Studio Ghibli’s TV Series Is Coming To Amazon

Famed Japanese animation house Studio Ghibli (Totoro, Spirited Away) has signed a deal with Amazon to stream its kid’s TV series, Ronja the Robber’s Daughter, online in the West (or at least places that can get Amazon Prime). Directed by Hayao Miyazaki’s son Goro, Ronja is an adaptation of a book by Swedish author Astrid…

Daigo Uses Sixth Sense To Block Sonic Booms, Wins Tournament

Daigo Umehara is a legend when it comes to fighting games. Referred to sometimes as Daigo “The Beast” Umehara, the pro Street Fighter V player didn’t exactly need to win the European Regional Finals to qualify for Capcom’s Pro Tour. He would have gotten in on points alone. But that didn’t stop him from comfortably…

Game Boy Jam Shows Everything That Made The Handheld Special

The fifth annual Game Boy Jam just wrapped up last weekend after receiving over four hundreds of entries. The rules were simple: all assets had to be created during the jam, the screen resolution had to match the original Game Boy, and each game could only include up to four colors. You can currently find…

Adam Levine and Maroon 5 reenact Pokémon Go for their “Don’t Wanna Know” music video in the hopes it might get you to still care about them. Sarah Silverman, Vince Vaughn, and other celebrities also make an appearance. Unfortunately, Kendrick Lamar’s verse from the single is nowhere to be found.

South Korea Still The Best At League Of Legends According To World Championships

There were three teams representing South Korea when the League of Legends World Championships began late last month. Now, a few weeks and many matches later, all three teams have made it through to the semifinals. SK Telecom T1, ROX Tigers, and Samsung Galaxy even did so without seeming to break a sweat, showing just…

Sunday Comics: Skin In The Game

Welcome to Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira. Published October 12. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published October 10. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…

A Party Game That Lets You Remix Levels On The Fly

The 2016 IndieCade Festival is going on right now in Los Angeles, which means there’s a lot of weird, cool stuff being shown-off, including a video game console called DOBOTONE The party game uses a combination of two-button controllers and a single Game Remixer that lets one player manipulate different variables with knobs while the…

World of Warcraft’s next patch will arrive on October 25, bringing with it a new Karazhan dungeon. According to Blizzard, “Patch 7.1: Return to Karazhan will take you further into the ongoing stories within Legion and bring with it new and exciting challenges.” You can find out more about Patch 7.1 in a recent Q&A

Artist Re-Imagines One Little Corner of Final Fantasy VII

Ben Nicholas is an artist and concept designer formerly with 343 Industries who worked on Halo Wars 2. He’s also a huge fan of Final Fantasy VII, which is why he decided to embark on a project to re-imagine the game’s various interiors, beginning with pharmacy nestled deep inside the Wall Market strip of the…

Pro Overwatch Player Fined For ‘Lewd Comment’ About Interviewer

Timo ‘Taimou’ Kettunen, a member of competitive Overwatch’s Team EnVyUs, was fined by the South Korean esports network OGN for making “a lewd comment” in a Twitch chat about one of its interviewers. Taimou made his sexist remarks during an interview with Thomas “Morte” Kerbusch of REUNITED after the latter was defeated 3-0 by Team…

The Weekend In Esports: Capcom Pro Tour And League of Legends Quarterfinals 

While the rest of the competitive gaming world is relatively quiet this weekend, things are heating up in League of Legends with the Worlds 2016 finals quickly approaching at the end of the month. The Capcom Pro Tour is also going strong, with a ton of action kicking off in Italy as Milan Games Week…

Toy Time Plays With The First Batch Of Skylanders: Imaginators Figures

Skylanders: Imaginators puts a lot of stock in letting players create their own characters, but they’re only half the battle. The new sensei characters are here to guide freshly-crafted Skylanders on their way. We’ve got the first 17 or so, plus one of the special 3D printed figures. Check them out! Sensei characters serve several…

This Week In The Business: “Coasting On Novelty”

QUOTE | “We are confident that [PSVR] is going to dominate the market share of premium VR headsets due to its performance and competitive price.” – Yuhui Wang, CEO of Chinese publisher Oasis Games, talking about why he’s looking to gain a foothold in the West with PSVR games during the 90-day launch window QUOTE…

Free Game Recommendation: Really Bad Chess (iOS)

Ever-interesting game designer Zach Gage has made a chess game for those of us who aren’t good at proper chess and might enjoy something a little more ridiculous. Really Bad Chess, released yesterday on iOS, is chess with a random mix of pieces. Take a look at the screenshot above. It’s a Really Bad Chess match…