Who Knew Mario Sports Was So Stressful 

You have it easy. You’re just controlling Mario and company as they play sport after sport. They have it hard Remember those Mario Mercedes Benz ads? Now the character and his cohorts are starring in a series of Suntory energy drink commercials. The spot is for Dekavita C, a Japanese energy drink, and it shows…

The New Mythical Pokémon Isn’t Only In Sun And Moon

There is a new Mythical Pokémon in Sun and Moon. The character, however, is also appearing in the upcoming Pokémon reboot feature film. Titled Pokémon The Movie: I Choose You!, the movie shows how Ash and Pikachu teamed up and goes from there. As the latest trailer shows, it also features the new Mythical Pocket…

Persona 5‘s In-Game Locations Compared To The Real World

While Persona 4 takes place in a town called “Inaba,” Persona 5 takes place in Tokyo. This article was originally published on September 27, 2016. It has since been updated with more comparisons. The major Tokyo locations, such as Shibuya Station, match up well enough, but it’s interesting to see what inspired where the Protagonist…

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Dragon Age Cosplay Is All About The Romance

This is Yume, a cosplayer from Germany, getting into the Dragon Age spirit (ie, romancing) with her boyfriend. Both costumes were made by Yume, who has been cosplaying for over a decade now. Photos by the always-excellent eosAndy

A Custom Gundam Nintendo Switch

LOVENIN, a Nintendo fan from Thailand, messed up and bought a black & grey Switch instead of a Neon one. To add some colour to his drab new console, then, he decided to take it apart and add some Gundam flavour to the thing. Looks great! A big reason why it looks so good is…

Time To Party Like The Bad Guys

These are grim times we are living through, but that doesn’t mean Landon Meier’s Hyperflesh—creators of terrifying rubber masks—can’t have some fun with them. You might have caught some of Hyperflesh’s ultra-realistic masks last year during the election. Here are a couple of news ones, shown off at Monsterpalooza. Amazing how an over-sized head, some…

The Week In Games: Shiny Collectibles On The Horizon 

Picking stuff up in games will never get old. Whether its coins in Super Mario Bros. or rings in Sonic, game developers learned a long time ago that we love grabbing stuff in games. It’s what made Pac-Man a sensation decades ago and what’s still driving the Ubisoft collectible-industrial complex. Instead of chomping on ghosts…

Fnatic Upset Top European Team In League Playoffs

This weekend marked the kickoff of the League Championship Series’ spring split playoffs, and in the European region, top team H2K finally met its match against a revitalized Fnatic. H2K was a clear favorite in today’s match, with a 10-3 record for the season compared to Fnatic’s 6-7. Having beat Fnatic 2-0 in regular play,…

Heroes Of The Storm Matchmaking Helps Two People Get Hitched In Real Life

You never know where you might meet that special someone who makes you want to spend the rest of your life with them. For SadJetsFan and Venus1812, that place turned out to be a match in Heroes of the Storm “Against all odds, two people from different countries and cultures were able to find each…

Random Encounters Are The Bane Of A Final Fantasy Speedrunner’s Existence

The Final Fantasy Series Relay Race III is going on right now, with three teams of seventeen people competing to see which can beat every game in the series first. Begun back in 2015, the annual event is streamed across several days with speedrunners on each team dedicating themselves to completing a specific Final Fantasy…

Paradigm Wants You To Confront The Ruling Class 

Paradigm looks bonkers and it is. Released on PC early last week, it pokes fun at the systems we’re all constrained by, inspired by classic point-and-click games. A surreal adventure game set in a post-apocalyptic Eastern European country, Paradigm explores the theoretical use of genetics technology by the rich and powerful to help them spawn…

Sunday Comics: Zelda Economics

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 April 6. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published April 3. Read more…

Salt And Sanctuary‘s Claustrophobic Exploration Is Perfect For The Vita

It took Ska Studios just over a year to get its side-scrolling action game onto the Vita, but the wait was worth it. Salt and Sanctuary takes the best of Metroidvania-style games and Souls-likes and condenses it into the ideal portable experience. Thanks to Sickhead Games, a developer who has ported games like Axiom Verge…

Bizarre Modes Lead To Insane Rocket League Goals

We’re halfway through season three of the Rocket League Championship Series, and to celebrate, several teams are participating in an invitational today where the maps and settings were determined by viewers. Opening the action were Atelier and Denial Esports, who would soon be plunged into the sound and fury of community-nominated novelty game modes. Game…

Goodbye Sweet Nomad

Things get weird on Mass Effect: Andromeda’s desert world of Eos when you start pushing the Nomad over 160 kilometers per hour. As several players have reported on Reddit, the glitch happens while zooming around the planet’s surface at high speeds. The DeLorean-like teleportation doesn’t send the Nomad into the past or future, however. Instead,…