Helpful Tips For Drawing Manga Art 

Do you like to draw manga style art? Would you like some tips? Professional artist Takuya Yoshimura is here to help out.  Yoshimura’s credits include manga for Young Jump, including one about hair dressers. Which sounds rad.  On his Twitter (via IT Media and Rocketnews), Yoshimura has been uploading short clips that show how to…

Square Enix Made A Restaurant Where You Watch People Game 

In the past week, Square Enix has opened two restaurants. The first one Kotaku previously introduced, but not the second one. Let’s change that. This is “Storia.” It’s located in Tokyo’s Ikebukuro, and the concept is that patrons can watch people play video games while they eat. It vaguely reminds me of a karaoke bar.…

It’s hiiiiiiiiiiii-[several hours pass]-iiigh noon. Lyle McDouchebag is not the biggest fan of McCree’s ult in Overwatch. Consider this Source Filmmaker short his tribute.

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Here’s AlyCat Cosplay showing Hotel Transylvania’s Mavis some love. Pics by Chiseled Light Photography

A Cosplay Wedding Proposal

Kona Cosplay was doing her thing at DragonCon the other week, filming this nice video with AKIOBOY, when she was suddenly interrupted. By her boyfriend. Cosplaying as himself, he dropped to one knee and proposed right there, to a woman dressed as Nidalee from League of Legends Kona said yes. Congratulations guys! If you want…

Look At This Cute Lil’ 2DS

As Nintendo prepares to relaunch the 2DS in Japan in five colours, it’s also getting ready to launch special limited editions of the handheld. Like this very kid-friendly Pokémon unit. It’ll be out on December 8

May God Have Mercy On Beyond Good & Evil 2

Beyond Good & Evil 2 was first announced in May 2008. That was over eight years ago. Now, today, in October 2016, series creator Michel Ancel says the game is “in pre-production”. OK. We posted last year about how things were looking grim for the sequel to the 2003 cult classic, with rumours of the…

How Can Love Be Wrong If It Feels So Right?

Some cosplayers just want to see the world burn. Leia is Galacticat, Riker is her boyfriend. Photo by Alexandra Lee Studios

Kerbal Space Program Is Done [Update]

Kerbal Space Program has been massively popular over the years because it’s a smart/funny game, of course, but it’s also remained on people’s radars thanks to the tireless development and update work of the team behind it. Work that’s now coming to a close. UPDATE: Seems not! While most of the original developers are moving…

The People Fighting To Keep Crappy Games Off Steam

The Digital Homicides are a Steam group with a goal that seems admirable: to keep poorly-made, sketchy, and downright scammy games off Steam. How they go about achieving that goal, however, is far more murky and controversial. The group is cheekily named after notorious Steam shovelware developer/lawsuit lobber Digital Homicide. The Digital Homicides describe themselves…

World Of Warcraft: Legion Post-Expansion Ennui Sets In

The cycle is the same whenever a massively multiplayer online role-playing game gets a healthy dose of expansion content: weeks of glorious excitement followed by a slow descent into lassitude. It’s all a matter of when it hits. For me and World of Warcraft’s Legion expansion, that’s right about now. It’s sort of like finding…

Five Nights at Freddy’s Creator Gives Worst Reason For Possible Delay [UPDATE]

Five Nights at Freddy’s: Sister Location is supposed to release on October 7th…unless Scott Cawthon decides his game is too scary. Over at Sister Location’s official Steam page, Cawthon has posted the following update informing fans of a potential delay: Hey guys, I wanted to post an announcement that this game might be postponed, and I’m…

Mortal Kombat X‘s PC Version Is Finally Good

At the start of this year, Warner Bros and NetherRealm abandoned the PC version of Mortal Kombat X, a port that wasn’t super hot to begin with. While the console versions would continue to receive updates and DLC, PC players were left with the one thing worse than pulverized ribs or a spine used as…

Vulcan Mind Meld Goes Too Far

Today on Highlight Reel we have helpful Rainbow 6 Siege players, WW1 Dukes of Hazzard, giant Fallout babies 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…

Heroes of the Storm Is Getting A Weekly Brawl Mode

Heroes of the Storm announced today that its upcoming “Arena” mode will be replaced by a new “Heroes Brawl” mode on October 17th. “Arena” mode was announced at 2015’s Blizzcon. HotS’s new “Brawl” mode will change every week, like Overwatch’s and Hearthstone’s analogues. It promises to deliver “surreal twists” and “custom rulesets” with weekly rewards.…

A Tribute To One Of The Most Depressing Moments In Anime

We interrupt your day to bring you perhaps the most depressing moment in anime history. Her name was Nina Tucker, and Fullmetal Alchemist destroyed her and it made me cry. Shou Tucker, Nina’s father, was a kindhearted alchemist who famously gave speech to a chimera, an unholy creature brought to life by alchemically combining two…

A Life Change Convinced Me To Play Dragon Age Differently 

Returning to favorite franchises and games can be incredibly exciting. But it can also be incredibly intimidating. What does it mean to undo years of progress and start again? This weekend, I moved into New York so I could join my wonderful co-workers at the Kotaku offices. I drove down from New Hampshire and shacked…

Overwatch‘s Roadhog Has A Broken Hook [UPDATE]

Nothing about Overwatch tickles me like Roadhog’s hook. It is the most satisfying power move of the game. This is why I am loathe to report that Roadhog’s hook, the most lovely and triumphant Overwatch feature, is definitely, 100% broken. Yes, it’s true. Consider this a call-out: Roadhog’s hook has no business going through walls.…