Miitopia Is Nintendo’s Wonderfully Strange Take On JRPGs

Think Tomodachi Life meets JRPG. That’s Miitopia, for you. Released last December, Miitopia is a very Nintendo spin on the role-playing genre. There are traditional RPG classes like Knight and Mage, but untraditional ones like Flower and, well, Pop Idol. As with Tomodachi Life, you create Miis and set their personalities. You then go on…

The Dragon Ball Anime Might Have Its First Super Saiyan Woman 

A teaser for the upcoming episode of Dragon Ball Super shows off what certainly looks to be a female version of the character Broly. This might be the first Super Saiyan woman in any Dragon Ball anime or manga. Broly, of course, is a male Super Saiyan. Check out the upcoming episode’s transformation scene below.…

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Sean Spicer Is A Fan Of Cosplay Conventions

Katsucon, one of the biggest anime and cosplay conventions in the United States, has a surprise fan and former attendee (at least outside the resort): embattled White House press secretary Sean Spicer. Given his recent rise to infamy, folks have been digging through Spicer’s old tweets, and found these from 2013 (if you’re wondering about…

Counter-Strike Pro Wins Epic Shootout Against The Entire Enemy Team 

Team Liquid should have lost to Team EnVyUs well before the game’s eventual ending scoreline of 25-21. But Josh “jdm64″ Marzano had other plans, including mowing down the entire enemy team as the last man standing After watching his teammate get shredded right in front of him, jdm64 managed to get payback for his fallen…

Artist Making His Own Awesome Overwatch Statues

Blizzard is doing a terrible job at getting us official Overwatch figures and statues. Until they sort that out, there are artists like Mankej doing good work in their stead. He’s made a few statues of Overwatch characters himself, and has recorded progress builds on his YouTube site (he also streams on Twitch) so you…

80s Gaming Nightmare Returns To Haunt Us All

There were a lot of frustrations to be had in old Sierra adventure games, but one of the worst was the way the games always made you traverse treacherous stairs, with one wrong keypress killing you instantly. So, yeah, here’s a game just about that. It’s called Stair Quest, and it’s a painstaking recreation of…

Don’t Have Kids

So for the last two weeks, my PlayStation 4 hasn’t been working. To be more precise, it was refusing to play discs. Everything else was fine: downloaded games worked, apps worked. But the PS4 wouldn’t read any disc at all. Most of my games are on the hard drive, but there were a couple of…

The Week In Games: Show Biz Yakuza

Some games just wanna have fun. If you don’t believe me, take a look at this. Yakuza 0 is a prequel to the rest of the series, so theoretically it should make more sense for those of us hopping on the bandwagon so late in the game, except probably not. Remember that time the Yakuza…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: A Bush And His Poncho 

January 21, 2017 was a historic day. The United States swore in its 45th President. Also, George W. Bush played peekaboo with a plastic poncho. It was rainy on Friday at the nation’s Capitol, but the country’s 43rd President had come prepared. It was a bold fashion statement that verged on performance art. Bush didn’t…

Press Secretary Sean Spicer Is Absolutely Not A Meme, Period

Yesterday evening, Sean Spicer took to the press briefing room to criticize the media for how it had emphasized the low attendance at President Trump’s inauguration the day prior. “This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period,” he said. Minutes later, the Internet unleashed its latest meme. Sean Spicer lied, as press…

Duck Hunt Causes Major Upset At This Weekend’s Smash Bros. Tournament

Gonzalo “ZeRo” Barrios of Team SoloMid is Smash Wii U’s greatest player at the moment. But that didn’t stop Japan’s Brood from sending him to the loser’s bracket at Genesis 4 after a stunning 2-1 victory early in the tournament that caused the crowd to freak out Currently situated outside the top 20 in the…

Sunday Comics: Feeling Thirsty?

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 January 14. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published January 16. Read more…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Midnight Mario, Winners!

We started this contest with a much darker vision of life in New Donk City for Mario, but thanks to this week’s winner, we can end it on a much brighter one. The winner for this week is Ihsus who somehow managed the unthinkable, taking a beautiful meme and making it even better, somehow, by…

Nazi Gets Punched In The Face, Internet Celebrates

Punching Nazis is something of a time honored tradition in the United States. So is making memes. It seems natural then that the Internet wouldn’t waste any time in making a video of white supremacist and neo-Nazi Richard Spencer getting punched in the face go viral. While the United States was late getting into WWII,…

Dota 2 Pro Makes Clutch Play From Beyond The Grave

Ludwig “zai” Wåhlberg probably didn’t expect to stumble into the entire enemy team while near his home base in the dwindling minutes of the Pit League Season 5 quarterfinals, but it didn’t matter either. Some quick thinking allowed him to secure the win for Evil Genius even after dying Evil Geniuses may have had the…

Bunny Symbol For Overwatch‘s D.Va Shows Up At Women’s March In Seoul

Unless you’re living under a rock, you probably noticed the Women’s Marches going on all over the world this weekend. The political protest is home to all sorts of people, messages, and signage, including from Blizzard’s Overwatch The above image, which came by way of the Twitter account for the Women’s March in Seoul, shows…

The Weekend In Esports: League Of Legends And Genesis 4 Return

Coming off of last weekend’s excess in China with the WESG 2016, it’s back down to business with the start of some cutthroat action in both Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Smash Bros. Oh, and competitive League of Legends finally returns this weekend! Below you’ll find where and when you can catch all the weekends biggest…