Top Smash Bros. Player Loses Sponsorship After Allegedly Groping Woman While She Slept

High-profile Super Smash Bros. player Cristian “Hyuga” Medina lost his team and sponsorship Sunday at Evo 2016 after allegedly touching another player’s body while she slept. “VikkiKitty,” who asked that we redact her real name and who streams and commentates on several games including Smash, said Sunday that Medina groped her several times while she…

Toy Time Transforms MakeToys’ Pandinus, $400 Worth Of Third-Party Scorponok

In 1987 Hasbro released a stocky green and purple robot that transformed into a mechanical scorpion and a Decepticon Fortress. Nearly 30 years later, third-party Transformers crafters MakeToys releases a much cooler take on Scorponok. First off I must thank my friends over at Toy Dojo for lending me their production sample of MakeToys CityBot…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Everything Must Go: The Winners!

Last week-ish I asked our readers to use the power of Photoshop to beat the inevitable flood of Pokémon Go-alike games to the punch. Together they’ve created an array of imaginary AR games ranging from compelling to mildly murderous. Though I graciously gave everyone an extra day or two to get their entries in and…

Let’s Turn Tokyo Into Anime Land, Says Politician 

Former Japanese Defense Ministry Yuriko Koike is currently running for Tokyo governor. Among her ideas to is to leverage anime. Because anime is real. While in Tokyo’s geek district Akihabara, Koike talked about how last Halloween she dressed as Sally from Sally the Witch, an early magical girl anime. Kioke added that she wants the…

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All These Witcher 3 Monsters Are By The Same Cosplayer

Elena Samko, specialist in gross creature cosplay (who we’ve featured a few times before), has done a ton of Witcher 3 stuff recently, dressing up as all kinds of monsters and enemies from the game. Look at all this stuff! Spoon-collecting Wights, Noonwraiths, a Botchling, Skellige Succubi, the Dark Souls-y Caretaker from Heart of Stone,…

Hungrybox Wins EVO 2016’s Smash Tournament

Juan “Hungrybox” Debiedma has finally taken out top prize at EVO, winning 2016’s Smash tournament after beating Sweden’s Adam “Armada” Lindgren in the Grand Final. (Clip via The Score) Hungrybox, a killer Jigglypuff player, has often fallen short at EVO, coming 3rd, 2nd and 2nd in the past three years. In an interview with PVPLIVE…

The Great Fallout 4 Rube Goldberg Machine

Using Fallout 4’s Contraption Workshop DLC, UpIsNotJump has gone and made about the most Rube Goldbergy machine imaginable within the confines of the game’s engine. Sticking with the Boston theme and kicking off with a Family Guy gag, the machine uses cannonballs, slides, lights, teddy bears and nuclear weapons to…well, to come back around to…

Man Threatens Pokémon Go Players, Arrested For “Terroristic Threat”

Nathan Cerda, from Palmview, Texas, thought it’d be funny to threaten Pokémon Go players in his town with a “purge”. He is not laughing now. Cerda made the following post to his Facebook page last week, in which he says he’s going to take some “modified paintball guns” out with some friends: The post was…

Shirtless Guy Tries To Challenge Evo Champion, Gets Thrown Out

Maybe wait until after the award ceremony. Failing that, at least wear a shirt. The rando who took the stage and got in the face of newly-crowned Ultimate Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 champion Christopher “NYChrisG” Gonzalez followed neither of these suggestions, and was escorted out by security for his trouble. To be fair, it’s unclear…