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Tourist Crashes Replica Mario Kart Into Tokyo Police Box

A Korean tourist renting a replica, real-life Mario Kart (from a company currently being sued by Nintendo) has smashed into a police box in Tokyo. The Mainichi reports that the woman “apparently failed to negotiate a turn at an intersection, driving her vehicle onto a sidewalk and then crashing into the wall of the police…

Pro Esports Team Analyst Caught Betting On His Own Team’s Matches, Which Is Somehow Legal

Esports was rocked earlier this week when Ad Finem’s team analyst Allen Cook sent out a casual tweet saying that he’d placed bets on the outcome of the Boston Major Dota 2 tournament. Specifically, Cook bet on both his own team and another team, OG, implying a belief on his part that AF and OG…

Incredible Cosplay From The World’s End

Photographer EXPit captured these amazing costumes by the Zone Rats, a post-apocalyptic/LARP group out of the Czech Republic who take influence from everything from Fallout to Stalker They’re part of a wider European “Postapo” scene, whose main event is the annual Junktown festival, where everyone in attendance parties like the world has already ended. They’re…

The Soldiers Of The Future Dress Sharp

I know we’ve already looked at art from Infinite Warfare, but this collection of work from Aaron Beck—mostly very cool robots and future space armour—is just too good to let pass us by. You can see more art from Beck, who has worked on movies like The Hobbit, Elysium, Mad Max and Avatar, at his…

My Kind Of Nintendo Portable

I know the Switch is a portable console in theory, but it feels so precious in the hand. This custom handheld, on the other hand, has some heft It’s a portable Super Nintendo that just puts a screen and an actual Super Famicom pad inside the console. Because the screen is where the cartridge slot…

Nine Things To Do If You Can’t Play Zelda

Like many of you, I failed to order a Switch and instead spent the weekend kicking myself because I couldn’t play Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. While the weekend only lasted the usual 48 hours, it felt like 10,000 hours, making me an expert on this subject. I am, therefore, authorized to give…

Overwatch Hero Gets Hit With A Dose Of Reality

Today on Highlight Reel we have Overwatch expectations vs. reality, viking alley-oops, malfunctioning metal death birds 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! Dark…

Team Wins In League Series Despite Picking A Bug-Ridden Champion

During last week’s North American League of Legends Championship Series matches, FlyQuest drafted a Mordekaiser pick for their marksman player Johnny “Altec” Ru. It was a potent pick for the team in their match against Envy, winning both games in FlyQuest’s 2-1 victories. As an astute Reddit user familiar with Mordekaiser pointed out, though, the…

Street Fighter V Player Wins Tournament With Incredible Near-Zero Health Comeback

Christopher “NYChrisG” Gonzalez has been known as a championship-caliber fighting game player for years thanks to his dominance of the Marvel vs. Capcom 3 scene, but a recent comeback victory proves he’s ready to make his mark on Street Fighter V The newly-established Cen-Cal Standoff is just what it sounds like: a major tournament series…

Breakforcist Is A Tasty Combination Of Breakout And Breakfast

On a weekend where I had access to Nier: Automata and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, I spent at least two hours curled up with my iPad, paddling balls at breakfast. Well-played, Breakforcist. I am not normally one to spend $3.99 on a game I know absolutely nothing about, but there was…

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…