The Nintendo Switch Dog Brought To Life

Look. At. This. Those Nintendo Switch comparisons to a little cute dog have been made real. Twitter user TheAnnaTheRedhas created this darling little plushie:  Here’s what inspired Switch dog. Adorable! Nintendo should totally embrace this little dog character.

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Stitch Fought With Your Father In The Clone Wars

Adam Murphy is an artist based in Australia who over the past 25 years has worked as an animator and storyboard artist for studios like Disney and Lucasfilm. In that time he’s drawn for series like Aladdin, The Lion King and Lilo & Stitch, while he has also been involved in the production of the…

You Did Some Good Cosplay, New York

Earlier this month, New York’s finest hit the streets for some cosplay. And they did a damn fine job of it. While we’vehad a New York Comic Con gallery previously, that was from the showroom floor. These pics are from a shoot put up by Mineralblu, so he could take a little more time for…

Watch Dogs 2 Makes Fun Of Donald Trump

Somewhat unlike its predecessor, Watch Dogs 2 has a personality! I would even go so far as to call it feisty. Warning: minor Watch Dogs 2 spoilers ahead. The embargo dam on Watch Dogs 2 preview footage recently burst, and some interesting tidbits have surfaced. Tonally, the game seems to take some cues from Grand…

The Real Reinhardt Meets A Giant Reinhardt

The opening moments of this video star Darin De Paul, the voice actor behind Overwatch’s Reinhardt. Standing in front of a giant Reinhardt cosplay outfit, screaming Reinhardt quotes into a megaphone. It’s awesome. The cosplay is by Thomas DePetrillo of Extreme Costumes, while the video was shot by Mineralblu at the New York Comic Con…

Battlefield 1 Player Snipes Dude Falling Off Zeppelin

Today on Highlight Reel we have falling shots, tank rolls, pigeon grenades, broken belts, denied ultimates 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! FIFA…

GTA V Player Sinks A Yacht With 100 Bodies

Ah, yes, Grand Theft Auto V: where destruction is crowd-sourced. Recently, GTA V player RZED was curious about whether over a hundred people could sink a yacht in-game. With admirable scientific rigor, RZED collected a mass of bodies onto the bow of a large boat. He used a mod to make it drivable. What happens next is…

Black Mirror‘s Newest Season Explores The Horrors of Social Media

The finale to this season of Black Mirror, “Hated in the Nation,” is a tight police procedural that opens on Jo Powers, a controversial journalist, being murdered after people mob and harass her on Twitter. While each twist and turn is telegraphed, the episode is best at showing how viciously efficient social media is at…

Cities Skylines Player Spends Hundreds Of Hours Building A Near-Perfect San Francisco

A Cities Skylines player just debuted his crowning achievement: a spot-on 1:1 recreation of San Francisco. It’s just like the real thing, all the way down to individual neighborhood and building placements. There’s just one teensy little problem: massive death tolls. The ambitious build’s creator, radiativeDoctor, estimates that it took him 200-250 hours to get…

Dark Souls 3: Ashes of Ariandel Is Fun, If A Little Unsatisfying

Dark Souls speaks its own distinct language. The more you play, the easier that language is to understand. Dark Souls 3’s new Ashes of Ariandel DLC doesn’t really teach us many new words, but it’s still nice to have a new chapter. I’m no Dark Souls expert, but I do speak the language well enough.…

For Five Years, One Woman Chronicled Her Boyfriend’s Fixation With Slender Man On YouTube

On July 29, 2011, a YouTube channel named “Tulpa Effect” uploaded a vlog where a woman named Marissa explained that her boyfriend, Roger, had acquired a new obsession: Slender Man. “He reads these forums, and he looks online, at the YouTube videos…and originally, he was talking about wanting to make a Slender Man video,” Marissa…

The (Possible) End Of Nintendo’s Magnificent Two-Screen Gaming Era

The fact that Nintendo’s next video game machine, the Switch, is built for single-screen gaming is a dark lining on a silver cloud. The Switch should be great, and it’s a Nintendo system worth being excited about. It will make home console games portable, letting users choose between outputting a game’s graphics on their TV…

Hacker Discovers A New Super Mario 64 Coin That Is Impossible To Collect

Some time ago, the “Impossible Coin” was discovered in Super Mario 64. It took 18 years to finally collect. Mario 64 guru Scott “pannenkoek2012″ Buchanan recently discovered a new, unobtainable coin in Tiny Huge Island Scott managed to collect the first impossible coin on the same level in 2014 and recently achieved memetic status with…

YouTubers Clash With Visual Novel Developers Over Spoiler Videos

“The Prince of Play” Solon Scott is a YouTuber who plays through visual novels, mostly Japanese dating simulators. It’s his art medium. In his videos, Scott acts out characters’ voices, explains literary devices and offers sharp commentary on visual novels’ plot. He sees himself as a performer and his videos as, in his words, “his…

Many Voice Actors Have No Clue What Game They’re Working On [UPDATE]

Last week, members of the Screen Actors Guild‐American Federation of Television and Radio Artists went on strike against key game companies. Per Motherboard, we’re getting a closer look at one of the guild’s complaints. According to a piece by Emanuel Maiberg, the issue of transparency is far worse than we might have initially thought. Game…