Japanese Convenience Store Dresses Up In Dragon Quest XI

In Osaka’s geek district Den Den Town, one Lawson convenience stores is covered in Dragon Quest XI The store really went all out. The walls and floors are covered in Dragon Quest with DQXI merchandise and sound effects in the store. Besides the one in Tokyo, there are only two in the whole country that have…

Godzilla Gets The Hello Kitty Treatment

Hello Kitty is famous for being cute. Godzilla is not. What happens when Sanrio has a crack at Japan’s most famous monster? This. With Godzilla: Kaiju Wakusei (Godzilla: Monster Planet) coming out this November, Toho and Sanrio teamed up for a series of cute Godzilla designs, which will be available this fall in Japan. As…

Mario Is Officially No Longer A Plumber

According to Mario’s newly updated, official Japanese-language profile, the iconic character isn’t working as a plumber. This shouldn’t be a total surprise, because the character seems to do everything but plumbing. But doesn’t going down Warp Pipes count? Doesn’t appear so! Here is how the recently uploaded Mario profile explains the character: All around sporty,…

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Look, Witches Don’t Always Want To Use Magic, OK?

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The Witcher Turns 10, Releases Very Nice Video

The Witcher series is 10 years old this month, and to mark the occasion CD Projekt Red released this teary lil’ clip. We had some good times, gang. And now…I can’t seem to scrape this irritating dust out of my eyes. Unsolicited CDPR Suggestion: I know everyone there is very busy with Cyberpunk, but if…

North American League Team Overcomes Deficit And Water Spillage To Win Finals

A new record has been set for North American League of Legends. Team SoloMid has been a longstanding force in the North American League Championship Series, taking home many trophies, and now winning titles at an unprecedented rate. In a 3-1 victory over Immortals, TSM is the first team to win both the spring and…

227 Artists Remade An Episode Of Super Mario World’s Cartoon

This is The Mama Luigi Project, a year-long effort to bring together over 200 artists so that they could completely reanimate one of the most famous episodes of the Super Mario World TV series: Mama Luigi. 255 scenes had to be done, with almost every single one of them featuring a different art and animation…

Skyrim Cosplayer Joins Christians For His Own Religious Protest

Every year at Dragon Con, there are some Christian protesters hanging around angry that everyone is loving nerd shit instead of Jesus. And almost every year, Heimskr from Skyrim is there to join them in their preaching. Cosplayer Jacob Kevinsson has been dressing as the Skyrim preacher and attending Dragon Con since 2014, and most…

As of Sunday afternoon, the SNES Classic at Nintendo’s PAX booth remains safely behind glass. Note that it has once more been rearranged compared with yesterday and Friday, which raises further questions about the ease with which the case can be opened. We will continue to monitor the situation as it develops.

Podcast: What It’s Like To Play Classic Games For The First Time

Whether or not you caught our 12-hour video game marathon on Tuesday, join us to talk about some great classic games on today’s Kotaku Splitscreen First, a reminder: At PAX in Seattle on Friday, September 1, we’ll be holding the first-ever Kotaku Splitscreen Live. It’ll be in the Sasquatch Theater at 8pm, so come join…

League Pro Goes The Entire European Summer Final Without Dying A Single Time

Sometimes it’s enough just to not die. Survive, and the rest might follow. That was certainly the case for G2 Esports’ Jesper “Zven” Svenningsen at today’s European League of Legends Summer Final. In League, as in most sports, the plays that often get the most attention are the ones that do damage. We remember how…

Kid Solves Rubik’s Cube In Under Five Seconds, Sets New Record

15-year-old Patrick Ponce has set a new 3×3 Rubik’s Cube world record at 4.69 seconds.  The previous best was 4.73, held by Feliks Zemdeg, who set several records at this year’s World Championship Ponce’s other record placings include 11th in the world at 4x4x4 cubes and 10th at 5x5x5. At the Rally In The Valley…

Game Developers Explain Some Of Their Favorite Ways To Trick The Player 

Games lie to us all the time. Recently, some developers took to Twitter to share a few of their ones, revealing design tricks used in games ranging from Surgeon Simulator to Bioshock In the latter, for instance, the first bullets fired at you by enemies always missed. You might have thought you were just an…

Pro Doomfist Has Clutch Reaction To Tracer Ultimate

Some days you just can’t get rid of a bomb, but you can still try to give it back to the Tracer who threw it. In yesterday’s Overwatch Contenders match between EnVyUs and Kungarna, Michael “mykL” Padilla stuck Kim “Effect” Hyeon with Tracer’s Pulse Bomb, all but ensuring Kim’s imminent demise. Rather than share the…

The Good Life Shows Off Sheep And Day Drinking In New Gameplay Trailer 

Revealed earlier this month as the latest game from the creator of Deadly Premonition, The Good Life looks as weird as anything Hidetaka “SWERY” Suehiro has ever worked on. The latest trailer offers a first look at some gameplay and, yup, it’s definitely looking like a SWERY game. The Good Life is a murder mystery…