A Spoiler-Packed Chat About Horizon Zero Dawn‘s Excellent Story

Three Kotaku staffers have finished the new PlayStation 4 game Horizon Zero Dawn, so it feels like time to talk it all. Join me, Kirk, and Patricia for some SPOILERY talk about Aloy’s wild robot adventures. Jason Schreier: Alright, let’s talk about Horizon Zero Dawn. Now that the game has been out for nearly two…

The Disney Afternoon Collection’s Rewind Button Makes A Big Difference

Capcom’s Disney Afternoon Collection drops this week on Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC, bundling together six classic NES games based shows from the heyday of Disney television animation. They’re just like you remember them, only now you can rewind. Watch us play. We streamed brief plays of all six games in the collection over…

A Japanese Snack Food Commercial For Metal Gear Solid Fans

If you’ve played Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, you might remember the Calorie Mate energy supplement snacks. Fast forward to 2017 as Snake’s Japanese voice actor Akio Otsuka is now lending his talents to Calorie Mate’s latest ad campaign. Make sense, because in Metal Gear Solid 3, there are extended conversations about Calorie Mate.…

Blade Runner Pistol Is Being Turned Into…A Water Gun

Blade Runner’s blaster already has a number of expensive replicas. This summer, it’s getting a water gun. Japanese gun model maker Ryosuke Takagi previously did his version of Deckard’s PKD Blaster from Blade Runner As these Zospec photos show, it’s an impressive piece, costing around $600—or more. That replica is the basis of an upcoming…

The Most Infamous Swimming Pool in Japanese Pornography

Ask anyone who’s ever seen an adult movie in Japan. Or, at least, anyone who has ever spent some time on the internet. More than likely, they’ll know this swimming pool. This article was originally published on February 11, 2014. It contains content some readers might find objectionable. In Japanese, the pool is called “that…

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Osaka’s Cosplay Scene Is Stealing Hearts

Osaka’s Nipponbashi Street Festival was held earlier this month, and there was a lot of fantastic cosplay to be found as part of the fun. Because I am unhealthily obsessed with Persona 5 at the momentmy favourite is this killer Ann/Panther, but there’s a lot of other great stuff captured in this vid by Rescue…

Dallas, Your Cosplay Is Very Good

From March 31 to April 2, Fan Expo Dallas was held in Texas, and there was some fantastic cosplay on show, from some tiny Lannisters to a giant Godzilla. Mineralblu was there taking some photos and shooting a vid, which you can see below. If you want to see more, you can check out more…

Big Games Turned Into Little Models

16bitModelsis an exhibition where artists take classic video games and build incredible little real-world dioramas out of them. It was first held last year, but a second instalment went down last week at Kotobukiya’s Akihabara store in Tokyo. Here’s a selection of shots taken of exhibits done for games like Mega Man, Mario, Donkey Kong…

The Mother Of All Nintendo Switch Cases

There are very good actual Nintendo Switch cases on the market, but sometimes the best solution to moving your console around can come from unofficial avenues. In this case, a Pelican…case, the rugged storage boxes that everyone from photographers to tradespeople use to keep their gear safe from bears, bombs and bus crashes. Kamikawa4works for…

Final Fantasy VII’s Cast, Revised

Here’s comic artist Nikolas Draper-Ivey’s take on the main cast of Final Fantasy VII Re-imagining this game is nothing new, but Draper-Ivey’s designs here don’t go changing anyone’s outfit. Instead, by altering the race of each character, they show that everything iconic about this cast has to do with their original designs, haircuts and weapons,…

Damnit Jaal I’m Trying To Work

Today on Highlight Reel we have exploding cars, surprise kills, bottle flips, an incredibly depressing Nier clip, 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!…

Mighty Mouse Is Everything The UFC Used To Be

Over the weekend, we were treated to a UFC event light on pretense and heavy on action. The best fought the best, or at least the best available. Hardly anybody beefed. Demetrious “Mighty Mouse” Johnson fought a perfect fight. Refreshing as the event was, however, it felt like an island surrounded by bullshit-strewn waters. I…