“Hamburger Straws” Are Japan’s Newest Online Meme

For the past week, some people in Japan have been buying McDonald’s hamburgers and piercing them with drinking straws. The name of this meme is called “drink x hamburger” (ハンバーガーxドリンク or hanbaagaa x dorinku) or “hamburger straw” (ハンバーガー ストロー or hanbaagaa sutoroo). Everyone isn’t doing this (yet!), but there are enough for the trend to…

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The Art Of Strike Vector EX

Strike Vector EX is a dogfighting game that’s fresh out on Steam (it was released on console last year). And it has some of the best art you’ll see on this feature in 2017. EX is actually a re-release of Strike Vector, a game we featured on Fine Art in 2013. This new version came…

A Brutal Recap Of The Very Bad Pokémon Go Fest

So Pokémon Go Fest was a disaster. If you were lucky enough to not be there, and want to catch up on just how awful the whole thing was, this video recap by bobvids will get you up to speed. Spoilers: there is a lot of booing.

Now Here’s Demon’s Souls Running On A PC

In case seeing Persona 5 wasn’t impressive enough, here’s footage of another big PS3 game—Demon’s Souls—being entirely playable on a PC courtesy of an emulator. It’s running through a fresh update of RPCS3, the same emulator that was powering Persona 5 the other day. And while it’s not a perfect emulation—and has some hefty hardware…

The Week In Games: Come On Baby Light My Pyre

The creators of Bastion and Transistor are coming out with their latest and it shows how times have changed. We likened it last fall to a “mystical sports RPG.” Unlike Supergiant Games’ previous focus on story and exploration, Pyre shifts the focus to arena style-showdowns. Which I’m looking forward to, personally. An esport you play…

The Hunt For An SNES Classic Is Already A Mess

A lot of people just want to preorder a damn SNES Classic. But nothing’s ever easy with Nintendo The SNES Classic isn’t scheduled to come out for another few months but everyone is already furiously trying secure a preorder. As a result, when Walmart appeared be accepting them late Friday night, people swamped the site…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Sonic Crossover

Did you hear? Sonic the Hedgehog got picked up by comic book publisher IDW. That means it’s only a matter of time until the furry blue runner’s first really weird crossover. The new partnership was revealed last week after Sega announced Sonic comics would no longer be coming via Archie. Naturally, everyone’s wandering what this…

‘Dicks Out 4 Winston’ And Other Signs At The Overwatch World Cup Qualifiers

If you’re headed to one of the Overwatch World Cup qualifiers and thinking of bringing that letter ‘D’ and a white picket fence scrawled on poster board, don’t. After all, Overwatch is a game built on around bizarre characters that encourage a sometimes frightening level of fandom. Nothing demonstrates that more clearly than taking a…

Counter-Strike Team Caps Off Dominant Run With First-Ever Majors Win

Nine of the ten players in today’s PGL Major finals had never made it to a Valve major finals before, with one team having never qualified for a major ever. Only Danylo “Zeus” Teslenko had competed in the finals of a major prior, and he’d been snubbed twice. In a tense match between the two…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: The Last Of Hot Dogs, Winners!

One of the greatest video game openings of all time made somehow even better. Last week’s contest was to take the dancing hot dog and dump him into your favorite gaming locales. The enthusiasm seemed to be somewhat lacking and for a hot second I thought maybe I’d introduced one of the worst prompts in…

Some Pokémon Go Players Are Having Trouble Capturing Lugia and Articuno

Pokémon Go players now have a chance to capture two rare birds, Lugia and Articuno. Some players attempting these raids are finding that adding legendaries to their compendium is a tough prospect, partially because of Niantic’s design, and partially due to good ‘ol network issues. The first hurdle is having a suitable and strong enough monster.…

When You Want Everyone To Know You Made That Overwatch Play Of The Game

Tanks, next to supports, are the often the unsung heroes of a match. So when you make one of the bigger plays of the game, even on the main stage of the Overwatch World Cup qualifiers, it’s fine to gloat a little. During the last night’s group stage matches in the Sydney qualifiers, Sweden took…

Bandai Namco Shows Off New Trailer And Gameplay For Little Witch Academia: Chamber of Time

The publisher revealed some new information as well as some gameplay for the upcoming anime adaptation during a live stream even last night. As reported by Gematsu, the stream announced, among other things, that the characters Akko Kagari, Lotte Yanson, and Sucy Manbavaran will all be playable in the game. In addition, Little Witch Academia:…

Sunday Comics: A Super Lasting Longer Than Four Hours

Welcome to Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics that usually occurs on Sunday except when it doesn’t. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira. Published July 22. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published July 17. Read more…

Geralt Must Eat Or Die In New Witcher 3 Mod

As if The Witcher 3 didn’t already have enough stuff to keep track of, a recent mod adds hunger, dehydration, and sleep as new challenges to be managed. The mod,spotted by PC Gamer, is called Primal Needs and it’s quite extensive, not just making Geralt more sloppy in battle if he fails to get some…

Pokémon Go’s First Legendaries Are Lugia and Articuno, Both Live Now [UPDATE]

Despite a plague of issues during the live event, Pokémon Go players will soon get a chance at a rare monster. Fest attendees all get legendary Lugia in their accounts tonight, and players worldwide will start seeing Lugia in raid battles within the next 48 hours, Niantic announced. That’s not all. Niantic has been tracking individual…

Pro Smash Bros. Melee Fox Player Is Merciless 

Nobody likes getting trapped in the corner. The Pokémon Stadium level had moved into its sheer rock wall phase when Justin “Plup” McGrath decided to knock off another one of David “R2DLiu” Liu’s lives without breaking a sweat. Nobody wants to meet one of the best Melee players around (Plup finished fifth at Evo) so…