Inside Tokyo’s Newest Square Enix Cafe

On October 1 in Tokyo’s Akihabara, Square Enix is opening a new cafe. It’s called, wait for it, Square Enix Cafe. Clever! Square Enix already has the Artnia restaurant and shop in Shinjuku, and on October 5 is opening another cafe called Storia. Famitsu and Dengeki Online checked out the cafe, which is currently decked…

When One Piece Meets Overwatch In Fan Art

What happens when you mix Overwatch with One Piece? Cool fan art, it seems. Twenty-seven year-old Korean artist Han Suk Bum, who is based in Daejeon and who is incredibly talented, mashed up One Piece with Overwatch to terrific effect. In an interview on Insight (via tipster Sang), the aspiring comic book artist says he’s…

This Might Be Dragon Ball Super‘s Biggest Reveal 

Do you wonder who Goku Black is? Well, if this leak is correct, we could officially find out soon. Note: This article contains spoilers. Well, possible ones. The evil entity known as Goku Black debuted earlier this summer in Dragon Ball Super’s Future Trunks Saga Besides being a nefarious character, Goku Black can transform into…

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Business Fish Is Here For Cosplay Pleasure

Here is a video of Business Fish, still the #1 sticker pack on Facebook, heading down to DragonCon and doing his thing. Which, being a social networking sticker, is mostly just REACTING to everything happening around him. We actually featured a photoshoot of Rundaria’s costume last year, but the vid below is way better.

Japan Gets Its Own Mini-NES, The Mini-Famicom

America is getting the Mini-NES. Japan, naturally, will be getting a Mini-Famicom to match. It’s the same basic deal, bundling 30 classic games into a small system (which you can’t swap out or add to, they’re pre-loaded) that you plug into the TV via HDMI, only here obviously it’s a slightly different roster of titles,…

Fan Creates Terrific Intro For Indiana Jones Cartoon Series

Indiana Jones superfan Patrick Schoenmaker has, for the last five years, been working on this animated sequence which imagines the intro to an Indy cartoon series that never actually existed. Similar to Paul “OtaKing” Johnson’s Tie Fighter clip, then, only with a more Western style. And more Nazis. Love the Fate of Atlantis stuff in…

Disneyland Has A Pokémon Go Problem

A reader’s girlfriend works at Disneyland, and sends word that it looks like management is having some trouble with staff playing Pokémon Go on the sly. She sent him this shot from behind the scenes at the park, where the bosses have had to put up a sign barring “cast members” from playing the game…

A Game About Throwing Spears At Penguin Vikings And Hipster Giants

I liked Lichtspeer before I even started playing it. The menu screen, if you’ll believe it, is what sold me. Here’s what it looks like: Where the exit button would normally be, Lichtspeer has a button that reads, “Go home and eat strudel.” And when you press it, a god-like voice triumphantly belts out, “STRUDEL.”…

The Best Twitch Overlay of 2016 (So Far)

Okay, pidgezero_one, I laughed. For those who are confused: the overlay is a picture of Bernie Sanders looking at the debate from earlier in the week. Here’s the original: And here’s what the Twitch overlay looks like in action:

Battlefield 1 Player Makes A Damn Fine Toss

Today on Highlight Reel we have impressive intros, corpse sleds, grenade tosses 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! Forza Horizon 3 – RadiantPup43215…

Look At This Shiba Inu Game

Year of the Dog is a slice-of-life game about owning a Shiba Inu in San Francisco, and it looks wonderful. Seriously, look at these GIFs showcasing moments and gameplay, courtesy of developer @keanerie: So idyllic~ Even the glitches look hilarious: Some features listed on the Year of the Dog’s official website: -12 interactive vignettes of…

Speedrunners Finally Pull Off The ‘Holy Grail’ Of Mario 64 Glitches

Since it came out 20 years ago, Super Mario 64 has been cracked open, turned inside-out, and put back together in all sorts of weird configurations, but people keep figuring out new ways to warp its candy colored reality. The latest is being billed as the biggest speedrun breakthrough since 2007. A crew of speedrunners…

Ask Kotaku‘s Staff Anything

It’s Thursday afternoon, fall is finally here, and we’re all getting ready for an exciting next few months of video games. (Except for me—I’m going on sabbatical in October. See you suckers later.) Kotaku’s staff will be here for the next hour-and-a-half to answer your questions. Ask whatever you’d like.