Call of Duty‘s April Fool’s Mode Was So Good, Players Want It To Be a Regular Thing

For April Fools’ Day, Call of Duty turned its players into literal trash. And now fans are begging to become garbage again. Over the weekend, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered, the upgraded version of the 2007 game packed in with some editions of last year’s Infinite Warfare, introduced a game mode called “Prop Hunt.”…

Dark Souls Rings You Can Own In Real Life

No word if these Dark Souls rings raise max equipment burden or decrease fall damage, but they do look nice! As Famitsu points out, Japanese brand Torch Torch has men’s and women’s Havel’s Rings and Silvercat Rings.  Slated for August, the Havel’s Ring is made from 925 silver and priced at 18,900 yen (US$171). The…

Hentai Woody Is Returning And Going Back on Sale in Japan

You didn’t think it could happen. Not again, you said. Well, yes, it’s happening. Hentai Woody is back. Again. That’s right, the “Hentai Woody” (aka “Creepy Woody”) figurine is once again going on sale. Kaiyodo’s Revoltech Woody figure launched back in 2010 and became infamous online for its highly expressive mug. Back in spring 2013,…

Starbucks Japan’s New Frappuccino Is American Cherry Pie You Can Drink 

For a Starbucks Frappuccino, this looks incredible. Sure there already are an apple pie as well and a blackberry cobbler Frappuccino on the secret menu, but this American Cherry Pie one is coming to the regular one in Japan. As you can see in this photo via Entabe, the lid is made out of crust.…

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One Cosplayer Brings Bioware, Souls & Witcher Games To Life

As we’ve established, some of the best cosplay on the planet comes out of Russia, a point I’m only going to further emphasise today by sharing some of niamash’s work. A cosplayer we’ve featured a few times before, mostly for her Witcher stuff, niamash has also done some incredible recreations of Bioware games, along with…

The Weird Words I Learned From Video Games

We learn a lot of words growing up. We learn a lot of words at school. We might even learn some at college. But as expansive as our vocabularies can become through traditional means of education, let’s not forget that video games can teach us new terms as well. And they’re often some weird ones.…

Here’s Persona 5 “Running” On A PC

Persona 5 may be fresh out this week on PS4, but don’t forget the game is also available on PS3. And has been out in Japan since last year, which explains why there’s now footage of the game trying to run on a PC via an emulator. This is RPCS3, a PS3 emulator for the…

Titanfall 2 Execution Is Perfectly Timed

Today on Highlight Reel we have execution timing, cops, very British deaths 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! Tomb Raider – Everyone do…

A Simpler Major Kusanagi

Rachel Ho is an artist and illustrator based in Malaysia. You can see more of Rachel’s work at her Behanceand ArtStationpages. To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in the top-left corner. Fine Art is a celebration of the work of video game artists, showcasing the best of both…

An Essential Glossary For Overwatch Players

“They’re leaping onto the payload with a dive comp wombo combo and a nanoboosted face tank” is total gibberish. Unless you’re an Overwatch player. Overwatch is more accessible than most team-based competitive games, but that doesn’t mean it’s simple. Dig beneath the surface and you’ll find a labyrinthine tomb that houses some deformed cousin of…

Show Us Your Ugliest Video Game Outfits

You did it. You finally got that sweet armor set you’ve been assembling for days. You look like a million bucks. Time to parade around town being shiny AF and… oh no. You found a new chest plate with slightly better stats. Have fun being a damn circus clown for the next 20 hours. I’ve…

After Game Developer’s Death, His Collaborators Set Out To Finish His Project

Shard, a platformer meant to be played with a friend, was still incomplete when its creator passed away. Now, two of his collaborators are trying to finish it. Roger Morash died along with his wife, Valerie, and their pets on January 23rd, due to “acute carbon monoxide poisoning.” Morash had been a former Harmonix developer,…

The People Who Translate Japanese Sex Games For Millions of Horny Fans

Every month, millions of people play free sex games on Nutaku, a platform that distributes some of the biggest uncensored erotic games available in English. While some of these risque games are developed in the US, many are brought over from Japan, meaning that someone has to make sure all the raunchiness gets translated properly.…

Atlus Threatens To Go After People Who Stream Too Far Into Persona 5

Persona 5 is a chill game, so it’s only fitting that the developers at Atlus would have no chill whatsoever, openly threatening content claims and strikes for anyone who streams too far in the story. Today on their website, Atlus USA posted a note to streamers, asking everyone to refrain from spoiling Persona 5 and…