Figure Skating Anime Yuri On Ice Is Very Realistic, Says Olympic Skater

It’s not just the skating that the show nails. According to former champ Johnny Weir, the show is filled with little details that shows Yuri On Ice’s creators really know their stuff. While in China late last year, Weir gave a somewhat in depth interview about the anime. He talks about how got into the…

Sounds Like Naruto‘s Creator Just Talked About Killing Off A Character

The Naruto manga is finished. The Naruto anime is finished. He is sticking around in his son Boruto’s spin-off series, but it sounds like creator Masashi Kishimoto wouldn’t mind if a ubiquitous Naruto character was killed off. Kishimoto isn’t doing the Boruto manga or the anime himself, but he certainly has things to say about…

Beating Pokémon Ruby with Magikarp Took Nearly Six Years

Back in 2011, a live-streamer named Leomon began playing with a Shiny of the most useless Pocket Monster. Almost six years later, the trainer has finally become a champion with that fish. After the stream, Leomon posted on Twitter that it didn’t matter if you had a strong or a weak Pokémon, that if you…

Only 90s kids will remember Mega Man’s nightmarish mascot visage. From Blake J Harris’ book Console Wars, via VideoGameArt&Tidbits

Let’s Appreciate This Fine Video Game Hair

Johan Lithvall is a character artist at Starbreeze who specialises in hair. Which sounds crazy, until you take a moment to appreciate just how much hair a modern video game character has, and how good it looks blowing in the breeze. Lithvall got to work with Guerrilla on Horizon Zero Dawn, which means he’s one…

Wonder Woman Cosplay Is Here To Save The Day

This is Panteronaas the new DC’s cinematic take on Wonder Woman. Photos by GK Studios

The Secret Ending That Helped Redeem Tactics Ogre: The Knights of Lodis

Not many games get a stinger this good, so it’s a shame so few people remember it. Ask someone about their favorite turn-based tactical role-playing game and they’ll probably start talking about Final Fantasy Tactics or Fire Emblem. Maybe even Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together. But what about the Ogre series spin-off Knights of…

Diego Maradona And Konami Are Now Best Friends

What a difference a couple of months makes. In March, football legend Diego Maradonawanted to sue Konami for including a digital version of himself in PES 2017 without his permission. Now, in May, he’s signed on to become an ambassador for the series. El Eco reportsthat the agreement comes after an out-of-court settlement, in which…

The Week In Games: Back For Blood

They just don’t make first-person shooters like they used to. Except for Strafe I actually don’t really remember how they used to make video games. Firing laser beams at motherboards? The 90s are almost two decades old, so who knows what they were really like, but the uber-violent shooter-throwback Strafe seems like as good an…

Podcast: Should Nintendo Make Switch VR?

Should Nintendo make a VR peripheral for Switch? What would Kirk and I do if we were put in charge of Bungie? Get the answers to those questions and many more, on today’s Kotaku Splitscreen I just started Nier: Automata, so Kirk and I talk about that for a bit (7:17) before jumping into the…

Counter-Strike Caster Gets Tossed Into Giant ‘Pie’ After Loss 

This is what happens after you shout “Fuck you all, god save the queen” to a crowd full of Aussie Counter-Strike fans. In a showmatch prior to the IEM Sydney grand finals for CS:GO this morning, analyst Chad “SPUNJ” Burchill led his Australian team to a dominating win over British caster Henry “HenryG” Greer’s UK…

Trippy Fan Game Transforms Donkey Kong Country Into Vaporwave 

This jenky ode to a dead music genre lets you collect bananas while trampling through a glitched-out Jungle Hijinxs as a slowed-down, reverb-infested remix of the DKC soundtrack plays in the background. Any questions? DonkeyKong.exe resulted from a very small game jam taking place in Gothenburg, Sweden. The group, Indie Games Gothenburg, decide to work…

Top Smash Player Lands Perfect Donkey Kong Combo

At this past weekend’s Umebura Japan Major, Jason “Mew2King” Zimmerman clinically executed a “ding-dong,” a combo that has elevated DK into the competitive meta-game. A play on words that references Diddy Kong’s “hoo-hah” combo, “ding-dong” is jargon for a combination where Donkey Kong players use his throw to launch someone up in the air, then…

Ark: Survival Evolved Gets Sharks With Frickin’ Laser Beams After Latest Patch

Ark: Survival Evolved mutates again with its new v257 patch released on Friday. Among other things, it adds lasers to sharks. About time honestly. The patch also introduces new creatures, including giant bees, something called a Liopleurodon Magicus, and “hell pigs,” as well as a cloning chamber and of course the mysterious Tek cave dungeon…

Brazilians Prove Unstoppable At Australian Counter-Strike Tournament

The hierarchy of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive gets a shakeup at the IEM XII Championship in Sydney, Australia as the European powerhouses make room for the resurgence of South America’s SK Gaming. Even Nikola ‘NiKo’ Kovač, bought earlier this year for $500,000, couldn’t save FaZe Clan. The shadow hanging over the IEM Sydney grand finals was…

Smash Pro Wins Japan Major By Going Back To His Roots

At the Umebura Japan Major, Kengo “Ken” Suzuki was on a tear through the winner’s bracket. MkLeo, his opponent, was down one elimination and needed a new plan to take the grand finals, and he found a winning strategy in the strangest of places: his old main. Leonardo “MkLeo” Perez was the banner carrier for…

Sunday Comics: Mario And Friends 

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 May 2. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published May 1. Read more…