When Miyamoto First Played Zelda: Breath of the Wild, He Wouldn’t Stop Climbing Trees

Nintendo creative maestro Shigeru Miyamoto is a genius. He’s generally considered to be the greatest game developer of all time. And, just like you and me, all he wants to do is climb trees. Here’s a fun story from deep inside Nintendo, a company that doesn’t often speak openly about their development process. When Nintendo…

Joy-Con Comfort vs Kotaku‘s Hands

After only a weekend, I’m still forming my opinions about the Nintendo Switch, but I do know that I love the Joy-Con controllers. Some of my co-workers aren’t as jazzed as me, however. So I did what anyone else would do: demand to measure their hands so I could see if their feelings about the…

Overwatch Players Are Making Custom Sex Role-Play Rooms Now

Predictably, several 18+ sex role-play rooms have made their way into Overwatch’s new “custom games” lobby. “MERCY ABUSE RP 18+,” “ROADRAT GAY BATH-HOUSE RP,” “HIGHSCHOOL ROLEPLAY 18+ HOT,” and at least five “DADDY” rooms, typically in reference to the tank Reinhardt, have crept into the “custom games” lobby after the feature’s launch last week. In…

Old Raids Are Coming Back To Destiny

Destiny, a video game in which your Guardian will remain with you for the next ten years, will stop getting new content in 2017. Before that, however, Bungie’s got one more update planned, and it’ll bring back the Vault of Glass, as we all expected. The above video confirms as much, along with teasing the…

Physical Therapists Are Helping Esports Pros Play More And Hurt Less

Clacking keys; mashing buttons; running joysticks up and down in precise, intricate patterns. The motions of playing a video game are mechanical—frequent and repetitive—and suggest a machine at work, which is of course not far off, especially with the best players in the world routinely spending 12 hours a day playing a game. Now, physical…

Persona 5 Makes A Fantastic First Impression

In the wake of Breath of the Wild turning out to beone of the greatest video games ever made, I have some bad news for your time and wallet: Persona 5 might be up there, too. For the past few weeks I’ve been playing an early copy of the fifth Persona, logging around 42 hours…

Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Players Share Their Best Deaths

Breath of the Wild is hard enough that death has become one of the most common shared experiences for players discussing the game. Link has died in all sorts of surprising and absurd ways, and it’s a joy to watch. Perhaps “joy” seems like a strange word to use when talking about failure, but that’s…

Final Fantasy XV Fan Scrapbooks Her Adventure

The majority of Final Fantasy XV is a road trip with friends. In real life, it’s the kind of thing you’d make a scrapbook out of. So one fan did. Huge FFXV fan Lithmire has been making a physical scrapbook of their Final Fantasy FFX playthrough. This means: printing out Prompto’s photos and putting them…

Switch Launch Game Snipperclips Is A Pleasant Surprise

Snipperclips is the low-key charmer of the Nintendo Switch launch, a download-onlyindie game turned Nintendo-published co-op puzzler. It’s $20, with a free demo and, as you can see in the archived livestream above, we had a good time with it. In Snipperclips, players control little characters who can cut divots in each other and then…

Et Tu, Salarius?

Abner Marin is a digital sculptor who has worked not just in games, but some of the biggest movies of the last decade, from the Harry Potter series to Iron Man to Pirates of the Caribbean. He also started selling some of his original works at an online store You can see more of Abner’s…

The Sega Channel Blew My Ten-Year-Old Mind

The announcement ofthe Xbox streaming service briefly took me back to the ‘90s and to the Sega Channel, an invention so great it basically erased most of my memory of 1994 as I entered a state of pure bliss closest to what David Foster Wallace described in Infinite Jest Crudely dispatch with any homework. Use…

Morphblade Is An Abstract Bug Murder Game

Morphblade, a new PC game by Gunpoint developer Tom Francis, has the allure of ‘one more round’ that would make it a great mobile game. I’m glad it’s not, though, because I already miss my subway stops enough. Morphblade takes place on a board made up of hexagons. Hexes give you random different abilities, though…

Gintama Movie Actors Compared With The Anime 

If the point was to find actors who looked like the anime characters, then I guess the filmmakers did that! Via Twitter user Nanazawa, here are how the real-life actors stack up to their anime counterparts.  The Gintama movie opens this July in Japan. Kotaku East is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you…

In Japan, “Meat Cakes” Are A Thing

Who said cakes have do be made of sugar and spice and crap like that? Behold, meat cakes. As noted on Matome Naver and Sankei News, “meat cakes” (肉ケーキ or “niku keeki”) first started catching on a few years back. Now, they’re appearing more and more at yakiniku (grilled meat) restaurants across the country. See,…

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Neon Genesis Evangelion Cosplay Goes Back To School

It’s not often you see Neon Genesis cosplay without any plugsuits, but this beautiful shoot by Alive Alf shows that sometimes wandering away from the expected can be the best approach. Cosplay is by Stella Chuu and Mrdustinn