maker Mad Catz has come back to life but not as you remember it. The company declared bankruptcy in 2017, at which time many of its assets were purchased by an unnamed Chinese holding company that has now spun them off into a new entity called “Mad Catz Global Limited.” As part of…

Doki Doki Literature Club, As Told By Steam Reviews

Doki Doki Literature Club was a surprise hit last year. According to Steam reviews, you should play it if you like big anime tiddies and giving yourself emotional pain. I really liked the way Doki Doki Literature Club got under my skin. Despite its pleasant, moe-tinged veneer, it’s not just a scary-ass game, it also contains…

New Undertale Speedrun Category Takes 33 Hours To Finish

An Undertale speedrun usually lasts anywhere from one hour to an hour and a half. A speedrunner looking for a greater challenge put together their own exhaustive speedrun that collects every item, ending, and fights ever boss, an undertaking that took over thirty-three hours to complete. Undertale speedruns are categorized depending on which “route” runners…

A Pocket Of Passionate Players Is The Only Thing Keeping Competitive ARMS Alive

While the Switch as a platform is thriving, ARMS is its redheaded stepchild. In its first two weeks, it peaked at the 13th most popular game on the eShop. Despite being a less popular Nintendo exclusive, some competitors are keeping the fighting spirit alive months after most moved on to other games. ARMS is a…

D&D Player Mods Hundreds Of Monsters Into Playable Characters

Your bread-and-butter Dungeons & Dragons party won’t include a manticore, a gargoyle, a hyena or a sentient fungi, but maybe it should. One D&D player spent a year and a half converting every single creature in the D&D Monster Manual into playable characters, and now players can live out their dreams of being a great…